Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-09-23

goou ilre. mats most needed here ins,
at present Now you've come. Won Jus'
ciVilize us up bit ~" can
30 Musidora went cheerfullv 70 ~,
and in years time the old loo "oLA,
had been transformed into hrTob b.'o piI
tie home, all aglow with the toEan nv
woman's presence Ae"a Oh
10 be sure, ii was lonesome a.
and she was little afraid of tho sas
proved Indians who came now -eu
then, In stealthy bands, from tba ro anu
Walton. But the country was 80 o ruscl,
and the forests so sublime that sbe7 a. sna
to love the very solitude. e''"
Uncle Absalom, she said solemplv
Il like Far West, mean to stay h.gs
always with you" ie
THAT would suit me epzactIv y soia
Uncle Absalom, who was SMOKING ~
briar-wood pipe on the front 3oor7ta,r
"But it amt likely. Some fellow Vii
come along and snap you up wan
Musidora laughed
"There are no fellows here Unolo
Absalom, " she said; unless Won connt
Red Feather Jack, at the reservatian
or Simple Peter, that goes around frnn,
door to door, playing the bagpipesn
Uncle Absalom said nothing, he only
laughed and smoked on.
The next day came news from m
country
"Musidora," said Uncle Absalom
twas you ever in a hospital?"
mo, the girl answered, LOOKING az
him with wondering eyes. why do
you askP'
Because" he answered. ..von'ro
wanted to 90 on hospital duty. Tbosa
devils of redskins have broken ont
again; nobody can trust EN- no farther
than they can see 'em. They've way.
laid pa*ty going to the mountains
robbed their mules, and left EN- for
dead. Musidora, you've got pretty good
pluck; will you go with me to Lovely
Falls, to see what can be done for the
poor fellowsPn
Musidora studded little; her face
grew, perhaps, shade paler that its
natural hue; but she answered valiant.
ly;
Yes, | will 60"
Lovely Falls had been well named.
The wild frantic leap of a sheet of water
over a solitary precipice, with stunted
pines leaning over the spray, with
eagles screaming overhead-this was
the scene. And on bloodstained ban.
ket on the trampled grass Law two
wounded men--one dead the other un.
conscious
Musidora stood for an instant look
ing ut the stark forms. Brave woman
though she was. she had never seen
death in this fearful aspect before. 1t
chilled her blood-it drew white mist
before her eyes.
For moment only, however Then
she knelt brayely down, unpacked the
little roll of lint and linen, and asked
Uncle Absalom to give her the jug of
warm water from the mules back.
There may be some chance for this
one,n she said The other is past our
care, Tell them to dig a grave for him
near where they have staked out the
land for the little chapel
For days the wounded man lay I'M
conscious of all that was transpiring
around him in Uncle Absalom's cabin.
And one morning, in the yellow glow of
early autumn. he seemed once more to
emerge out of the troubled obscurity of
fever dreams into the real world again.
where am I?n he said ''What has
become of the copper-colored tends
knifeP And the girl danced with-the
girl in blue, with the little blue glove
where is she?'
"Eh?n said Uncle Absalom, with
drawing the everlasting pipe from his
mouth, and staring as if every one OF
his faculties were concentrated in the
one sense of sight.
That's quite right, Uncle Absalom, y
said Musidora. who had just come into
tine room with basket of wild flowers
which she had been gathering to pre-
serve Il am the girl! | did dance
with him in a blue dress oncc-in New
York. But | never expected thus to
meet him again.
Then it was not a dream?' said
Cecil Grieye, putting out his transparent
skeleton-like hand; and you were my
guardian-angel after all. -
Scarcely month had elapsed since
that bright autumn morning, when
Musidora Magnus wrote Il long and con-
fidential letter to her cousin Eleanor, in
New York
ITO think she said that |, who
am of all persons the most prosaic and
homespum. should have been living
a real romance i'll these weeks! To
think that he has loved me all this time!
TO think that the doctor says that It
was my nursing that saved his Life! Oh,
Nell. Nell, that one Cinderella night
was the turning-point OF my destiny!
And YOU are to come out to Dakota Tor
the wedding, and then we will all 90
back East again for Cecil declares
that after this warning, he will never
live in place where there are Indian
reservations. And Uncle Absalom says
he does not know what he shall do
when I'm gone. But OF one thing Nelly,
| want YOU to be very, very sure. am
the happiest girl alive. Yes, the very
happiest. "
Thus ended Musidora's life in the
Far West and thus began her new ex-
istence.
Aud Uncle Absalom's sole comment
was:
Il SAID so all along
Making Her Things Last.