Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-08-31

IcompanyS hunters, ndQ Drought Me-
4 lisse thither as his bride. Seventeen
rough hearts had welcomed her. They
had assembled about that little cabin
in which the light was shining now,
speechless in their alteration Of this
woman who had come among them.
their caps in their hands, their faces
shining. their eyes shifting before the
glorious ones that looked at them and
smiled at them as the. woman shook
their hands, one by one.
Perhaps she was not strictly beauti-
full as most people judge. but she was
beautiful here. 400 miles beyond ciy-
ilization. Mukee. the half Cree, had
never seen white woman, for even
the factors wife was part Chippeway-
an. and no one Of the others went
down to the edge of the southern will
derness more than once each twelve
month or so.
The gfrl-she was scarce more than
budding into womanhood -fell happily
into the ways Of her new life She did
nothing that was elementalIy unusual,
nothing more than any pure woman
reared in the love Of God and OF a
home would have done. In her spare
hours she began,to reach the half doz-
en- wild little children about the post,
aud every Sunday she told them won
derful stories out of the Bible. She
ministered to the sick. for that was a
part of her code Of life. Everywhere
she carried her glad smile. her CHEEKY
greeting. her wistful earnestness, to
brighten what seemed to her the sad
and lonely lives Of these silent men of
the north.
And she succeeded, not because she
was unlike other millions of her kind,
but because OF the difference between
the fortieth degree and the sixtieth,
the difference in the viewpoint of men
who fought themselves into moral
shreds in the big game Of life and those
who lived thousand miles nearer to
the dome OF the earth.
A few days before there had come
wonderful event in the history Of the
company's post. A new life was born
into the little cabin of Cummins and
his wife. Then had come the sudden
change. and the gloom, that brought
with 1t the shadow Of death, fell like
pail upon the post. sitting its life
and bringing with it a grief that those
who lived there had never known be-
fore. IL
There came to them no word from
Cummins now. He stood for a mo-
ment before his lighted door and then
went back. and the word passed softly
from one to another that the most
beautiful thing in the world was still
living her sweet life In that little cabin
at the end Of the clearing. f..
"You hear the music In the skies-
now. my MelisseT whispered the man.
kn~-lsag hs.Ade her agaIn. 1T b very
pretty tonightr ... 49,"
1T was not that" repeated the wo-
man.
She attempted to stroke his face,
bot cummins saw nothing Of the ef.
fort for the hand lay all but motion
less. He saw nothing Of the fading
softness that giowed In the big. loving
eyes. for his own eyes were blinded
by a hot flm. And the woman saw
nothing Of the hot hlm, 50 torture
was saved them both. But suddenly
the woman quivered. and cummins
heard thrilling sound.
at 10 the music" she painted. "John.
John. Il is-ths music-of-my-peO-
ple!"
The man Strengthened himself, his
face turned 10 the open door. He heard
SC now. Was Il the blessed angels CON-
ing for his Melissa: He rose. a sob
H., q, IN ~, tN.r,,' ~~' '-~N+ ~
rms stretched out. TO meet them. lie
iId uoN cr heard a sound like that
ur, pr ~ all h NE in tins v.fd e~s ".
ApvnesS
My Mcrs>e. my Mcu~se"' he So"
htvl
4 figure came from the shadows AL
with the figure came the mu>ir. swe.
and SOFT and low Jchn Curnrniu>
stnpred aud turned his face strnicht
up 10 the sky. His heart died within
him.
1te music cea <ed. and when he look