Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-09-10

you if | would, for Allah has created
me to keep watch and guard over YOU
Il was convinced that the maiden
spoke truly. Turning to my yelled
companion, after one last glance to-
ward the city, / said.
Lead on. | will follow YOU with
out reserve. | put my trust in you, al
though the way appears difficult and
the end is as closely yelled in obscurity
and doubt as are your features hidden
from my sight
''She turned and walked feetly
across the desert, and soon the blissful
city was lost from view below the hor-
lion, and all around us lay the silent,
merciless sands.
DAY after day and night after
night w plodded on. Sometimes al
awful sense of WEAKNESS oppressed me;
my feet sunk TO the ankles in the re-
morseless, yielding sands; the intense
heat shriveled my skin and parched my
lips. But my companion was never
weary and paused not. If | turned
laggard she prompted me to greater
eXertion with the words; Even the
desert has an end. Yonder lies your
way. The troubles you now endure
are but blessings in disguise. At the
end there is eternal peace and 4 laurel
wreath for your brow. Would you
fall now, after you have suffered so
much?"
"At each sound of her voice my faith
was renewed as if by magic and my
strength cane back to me.
at seemed to me that months had
been consumed in our journey, when at
last we attained the banks of a limpid
stream. Beyond it was a stretch Of
palms and cedars, in~termingled with
luxurious plants and the most eNquis-
lite of flowers.
"'You have attained the reward OF
your suiferings, said my guide. Here
at last is rest and peace. All your
j~ourneyings are at an end and now
comes your reward. Hencefcrth you
will never know a want, but pass your
remaining days on earth iE doing good
to your fellows. Our paths lie Il little
apart from this time, but | will watch
over you. A ems of my presence will
always be vouchsafed to you, and in
Paradise We shall be reunited
But | implored, why must you
leave meP You have been my good
angel, my guide, my savior in all the
trials which have beset my path. Re
main ever at my side, for | may yet
fail without your aid.
- would that it might be so; but |
fear it cannot. Be patient. In anoth-
er state of existence we cannot be part
ed
Then let me see your face once
before we part. Your voice has sus-
tanned me-to look upon your features
would be far greater bliss
Know you not that the face of an
Arab maiden is ever yelled? Even so
it is with the angels when in human
company. If you should but look into
my eyes | should become human like
yourself; though our com%panionship
could never end.
"'And that is my chief desire, was
my response; and selling her veil | tore
it from her face. 1t was not a coun-
tenance OF rare beauty, as the world or
dinarily Judges the Establishments of
women; but it was pure and sweet and
true. 1t touched my heart as never
had woman's face appealed to it be-
fore.
1.-The great soulful eyes looked stead
tasty into my own. You have found
me, after years of vain searching, and
released me from my bondage. Hence
forth am l with you to the end of life.
For you | was created, and faithful will
| remain unto you until death; and
even the grave viii not hide us from
each other
Il awoke, The fire had died away
to embers, and the room was growing
cold. Long | marveled what such a
dream could portend. Weeks rolled
by, and the face OF the Arabian maiden
was ever before me. The months
passed into years-and still every lin
eament of those angelic features and
the expression of the deep, soulful eyes
remained implanted in my memory.
Half unconsciously / scanned the faces
of thousands in the busy streets, but
among all the hurrying throng that
face was never encountered. Still, /
was impressed that one day ] should
find it. lpersevered in my profession,
and, when downcast by adverse for
tunes, that silent face strengthened
me, as it had in my dream of the jour
ney across the desert"
81 had become intensely interested,