Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-04-23
ISLAND POND, VERMONT, APRIL 90. l

ones, and the shirks, and the
towards, and the mean cusses who
wanted to blame some one beside the
Almighty for sending the weather-therG
want no use for any of them to try to
hide themselves any more than it was for
the other kind. The women, as q rule,
bore up better than the men. It:comcs
natural, suppose for woman to b.
kind of silent and pale and patient when
she's suffering. But the young lady
wasn't that sort either. She was az bright
as button all along. You'd have sup
pos"d from her face that she was having
just the best kind of time
81 can see her now, standing before the
stove roasting jack-rabbits FOR the 9th
ers' supper. Some of the gentlemen had
revolvers, aud when the snow got crusted
over, SOS they could walk on it, they
used to shoot en-. And we wore glad
enough of every one sh1t. provisions were
SO scanty. The last two days them rabbits
and snow-water melted in pail over the
stove was all we had to eat or drink"
Il suppose there was nothing for you
to do but wait, ~ said Miss Vaughn.
"No, ma'am; there wasn't nothing
at all for me to do but help the young
lady now and then. She let me help
her more than the rest, l used
to think. She'd come to me and sly,
Mr.. Scott, this rabbit is fer you and the
conductor. She never forgot anybo ly-
except herself. Once she asked me tc
ho,d the sick little girl while she took a
sleep. 1t was miglty pretty always to
I see her with them children. They never
seemed to have enough of her. All Of
them wanted she should put them to bed
and sing to them, AMI tell them stories
Sometimes she'd have all five swarmina
over her at once used to watch them >
"Well, how did it end" askel Miss
Vaughn, as the engineers voice, which
had gradually grown lower AID moe
dreamy, me 10 stop.
"Eh? what2 Oh"-rouSing himself
'EIt ended whom three locomotives and 6
relief ira n from Cheyenne broke through
to us on the eighth morning after we wa,
blo2kaded. They brought provisions
and coal, and we got OH tirst-ratc after
that. Did the sick lady die? No. ma'am
She was living, when l last heard of her
down to Santa Barbara. Two years age
that was.'
"And what became of your young
ladyW
"She left at Sacramento. Her brother
or some one was down to meet her
saw him moment. He didn't look like
her."
'And you never saw her again2 You
never heard her name:"
''No, ma'am; Inever did,"
The engineers voice sounded gruf and
husky as he sad this. lie shoveled in
Goals with needless energy.
Are you a married manm asked Mis-,
Vaughn. The question sounded abrupt
even to herself but seemed relevant te
something in her mind.
"No."
JOIN Scott looked her sluarely in the
face as he replied His countenance wa,
rather grim al d set, and for moment
she feared that she had blended him.
Then, as he met her deprecating gaze, he
/ reassured her with swift smile.
''No, ma'a am, | amt; and never shall
be as | know of" he added. "Second.
rate wouldn't satisfy me now, I guess. =
He pulled the cord which hung ready to
his hand, and long scrccching whistle
rang out over the plain, and sent the
prairie dogs scuttling into their burrows.
This is a feeding station we're coming
to-" he expl lined. Twenty minutes
here for supper ma'am; and it amt s
bad supper either. reckon you'd like
to have me help you down, wouldn't
you?"--Harper's Ba:ar.