Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-12-29

time. In the last days OF the siege got
desperately wounded in a cavalry combat
near st. Cloud--my head was laid open
by n sabre stroke at the very moment q
bullet went through my body.
1.-The doctors said that must die,
that nothing could save me. One alone
refused TO regard my case as hopeless,
and to him am indebted for my life.
His name is Victor Bart.
II did not know it then, for l lay
many DAYS unconscious, but / knew af-
terward that he treated me with consum-
mate skill, and watched over me day and
night. So YOU sec 1t cost him much
more trouble to save my life than 1t cost
me to save his. And then, when l was
getting better another came and helped
me to get we'll. A nurse she was, OIL
such sweet nurse--thc sweetest you
ever did see. She had soft. dark eyes, a
low, sweet voice, and face so lovely
! that words are too weak TO describe 1t.
At first, being still weak, Ireally thought
she was visitant from heaven; and one
day told Victor that an angel had ben
smoothing my pillow and giving me to
drink.
''Victor laughed heartily.
''That is my sister Lucie," he said.
"a false report reached Geneva that L
had been hurt, and she came to nurse
me. but as / did not need nurse, l set
her to nurse you"
II felt glad she was not an angel from
heaven, for / had already fallen in love
with her, and one fine May morning,
when could move about little, as we
were walking under the chestnut trees,
| told her what was in my mind. i be-
gan by saying that did notknow which
to be the more thankful for-the wound
on my head or the bullet through mybody.
Thankful for hurts that nearly killed
YOU, Baron" she exclaimed. You are
surely joking Or
Z" am neither joking nor delirious,
Mademoiselle Bart. l was never more
serious in my life. If / had not been
wounded, you would not have been my
nurse. and should have missed the hap.
piest time / have ever known. Your
good brother has saved my life. Will
YOU share it with me, Lucie2 For 1 love
you SO dearly that would rather lose II
than live unloved by the angel OF my
Dreams
81 cacnot tell you how Lucie an
swered, or whether she answered at all IL
words; but l read her answer in her eyes
and we were both very happy.
"And then told Victor, and he wa
| very glad, and he proposed the war be
ing over and myself convalescent--that
should travel home by way of Genevs
! and make the acquaintance OF his people
"This offer l gladly accepted, ant
! wrote to tell my people, who lived a
Nuremberg, of all that had come to pass
and my mother and my sister, Natalie
/ met us at Geneva, and we stayed ther'
several weeks.
"Natalie was beautiful blonde, will
blue eyes and rosy cheeks, and it was al
most q matter of course that Victor anc
she should fall in love with each other
and the day on which Lucie and
learned that her brother and my siste
were betrothed was the second happies
of our lives. We were all married at tn
same time; and every other year Victo
5 and Natalie visit us at Nuremberg, ant
every other year we visit them at Geneva
THAT is the end of the story, ant
when have smoked one more pipe W
: will Join the ladies in the saloon, and
! shall have the pleasure of introducin
: YOU to Madame Victor Bart and tn
Baroness Won Hohenstein. Afterwar
we will 90 to the Jardin Anglais an
, listen to the music. Twill also introduc
1 YOU to my sister, Helcnchen, so ther
:. will be lady for each of u.s.