The Van Buren press., 1898-09-03

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asg Newfoundland dog Sic never
knew certainly bOya tie accident hap
pened. There had been some sudden
eornmotion IN the yard among the
fowls. and coming back from hssty
investigation she had found the pitt
fnl little heap under the stair railing.
Pen tad probably been trying 10 ride
IL.
.Adeia worked over him with a sink
ing heart. The tie between h~r and the
child was doubly strong. Their moth
er had died when Ben was baby. and
since then the girl. even now still in
her teens. had been mother and sister
both to him. There were only the
three Of them, her father. Ben and
she; and she dared not think what
life would be without Ben. az merry,
winsome and mischieyOus little lad a.
ever iordcd II over a woman's heart.
But one by one her efforts to revive
him failed. She had tried her last re-
source. and uow. az she stOCd on the
porch. the one thought that was ihrob-
bing through her brain was how she
was 80 get the doctor. She had stood
thus bat few moments when she lift
ed her head and looked toward the
mountain 4 sudden purpose hndled
in her eyes, and she turned and went
into the house.
The sick child lay just as she had
left him. Af-er a searching look at
him, she began 10 move swiftly but
noiselessly about the room. She drew
the curtain across the window; she
called Watch IN and made him lie down
by the couch; she brought her hat,
aud a tall stan which stood IN the cor
ner; then, STOPPING until her dark hair
mingled with the child's sunny curls
she kissed him again and again, and
rising, hurried out and shut the door
The siseo place lies at the end Of
Massanutten, range Of mountains
which runs for 40 miles through the
middle o. the Shenandoah valley.
Adela had recalled the fact that for
some time a party Of men. in search
Of health and sport, had been camping
out high up on the side OF the noun
tain next TO strasburg, She meant to
climb up 20 the camp and get the peo-
pie there 10 send to town for DR.. Jack
son, while she hurried back 70 Ben. II
was a mile up 10 the camp; but there
lay the only help she could think OF,
and as for the rough and difficult
i. climbing she did not think Of that at
all.
There was no road, no path up the
esd OF the mountain. There was. how
ever, an old chute through which the
bark gathercrs had sometimes sent
their tan bark down 10 the river The
chute iteclf, the trough, had rotted
away: but the narrow opening
through the trees was still to be seen,
and Adela took 10 that. Other than
the rough journey. she knew she had
nothing 10 fear, for wild beasts have
long sinee gone from Massanutten, and
snakes are seldom seen.
But the climbing was enough. as she
quickly found. even for her excited
strength; and she soon began to be
thankful whenever the way led over
one Of the rock brakes. in which Mas
sanutten's sides abound On these
steep slopes the beds of loose rock lay
like a stairway, aud she could step up
from stone TO stone.
She toiled on until she had nearly
reached ;he top. Her breath was al
most gone. her heart was pounding in
her ears. But the camp was now with
In call, and. after a moments rest, she
went on again.
She came 20 a rock-brake, and start
ed ever Il. Half way across, as she