Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-08-18
IFFNToWN PENNA WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 49, 1885,

it was the other Kind. The women.
as rule. bore up better than the men.
1t comes natural, L suppose, for a
woman to be kind Of silent and pale and
patient when she's suffering. But the
young lady wasn't that sort either. She
was bright as button all along. YoI'd
have supposed from her face that she
was having Just the best kind of time.
Il can see her now, standing before
the stove roasting jack-rabbits for the
others supper, Some of the gentlemen
had revolyers, and when the snow got
crusted over, SOS they could walk on
II, they used to shoot 'em. And we
were glad enough of every one shot, for
provisions were 50 scanty. The last
two days them rabbits and snow-water
melted In pail over the stove was all
We had to eat and drink"
II suppose there was nothing for you
to do but wait, 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, 1 used to think.
She'd come 10 me and say, Mr.. Scott,
this rabbit Is for you and the conduc-
tor She never forgot anybody-ex.
cept herself. Once she asked me to
hold the sick little girl while she 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 she should put
them to bed, and sing to them, and tell
them stories. Sometimes she'd have
all five swarming over her at once. l
used to watch them.'
swell, how did it endP" said Miss
Vaughn, as the engineers voice, which
had gradually grown lower and more
dreamy, came to STOP"
''Oh? What? Ohi' rousing himself.
sit ended when three locomotives and
a rslief tram from Cheyenne broke
through to us on the eighth morning
after We were blockaded. They brought
provisions and coal, and we got on first
late after thai. Did the sick lady die?
No ma'am, she was living when 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. /
saw him a moment. He didn't look
like her,
And you never saw her again? You
never heard her nameP"
NO, ma am; never did,"
The engineers voice sounded gruif
and husky as he said this. He ShOveled
in coal with needless energy.
Are you married MANI" asked
Miss Vaughn. The question seemed
abrupt even to herself. but seemed rele-
want to something in her mind.
no"
John Scott looked her squarely in the
face as he replied. His countenance
was grim and set, and for moment
she feared that she had offended him.
Then, as he met her ,deprecsting gaze,
he reasSured her with swift smile.
"No. ma'am, 1 amt; aud l never
shall be as know OF, he added. "Sec-
ond rate wouldn't satisfy me now, L
guess" He pulled the cord which
hung ready to his hand, and a long
screeching whistle rang out over the
plain, and sent the prairle-dogs scutting
into their burrows.
"This is a feeding station we're COM
ing to-" he explained. Twenty
minutes here for supper, ma'am; and it
amt a bad supper either. l reckon
you'd like to have me help you down,
wouldn't you?'