Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-10-28

VhaU WAich VI IlSut ptlUuSs 10 csueTb.
"Sankala, have always passed as
your father. love you better than a
father ever loved his child. The idea
prevails among the fisherman that only
your mother was drowned and that /
your aged father, who had taken a
young wife at the age of three score and
ten had clutched you in my arms at
the last moment and that fate had cast
us ashore.
I'VE were cast ashore together. it is
true, you five-weeks old babe in my
arms, but your mother and father both
went down to watery grave"
but you are my father now" broke
in Sankala. 81 love you as my father
and shall always love you as SUCH
THAT is true, my child, that 10 true,
but your real father is dead. It is this
that places heavy responsibility upon
you and me. Your father was much
wronged and it is left to you and me
to right the wrong. Should continue
to live, Sankala, l will right the
wrong, but should die the duty falls
upon you. You are young, know,
but you already possess woman's in
telligence and with the data before you,
you will be able to complete the plans
which | have inaugurated, should the
worst come. ] am failing rapidly,
sankala, I am failing rapidly"
"But you win live, father, you will
live," sobbed the girl.
II intend to, my child, but should
4 fail you must finish the work. I'm
der the hearth there is concealed a
small box. It is small metal affair,
but contains much Of interest to you.
It contains evidence, Sankala, that
shall some day make you the queen of
the fishing village. It will do more
Sankala, it will enable you to travel
and to see the great world.
II shall never forget your mothers
dying request. It was on that fearful
night just fifteen years ago when the
old ship made such a gallant fight on
the bar and finally went aground on
Sand Island.
"Your father was assisting the sail
ors and had been swept from the deck.
You were born aboard the ship after
we had left the old country. The
ships surgeon had given a certificate
of your birth. Your mother knew how
important that certificate was, San
kala, and when all we're lost but the
captain and you and I /; she came to me
and threw you into my arms. She had
imbedded the certificate of your birth
in wax and thrust this deep into the
inside pocket of my vest. She said,
calling me by my right name: 500
i have presentlment. You will
live and rescue the child. will be
lost. Upon the very eve of reaching
the place we so long sought, my poor
husband went down in sight Of his own
wealth. ] must surely follow. Take
her, my dear friend, take the child and
see that she gets what belongs to her.
In the name Of Him who will reward
you, beg you to be brave and do that
for which you are now intended
Gin few minutes all was lost.
God spared rue the sight Of seeing your
mother 60. dashed myself to spar,
clutched you in my arms with the grip
of death and became unconscious, as
she sea cut the remaining timbers
from the vessel. /"
CHAPTER vi.
Disturbed Peace OF the Seadogs.
ST do not know why it is, husband,
but our Hazel, young as she is, is wor-
rying great deal. That girl. Sankala,
disturbs her peace Of mind. She does
not like her. The poor girl is kind to
our Hazel and all of that but our child
seems to have most natural antipathy
for has