The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1894-01-13

strong TO endure; he stopped and
kissed the white face.
ssTIon't worry. darlir's" he saids
gently, ssthaF's plenty 20 eat In TINS
old house. Thar's cana o CONDENSED
milk i'm the wtoreroom. You know
this place Ia used for hotel In SUM
mer. and SO you need fear nothing
no harm Will come to baby and me-
while we wait for spring 10 come
but-but-'
His voice died away into trembling
whisper.
Loud and ahrill, borne ON the bitter
wintry blast. sound reached their
ears. It was the howl of wild beasts
outside their shelter.
ice Chester and his wife had lost
their way while travelling back to civ
ilizatlon, and the singing wintry cold
had found them and settled down
wpon them, aud they were ice and |
snow bound. But providence had not |
forsaken them, for they had found the |
deserted summer hotel. where pro-
visions and some fuel were discovered;
and here. having made their way In,
! side and taken possession, tney nao
been sheltered and fed until now
when death had come TO release one
| prisoner.
She passed away in the night, quite
painlessly. Poor Mary Chester. White
and still, and dead she lay upon her
bed. the cold hands forever folded
upon the icy heart, the dark eyes
closed i'm their last long, dreamless
sleep
Burial was impossible for the pres
en& Snow-bound. with the great soft
winter drifts piled mp all about the
doors and windows, the heart broken
husband could do nothing but sit be-
side the cold dead form, with his liv-
ing child i'm his armR. while outside
the a. use the wild beasts howled
hoarsely.
EDays passed, and grew into weeks.
The child lived and grew strong, but
the father faded and dropped The
scanty store Of provisions was near.y
exhausted; only the milk-he boarded
1t an q miser boards his gold. to pre-
serve the frail life which was his only
hone ON earth
With N trembling hand Joe Chester
wrote full account of the tragic
events, and left the paper where tt
would be easily discovered; for well
he knew that his own time was
short The pangs of hunger were
already racking his frame; but the
child lived and grew rosy and strong
table Edelweiss growing upon the
rock bound soil amid the cleaning
SHOWS of the Yellowstone.
Three weeks after Mary Chester s
! death, Joe lifted the decaying body in
his arms one day, and bore iE to the
Z door of the house. Il must be given
{ burial, It must be hidden away out OF
i. sight. With trembling hands he
= scooped q deep. dark pit in the snow
' drifts ut the door-close to the door.
4 for he could 60 no farther; tenderiy
:. and reverently he laid the body down
and covered it with a snowy blanket
there to lie until spring and human
relief should come.
Then he went back to his lonely
hearth and desolate shelter. How
horrible it was to lie awake in the
long, long, seemingly endless nights
and fancy that he could hear th'
sound of her 70. tstep@. the beating o
her cold hands against the barret
door, the sad, swe { voice calling
softly:
4 "Joe-Joe! my husband-let me in
It is cold in the ground. and dreary
Let me in!"
And often he would start fror
his bed in the drearY night watche
and creep to the door, unbar it. an
I peer out into the snow-clsd night.
Nothiug-no one; only the disms
howl of beast of prey. coming neaI
1 GH-nGATGEs &AOSIA8 b1C AOOA ~
would go back to bed and the war;
companionship of his little child.
Y. But the end came at last, and Jo
Chester, literally starving, lay dow
ON to die. Beside him he placed til
ne written paper which told all, and IL
er- dicated the spot where his wife's bod
could be found.
Tie One morning the gray light Of ds
q struggled in at the frOst-cOvered Wi
les dow and rested upon the face OF
n? dead man and a living child. WI
e. too, perish?
What spirit ever possessed Dave M
IKE Cutcheon. the driver of the famol
er' Yellowstone park stage, to make
visit TO the deserted hotel NO one CT
tell. He declared that it was spiE
IN that led his footsteps thither. Blu
1 .ne after long and dangerous Journ
NC upon snow shoes, the dashing adve
arr turous stage driver made his apes
lad ance at the deserted building and w
ark almost paralyzed to hear the sound
no- a child's voice screaming Justify.
asc It vas the work of a few momeI
yer to effect aA entrance into the hot
NO and there the horrible truth was SO
o learned.
ys The child was fed and rescued. 10
ina body buried temporarily, TO be
IL moved in the spring time, togett
J, with Mary's to q green and sun
De- slope, where they now lie side by 81
YER S,r,SSt;,,cr &ha resuurrectiou.
ows - ~ ch;ld9 Dave's bip low
ng- ha-t ax..anded and took in the lit
her H-.LaSEtha ch;Id NJ the only won
my Iaho6 ever loved Henceforth
his was his, to have and to hold.
I'VE. christened her Edelweiss, but as of
'ng' ms not, he called her with tender kls
Teo- and caressea. "Dave's Little Sn