New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-06-16
Up at the hotel all is. confusion and

Up at the hotel all is. confusion and
excitement, for he has been missed,
and the mother-aunt, In her agony OF
terror, is beseeching landlord. clerk,
guide, walters, all to go in search OF
her darling boy.
Only too we'll she surmises that IN
his usual feariessness, and alive with
the desire to hunt out things for hlm-
SELF heis straying along the dizzy edges
OF the dangerous chasm.
1t is twenty-four hours before they
find him, and at least fourth as
many more ere by the aid ofropes and
ladders he is rescued.
He is conscious and able to tell his
story, though when he is first lifted he
cries out with pain in spite of himself.
One arm lies doubled up under him
and shattered, yet with this exception
there is no other outward sign fhurt.
His descent has been broken by the
various clumps of verdure, and final
| ly when he has reached the ledge be-
| low it is to fall on a bed OF ferns and
MOSES. For time the shock has
completely stunned him. When
he returns to consciousness it is to
| find that he is unable to move his
body. But he manages to reach his
handkerchief, which he dips from time
| to time IN the cascade near, and thus
shakes his thirst, and also with it's
damp folds protects his lace from the
suns rays It is the chill Of the long
dark night that strikes the greater
terror to his heart and a deathlike
numbness to his cramped limbs.
This is the story he tells to those
who rescue him, but he says naught Of
these dreadful things, when passionate
ly clasped against the throbbing heart,
that all day and all night long has
watched and waited in an agony Of
mingled hope and fear on the verandah
OF the hotel.
There, in the presence OF all, yet
seemingly unmindful, overcome at
last by the sight OF the agitated loving
face, with its passionate eyes, raining
hot tears down upon his own, he sobs
out the whole story OF his hopes and
longings for her, the ardent desires
that cling so fondly about the dear.
dear book.
Clutched tightly in the palm OF his I'M
injured hand he still holds the precious
sparkling thing, which, now that he is
safe within her sheltering arms, he dis
closes to the view of ALL
Not till the next day, however, when
the brave, loyal fellow is struggling in
the delirium OF fever, is the value of
his find discovered It is an emerald
unusually large and clear.
II will give him 81 900 for it, uncut
as it Isl" declares a young ieweler
from New Orleans, who, to do him
credit, is much more touched by the
pathetic story sobbed out on the
mother-aunt' bosom than he is taken
by the probable value, or the ex-
quisite beauty OF the gem.
II lost just two hundred and fifty
dollars, hard cash, by the invest
ment," he says to the same friend a
year later, "but l assure you l have
never regretted it"
Aunt Tina's book is out, and a sue
cess. As to Aunt Tina herself, where
she epleasure trips ofaweek before
she now makes them of months, and
she is never seen anywhere without
her attendant Swain
AS to this same Swain, he is hand
some active fellow indeed. in spite OF
the fact that one arm hangs stiff and
almost helpless-an ever present re-
minder Of the time when he went down
Turner's Point!