Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1884-09-18
VOL. III. NO. l..

4 shall never get up agaln,' he said
10 anxious Grandmother Joo. II I've
got consumption bad. | have dragged
myself here 10 die; but don't fear.
when am gone you viii find money
enough IN belt around my waist 10
pay you for all your trouble. hung
on TO that though everything else left
me. AS came down here | heard the
name Of a certain woman. II was Ma.
tllda Dulclmer Olive. She once was
the wi . Of a fisherman who lived on
the coast near here, named Sam Bar
ton. She was the daughter Of old man
Squlres Do you know herr"
"Yesn
"Wcll, 90 tell her to come here 10 500
mel Tell her she must como only
once, that will be all. Go right uow."
"Who are your
"She will know
The widow, full Of surprise and Gu.
riosty, hurried away, leaving the sick
man in charge of hor red-haired maid.
of-all-work, Susie. When she returned
Matilda was with her The two women
entered the sick room together. Tbs
stranger was lying with his shining
eyes fixed upon the doorway Matii-
da's eyes met his. For an instant she
stood staring hard at him, as II half in
doubt then she started back and cried
aloud
"Yes," said the stranger; ''yes, It's
Sam Barton not dead. but dying"
PICKED UP AT SEA.
Then he explained how he had beon
picked up, after his ship had gone down.
by vessel that carried him 10 Austria
lia how he toiled and suffered to make
q fortune there. and how after be had
put a little togo her rill-luck always came
and swept It away, until he sometimes
believed that he was accursei. Re-
memberlng how his poverty had goad-
ed Matilda before and made her cruel
and unhappy he resolved not to write
to her, but let her think him dead. In
the intervening years be had travelled
round and round the world and gath
cred nothing but enough to buy him a
collin AM grave, and the money he
bound in a belt round his waist and de-
termined to starye rather than touch it.
lie heard by chance, only few years
ago, of Matilda's 5 second marriage. Dis
ease seized him, and when tie shadow
OF death enveloped him he felt an ire
sstible impulse to see his wife once
more. to declare his identity and assert
his rights for one ileeting moment.
THE OLD MANS DEATH.
He asked that when he was dead his
children might be brought TO look upon
his face, and said that il they had for
gotten him no one should tell them who
he was, but II they shoull recall his
face no one should deny the truth, He
died. lie was buried on Thursday Al
last week His children were brought
TO look upon his lifeless face, as he had
asked They were grown up, and the
eldest, also named Samuel, OWNED the
truth in an instant. Indeed, he bore so
marvellous resemblance to his father
that even stranger could see that a
close relationship must have existed
between them. L tile by little the his
tory has come out, and when the
widow Josephson, who had been en-.
joined TO conditional secrecy by Matil-
da, saw that the story would sarely be-
come known, she began to toll it round
in whispers 10 startled neighbors.
Matilda told Hiram Olive all the truth.
and, il is said that, to satisfy their con-
sciences, they will be married Olive
was found last night at his home. lie
was disnclned TO talk, but, by &C.
grees, Topped off exagg&ations that
had become engrafted on the story and
confirmed the history here given.
Long Branch Cor. Philadelphia Times.