Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1888-06-20
SAVED BIZ A HEROIC YOUNG GIRL

From q speech by the late James
McQuade in his "Cruise of the Mon
tauk:"
"Out in the northern wilds of the
Adirondack, remote from o settle
ment, is a mountain retreat occupied
as o summer home by gentleman
and his granddaughter, and frequently
by hunters and those seeking the
health that q balmy atmosphere, spiced
with gum .dIstilling trees, bears on
healing wings.
Two visitors had been out hunting
far from this retreat in dense forest
containing but an imperfect and in
definite trail. They became separated,
and as night approached the younger,
approaching the necessity OF keeping
the trail in view while daylight lasted,
hastened his return, supposing that
his companion would take the same
course. He reached the retreat about
nightfall, but the elder sportsman, less
vigorous, unable to bear up under the
fatigue, Jagged behind, and had not
arrived when the occupants of the
house retired.
But one did not retire-a young girl
who had spent months exploring the
wilderness and knew how difficult 1t
would be for person unfamiliar with
recesses to follow the feeble trail.
At late hour she called up her COL
ored maid to accompany her, and,
donning hunting dress, sailed forth,
rifle in hand, into the darkness. She
took the precaution to send stable
boy with a boat up the adjacent lake,
to be used in case an accident had
happened which would render Its en-
ployment necessary. No one in the
house knew of her Intention; no one
else had the thoughtfulness to enter
tain 1t or the courage to put it into
execution.
Attended by her maid, she plunged
fesrlessly into the gloomy forest, ford
ing streams, clambering oyer rocks,
and forcing way through thick un-
dergrowth on her merciful mission.
After a long search faint response
came to the hailing call she kept up.
and her view halloo was feebly echoed
from clump of bushes, where she
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dazed, unable to move without assist
ance. The boat was called, and soon
arrived at a convenient vicinity, and
after the application of restoratlves
the sufferer was placed In it and car.
ried to the retreat, arriving about day
break.
Night in the wilderness is SILVER
| ing time at best. Gaunt trees out
stretch uncanny limbs in shadeful de.
lection; rebellious twigs, forced aside
in finding path, strike back in the
face with startling sting; the air il
] filled with frightful vagueness, more
oppressive because the shadowy in
i fluences takes no definite form. There
are but few who are not towards IL
| the dark:
Like one that on q lonesome read
| Doth walg In fear AMI dread,
And, having once turned round, walks OF
| And turns no more his head.
We may reasen, but fear is deaf t.
reason. How many are there WHIT
would like to spend the night in &
churchyard2 And yet 1t is holy
place where evil spirits may not come
Not the dangers tat are palpable, bn
the unknown and unseen are the mos
trying to the nerves.
regard that night journey in the
primeval forest by delicate, tenderlJ
nurtured young lady as an admirable
exhibition of the intrepid resolution
that make heroines. and l put it Oh
record as an example of woman'l
bravery.