The Republican journal., 1886-07-22

without her. The only trouble was she couldn't
| be everywhere at once. There was sick lady in
! the drawing-roOm at the end of one of the Pull
mans She had weak lungs, and was going out
! to California for her health. Well, the cold and
| the snow brought on hemorrhagc That was
the second day after we was blockaded There
wasn't no doctor on board, and her husband he
was mighty scared. He come through to the
| front car to find the conductor, looking as pale
as ghost. 'My wife's a-dyin', said he. Amt
there no medical man on the train" And when
we said no, he just gavea groan. Then she
must die he said. Great heavens. why did |
bring her on this fatal journey"
| perhaps the young lady'll have some RENE
dies suggested one Of the porters; for we'd all
got into the way already of turning to the young
| lady whenever things were wrong.
well, went for her, and you never see any
one so leve-headed as she seemed to be. She
knew just what to do; and she had the right
medicine ill her bag; and in less than an hour
that poor lady was quite comfortable, and her
husband the most relieved man that ever saw.
Then the young lady came along to where l
was Standng-thcre wasn't nothing for me to
do, but | was waiting, for | didn't know but
there might be-and said She: Mr.. Scott, |
am growing anxious about the fuel. DO YOU
think there is plenty TO last? Suppose we We're
to be kept here week.
''Now Just think of it. not one of us dumb
fools had thought of that. You see we was eX-
pectin@ to be relieved from hour to hour for
we had tele@raphed both ways, and the snow
Lad stopped by that time and none of us had
any notion it was going to be the job it was to
dig lis cut. Only the Young lady had the sense
to remember that il might take longer than we
were calculating on.
says |. If we stay here week, there wont
lie ShoyefuI Of coal left for any Of the fires,
let alone the engine
''.Then don't You know says she, in her soft
voice that it would be II wise plan to get all the
passengers together in one car and keep a good
fire up there. and let the other stoves 70 out?
It's no matter if we are a little crowded. says
She
"Well. of course, il was the only thing to do,
aS we see at once when it was put into our
heads. We took the car the sick lady was in,
sos she'd not have to be disturbed, and we
made up beds for the children and somehow
all the passengers managed TO pack i'll, train
hands and all. 1t was Il tight squeeze, but that
didn't matter 50 much because the weather
was aWfully cold
"That was the way come to see so much
of the Young lady. hadn't anything to keep
me about the engine, 50 kind of detailed my
self oil TO wait on her. She was busy all day
long doing things for the rest. It's queer how
peoples characters come out at such times.
We got TO know all about each other. People
stopped string and ma aiming and being polite,
and Just showed what they Were worth. The
selfish ones, and the ShirkS. and the towards.
and the mean cusses who wanted to blame some
one besides the Almighty for sending the wealth
~ t',''' va Nv t7N i't any % 'tiN''i " u
10 hide themselves any more than ii was for
the other kind. The women. as a rule, bore up
better than the men. 1t comes natural, | sup
pose, Tor 4 woman I" pc KIND OF silent ana pale
ana patient when shes suffering. iiut the
young iadN WASH lhat sort. either. she was
ii> bright rs button All along. on q suppose
from hrf iare nat shc was having just Inc best
Kind of Il time,
II can see her now, standing before the stove
roasting Flrk-rahbltS FOR The others supper.
some OF the gentleman had reNolVerS. ami when
lhc snow GOT rfii>lrH over sos lhtH Gould walk
on IT, they used to shoot en-. AHd we We're
@iad enough Of every one >hot, provisions were
;" Sritniy The last two days them rabbits and
snow water melted i'll pail over the stove was
AL we had to eat or drink
- suppose there was nothing for YOU to do
hHt wait, sad Miss Vaughn.
'No. lnl'am; there wasn't nothing at all for
me 10 d" hut help the young lady now and thcil.
She let me help her more than the rest, | used
t" think She'd come 10 me and say, Mr. scott,
tins rabbit is for you and the CONDUCTOR She
never forgot anvbody-eNcept herself. Once
she asked me to loid the SICK little glr Whlle
she TOOK Il steep. 1t was mighty pretty always
to see her with them children. They never
seemed to have enough of her. All of them
wanted her to put them to bed, and sing to
them and tell them stories. Sometimes she'd
nave all flve sWarning over her at once. used
to watch them.
NV ell, how did it end:" asked Miss Vaughn,
as the engineers voice. which had gradually
crown lower and more dreamy came to a stop
"Eh: what: oh."-rousing himself. "lt end
cl when three locomotives and Il relief train
from Cheyenne broke through to us on the
eighth morning after we was bIockadcd. They
brought provisions and coal. and we got on first