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Sln>  hurriedly  throw  more  blocks  inlo 
the  bis  heater,  built  the  kitchen  tire,  and 
wrapped  herself  for  a  struggle  toward  the 
barn.  There  was  no  longer  the  blinding 
storm,  and  the  clothes-line  stretched  stiff 
and  gleaming,  a  rope  of  ice.  She  emild 
bear  the  work  horses  stamping,  cold  and 
impatient,  and  an  uneasy  cow  lowed, 
lonesome  in  an  unaccustomed  stanchion. 
.Tack  bounded  out  with  her,  and  wallowed 
in  the  drifts. 
There  were  drifts  that  she  had  to 
shovel  before  before  she  could  reach  the 
barn  and  again  resentment  against  her 
husband  flaiucd  hot  in  her  heart.  Y  os, 
he  was  safe  and  snug  in  the  hotel  at 
North  port,  silting  over  a  hot  breakfast, 
while  here  she  was,  beating  through  these 
drifts.  She  grew  very  angry,  and  re¬ 
pented,  over  and  over  in  her  mind  the 
things  that  she  should  say  to  Tom  when 
he  came. 
It  was  nearly  10  o'clock  when  the  great 
road-breakers  rolled  past,  the  house  and 
one  of  the  men  came  in  to  see  Tom  about, 
some  hay.  Mrs.  Graves  explained  her 
husband’s  absence,  and  the  neighbor 
kindly  went  to  the  barn  to  water  the 
stock,  and  pitch  down  feed,  clean  out  the 
Stables,  and  bed  down.  The  stock 
stretched  themselves  gladly,  in  the  open 
sheds  and  about  the  water  trough. 
When  Mr.  Hayes  came  in  he  looked 
worried,  aud  promised  to  drive  over  ns 
soon  as  he  was  through  with  the  break¬ 
ing.  to  see  if  the  family  was  safe  home. 
It  was  almost  five  o’clock  when  he  re¬ 
turned.  Mrs.  Graves  was  becoming  ter¬ 
rified.  Mr.  Hayes  attended  to  the  stock 
and  jumping  onto  one  of  the  plow  horses 
started,  hurriedly,  for  the  nearest  vil¬ 
lage.  The  telephone  line  to  North  port 
was  badly  crippled,  hut  over  it  he  man¬ 
aged  to  learn  that  Tom  and  the  family 
had  started  for  home  At  one  o’clock  on 
the  previous  day,  nearly  an  hour  before 
the  sudden  blizzard  overwhelmed  them. 
Mr.  Ilayes  notified  the  people  of  North- 
port,  and  the  villagers,  and  searching 
parties  hastily  started  out. 
It  was  seven  o'clock  wheu  Mrs.  Graves 
heard  the  crunch  of  a  horse’s  lmofs  on 
the  crisp  snow,  and  bounded  to  the  door. 
The  village  constable  drew  up  his 
horse.'  “Don’t  worry,’’  he  called,  “we’ve 
got  all  the  country  opt  hunting  for  ’em. 
Guess  they  lost  the  road.”  He  trotted 
rapidly  a  wily,  and  Mrs.  Graves  closed 
the  door,  shutting  in  the  great  lours . . 
rooms,  and  the  unaccustomed  silence.  “If 
ever  I  get  them  home  again” — and  “Oh, 
if  I  only  lmd  them  back - ” 
Through  all  the  early  part  of  that  night 
of  horror  she  sat.  staring  at  the  window, 
reviewing  her  past,  hour  by  hour,  and 
day  by  day,  and  not  one  hour  stood  be¬ 
fore  her  that  did  not  shake  at  lier  an  ac¬ 
cusing  finger. 
“Oli,  God,”  she  prayed,  over  and  over 
with  hard  monotony.  “Oh,  God,  give  me 
one  more  chance.” 
•*  *  *  *  *  *  * 
The  blizzard  had  come  on  without  one 
sign  of  warning.  The  little  family  in  the 
long  sleigh  were  chatting  like  magpies, 
five  of  them  tucked  in  the  robes  in  the 
great  hack  Seat;  Kittio  and  Jessie  and 
George  on  the  seat,  Charlie  and  Billie  on 
stools ;  Ted  on  the  seat  by  his  father’s 
side,  when  the  storm  enveloped  them. 
The  horses  tossed  their  beads  and  snorted. 
‘Tt’U  be  a  bail  storm,  pa,”  Ted  said; 
“see  the  horses  arc  afraid.” 
“But  we  must  get  home  in  time  for 
those  chores,  my  sou,”  his  father  said, 
and  urged  the  horses  to  their  uttermost. 
They  passed  several  farmhouses,  hut  Mr. 
Graves  felt  that  lie  dare  not  stop  as  his 
wife  was  left  alone. 
The  fury  of  the  storm  increased,  and 
the  winded  horses  began  to  stumble  and 
turn  their  ankles  as  they  balled  lip.  Now 
they  were  on  an  open  stretch  of  prairie, 
three  miles,  probably,  of  unfcnced  road¬ 
way.  The  storm  was  a  blinding  white¬ 
ness  on  all  sides.  The  track  became 
drifted,  so  at  times  they  had  to  drive  out 
around  huge  billowing  drfits,  and  sud¬ 
denly  Mr.  Graves  realized  that  the  track 
was  drifted  over  and  lost.  The  children 
had  cowered  down  under  the  robes,  and 
wore  now,  only  a  shapeless  heap  of  snow. 
Ted  dug  the  i>  e  from  liis  eyes,  aud  peered 
into  the  storm.  A  fiercer  blast  struck 
them,  a  horse  stumbled.  In*  forward 
and  went  down,  and  the  sleigh  lurched 
and  went  over.  A  shower  of  babies 
lolled,  screaming,  down  a  hank,  and  Ted 
and  the  father  shook  themselves  out  of 
the  snow.  Ted  righted  the  horses  aud 
sleigli.  while  his  father  slid  after  the 
children.  They  had  rolled  down  a  deeply 
drifted  bank,  and  were  huddled  under  a 
leaning  cedar,  the  ground  almost  hare 
underfoot  and  flip  knife-like  wind  roaring 
high  above  their  heads.  The  bank  pro¬ 
tected  them.  A  horse  floundered  and 
went  down  again.  One  could  not.  see  an 
object  10  feet  away.  It  was  evident 
that  they  were  lost,  ami  the  only  possible 
way  of  saving  their  lives  was  to  curl 
under  the  lea  of  the  drifted  hank,  in  the 
protection  of  the  great  cedar.  They  un¬ 
hitched  the  horses  and  led  them  floun¬ 
dering  down,  and  slid  the  sleigh  over. 
The  children  were  shaken  out  of  the 
snow,  packed  carefully  lu  the  fur  robes 
in  the  back  of  the  sleigh,  pushed  closely 
up  under  the  cedar.  The  horses,  brought 
alongside,  were  blanketed,  and  fed  in  their 
nose  hags — for  Tom  always  took  his  horse 
feed  along — the  big  box  of  crackers,  just 
bought  at  Norfhport,  and  the  slab  of 
smoked  halibut  was  brought  out,  and  the 
children  supplied,  and  each  one  admon¬ 
ished  to  keep  hands  and  toes  moving,  and 
noses  well  rubbed.  The  temperature  was 
not  extremely  low,  and  here  under  the 
hank,  with  the  thiek  fir  tree  above  them, 
it  seemed  as  though  they  could  go  safely 
through  the  night.  Tom  ikirod  not 
dmwse.  hut  he  crowded  Ted  in  with  the 
children  and  let  him  nap.  There  were 
four  gooil  fur  robes,  besides  the  Iwo 
sheep-skin  mats.  How  Tom  blessed  the 
day  when  lie  had  old  Fanny’s  hide  tanned 
and  lined,  and  when  he  and  Ted  had 
killed  enough  skunks  to  make  another 
big.  warm  robe. 
At  daylight  Tom  examined  his  little 
flock.  The  storm,  had  blown  itself  out, 
and  the  earth  stretched,  an  uneven  plain 
of  iey  whiteness.  The  children  were 
clamorously  hungry,  hut  unfrozen. 
Mono  ling  a  horse  he  left  them  in  Ted’s 
care  and  rode  down  Iho  dry  water  course 
to  find  an  opening  in  the  hank,  where  he 
could  get  the  horses  out.  He  had  fol¬ 
lowed  down  for  perhaps  a  mile  when  the 
horse  floundered  Into  a  hide.  It  was  im¬ 
possible  to  get  him  out  alone,  so  Tom 
climbed  the  drifts,  nml  started  on  foot 
for  11  house  that  lie  could  see  in  the  gloam¬ 
ing  distance.  Here  he  found  only  an  old 
couple,  but  he  borrowed  a  horse  to  ride 
to  a  distant  farmhouse  for  help.  It  was 
nearing  noon  before  the  jaded  horse 
reached  it.  The  drifts  wore  simply  ter¬ 
rific.  While  the  farmer  was  getting  his 
stout  work  team  out,  loaded  with  plank 
and  shovels,  tlie  good  wife  brewed  great 
steaming  pots  of  coffee,  pul  up  a  lunch  of 
sandwiches  and  hot  boiled  eggs,  aud 
heated  the  foot-warmers.  The  crying  chil¬ 
dren  were  pulled  up  the  hank  and  fed  and 
warmed;  the  horse  dug  out,  and  led  safely 
down  the  gullied  water  course,  and  up 
onto  the  prairie.  Through  drifts  breast 
high  to  the  horses;  over  drifts,  hard 
packed,  circling  still  bigger  drifts,  they 
drove  hack  to  the  hospitable  farmhouse 
which  they  reached  just,  as  the  search  par¬ 
ties  from  Northport  and  Greenville  met, 
bringing  the  Greenville  doctor  along  with 
them.  The  December  night  was  nearing, 
so  the  half-frozen  family  was  warmed 
and  treated,  aud  put  to  bed,  while  the 
searchers  returned  home.  Word  reached 
Mrs.  Graves  about  midnight,  as  she  sat 
staring  at  the  window,  and  telling  God 
what  she  lmd  just  come  to  realize. 
MAUDE  MEREDITH. 
"Wilt,  you  please  tell  your  mother  that 
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the  washing  wheu  your  mother’s  awn’*?” 
“Farvor  and  anuvver  gentleman.”  Tit- 
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