Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1917-01-18

| rh,. west Jea knew the house Wen.
It belonged To old Gideon Lang, and
he had q daughter, Mlrabelle.
Il wouldn't have the Langs see me
in this plight for money" mumbled
Jed. an not pass the house, for fear
of it. III climb the hill and cut
around into town that way
| The weather was pretty cold, but
Jed had pulled along and stumbled
along until he was perspiring freely.
| Half way up the Hill he took off his
coat, toiled to the apex of the hill ana
slowly made his way home by round
| about route
| Jed did not get up the next morning.
| He had bad headache and was weak
and remoFsefuI The thought of busl-
ness even failed to arouse him. 1t
was full dusk before he summoned up
the courage and strength to get up and
dress himself II was To make a blood
! curdling, a crushing discovery-his wal
| let was gone
Had someone come into the room
! while he slept and stolen it2 No,
doVfD anu NAtiNApNH otN ANAAAN FNNN'N
| ~ locked. Had he been robbed at Mil
ton? No, he distinctly remembered
having looked TO its safety as he left
the tavern, buttoning up his coat
| tightly.
Abruptly the memory returned to
| Jed of having carried his coat over
his arm in climbing the hill. In few
| erish haste he decided te retrace his
course of the night previous. When
he got to the head of the hill he found
| it all tracked up, and on the apex an
| immense SNOWFALL the boys had rolled
that day, using ii as a shelter fort
against adversaries storning it from
below.
ITS no user groaned Jed. IF l
dropped the wallet here, it's either
tramped under the snow or found and
appropriated, but he started down
| the hill. He was intent on looking all
along the course in the snow, and not
until u swish warned him did he turn
and run. At the top of the hill were
scurrying boyish forms. Coming to-
wards him, gaining momentum each
| succeeding moment, was the giant
| SNOWFALL.
Jed started to run. A light in the
| Lang home was his guide. He nearly
! reached it when something struck him.
| 1t was the SNOWFALL. 1t knocked him
| down and passed over him and he lay
! senseless. The great white sphere
| then crashed through the fence of the
| Lang yard, demolished a trellis, some
| of the splinters of which broke some
| windows in the house and came to u
halt against the front of the house.
When Jed Bursey opened his eyes
again he found himself in bed in the
Lang home with broken leg, which a
doctor, hastily summoned had just
set. Fitting about the room, a will
ing nurse, was fair Mirabelle. De-
spite all of his troubles Jed expert.
enced IL certain bIissful sense of de-
tendency and comfort. He had al.
ways had sneaking fondness for
MirabelIe but had never been able to
summon up the courage TO confess
it to her.
The doctor delivered the dictum that
Jed was not to be moved for week.
The one worry on Jed's mind was the
loss of the wallet. He found IA charm.
ing confidante in Mirabelle. In fact
before two days had passed by he had
confessed all his shortcomings, includ.
ing the annual birthday celebration.
Mirabele and her father started o
thorough quest for the lost wallet
but with no results. This meant loss
of several hundred dollars in actual
cash for Jed. What was most import.
ant, however, was the notes, deeds and
| the like, the loss of which might later
| lead to troublesome legal complica'
! lions.
Guess" spoke Mirabelle, coming in
! to the room where the convalescent
sat, her hands hiding something be
hind her, and then she held before the
amazed and delighted eye of her pa.
tient the missing wallet.
what do you think?" cried Mira.
belle gleesomely. Il found it where
the great SNOWFALL had melted. You
see, the boys who rolled it must have
gathered 1t up in the snow without
noticing It."
Jed clasped and held the hand prof.
fering the precious wallet in fervor
of courage and love.
"Mirabelle," he said, ITS up to me
to build your father new trellls."
Then, drawing her still nearer, he
added:
"And I'll build you new house, II
you'll share it with me"
And what about those dangerous
celebrations of yours2' intimated
Mirabelle archly.
There will be only one after this"
pledged Jed. our wedding day. with
nothing stronger than lemonade"
Misunderstanding.
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