THE COURIER.
II
ON A CLAIM.
' The wind curled over the top of the
Band hills, rushed across the level prai
rie and swept down the canon: It
grappled with the old cottonwood trees
where they spread their roots io the sal'
low network to hold the crumbling; clay
along the canon's edge. It was evening
and the daylight flickered as the wind
rose higher. Clouds creeping along the
hills scuffed out the flame in the "west.
The brown praries lay shivering at
last in the darkness. The lone grasses
in the slough huddled close whispering
of the coming Etorm and the winter it
would usher in. The angry wina lashed
the whisper into a tu'i filed groan. Un
affected as yet by the wind, rose a thin
column of wtiite smoke from the chim
ney of Anton CbristiauBon's claim shan
ty, and even when the wind did bend
the column of smoke and whirl it away,
within the house there was a qutet that
could not bo disturbed, the dread quiet
of unconsciousness that might foon be
the quiet of death.
The wind ould not disturb the repose
of the daik frcnt nora ncr, indeed,
thecbeeiy komlinessoi the little back
kitchen. Here there waa a tire in the
small cracked cook stove. The light
beamed out from tbe open door in front,
from the holes in the lids and the ragged
joints in the p;pe. The brightness was
reflected from the white washed wall?,
from the yellow-painted chairs and
from the white pine table. The dishes
in the opencupbcaid shone red. A little
looking-glass by tbe door threw down
the light into the polished tin pans on
the box below.
Only one place in the room showed
black, tie door that stood open into the
front room. Here, roused from bis
watching by the sound of the storm.
6tooa Anton ChristiansoD, tall and pale
and heavy eyed; but the light from the
stove, falling on his face, lit it up with a
faintglow. He rested his hand weakly
against the door. But he stood only a
moment His quick car heard behind
him a soft moan and he turned back
where Carl, his brother, was dying. 1
was t j phoid fever the doctor had said'
though Anton had not remembered the
strange word. It was a fever: that was
all be cared. His sister had died of a fever
when she was little. Carl, too, had had
a fever in Germany, lopg weeks and
weeks, and their mother bad cared for
him. Xow Carl was hare in America.
Their mother was in Germany. The
ocean lay between her and them. And
tonight Carl was dying, the doctor and
theother people had said so. But Anton
did not believe it. He bad sent the peo
pie all away that be might be alone wit i
Carl if he should die. But be would
not die. Anton knew it. The fire would
not burn as it did tonight if Carl were
dying. Tbo clock on the little shelf
above Carl's bed would not tic'i so
peacefully if Carl were dying. The
rooms wtre warm; the world was quiet.
Carl would not die.
So Anton bad thought in the early
evening and a faint smile had come to
his eyes. But, as he had smiled, the
first gust of the etorm had swept down
the canon. Anton's eyes ha1 widened
and he had listened fearfully. It wa3
the wirter coming. It would storm
and tbe wind would creep freezing in
around the doors and windows. The
house would tremble in the night and
the cottonwood trees beside the houEe
would moan.
Ci rl would die after all. He was dy
ing now. The white young face en the
pillow would never change. The eyes
closed now by the fever would be closed
tomorow by death".
If they had only gone back to Ger
many when Carl had begged to go in
the summer before be was sick. There
Carl would be lying now 'n his little low
room at h mi and the mother would bs
holding his band and whispering in his
ear to soothn him when he moaned. If
they bad only gone! Anton walked
restlessly back and forth across .the
room from the bed to the window if
they could only go yet! But it was too
late. Carl was dying. Outside the
wind was bowling louder and the Bound
made Anton shudder. The wind would
howl like this tomorrow ana the next
day when they would put Carl out un
der the dry prairie grans. And.it would
howl like this the day after when Anton
would be alone in the house. It would
howl like this when he would ride away
to tho east But Carl would not be
with him. i'he wind would howl over
Carl's grave when Anton was in Ger
many. Unless Carl got well. He might
get well yet.
Anton stood at tho window. The
little clock behind him ticked on
toward twelve. The wind rose higher
and became a steady blast. The clouds
had become less threatening. Anton
stood for a long, long time listening at
first to Carl's moaning, then thinking of
tbe old timett when he bad gone with
Carl to school; when be bad played with
Carl up in the garret; when they bad
bunted together in tho woods. Finally
he roused himself. Carl- was not
groaning now; bo was only breathing
steadily.
Anton half turned back to the bed
side still looking out of tbe window, ile
saw in tho increasing light the corn
fields white and desolate, tbo long lice
of black plum bush up the-ravine from
the canon, the cottonwood branches
swaying up and down between him and
the sand hills, the long. low shadow
where the praries stretched away to the
south.
As he looked tbe clouds broke slightly
and through the rift tbe full moon sent
a gleam, faint and yellow, upou the
earth. Anton's heart gave a painful
throb. The storm was passing over.
He stepped again to the bed whero
Carl lay motionless just as be bad lain
for days and days. But tbe face had
lest its ghastly look. Anton put out his
fingers and touched gently the white
cheek. It was moist moist not with
the cold damp that had been there at
times before, in the night, but with a
warm moisture like that on the face of a
sleeping child.
Anton stood erect. He no longer
doubted or fearea. He threw back bis
bead with a swift prayer and then be
thought of his mother.
"When jou get well, Carl," he whis
pered intensely and bent low over the
quiet facs on the pillow, "When you get
well Carl, we can 40 home."
Annie Prey
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'(First publication July '!. 1
fTo M. Suean Cum
j mings.D. E.Cum-
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In re Estate of ) In the County
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