The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1865-09-06

storm and darkness the watchers gather
ed there said, "IIe cannot live till morn
ing"
The house was very quiet. In the
presence of death all voices were lowered,
all footsteps grew noisele~s and the SER
wants moved about with awe-struck faces,
~ if the great change had been coming to
them instead of to the young soldier who
lay up stairs awaiting in silence the COM
ing of the King of Terrors. For him
death had no terrors The dark waters
washing up to his feet did not appal.-
He had put his trust in One ''mighty to
save"
In the parlor below q man waited anx-
iously for one who did not come.
Lconie had said to the servant who had
summoned her:
81 can see no one tonight. Tell him
the reason"
Il did. miss. but he said that is the
more reason why he must see you with
out delay"
And at that Miss Grant went down to
see who this stranger might be and wha,
he wanted.
He was standing in the hall as she
came down, in the full glare Of the lamp
light-John Gilbert.
Her heart gave bound at sight of
him, and in her surprise she stood still,
unable to utter word. But when he
came to her and spoke, his voice broke
the spell that had fallen over her senses,
and she put out her hands to him, as she
had done that night on board the steam
boat, saying eagerly:
"Stcphcn's brolher and my friend !"
"Nou remember me, then 7"
"Remcmbcr yosh shond be un-
grateful indeed it could forget"
Then she took him up to the room
where Stephen was
What can say of that meeting be-
tween tho living and the dying.
Soldiers, both Of them, brothers by
blood bound TO each other by the strong
bonds of love, they met after three years
of separation, only to clasp hands and
say farewell on the border line between
Time and Eternity.
Hours wore away, and still Stephen
lay quiet, pas>ive-bnt going, surely 90
ing. And in revercnt silence they stood
around. those two women, loving and
beloved, and the man who Lad Just come
M from Southern prison. Suddenly II
great change fell npon the face they were
watching-that look that never comes
hut once. They gathered closer and he
smiled up at them.
"kiss me. Observation-Disclosures.
Goodbve-dear ones all"
1t was I.eonie's hand he clung to last
-I.conie's bosom that plllowcd his head
-I.eonie's lips on which the last futter-
ING breath of life went out and when all
was over. she went softly away, leaving
the brother and sister alone with their
dead
When she returned. in the gray light
Of early morning. Johl Gilbert was sit
ting there holding Gertrude on his knee
as if she had been "A little child.
'poor little girl saIs L'onie kindly.
touching the fair haiFsand tear-stained
face that lay on his shoulder in the deep
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7. ..as ,no oarn,oons laJv of .,o ho,s,
,.hn sa;I ,h;.-,hs n;,v;n, fr;erI rot N.
C;rl Who had lain awake oll NIGHT tb;nk;ng
or ,ho rot,rred soId;or
He shook his head
"Not Just yet. Will you let me talk
to YOU few minutes first ?"
She sat down a little way from him.
and then he told her how he had heard
of all her kindness TO these two. and how
grateful lie was to her, and his eyes asked
a question that his lips would not frame ::
a question that she fourd it hard to ans
wer. How could she tell him that Steph
en- hal loved her, but that she cared for
him only AS his sister cared. not ns n
woman regards the man of her hearts
choice.
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