The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-06-05

coherent. While they were voting for
the return of the boat, Colwell aud the
ice masters did their best to cheer them
up by telling them that relief was ct
hand, and that the others would soon
arrive. They could not realize it and
refused to believe it. So they were lu-
smored, and by way of talk
ing mp their thoughts. Colwell
told them something that had been go
ing on in the world during their three
years Of exile. acknowledgements, there
was much that they knew already. 1t
turned ont that among the stores from
the Proteus were two boxes Of lemons,
and the fruit had been wrapped up in
scraps Of English newspapers-tsthose
lemons which your dear wife put up for
u.s. IS one OF them said to Colwel1, i'll a
moment of wandering fancy. The lat
ter could only discharge the imaginary
obligation to an imaginary person. but
the impression had already faded.
Meanwhile the Bear had arrived and
Lowe had gone off in tho cutter, taking
with him Sergeant Long. In reply to
questions, Long, IN u husky voice. told
his story-that all were dead except
Greedy and Ave others, who were on
shore in s'sore distress-sore Distress
that they had had q hard winter, and
"the wonder was how in Gods name
they had pulled through" No words
can describethe patlios of this mans
broken and enfeebled utterance as he
said over : and over "a hard
winter--a hard winter, !" and the officers
who gathered about him in the
ward room felt an emotion which most
Of them were at little pains to conceal.
The first sign Of the relief expedition
which had reached the camp was the
sound from the steam whistle of the
Thetis, recalling the shore parties al
Payer harbor. Lieutenant Greedy,
lying on the ground in his tent, had
heard it, Of it was borne family ovel
the neck Of land. but the others had
not noticed 1t in the roaring wind, and
when he had told them he had heard q
steamers whistle, they thought it only
tile impression OF his disturbed imagina-
tion. Long crawled out of the tent and
bracing himself against the wind, strug-
gled up to tie ridge; but nothing could
be e but the rocky coast and the ice.
foot and the chopping sea, with the
pack stretching off in the distance. II
was a bitter disappointment. Long
went back disleartened. but after wait
ing unensily a little while longer, he
mounted the ridge q second time. Still
there was nothing to be seer but the
same hopeless prospect, and he was
about to return again when the cutter
came into view around the point above.
With most of them tbs rescue hardly
made a reyuision of feeling. Except
the commander, they took it us a matter
of course. There was little, a very
little excitement, and they we're per-
liaps more than ordinarily talkative,
bat in general they did not seem to rise
or fall much above or below the level Of
ordinary good spirits. Probably oi
tough fibre to begin with, their yea,
OF privation aud hopelessness had
blunted orssleadened their recollection
Of the world, as they had known it, and
the feelings to which the recollection
gave rise. Notwithstanding his inter.
view with Colwell, Greeiy's first ques-
ton when the party from the Beal
came up, Was-""whether they were moi
Engishmen?" and upon being told thai
they were his countrymen, he said.
lam SO glad to see you"
LttENL - EL