Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1888-12-14

SAID TO her:
4 wilnot die without lettiag you
know"
T Itneedci only that to give her the
i certainty that he was living
Il A chill's faith is strong. 1t is not
= easy to drive out an idea which has
4 once taken root in their minds. So,
d, when the next mornilg-sho had re-
j maincd there all night--.thcy tried to
/ make her understand that there was 10
7 hope, that sho would never again sec
H, her father; that they had explored all
ii the galleries. searched every corner and
. 4 not lould him. sho shook her curly
IiI:s I'd and began to weep. saying IS ok
ESGE papa
3kZ9Erhey paid litto attention TO her.
~ forty hours had they not exhausted
tXHry means? There was, doubtless,
ss Snething strange in this disappear
e. Living or dead Michel ought to
[ We been iouad, and til had not
U md him.
NA+A~A
lIlvftcd tho search but all il vain, In
SNE opinion Of al nothing more could
n Tdone, and it was possible that, by
force OF the exL Llosion, the unfor-
bre,.aT5 man nd 6eoT1 Jfvi3d by the
x @ng debris and it was imposs bio to
EH where or how.
~ ag9r forty eight hours little Miss Papa
i tlY1'Atei anxiously lut without mani
ARH Bug the slightest uneasiness. At
Fty human form which appeared at
syour opening she started forward ard,
~ ppurecogniziag him whom she awaited,
's.sh "nlsank back upon the groull with
,oan, 4 p 81, h. They tried to take her
4 ei'ioriy, aud she uttered such piercing
~. IT. nI ~'I that they consi Tered it best to
grn,t.F - her there. They thought that
- - sne mu Don yield to fatigue.
\ Whence com to the weak and fee
=, =, bic such strength il tho great crisis of
li'e3 AK God; it is His secret.
Tbe third day the child was still at
: the shat.
+. Il must put an end to this" said the
~ ~ chief engineer, approaching her.
~ 'comc, my .ittlo one, be reasonable"
= "P. pal seek for paqa'
!. '.Alas he Is dead.
NJ "N,."
- She uttered this mo" with such en-
cry that the engineer was struck by it.
. "Why do you sly no2 he aslo /.
'IIe would hlv told me-"
=, Poor little oacl' muymur,d the en-
- gineer.
i, And he made a sign to tho men to
take her away. BIT she c'uag dcspor-
ately to him, cryiag:
Papa il not dead. want to go
~ dowp. viii ilId him.
They bore her away and left her with
= the school teacher. A hour later sh,
was bacl at the shaft, aad, clingiag to
., the engineers kacos, she kept repo at
-, ing;
y II want to go down. will fad
himp
H. was teuder-hcartod man, that
y, y, engineer, aad he took pity on her.
~ IA ter all, he sal to himself, "that
!. will, perhaps, be the best thing. When
- - she has seen with her own eyes she will
- believe. This excitement, if it lasts
~ ~ much longer, will xiii her."
- And, taking her in his arms, he bore
- her to the car aad gave the signal to
- descend.
- She shuddered when she felt beneath
her that yawaing pit from which arose
=, foul air which almost suffocatod her
i The engineer felt her little arms incIose
~ his neck and her curly head was pressed
:. against his owa.
= When they reached the bottom she
= = di'engagcl herself, sprang to the
i ground, and rushed straight forward,
ealing;
y, 'Plpal PapaT
~ ~ The engineer, who could hardly keep
~ up with her, W tired of explaining to
her twenty times what he had already
explained-how the explosion had taken
- place, where it had occurred, and
-. what they had lone to fild the victims,
- and the child kept questioning him,
i. and repeated;
4 ''He is livingl Seek for himl'
itb She would have remained down there
10. in the miae three days, as she hal al
ready done at the surface, if they had
nd not taken her by iOrc1 and carried her
on up.
wa The engineer gave orders that she
II, should be taken back to the school
nd teacher and also orders that if she re-
a. appeared at the shaft she should be
Ike prevented from goiag into ths mine.
All his measures had boon carefully
he taken, and the next day no longer