The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-03-07

thu doors Of their natural enemy. man.
by the pnngs of hunger.
Black care shrouds In gloom the once
happy home Of the prospector. who sits
In his snug parlor, hnggard and wan,
gazing dejectedly at the portrait Of his
darling lost boy. On the wall hangs
big-printed poster, which reads:
ZONE THOUSAND DOLLARS REWARD
Lost. boy i've years OF age Has light
curling hair. blue eyes and the scar Of a burn
under his left arm below the elbow Wore
when missing n black cloth knickerbocker
suit straw hat with dark-bluo ribbon. blue
grey stockings ana low shoes Linen marked
w W. Answers 60 the name OF While. Ad-
dress j. Wiiders. oretown. or Richard sutton.
superintendent OF police. Marquette. Mich"
"Oh, Mile, Mile, is there a God
that such things can be?" groans the
unhappy man. my Willie, my boy
whom loved dearer than life, perhaps
now in want and suffering, perhaps ly-
ing dead in some lonely spot without
even a grave 10 cover him"
FLUSH, DEAR Mile says softly.
"The Lord hath given, and the Lord
hath taken away. Can you not say
with me: Blessed be the name Of the
Lord?'"
II cannot, wife. II God gave me that
child 20 love, why torture my soul by
taking him from me?"
Have courage, Jack. do not
know why, but / have strange pre-
sentiment that we viii see him again"
But Wilders was not 10 be comforted.
Presently he looked up despondenily
and said:
us Susan Green Gomez
'She's in the kitchen. dear; shall /
call her?"
AYE, do"
Now Susan was the wealx-eyed
maiden who had given such damaging
testimony against Frank Grey at that
staf-chamber trial in the high school.
She had furthermore gained the noto-
riety of being the luclxless individual
who had charge of Willie, when the
poor child was lost. Again and again
she had been summoned into jack
Wilders' presence for cross-exaio.na-
ton, and on the present occas.on was
full of FESTIVE determination to pat an
end to the annoyance.
"Now," said the prospector, "tell me
once more. Susan, how ym came TO
take the child from its nurse"
"Oh deari" Miss Green whimpercd,
'I'm sure I've told you all i know one
hundred times at least. Well, II you
must have it over again, this is how It
was:"
"Yes, go on, Susan"
II met Alma Miggs out for n walk
with the boy in the North woods.
Susan she says, Willie wants to go
round to the cave. I'm lame says she,
and can't take him. Says /: Let tho
little precious come with me- Says
shei Il will Sowe wens. Willie ran.
shouting and laughing. saw him
turn the corner OF the road and never
set eyes ON him again. He was gone
just as though he'd vanished"
! Ibid you hear no cry~
II never heard nothing
"Thinls moment, girl" abe prospeo-
tor said, stcrnly. Was there NO
cracking of the bushes, no sound OF
wild snimals or Of manS>
Mary n sound"
"And you searched evesywhere?"
swish may die If didn't, Mr.. Wild
ers. / ran up and down streaming
Willie for hours and hours. I'm sure
/ tore my dress all to shreds, an as for
my shoes, they was that sodden you
wouldn't have picked 'em up IL you'd
seen them a-lying in the street"
We will leave poor Susan TO the ten
der mercies of the prospector's cross
questions ana take peep at the Whit
| ford house and its inmates.
NTo DE corTlNuED.l
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