Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-08-22
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leave me again, Toni"
So the next morning early, bike q
pair of clipping lovers, they We're mar
ried in the near church and took the
morning train for the lar West; on
and on the rushing wheels bore them;
day after day they endured the Sc
paration OF thecrowd, till at last they
arrived at st. George one Winter night
in January. The snow was deep, but
Tom must report as soon as possible,
and Viva would not let him 90 alone.
sit is too cold, dearest" he said.
''Not with you Tom
Forty below zero, Vival"
"If you can live in it l can. i
promise Tom"
He could not refuse her after that
word with all its memories. Rolled
in furs, wells, scarfs, with hot bricks at
her feet, they set out ON their
twenty-mile journey. Warned not
| to speak, for the air was
not fit for their lungs to admit in.
all it's chill, silently they sped along
The gGttering fields OF sparkling snow,
on which the moon made long wake
OF glory, the black shadows, the creak
of their swift runners, the snorting OF
the horses, whose nostrils were hung
4 with icicles, all added strange terror
to the drive, drive that seemed end
less, but at last it was over.
"Comel" said Tom, holding out his
arms as the driver drew up before the
officers quarters, where the light OF a
fire blazed through the deep frosted
windows, but Viva neither spoke nor
moved.
Mad with terror, Tom lifted her
from the sleigh and rushed into the
door, making his way by instinct to
the fire. Viva stirred rot an atom.
Hasty hands unrobed her, kind hands
laid her on the sofa. Her face was set
and white, her lips parted, her eyes
glazed. The post-surgeon hurried in
he lifted one hand, it fell back, he put
finger on her pulse. MY Godl sh,
is dead" he said, with look o
dreadful pity.
Tom dropped beside her.
Was it year? Was it a lifetime
Was he in heaven when he awoke GU
OF that?
, She was there, warm, sweet, rosy
"You made me promise, Tom; die
not die"
Tom turned on his face and weep
like very child; his heaven had com
on earth.
Post-surgeons do not know every
+ thing any more than any other mar
! The fact was that Viva had develops
in the last two years tendency tt
!. catalepsy-the result OF an overwor
: and overexcited nervous system; an
!. when DR. Sands told her she must te
i Tom about it, she had just come on
of serious attack wherein size ha
I lain for hours as one dead; but sh
would not tell him, having an idle fea
that Tom might cease TO love her.
= The long journey and the cold driy
Y had brought ON a severe seizure, an
!; she certai.Ey, in appearance, justitie
u the post-surGeon's opinion; but befoI
q morning she had come back TO hersel
I and was heart-broken to find Tom d
d lirious with grief and as unconscior
y OF her presence as she had been OF hi
!, viva, he said. few days aft,
! they were fairly settled i'll thenew lii
y tiny darlingl my wife! think whs
= might have happened if | had new
. known about this. Promise me, Wv
= hereafter to trust me. Tell me ever
= thing"
10 She looked up in his troubled, tie
der face with divine smile, and soft
" said over his talisman, "Ipromise. +"
= Rose Terry Cooke, in Exchange.
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