Beadle's Frontier Series #25: Indian Jim—A Tale of the Minnesota Massacre — page 97: what you’re looking at

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or’ et > ee _ « ” - Ne 2 4. x OP ae , . oe . rus. s am - i | Hei is a sable fellow, and I shall rejoice in a very Roe aS see him your husband: You and I have been engaged fon! eS a half-dozen years; but we have never loved each other.j| IW e hold the strongest esteem and friendship for and trus#} "in each other; but I do not feel to you as I did to Maggieg| nor do you entertaip. the same emotions toward me that,| you do toward Will? Is it not so, Marian?” — ae He looked down in her face; silence and tears were thet ae Teply. = “ Let this engagement that we made, or was iad for us| 28 end. _ We shall always be brother and sister, but never, man and wife. Do you wish it thus?” a Silence and tears were the only response. The oot are was so solemn, that her woman’s.nature was weighed dowm, with its weight of mingled pain and bliss. He touched his} = lips to her forehead, almost gayly, and said: a “Let us go back; for Will may not understand the) Sg meaning of this.” Fe But the young man understood it all, before many months) eae ' elapsed. 4 ween re oe oew eens ~s. ‘Halleck delves into the great, solemn truths of the Bible, in — Mr. and Mrs. Brainerd, and their son and daughter, ara! es ae yet within the State of Minnesota. They have begun life again, in a section where they can feel secure from the pa Be of the treacherous red-men. The memory of the sainted = ‘Maggie dwells like a guardian spirit within their dwelling 3) = 4 and to-day, as the once fashionable and frivolous Adolphus : his preparation for the sacred ministry; as he almost faints — es at times in his efforts to “crucify” the flesh, and walk » es eS closely beside his chosen Saviour; as he rises from his — knees, he sees a pale, sweet face smiling upon him, and — = beckoning him on in the blessed work whiclt he has laid, =e out for himself. a — THE END, ee ——— xg h Ms ? ? * J 3 ] We \ ti he tart + - 1924 a is - - wa” ‘ — Pe Pes ™ : c yt SLI ae . Aly eT AYeyS is 7s * Z 17s ee, i Boy be “ . ot a “ j ty -