The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-04-28

lane, she could see up and down it over
tne low gate. he must have gone up
10 the homestead, not seeing her. At
the house, however, she found they had
not seen him. He had not called. A
little hurt that he should have galloped
on SO hastily, she set about some house
mold affairs, resolved to think no more
OF him that morning, and to give him
troWn when he came III the evening,
But he did not come in the evening: it
was evident he was detained.
Lukes trees were lying in the long
grass beside copse, and the object was
to get them out of the field, across the
adjacent Hallway, and to set them down
III lane on the sward, whence he could
| send for them at leisure. The farmer
was very anxious to get them out of the
grass and Luke did his best to oblioe
HIM. When Luke arrived at the SPOT.
having for once ridden straight there, he
found that almost all the work was done,
and only one tree remained. This they
were getting on the carriage, and Luke
dlsmounted and assisted. While it was
on the carriage he said, as it was the
| last, they could take it along to the
wharf. The farmer had come down to
watch how the work got on, and with
him was little boy, child of five or
SIX. When The boy saw the great tree
| fixed, he cried to be mounted on it for a
ride, but as it was so rough they per-
suaded HIM to ride on one of the horses
instead. As they all approached the gate
at the level crossing, white gate with
the words in loug black letters, "To be
kept locked, they heard the roar of the
morning express and stayed for it to 60
by. 80 soon as the train was passed the
gate was opened and the horses began
to drag the carriage across. As thev
strained at the heavy weight the boy
found the motion uncomfortable and
cried out, and Luke, always kind heart
ed, went and held him Cd. Whether it
was the shouting at the team, the crack
ing of the whip, the rumbling of the
wheels, or what was never known, but
all of a sudden the farmer, who had
crossed the rail, screamed, "The
goods!" Round the curve by the copse.
and till then hidden by it, swept goods
train, scarce thirty yar6s away. Luke
might have saved himself, but the boy /!
He snatched the child from the horse,
hurled him-literaliy hurled him-into
| the farmers arms, and in an instant was
a shapeless mass. The scene is too
dreadful for further developments. This
miserable accident happened, as the
driver of the goods tram afterward
stated, at exactly eight minutes past IL
o'clock.
1t was precisely at that time that
Luke's lady, dreaming among the cow
slips, heard the noise of hoofs, and his
long, shrill, and peculiar whistle at the
gate beneath the beech. She was Ger.
tain OF the time, for these reasons: First,
she had seen the wood pigeon go up into
the beech just before she started out;
second, she remembered nodding to an
aged laborer who came up to the house
every morning at that hour for his ale;
third, 1t would take a person walking
| slowly s or 10 minutes to cross that side
OF the mead; and, fourth, when she came
back to the house to see if Luke was
there, the clock pointed to a quarter
past, and was known to be little fast.
Without a doubt she had heard the
well-known whistle, apparently coming
from the gate beneath the beech exactly
at the moment poor Luke was dashed to
| pieces II miles AWAY