The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1893-02-08
THE ROSE TREE NlNE-

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and It Is 50 early"
YES Anzeliqus, the winter viii be
long"
There was pause, and then, ~An-
tome, heSrd child cry in the night,
and could not sleep
SIT was a devil bird, ny wife; it ties
slowly and the summer Is dead"
Antoine, there was rushing of wings
By ny bed before the morn was break
ing
The Wild geese know their way in the
night, Angeiique, but they flew BY the
house and lot near thy bed
The two black squirrels have gone
from the hickory tree
They have hidden away with the
bears in the earth, for the frost comes,
and it IS the time OF sleep
a cold hand vas knocking at ny
heart when said MY ayes list night
Antoine
The heart ola women feels many
strange things 1 cannot answer, my
wiss.V
Let Us 20 also southward. Antoine,
before the great winds end The Wild fros.
eome.7
-IhaFe love Of thee, Angelique, but
cannot 90"
as not love greater tnan all2"
@Fo keep a pledge Is greater
~Yet if evil Gomez
There Is the nine
@None travel hither. Who should end
ag
-He said to me, ny wife, Antoine,
viii you stay and watch the nine Grtil
leone with the birds Rorth ward again 2
and said. I win stay and Angelique viii
stay; viii watch the mine.'r
This Is sor his riches 5u. for our peril,
Antoine"
~Who can say wither s woman's fancy
goes2 It Is full Of guessing. It IS clouds
and darkness to-day and sunshine-so
much-to-uorrox Icannot answer
Il have 4 fear. Il NJ husband loved
me-
There is the nine he interrupted
firmly.
when my heart aches So
@AngeliGue, there is the mine.7
~Ah, my Antoine -
And 50 these two staid on the island
Of Saint Jean, in Lake Superior through
the purple haze Of autumn into the white
brillizaey Of winter. guarding the Rose
Tree Mine, which Fading, the English
man, and his companions had prospect
Ell and declared u be their Ophir.
But saint Jean vas far from the ways
Of settlement, and there vas little food
and only one hut, and many things
must be done for the Rose Tree mine in
the places where men sell their souls for
money; and Antoine and Angelique
French peasants from the parish OF
Saint Irene. in Quebec, we're left TO guard
the place Of treasure until, to the sound
Of the laughing spring, there should come
many men and much machinery, and
the sinking Of shafts in the earth and
the making OF riches.
Bat when Antoine and Augelique were
lefl alone in the vest, and God began 70
draw to the pale eoverIet Of frost
slowly across land and water and 70 sur
round Saint Jean with a stubborn mOa.
Of ice, the heart OF the woman felt some
coming danger, and At last broke forth IN
words Of timid warning When she once
had spoken she said no more, but staid
and builded the heaps Of earth about the
home and filed every erevice against the
inhospitable Spirit Of Winds. and drew
her world closer and closer withia those
two rooms where they should live
through many moons
The winter was harsh bat the hearts
Of the two we're strong They love I, and
I love is the parent Of endurance the be-
gester CT courage And every day De
cause il seemed his duty, Inspected the
Roze Tree mine and every day also, be
eaEse It seemed her duty, Angeliqne said
many avss- And one prayer was much
with her-f0r spring to come early. that
the child shoald not suffer ths child
which the good God was to give to hel
and Antoine.
In the 6rst hours OF each evening An
tome smoked and Angelique sang the
old songs which their ancestors learned
in Normandy. One night Ant5ine'z fIe'
vas lighted vita fine fire as be talked
Of happy days in the parish Of Irene, and
with that romantic fervor Of his racs
which the stern winters Of Canada coule
not Kill, he sang. a Ia Claire Fountaine.
the well beloved song child Of the voy
ayers hearts
/ And the wife smiled FAR away into the
dancing fanes-fsr away, because the
FIRE retrezfed, retrested to the httl'
church where they two were wed; an'
she did what most good women do
though exactly Why, man the l1sCE1eien
cannot decIare-she vspt little througi
her smiles. Bot when the last verse cam'
both smiles and tears ceased Antotn'
sang il with fond mcnot0ny;
Would that each rose were growing
Cpon The ruse tree gay.
And thAS rhe fatal rose Tree
Deep II tae ocean lzy.
Ny a loug-en2s gue ie tai.ze
Jarsis K ne rouhiierAl
Augelique's heart. grew suddenly
heavy From the rose tree Of the son
her niad fed and shiversd before tn
leaaess rose tree BY the mine; and he
old dreed came back TO her.
OF coarse this xzs foolish Of Angelique
! of course the wise and great thrO. cor