The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-04-04


for it Are you sure you can bear the
truth 2?
She smiled "a cool smile touched will
scOrn
II have not found life so sweet " she said
! that its loss wall trouble me only want
to know how long am likely to have it
which to 10 certain things. lfyou can tel
me shall be satisfied
As DIR Hnger went home, he met Amy
something III the sight of her fresh blonde
beauty. with its fuIInrss of life and health
Jared Oh his mood He bowed to her with
preoccuuird ar ana hurried on. Wher
he y ent back to Rock Cottage, Miss Col
chester was sitting just as he had left her
10 SIT long at a time IN one motiOnless at
utude VAS popularity of hers Her mau
ner had always singular composure
though her nature was impetuous.
He placed over her heart the Instrument
he had brought, then listened long time
TO its beating He dreaded to tell her the
story it revealed to bin, aud at last ma Z
up his mind to evade the responsibility.
When he had come TO this conclusion, he
raised his head
Il do not feel willing" he said, "to pro
nounce an opinion. Let me send for med
ical man who is older, who has had more
experience.
She rails d her dark eyes and looked full
in his face.
You are afraid to tell me. after all
said ? Will you not believe that do not
care to live shall send for no other ply.
stefan. | looked for the truth from your
lips. You fnd my heart greatly en-
larged p
81 told You that did not like to trust
my own judgment; but that is my
opinion y
And ifyou are right shall be likely to
live-how long 2
POSSIBLY for years. Probably for few
months. There IS no help mean. no
cure If you suffer much pain, that can be
eased, perhaps"
Miss Colchester was silent few mo
ments DR. Iluger could see no change in
her face though he watched her closely
The color neither left her cheeks or deepen
ID in them He did not see 50 much as an
eyeiasn culver At last she spoke,--
you have been truly kind aud thank
you believe | am glad of your tidiogs
think shall stay here in Wudban till
The last. | would like one autumn among
these grand old woods and hills have
+ nothing to call me away. can do all
whch have to do by letter, and my most
faithful friend on earth is my quadroon
maid who is here with me She will be my
nurse, if ueed nursing And you will be
my physician, will you not q
Il will when can help you At other
times may not be your friend and as
! On III To, ,,,ft
Just AS often.-the oftener the better,
she answered with that smile that thrilled
him so strangely every time he met it Il
shall always be glad to see you. Your Wis
It's will he real charity; for, except Lis
cite, / quite solitary"
He understood by her manner that it
was Time to go aud took his leave.
That night he walked over to Judge Min
tnrn's Amy was just as pretty as ever, -
just as graceful aud gentle and fauItess il
dress aud manner. Why was it that he
could not interest himself in her as hereto
tore? Had the salt lost its SAVIOR: His
Judgment endorsed her as it always haa
She WAS precisely the kind Of woman to
make IA man happy That pure blonde
beauty With its tlnts Of pearl and pink, was
just what be wanted, always had wanted
Why was it that he vas haunted all the
time 10y eyes SO different from those calm
blue orhs of Amy's? he thought it was be
cause his new patients had interested
NAN so much III n medical point OF view
He was tired, and he made it all excuse for
shortening his call
He went uome to sit aud smoke and spec
uIate again about Miss Colchester He
seemed to see hrr wonderful exotic face
Though the smoke wreaths Her words
aud ways came back to him He had dis
covered so soou that she was no gentle crea-
tuie She had power enough to make her
cons Dicuous nyWhere-piquant moods aud
manners OF her own, which a man would
find hard to tame lie was glad or thought
he was that such office had not fallen to
his share that the woman he had resolved
to marry vas SO unlike her; yet he could
not Danish the imperious face which haunt.
ed his fancy
The next day found him again at Rock
Cottage; but he waited until afternoon,
when all his other visits had beeu made it
was warm day; and Miss Colchester was
again in white, but i'll full feecy robes,
whose effect was very different from the
simple canbric wrapper sine had worn the
day before Ornaments Of barbaric gold
We're III her ears, at her throat, and mana
Giles he's wrists A single scarlet lily Drop
ed low III her hair. She looked full of life.
strong, Passionate magnetic life Was it
possible that he had judged her case Alright?
Could death come 90 spoil this wonderful
beauty in its prime !?
Their talk was not like that of physician
and patient. 1t touched on many themes,
and she illuminated each one with the
quich brilliancy Of her thought He grew
acquainted with her MUD in the two hours
he spent with her; but her history--who
she was-whenc she came, why she was
at iudham,-remained IS mysterious as
before, Her maid came in once or twice,
and called her Miss Pauline and this one
item of her first name was all that he knew
about her more than lie mad discovered yes
terday. LIE saw her "a woman utterly
different from the gentle, communicative
impossible, blue-eyed ideal he had always
cherished woman with whom, had she
been III her full health, his reason would
have pronounced 1t madness to fall in love
tiow much more it would be madness now
When he knew that she was going straight
to her doom-that when the summer came
again, II would shine upon her grave And
: yet 1t seemed as if the very hopelessness of
any passion for her made her power over
| him more fatal.
lie went to see her day after day day. He
| did not consciously neglect Amy Minturn,
because he did not think about her at all
she Was no more to him IN those days thar
/ last years roses which smeted so sweet in
/ Their prime He was absorbed in Pauline
C0lchest er--ived ii her life. She accepted
lis devotion simply because she could not
uuders it. Ii she had been in health,
she would have known that this man loved
her: but the knowledge of her coming fate
must make all that impossible, she thought
5 she accepted his friendship with feeling
OF entire security; and, though she reveale.
to hIu IL facts Of her material life admit
ted nirn to such close intimacy with hel
heart aud soul as, under other crcumstan-