Bisbee daily review., 1911-06-23

| introduced them with repetition of
 that delicious laugh
 T was afraid you might fall in. ''
 said the boy after shaking hands with
 the tall young man. You don't want | another cold bath"
 T escaped that said the girl. Be
 sides. Oliver. dear. the ice is quite ! firm. isn't itf'
 ] Not over wonder. On. l forgot El- sic, dear; you know the place between | the four poplarst''
 Yes: that deep hole
 ! Its thin there l chucked a stone in yesterday and it went in kerplunk. ! It isn't growing any colder either. Be
 sides. who wants to skate in there
 anyhow"
 that is. if I thought l would fall in Perhaps the shock of the icy water
 would restore my sight" She turned
 her soft appealing eyes toward the two Oliyers.
 Don't you dare try, Elsie"' cried the
 boy. You might catch pneumonia
 and die. and what would dad and do theng
 But l am so helpless half sobbed the girl. putting her hands before her sightless eyes.
 All at once. without warning. the ice upon which they stood separated into one cake which capsized them into the icy waters of the dark pool.
 It was Oliver Ray who bore the brunt of the rescue. Elise lost con scioUsneSs at once. znss her brother gave her into Rays stronger grasp while he tried 10 fight tNr life. In the end 1t was Ray who sa ~ed them both. Afterward be never could tell how it happened that he lay panting on the surface with the unconscious form of the girl beside him. while young Oliver pufed and blowed and sobbed over his sis er
 Then Oliver Ray brought forth the emergency flask that he always car ried on these surveying trips and trickled a few drops between the pale lips. After that it was only a short while before they carried her home on litter improvised from Rays heavy overcoat. IL was a short walk through the woods to Ihe edge Of the extensive lawns that surrounded the Lewis es- tate. and before long the three half frozen victims were being blanketed and put to bed with hot water bags and many fiery internal doses.
 It was three weeks before either one of the trio stirred from be,i Ray had taken a severe cold. and so had young Oliver Lewis, but Elsie had once more fallen a victim to the dreaded rheuma- tism, and no coercion of the white capped nurse who presided over the sickroons in the motherless house hold would permit the girl to receive a visit from either of the other convales- cents. Then at last came the day when oliver Ray was to take farewell and reioin his party of surveyors.
 Mir. Lewis. who had become warmly attached 10 the young man, invited him into the library to say farewell to Elsie. who was now sitting up. At her feet sat young Oliver, brimming over with the joy of renewed health.
 Here is your rescuer, Elsie" said her father ''Mr. Ray is leaving us now. and perhaps you better tell him the good news
 Elsie turned her head very slowly to- ward oliver Ray. and her large dark eyes met his with a different expres- sion in their melting depths Slowly they wandered oyer his face. at first wonderingly and then gladly, and at last. as if conscious that she was be- traying her pleasure in his exceeding good looks. she blushed and turned her head away, but her hand remained l in his
 ''She can seer uttered Oliver incred- l ulously, and Mir. Lewis chuckled as sent. and his son turned an ecstatic | handspring on the rug. crying: 'It was l the shock of the icy water. The doctor i says he can cure rheumatism all right. ! but he's forbidden sis to skate any more.'
 "I don't care" smiled Elsie radi- antly. T shall always love that pool | If if had not taken away my sight l would not have known the blessedness of its restoration
 And if God had not sent Mir. Ray to the pond I might now be childless," | said Mr. Lewis with emotion.
 oliver Ray went away with a dizzy ] light in his eyes and a recollection of ] the happiest three weeks he had ever l spent. Today had been it's crown of joy. He walked through the woods past the pool, which had melted now and lay dark under the afternoon sky. As he stood here locking down into it's green depths thinking of the blessed Providence that had sent him to the skating place that uintry day there 1 came also 10 him the thought of how the pool would book iA June. when the forgetmenot7 frin1 ifs t-sg.-.. md when the love notes ,f the wc-,. s.... .:..h broke the exquisite silence
 There wss another in the picture Elsie with lovelight in her eyes for him