The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-05-31
TOLD BY A LARAMIE MAN.
The Strange Way in Which He ana
His ArabeIIa Were Reunited.
From the Denver Post

From the Denver Post.
We had been talking about the generally
humdrum lives led by nine men out of
ten, and the sad-eyed man who had
hitherto kept silent said as he settled
back into his chair and put bis feet on
the rail of the hotel piazza:
From my birth to the present time
1 have had but one thing happen to me
that was in the smallest degree unusual,
and that related to my marriage, which
was little out of the ordinary"
He spoke with a sleepy drawl that pi-
qued curiosity, and 1 asked him to tell
US what happened if it wouldn't inter-
fere with his nap. He smiled and yawn-
ed and said:
Il was born and brought up in Lara
mie Wy, and so was Arabella. Arabella
is my wife. had known her all her life
ana had always loved her. and she had
done the same by me, and the course of
our affections ran as smooth as molten
metal. In 1889 1 decided to marry her.
and the day was set for April rs, and
we invited all our friends and looked
forward to a happy but commonplace
wedding.
l was called up to North Dakota on a
business matter which / did not think
would detain me more than three or
four days.
"Arabella did little weeping on my
shoulder, womanlike, and said What If
you never come back? But / said, Now
you know perfectly we'll that l always
have been as regular as clockwork. It's
only a few hundred miles away, and
I'll be back and wen be married exactly
at O'Clock on April rs. and 1t will be
the least exciting and yet happdest we'd
ding that ever took place
81 went up to North Dakota and the
last ten miles Of my Journey 1 had to
make on foot. While 1 was walking
along 1t began to snow, and inside of
an hour blizzard was raging, and had
to put In for shelter at the house OF a
lone stranger named Smithson, who
kindly gave me supper and told me that
it would be suicidal for me to go any
farther; that a Dakota blizzard, the
last one of the season, but perhaps the
worst, was upon us.
"'When can RETURN said l. He told
me that If the blizzard was a real ener-
getic one 1t would be two weeks before
l saw home and mamma. You may ina
CINE my feelings. Hundreds of miles
from Arabella with leRs than a week in
tervening before our marriage, and no
way OF getting word to herl OF course
she would think me faithless
'T told the stranger my troubles, and
he sympathized with me, but said that
no human being could live out in that
storm, and when looked out the window
believed him. II was terrific. / had
been in the New York blizzard OF 1888,
and II was q sultry summers day to
this one.
There was nothing TO do but to grin
and bear It. Maybe 1t would stop sooner
than my friend thought. He might be
an alarmist, but 1t grew worse, and by
next morning II seemed to be only just
beginning to get In its fine work. The
mercury went so low that I'd hesitate
to say Just what the thermometer re-
corded for fear Of being considered an
exaggerator. The snow fell at the rate
of a foot an hour on the level. The
house was soon covered up. and we would
have smothered In time II my friend had
not happened 20 have tin ventilator
that ran Atty feet up in the air for just
such occasions.
mot 20 make long story, II was five
days before the snow stopped and then
we were showed in to the depth OF nifty
feet. And we were down 20 our last loaf
of bread. But the thing that worried me
ding day. / sat in the pitch darkness,
for our oil had given out, wondering what
Arabella would do when didn't turn up.
Suddenly we heard voice coming down
the ventilator. smithson CROPPED his way
20 II.
who's thereT said he.
"'It's the parson. Have you food
enoughT
"'No. indeed said smithson. We're
down TO our last loaf. How are you able
to be about, parson?'
"'why, this is the queerest storm that
ever happened. All Dakota north OF us
Is covered but yours f. the last house
In the track OF the storm. South of here
the ground ~ perfectly bare, 80 ] hitch
ed up and brought some provisions along
and drove 10 the edge Of this mighty
snowbank. and then ! put on my snow
shoes and climbed up. IT'S lucky you
had such a long ventilating pipe. How