Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-16

her-but don't ask, Let me-snd say
nuthen."
"But I'm dyin', too" whined the old
man. 'I'm goin' blind, an'-I'm-helpl
help?'
The voice became fainter, and the pio-
neer's wasted form slid from his seat and
rolled sideways on the floor.
Harry bent over him and looked into the
starving mans face.
Then he rose slowly and haggardly.
His lips were tightly closed and he bit
them.
s'She frst," he said, after a slight pause.
'rMy darling first. I'll save him after
ward"
He went to the table and opened the
drawer.
As he felt about there for q knife his
left hand touched the little piles of golden
ore that lay on the table.
With furious sweep of the hand he sent
them flying on the floor.
"Gold?''he cried. "Gold All the gold
in the world amt worth crust o bread"
II.
Panther Harry selected the sharpest
and the most pointed of the knives he found
in the table drawer and took from the
cup made from the horn of buffalo. Then
he gathered up few strips of the rags he
had left lying nearby, and after glancing
for brief second at the motionless figure
of the old frontiersman, he raised the blue
blanket curtain and stepped into the inner
room.
The girl was lying white and silent as be-
fore, with a death-like, peaceful smile
wreathing her parted lips
Harry stole to the couch and looked into
the girls eyes. A merest CLEAN of heart
breaking recognition flickered there-like a
stray and feeble sunbeam-and vanished.
The young man dropped on one knee by
the side of his dying bride, and grasping
her cold and humid hand, covered it with
his kisses.
ooh! my Godr' he cried, in the terror of
his heart, "grant that it may not be too late
grant that it may not be too late"
He took the knife he had brought and
with one swift and desperate movement cut
a great cash into his LETT arm The steam,
ing blood spurted over his face and chest,
but he dashed the horn cup to the wound
with ightning-like swing, and the hot
fluid gushed into it. He felt his face grow
red and white by turns, and strong tremor
filled bis frame, but he kept tight hold of
the horn until he knew that his blood was
trickling into it more and more slowly
Then he satisfied himself that the cup was
nearly full to the brim, though his head
swan, and the walls and the couch and the
girl upon it appeared to him to turn round
in hazy whfrl. He crept to the couch
side with the love OF life beaming in his
dark eyes. Gently, tenderly as woman
might have done, he inserted his right
arm beneath the girls shoulders and rails
ing her dropping head with solicitous care,
he held with his left the cup to her lips,
though he felt the blood still flow from his
arm in warm stream. The half-open lips
admitted a few drops. then the head sank
back, as gasping thrill pervaded the slen-
der frame. Harry softly. pressed the cup
again to his loves lips and q few more drops
passed.
Then he waited dozen seconds, while
his sight grew DINNER, and his temples
throbbed as in fever. Again he placed the
cup to the white lips, and he was happy to
see few more drops of his life's blood rush
ing to save her whom he loved so we'll.
Time after time during the next hour he
repeated his work of mercy, until at last
the CLASSY eyes frightened with the signs Of
reviving life, and dim smile beamed there.
The cold figure seemed to warm into
pulsating vigor, the bosom heaved in more
visible evenness and at last sigh, long
orawn' escaped Irom IT.
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ana ieii ,ace foremost on 'ne moor.
The sun of bright winter morning
glowed, an orb of red fire, on horizon Of
silver, which graduated westward into a
pale, steely blue
Around the hut where Panther Harry |
Law horses neighed and nawed the snowv
ground, while the air was astir with CHEEKY
human voices.
A score of Uncle Sans Dragons, un- |
as soldiers under the oldest |
and most varied assortment of fur clothing,
up and down by the tethered |
horses, swinging their arms and stamping
keen and bltlngly brisk atmosphere.
WITHIN. three or four men, two OF them
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