Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-07-06
storing consciousness, Stephen admins
tered stimulants and nourishment accor-

have been rescued from the sea, breathed
enough to show that life still fingered,
and no more.
After time the fire burned low and
Stephen rose to put on more wood.
While drawing the Goals together, he
was startled by a cry from the bunk, and
turning toward it, he saw his ward trying
to raise himself from the bed,
"Help! help!" called the 'srescue.'
"Help me up!'
NO, no?' cried Stephen in alarm.
ellie still it may be the death of you to
stir"
'I'm going fast. Lift me up!' and as
he gasped the words, the young man &C
tually succeeded in drawing himself up
into sitting posture though the struggle
to DO SO was evidently terrible.
"Cut open my shirt" he said family;
and as Stephen fastened to comply, he
added
"Now unfasten my belts
Drawing the belt from around his
waist, he handed it to Stephen, SAVING:
9sTake this and"
The sentence was never finished. The
words expired on the speakers lips. He
sank forward and his hands dropped
heavily on the bed.
Stephen hurr1edly thrust the belt into
his guernsey, cadght the falling form in
his arms, and cndeavored once more to
revive the fading spark Of life. He labor
ed earnestly and long using every means
he could think of, but in vain.
Convinced at last that his task was
hopeless, Stephen turned from the bunk
worn out and sad at heart. He found his
neglected fire bad burned to ashes on the
hearth, and while he was rebuilding it the
crew of the station returned from the
wreck. They brought with them several
| "rescues" the room at station No. : being
overcrowed.
Among those they brought was wom-
an and child, whom Capt. Wooley con-
signed to Stephens care, asking him to
take them home to his mother, who would
provide for their wants and make them
comfortable.
The lad took the little one on his arm
and carrying ships lantern, he led the
way home. His mother was up waiting
for him, fast asleep in his arm chair. He
gave the shipwrecked mother and baby
into her charge, and then YEARLY went to
his own room for few hours rest
i On taking off his guernsey, the belt fell
to the floor.
"Thcre," he said to himself, chow stu
pid That is money belt probably, and
I ought to have turned it over to Captain
Wooley."
Then thinking there might be wet pa
pers in the belt, he decided to open It.,
and spread the contents on the floor to
dry.
| He knelt down, unfastened the straps,
and turned back the lappets.
| There was a paper in the wallet quite
dry, the belt beng waterproof. He
picked up the paper, and under it lay a
package Of money.
I He placed the light on the floar, and
regarded the package with curious inter
est. AS ,e looked he saw to his amaze
ment on the top Of the package a thous-
lana. dollar bank-bill.
He had never seen so much money in
his life, and had not known befor that
there was thOusand-dollar bank-bill
in the world.
| He stared at it as if fasinated, and
poured over it with intense scrutiny until
every line was stamped upon his mind
After time the thought came.
"Whose money is this?'
i He had been cold, kneellng on the floor
partly undrcssed, but now teverish heat
flashed over him, as a thought came Of all
he could accomplish with this money w.
ing before his dazzled eyes if it were only
his own.
And why not his own? To whom did
it belong it not to him? Wasn't the belt
a fair prize cast up by the sea, with no
one to claim it?
No living soul probably had any knowl-
edge of the belt or the money, and all he
had to do was to do nothing. The belt
had been given to him-why should he
give it to some one else who had no more
claim to it than he.
But then Capt. Wooley was very scru-
pulous to have everything Of value turned
over to the proper officials and duly &C
, counted for.
4 Well, perhaps the belt ought to be
given up; but then two Of those wonder
full big bills would pay off the mortgage
There were other bills in the package,
; and two Of them would hardly be missed
, two out of so many would be no more
than a fair salvage, and no one need ever
, know word about it,
AS these suggestions whirled through
/. his mind the boy took up the belt, put 1t
T. under his pillow, and crawled into bed.
: He was sorely tired, but so desperately
! wide awake that it seemed as though he
) could never sleep again. He tossed from
one side of the bed to the other, and
rolled over and over, unable to be still an
instant.
A Thousand projects came to his mind
for quietly buying up the mortgage
without anyone being the wiser, not even
his mother.
His thoughts seem to run like lightn-
ing and his head throbbed violently
His eyes were burning hot and the lids
refused to close. Ever before them he
) could see that thousand dollar bill, as if
in picture of fire.
+ His mouth and throat were parched,
and his lips were dry, and at last he had
r to sit up in bed, so intense were his feel
I ings. Then, in his distress, it occurred
to him that he had neglected to say the
prayer his mother had taught him to
repeat every night on going to bed
Stephen was not a religious boy
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