Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-06-23

den spring ais fest have come IN contact
with a treachcrous tuft that Is barely
hanging 90 the cliffs edge. As they
press against It, il gives way. and the
next moment he goes headlong over
the ledge.
Up at the hotel ali IS confusion and
excitement, for he has been missed. and
the mOther-aunt. in her agony of ter
Tor, IS beseechils landlord, clerk.
guide, walters, all 10 80 in search OF
her darling boy.
Only too well she surmiSss that in
his usual fearlessness, and alive with
the desire to hunt out things for him
self, he is straying along the dizzy
edges of the dangerous chasm.
Ii is twenty-four hours befoie they
find him, and at least fourth as many
more, ere by the aid Of ropes and lad
ders. be is rescued.
lie is conscious and able to tell his
story, though, when he if first lifted
he cries out with pain in spite of him
self. One arm lies doubled up under
him and shattered. yet with this excep-
ton there Is no other outward sign OF
hurt.
His descent has been broken by the
various clumps of verdure, and finally
when he has reached the ledge below
it is to fall upon a bed of ferns and
mosses. For time the shock has
completely stunned him. When he
returns to consciousness il is to find
that he is unable to move his body.
/ But he manages TO reach his handker-
chief, which he dips from time to time
in the cascade near. and thus slacks
his thirst, and also with its damp folds
protects his face from the suns rays.
| 1t is the chill of the long dark night
that strikes the greater terror to bis
heart and death-like 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 passionately
clasped against the throbbing heart,
that all day and all night long
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 long
ings for her, the ardent desires that
cling so fondly about the dear, dear
book.
Clutched tightly in the palm OF his
uninjured hand he still holds the pre-
clous, sparkling thing, which, now that
he is safe within her sheltering arms,
he discleses to the view of all.
Not till the next day, however, when
the brave, loyal fellow is struggling II
the delirium of fever, is the value oi
his find discovered. 1t is an emerald
unusually large and clear.
~ will give him one thousand dollars
for it, uncut as it isl'' declared younf
jeweler from New Orleans, who, to d(
him credit, is much more touched by
the pathetic story sobbed out on thu
mother-aunt's bosom than he IS takel
by the probable value or the exquisite
beauty of the gem.
81 lost just $3.50, hard cash, by the
investment" he says to the SAM
friend a year later; ''but | assure you
have never regretted it."
Aunt Tina's book is out, and a sue.
cess. AS to Aunt Tina herself, where
she made pleasure trips of week be
fore, she now makes them of months
and she is never seen anywhere with
out her attendant, Swain.
- As to this same swain, lie is hand
some, active fellow indeed, in spite o.
the fact that one arm hangs stiff ant
almost helpless-an ever-present remin
der of the time when he went down
Turner's Point!