The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-04-02

The Resurrection of Felix Dymond!
By.L. G.. ,Mobeyty.

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had not heard them, and that the pho
tograI&h 1 sent her Of the rude cross in
the mountain valley would only speak
Of ho1'n and peace.
l had been in Ternabad for the best
part OF year, and We were all rejoic-
orous winter of those attitudes.
spring had come at last: the apricot
orchards in the valleys were a glory OF
blossom; the grass was soon thick with
noWers; the sun had melted some of
the shoW on the mighty mountains
round US, and our small river was show
ing s1tsns of bursting it's banks in it's
rlotoun new energy.
1t wH1F evening, and I sat alone in my
little room that ,adjoined the surgery,
rejoicing in the soft yet fresh breeze
that sJapt In from the mountains.
l W<s reading quietly when voice
OUTSIDE my window startled me.
| Doctor Lady! Oh! Doctor Lady," it
look H4tm the gathering darkness I saw
what was apparently a native woman
crouched on the ground without. Bid
cling her enter by the side door into the
surgery L went into the latter room to
meet her. and found myself confronted
by toll figure closely yelled.
| Thinking that she had come to con-
suit me, and anxious to preserve the
discipline which the major insisted
upon IN surgery hours, I chided her
{ for coming at a time which she knew
was aH'n inst the rules: but she raised
her haf deprecating1y and said in a
dialect which I could barely UNDER
stand:
"oh! Protector of the Poor, I come
not for myself but for one who is sick
unto d':srth...'
persons'
"oh, Doctor Lady, the night is dark
and tn way Is long, but this thy SER
want VIVA guide thee to the place." was
the somewhat cyptic reply.
wsM somewhat puzzled, and in
qu1red whether the patient was in one
OF the little native villages that lay at
VARYING distances from Ternabad and
its fortress, but my visitor shook her
head
1.-The way is long," she said again,
the ps tn IS rough and very steep; the
sick OH lies yonder where the wind
blows 'om the great deserts"
She tlsed her hand in a northerly
dlrectioa Il, and it suddenly flashed upon
me tha' she was asking me to go across
the F'r'aatier into that wild no-man's-
land in 10 which had never penetrated
Manly would never consent to nv
going.
THE Major Sahib began but the
woman sprang forward and suddenly
flung h"ck her veil saying:
"Oh! Doctor Lady, no harm shall
happen to thee. but thou must come
coming lest he should de-
Les he should die" reneated after
her. LEST who should die?" and
looked pravelv into the face which was
no lone4!r hidden by its veil. and which
I saw 10 be that of an oldish woman,
} lined I'd wrinkled. but with ewes still
,: full of 42lre and shrewdness:
!. Hen Ken. o. Doctor Iadv." sfe
said. d ,>ppine. her voice to Wh{sner.
otis O, i. who lies sick unto death and
thv sc. ANTS skin ia az weakness' and
her! wi, dom: like. unto folly before that
sicknes (which 1raws:the I;fa from hin
whom. would faiu. save =,
! e.5"But VINO ia hertz 3narsisted, -
II IL She lrounefI /. herr4Yes.a M strange ex.
a Al 4r izsned faea.
II h1lfl III ns ama III Closer \; fD ne and
4 touched my han IN sSs= *
! He B:not of my people," she muir
INJURED, ~ know not his r1ame-but
, delay I.tt. oh! Doctor Lady, come at
once lie It it be too late and he die ere
help be given to him.
My iriosity was. reused. I confess
It; and / confess also that though fully
alive t. the folly OF such a course, I
wanted to 70 with my visitor without
asking Major Manbv's leave. which I
knew ruld be refused.
To m Ute a long story short. after a
few mt e questions, which the woman
answer with considerable vagueness,
I flnalh agreed to 20 with her. or con-
dition lat should be back at nv post
by the text morning.
Then wrapping q cloak about me