New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-09-29
Great heavens! Why did l bring her
OH this fatal iourney?'

Great heavens! Why did l bring her
OH this fatal journey
Perhaps the young Iady'H have
some remedies, 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, ] wentfor her, and you never
see any one so level-headed as she
seemed to be. She knew Just what
to do; and she had the right medi-
cine in her bag; and in less than an
hour that poor lady was quite COM
Portable, and her husband the most
relieved man that ever saw. Then
the young lady came along to where
was standing-there wasn't nothing
for me to do, but l was waiting, for
l didn't know but there might be-
and said she: :'Mr. Scott, am grow
ing anxious about the fuel. Do you
think THERE'S plenty to last? Suppose
we were to be kept here a week.
t'Now just think OF it, not one of us
dumb fools had thought of that You
see we was expecting to be relieved
from hour to hour, for we had tele-
graphed both ways, and the snow had
stopped by that time, and none OF US
had any notion it was going to be the
| Job it was to dig us out. Only the
young lady had the sense to remember
that it might take longer than we were
calculating on.
Essays /, Ifwestay here week, there
won't be shovelful OF Goals left
for any of the fires, let alone the en-
CINE
"'Then don't you know says she,
wise plan to get all the passengers to-
gether in one car and keep good fire
up there, and let the other stoves go
cut? It's no matter if we are a little
crowded, says she.
"Well, of course, it 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 in,
train hands and all. 1t was a tight
squeeze, but that didn't matter so
much, because the weather was so
awfully cold.
''rhat was the way come to see
so much OF the young lady. hadn't
anything to keep me about the en-
CINE, so kind Of detailed myself off
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 be ing polite
and just showed what they were worth.
The selfish ones, and the shirks, and
the towards, and the mean cuses who
wanted to blame some one besides the
Almighty for sending the weather
there warn't no use. for any OF the
to try to hide themselves any more
than it was for the other kind. The
women, as rule, bore up better than
the men. 1t comes natural, 1suppose,
for woman to be kind of silent and
pale and patient when she's suffering.
Bat the young lady wasn't that sort,
either. She was as bright as a button
all along. You'd suppose from her face
that she was having just the best kind
OF a time!
II can see her now, standing before
the stove roasting jack-rabbits, for
the others supper. Some OF the gen.
tlemen had revolvers, and when the
snow got crusted over SOS they could
walk ON it, they used to shoot 'em.
And we were glad enough OF every one
shot, provisions We're SO scanty.
The last two days them rabbits and
snow water melted in pail over the
stove was all we had to eat pr drink. +"
II suppose there was nothing for
you to do but to watt" said Miss
Vaughn.
mo, 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 say,
Mr.. Scott, this rabbit is for you and the
conductor. She never forgot any body
except herself Once she asked ne
to hold the sick little girl whllesh took
a sleep. 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 sto.
ries. Sometimes she'd have all five
swarning over her at once ! used to
watch them"
"Well, how did it end?" asked Miss
Vaughn, as the engineers voice, which,
had gradually grown lower and more
dreamy, came to a stop.
"Eh? what? Oh!''-rousirtg himself.
cit ended wnen threelocomotives and
a relief train from Cheyenne broke
through to us on the eighth morning
after we were blocaded. They brought
provisions and coal; and we got on
first rate 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 ago, that
was"
''And what became Of your young
LADY,"
".She left at Sacramento Her
brother or some one was down to
meet her. Isaw him = moment HE
didn't look like her.
"AAd you never saw her again?
You never heard her name2"
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