The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1888-01-06
as to draw the veil d hHmAn ignorance,
and reveal TO Us for good q -evn some
glimpse OF the possibilities OF lifc.

as to draw the veil u Human Ignorance.
2 reveal 10 Us for good or geyil nome
eiimfse OF the possibilities Of LIE.
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MMV T was nine o'clock on tho
AVN w wv following morning when
JNW Mv job. who stis looked
IVA scared and frightened,
HM came in to call me, and at
WIFI Elm the same time breathe his
WIN kYN gratitude at finding us
MM M alive In u beds, which
WYNN ttappeated was moro than
wv p tN he had expected. When
OAS told him of the awful
end Of puof Ustahe he was
even fiofe grateful at oir survival, and
much shocked, though Ustane had been
no favorlte of his-or he Of hers, for the
matter OF that. She called him spig," in
bastard Arabic, and he called her shussy''
IN good English, but these amenities weru
forgotten In the face Of the catastrophe
that had overwhelmed her at the hands of
her queen.
II don't want to say anything that
inayn't be agreeable, sir" said job, when
ne tad finished ekclaiming ut my tale,
put It's my opinion that that there She is
the Old gentleman himself, or perhaps his
Vile, II he has got one, which l suppose he
mas, Tor he couldn't be so wicked all by
himself. The Witch OF Endor was a fool
to her, sir; bless you, she would ttake no
moro OF raising every gentleman in the
Bible out OF these here beustly tombs than
! should OF growing cress on an old fan
mel. It's q country Of devils, this is, sir,
and she's the master one of the lot; and ii
ever we get out of it, 1t will DO mere than
I expect to do. Idon't see no way out of
1t. That witch isn't likely TO let a fine
young man like Mr.. Leo go.n
Come" l said; "at any rate, she saved
his life"
"Yes, and she'll take his soul to nav 70.
1t. She'll make him a witch. like herself.
1 say It's wicked to have anything to do
with those sort Of people. Last night, sir.
l laid awake and read in my little Bible,
that my poor old mother gave me, about,
what IS going to happen to congresses and
them sort till my hair stood ON end. Lord.
how the old lady would stare II she saw
Where her Job had got tor,
Eyes, it's u queer country, and q quccr
people, too, job" l answered, with a sigh.
for though / am not superstitious like Job,
admit to a natural shrinking (Which will
not bear fnvestigation) from the things
that are above nature.
"You are right, sir" hc answered. "and
II yoa won't think me very foolish.
should like to say something to you, now
that MIR. Leo is out Of the way'' U4co had
got up carly and gone for a strolN, land
that is that l know it ia the last country
as ever I shall see in this world. l had q
dream last night, and I dreamed that
saw my old father, with q kind of night,
sl:tr. OH him, something like these folks
vear when they want TO be in particular
full dress, and a Bit of that feathery grass
in his hand, which he may have gathered
on the way, for l saw lots of it yesterday
about three hundred yards from the mouth
OF this beastly cave.
Job he said to me, solemn like, and
yet with a kind of satisfaction shining
through him, more like u Mct..cdy parsou
when he has sold n neighbur n marked
horse for u sound IL and cleared twenty
pounds by the job than anything can
think on-'Job, times mp, job; but I never
did expect to have to come and hunt Won
out in this ere place, Job. Such ado as
have had to nose ycu IN: it wasn't friendly
to give your poor old father such IL run, let
alone that Il wonderful lot OF bad c.larac-
ters hal! from this place, kol.'n
Regular cauiions,'' l st ...,cstet,.
YES, sir-of course, sir, that's Just what
he said they was-'cantioms, downright
;carciers,' sir, and I'm sure | don; doubt
it, SEEING wi,as | know of them anil their
~.lo;-potting ways Went on job, sadly.
'A.swai-, lie Was sure that time WAS u,,
and went away saying that we should SEQ
more than we cared fer of each other soon,
and suppose lie was abiding to the fact
that father aid l never could hit it Off to-
ge.aer for Longer tl:an three days, and
dare Say that things will be similar when
We meet again"
Surely" I said, ''you don't think that
you are going to die because you dreamed
you saw Your old father? Ii one dies be-
cause one dreams of one's father, what
happens TO Il mun who dreams Oh his moth
erin-laN;!"
"Ail, sir. You are laughing at mo-" said
Job; "but, you see, you didn't know my
old father. II 1T had been anybody else.
my aunt Mary, for instance, who never
made much of a job should not have
thought so much of it; but my father was
that idle, which he shouldn't have been
with seventeen children, that he would
never have put himself out to come here
Just to see the place. No, sir; know that
he meant business. Well, sir, I can't help
it; l suppose every man must go some time
nr other. Though it is "A linrl thing to die
in a place like this, where Christian burial
isn't TO be had for its weight in gold. I've
tried to he n GOOD MIN. sir md do INV dntv