Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-12-07

when letter came, she frightened up ior
a while.
At last six months had gone, but there
came no letter. The ship must be at hand
that of course was it. Charlie would be
here very soon. But no Charlie came
Those who waited for the Bonnie Lassie saw
her not. No letter. no Charlie. Another
month-anolhcr-- -anothcr-still no news
One morning she stood by the window watch
ing, and the old landady came to her. She
was good woman, and hesitatcd to speak;
but her boarding house only kept her out
of poverty. and this bluc-eyed girl was q
boarder, after ALL SO she said
Mrs. Oliver, | don't like to tell you,
but-but--
"Oh you yc heard bad news of Charlie?'
Janet turning with ashen check, clung to
mo, my dear. Oh ! no, thank good
ness, it IS quite different. Your husband
paid your board six months in advance, you
know
Yes
"Well, ahcm it's nearly ten months since
he went and I'm quite poor, and I'm often
cheated, very olten-and-the fact Is, can
/ you pay me q
"Oh! no. Charles-Mr. Oliver will set
| tic with you the moment he returns"
/ "Yes--but it's no use mincing matters,
my dear I'd be glad to wait. But are you
sure he will come back? The ,ea is treach-
crous, and they say sailors are also--a wife
in every port. There, now, don t take on.
/ Haven you relations, or somebody who will
. help your
"My father, I'll 90 to my father" said
poor Janet "lle will forgive me, now.
She left the house as weary child might
have done, longing for that good old breast
that used to be hcrshetcr. Far out of town
that homestead stood and its doors were
locked and its windows barred against her
! A strange servant came at her summons. -
She had anticipated that, and written IA few
lines begging that her father would see her.
They were returned to her, and on the en-
vclopG was written:
Il have no longer daughter. She is
dead to me. y
Janet Oliver went back to the city board
+ ing house, and there that night babe was
borne to her-a waiing thing that struggled
for life and won it at last and Janet, hold.
ing it to her breast, felt that fragment of
her Charlie IS life lay there, and clung to it
as drowning men will cling to the trailest
floating. But for those little hands, those
strange innocent eyes, that precious nothing
holding the embryo soul, Charlie Oliver
wife would have let go of life and iloated
awayupon the sea of death that L ght Her
babe kept her alive.
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