The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-07-30
COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA, SATURDAY, JULY
William would take her as his wife to her
frat and Inst real home


first and last real home.
The misfortune she lost dreaded name.
y, the dissipation of her little capital-be-
gan the moment she had left.her mistress
house. To save expense, she made up her
mind to carry her own trunk to her lod gins.
The tried to do so, but found herself too
weak. She was obliged to hire carriage,
and that involved a dip into civilians
money!" as che delighted to call it.
So that the dip might be as shallow as
possible, she engaged lad instead of a man
for her porter. But before they had half
reached the quarter Of the town where
Anne's lodging was situated, his boy bod
began to evince itself in a very visible man
ner. He painted, and drew long breaths,
and perspircd greatly, and now and then
stumbled under the weight. His pride tried
to hide these signs. lie endcavored to stim-
uate himself with the thought of his pay
ment but his efforts at self -cncourag = I'm ent
came out very plainly in certain noises, and
in his unconscious compression and biting
Of his lips. The tender- hearted lass espied
them she could not endure to see him so
vexed and nconvenienced and so, for the
rest of the way, she insisted on bearing half
the weight.
When she had arrived at her room, and
had dismissed her young porter, and sat
down to rest herself, she began to feel the
bitter results of her efforts with the heavy
trunk. She was very ill when she started !;
she was now ten times worse. Her head
ached fercely; her breath was short, audible
and gasping; her whole body was parched
and feverish.
She called her landady into the room,
and asked her for a little cold water. The
woman had counted on providing supper
for her; as she heard her stay was to last
only week, she meant to make the week a
paying one, SO she had prepared some two
penny or three halfpenny sausages, which
were even then figuring in her minds bill
Of fare at sixpence apiece. In rather
disappointed tone, therefore, she asked
Anne if she should bring her nothing to eat.
The poor girl said she was sure she could
not swallow anything. The landlady said
she had some beautiful new laid cggs-they
were kind that wonderfully cured head
ache and fever; indeed. she told her that
if any of her neighbors were i'll in that wav,
they always came and begged for some Of
these eggs.
Anne was crcdulous, and did not doubt
her landladv's possession of the medical
hen which laid such eggs; bat Anne was
also reso.ute-no one could persuade her
out of her own methods. She said that she
felt a good, long sleep was what she needed
the most, and that she should at once 60 to
bed.
But although she went to bed she could
get no sleep; all the long night she was
tossing restlessly over and over. She re-
J,l,, b,I h.,
could get away. to call on her two or three
times before Saturday, for which a friend
had promised to lend hin L horse ani enrt.
She began to picture to h"rsef the aston
ishInpnt when he hcarI that she VAS gone,
and she wondered if her mistress would
relcnt and be communicative. She made
up her mind that, rs soon as the morning
had come. she would l.e in wait for the new
servant, AS she went out shopping, and beg
her to watch for William and if he cnIled,
to tell Inn where his sweet GrHrt had removed
But, when the morning can =, she knew
no'hin. Of |urpo>os and resolutions: she
WIS in u sra!a fever, taking nnd !nmJHnS
wildly.
The landialV wondered that sho saw or
heard nothing Of her at breakfast; and 60
ing up to look after her, found her in that
frighiful condition. The woman neither
knew what money she owned, nor where she
came from, nor what connrct.on| she had.
She sent for tho parish doctor. lie ordered
Il nurse for her Immediately; 50 the woman
Of the house took upon herself to examine
the mailcn's trunks and pockets; counted
ou, the time which she could keep Der and
nurse for her, without injury to herself,
out of Anne's little store; and ut once Of
fereu the place to an intimate friend IL few
doors off.
For three weeks our poor little servant
maid lay unconscious of her condition, at
the ropgh mercy Of the-' two cNrmor"nt>.
Their nrgIjg"nre proIon-d Il her Illness. ut
the end Of that tine the greater part of her
bard won cngiini WAS c?u:!'y dissipatyd.