New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-09-10

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i like some have seen slipping down
the mountain"
Then there was a heavy knocking
at the outer door, and Margaret
father was met by a tall STRANGER
who asked hurriedly if a certain SIM
! pie remedy was in the house.
saThere is a child SO sick up yon-
der" said the man, with the tears
shining in his eyes. Perhaps it is
your own little daughter"
The face OF the angry father grew
deadly pale as he sprang for the rem
edy, and, unlocking the closed door,
hurried out to the mountain side
| followed by Margaret.
| The sister was soon restored to
consciousness by the stranger and a
companion of his who was a skilled
physician.
| By the use of the remedies which
! these strangers recommended the
strength came back to the child's
limbs and the color to her face, and
| IN month she seemed entirely well.
| But though she would not think
of owning it to any one, or allow her
companion to know that she had
such a thought, Margaret was sadly
aware thata great change had taken
| place in her sister
Even when the mountains were
looking their grandest she would
sometimes sit with a far-off glance.
Often when she scanned to be asleep
Margaret knew that she was wide
awake and thinking hard.
| At last the young girl said:
Il am no more happy here as I
| used to be. have a great wish to
go to America, where lives the man
who did SO much to save my life,
though my father looked SO sternly
at him as he went away. And our
aunt who lives at Geneva is soon go
| ing to that land over the sea-.
'sHave you been sending her many
letters?' Margaret asked, with a face
pale as death.
"1es-many letters. And [ would
have written to the American strang-
| er, too, if [ had only known where to
send the words. I have nottold you,
because I know how you love this
place and our mothers grave
Margaret was so much affected by
all this that she could not speak.
She knew that her sister was like the
father, that when once some stron g
idea had taken possession of her min d
| she would not let it go.
Even now she sprang up and ran
to NEE her parent.
ssFatherl" she cried. May not go
to America with aunt-your own
sister, can earn much money there,
and will come back to visit you as
soon as can, and
''You silly thingp' was hotly an
swered. 1t is such a wild place!'
But the girl quickly guessed from
his appearance that the aunt had
been speaking to him about the mat
| ter.
So she answered back in her own
proud tones:
"But, though you did not like him,
the man who saved my life when
was sick was good, aud may find
him.
eyes, and you may see someone
with snch a pale face that you will
| be afraid and run back home again."
said the father. as he put the child
aside and went striding up the noun
tain to give some orders to old Louis.
Margaret overheard all these
words. She went to her sister when
her father was gone, and, leading her
as calmly as she could. But she
only learned what she had guessed
before, that her sister was firm in her
| determination to cross the Atlantic.
Then she fully realized that, to keep
I the promise which she had made to
her dying mother, she must leave
this grave by which she stood, her
home, and her father with his strange
moods out OF which she had so much
wished to lead him.
This trouble has all come from
my leaving sister alone when she had
| tainted Margaret thought sadly.
And SO will stay by her though
all the rest Of my life shall seem sad
and lonely
And SO one night, when her sister
was sleeping, and the father sat be-
fore the fire in one of his most cheer
full moods, Margaret came close to
him. She stroked his thin white hair
in a way that she had seen her
mother do when she wished to inffu-
ence him strongly for some good
purpose.
Then she told him slowly and kind
~ about all these things of which she
had been thinking so much.
1t was past midnight when the two
were done talkin g. Then the father
said:
4 have forbidden your aunt to
come here again because she has
written so much about America. But
| see no other way but to allow you,
my children, to go to that far-off
land.
He said the words quite calmly,
but. when he was done speaking, he
clenehed his fingers tightly together
and sat for some moments looking