The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-09-15

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tho post.boy guide, Rugged him wildly.
EreItled with him, turned Hun round
and about, and again Rugged him, while
tears Of JOY flowed down her winsono
face, poured torrents Of eudcaring ques'
tious and calculations uDon him; while
the professor, not without trace OF
wonder and admiration in his keen
little ewes, stood impationtly by.
Then came the wondrous hospitality
OF these mountain eeries. The COVE
might come or stay In their mountain
businesses, until tho newcomers were
given their bowls Of milk. aud drink
again they must; water for washing
somo curious old hali.Wooden shoes TO
replace their heavy boots; and such an
aftensmad or supper as was never be-
fore piled before Professor Detrius
Moraine: grosd or stirabout enough for
the saeter's pigs; cream by the quart
bntter by tho stone weight; milk by
the gallon; coffee and black bread and
bacon in alarming mensuroj while they
were ceaselessly piled with impottunste
commands 70 eat aud never stop eating,
and besot with morniul rcproois, after
the kindly Norwegian fashion, because
they could not cat it all.
But Professor Moralne had not como
10 tho Midtiield for either dalliance or
food. Tho gcntle meditation OF vel.
coming tones, the amplitude OF hoSpi-
tality oven the tenderness Of affection
between Lars and Hausine, could not
for moment hold back his impatient
footsteps.
Out upon tho mountain valley he
coursod ike come happy animal trced
from winter restraint Here and there
ne sped from valley side to side, then
up the tortuous stream, thence along
the frozen Taco Of tho field, now aud
then rubbing his hands gleefully or
tossing his large head rollickiugly. until
he finally disappeared up tho frozen
banks into the painless space beyond.
Tho COWS had come, wore MIXED and
wero huddling sleopily beneath tho
hugo shod behind the cabin before Lars
and Hansine, in their loving concourso,
had noticed the professors absence.
Then they spod to the point whero
they had last seen him bounding over
tho banks OF snow. At last they found
him, lust at tho Gdgo OF what seemed a
groat ico.wave held back by few pro-
jecting, black and pinnacled rocks.
Lore he was econ pacing back and forth
% II calculating measurements.
Soon they saw him begin hacking tho
ice with o picce Of jagged rock. lilo
worked iuriously in tho long aud lInger.
ing twilight like some Arctic gnome or
frost-sprito dolving for buried treasure.
Whom they oamc softly to his side no
scarcely noticed thom. Finally he
placed tho sDlintered rock like a rude
stone monument above the centre Of
tho little orltico lac had elected and
laughed gleeiully.
"Ha, ha, hap
Tho strangencss OF tho sight caused
Lars aud lfausinc to respond with,
"Hu, ha, hal"
The Professor looked up with 4
changed countenance and a plying
glancN
"Ah, poor iguor;ut childrenI" he
sighed conmiseratingly. "You can
never understand tho pleasure ] OK.
perience in at last beginning my great
experiment 10 Provo to tho scientific
world. beyond cavil, the correctnoss Of
my theory Of tho viscosity OF glacier
icew
Lars aud Hansino in turn now looked
upon tho Professor Dstrius Moraine
with plying COMMUNICATION. and gently
led him to bis couch, with Lars, beside
that OF beautiful Hanslne; Just as the
sturdy hsrbTgeTcr OF the little inn at Or
meim said II would surely be.
Lars should have set out on his TO-
A.. n.,,n,t,N NhA nnst NV1aRn{nn hNt
tho professors impotuous earnestness
kept him. Scarcely without their
knowing how. certainly without their
knowing why, the brother and sistcr
found themselves with their strange
companion working vigorously upon
tunnel into tho heart OF tho ice noun
tain.
Tho professor laborcd heroically with
them. In tho ono day the three had dug
horizontal excavation, something like
miners diminutive drift, wide and
high enough for scant passage and near.
" forty leet in length, tho entrance TO
which the professor carefully covered
with skins and blankets.
Lars departure the next morning and
IIansine's frequent references To the
near abandonment Of the saeter, only
nervod tho professor TO greater oxor-
tons, and his boundless enthusiasm
seemed like wine to Hansine unqucs-
tioning sho worked beside him for two
days moro, carroling her strange noun
tain airs, whilo they toiled or rooted to-
gcther.
Her splendid ercrgy, hes winsomo
face, her Hrandly developed figure, hor
unerring stroke as she swung tho stout
Ice ax, with numbers OF which every
saeter ia provided, and her gladstone
oaceruess In her blind obedience to tho
professors slightest command, must
havo wrought upon tho scientist
strangely. For, when at last thoy had
fashioned little chamber fully eight
feet square and as high aa thor axos
could roach, had removed all tho chip
pings and debris, and had brought q
little bench from the sactor upon which
no could sit, wrapped 10 skins and
blankets, to mako his curious obsorva-
tions, tho strange old.younG woman
hator that no was drew the glowing
girl beside him, and. carressing her alb
stractedly rs he would have pctted q
faithful horse or dog, said with radiant
citation:
"Ah, Hansinc, HansincI I shall
achieve victory hero through your
grand aud noble aid. II you could al
ways DO with me, what could l not
accomplish"
And yet Professor Detrius Moraine
meant nothing by this; nothing more
than he would have meant to faithful
horse or dog; mud il was nothing moro
than audible thought OF Gladnoss for
grateful forceful aid which had over
come resisting other forces that lay in