Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1886-06-05

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 60 in search other darling
boy.
Only too well she surmises that in his
usual fearlessness and alive with the de-
sire to hunt out things for himself. he
is straying along the dizzy edges Of the
chasm.
1t is twenty-four hours before they
find him, and at least a fourth as many
more pass until by the aid OF ropes 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 mp under him and
shattered, yet, with this exception, 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 bed of ferns and MOSES.
For a time the shock has completely
stunned him. When he returns to con
/ seriousness 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 slakes 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 his heart and a death-like uumbness
| to his cramped limbs.
This is the story he tells to those who
/ rescued him, but he says naught Of those
dreadful things who passiOnately clasPed
against the throbbing heart; and all day
and all night long has watched and
waited in an agony Of mingled hope and
I fear on the Verandah Of the hotel.
There, in the presence Of all, yet
seemingly unmindful, overcome at .ast
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
uninjured hand he still holds the pre-
cious sparkling thing, which, now that
he is safe within her sheltering arms, he
/ disclOses 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. 1t is an emerald unusu-
/ ally large and clear.
Il viii give him 81 900 for it, uncut
as it isr' declares a young jeWeler from
/ New Orleans, who, to do him credit is
much more touched by the pathetic story
/ sObbed out on the mother-aunt's bosom
than he is taken by the probable value
or the exquisite beauty of the gem.
II lost Just $3.50 hard cash by the in
vestment, - he says to the same friend a
year later, ''but assure you L have new
/ er regretted it."
Aunt Tina's book is out, and a sue
cess. AS to Aunt Tina herself, where
she made pleasure trips Of week before,
| she now makes them of months. and she
/ is never seen anywhere without her at
/ tendant Swan. As to this same Swain,
he is a handsome, active fellow indeed,
in spite Of the fact that one arm hangs
stiff and almost helpless-an ever pres
ent reminder Of the time when he went
down to Turner'S Point!
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