Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-01-16

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holiday, until affairs took more favorable turn
AS has been seen, his application was cruelty re
|jected by Mr.. Gravey, who also seriously threat
end to withhold payment for work already done, i
the entire job was not completed that very day
according to previous agreement In justice, how
ever, to all the parties concerned, it should be sta
ted that Mrs. Daniels was not known to be serious
y Ill and to this fact, much as his anxiety for the
security of his hard-earned wages, mnst we attri
butte her husbands acquiesence in the proposition
of Louisa Gravely. When that kind proposition
was made, old Daniels Immediately returned home
and talked the matter over with his wife, who a
greed readily and even thankfully, that the rich
and beautiful daughter Of Mr.. Gravey should
nurse her until her husbands return. She assur
ed her husband that she was feeling much better
and insistedu upon an immediate return to his work
Poor woman The fear of incuring the ill-wl
Of the rich and influential employer 1.-THE fear o.
losing the reward of nearly fortniaht's labor and
toll, made her agree to anything that might bt
suggested to avert such calamity. She was no
feeling better-the epidemic, which was raging II
that miserable locality, had crtpt, like serpent
into her tidy house and fastening itself upon hel
bosom, was even then sappins the very foundation
of her nature.
She told him she was better and thousands O.
women have done the same thing, when such re
plies were thought to further the interests of the
husbands. Better, when every nerve is wrune
with pain and head and heart worn down with an
guish; better, when everything is worse; aye
even happy, while the poor heart is breaking
And if he brightens up and grows hopeful at this
intelligence if he goes forward in the battle Of life
and gathers up his energies for more labor and toi
because of these words, that is all she asks-her on
ly reward.
! Poor woman
Scarcely had her husbands presence been miss
ed; scarcely had the beautiful Louisa Gravely sal
down in the chair that he had vacated, when Mrs
Daniels found herself alarmingly Ill. As the day
advanced, she grew rapidly worse, until by noon
she was delirious with fever and dangerously i'll
What could an inexperienced girl like Louisa do
She had bathed the throbbing temples with co
logne, had placed COOL wet cloths upon the fevered
forehead, and fed the poor patient with little pei
lets of ice; but, by the time her father 80 oppor
tunely arrived, Mrs. Daniels was raging with fevel
and totally unconscious.
Seeing her patient suddenly arise from the bee
and walk toward the window, Louisa became a
larmed for her own safety, and had turned to flee
when the crash of wood and gngle of glass struck
terror to her timid heart and temporarily deprived
her of that consciousness and sepossession, which
were so essential at that critical moment. Upor
her return to consciousness-observing the shat
tered sash and open window, and the absence o.
her patient-the inference rushed upon her imme
diately, that, in fit Of delirium, poor Mrs. Dan
iels had precipitated herself into the yard.
! When her fears were communicated to her faith
er, it was his intention to return Immediately II
the house with old Daniels, as soon as his daugh
ter was at home and in safety. Almost any maj
but Mr.. Gravely would have given the alarm a
once, and instituted immediate measures for the re
lief of the poor woman but Mr. Gravely argued
the matter, mentally, in this way: If she did throw
herself from that thirdstory window into that brick
paved yard she is dead, and nothing more can bt
done for her but to give hera decent burial. Their
being no necessity for haste in that NATTER wha
concerns me most now, is to remove my daughte
from this sink of vice as soon as possible and hav
her attended to Immediately.
So Louisa was taken home, put Immediately II
bed and very shortly became alarmingly ILL., In
stead of returning to look after the poor woman ii
NIason-street, Mr.. Gravely was walking madly ul
and down his fine mansion, perfectly distracted
and Jacob had gone considerable distance, witl
| the carriage after physician
And all this time old Daniels was toiling ava!
in the garden, utterly unconscious of what had oc
CURED.
The street door was ajar and the parlor wide
open, as the old man entered his hitherto happy
home. Quietly laying aside his tools, he noise
lessly assembled the staircase; called aloud, Mag
gle !" when half way up, and paused to listen NJ
reply came.
With pallid cheek and heart profoundly fll
ed with apprehensions of evil, he staggered up the
remaining fight of stairs, calling as he went
maggie !-Maggie!"
wife's chamber door and entered. No Maggie
there The usually tidy bed was tumbed anc
disordered, the floor wet with water and tracked
with muddy feet, chairs overturned and fragments
of glass about the room. Instinctively, and with
a smothe7ed cry of horror and dismay, the ole
gardener fastened to the open window, and with
shudder, looked down into the yard. No Mag
gle there!
With sigh of relief he turned from the window
and searched almost every portion Of the house
until at last, overcome with his hard days work
and the torturing suspense of mind, be threw him
self upon an old ottoman and burst into tears.
Suddenly he started up, and putting on his best
coat and hat hurried out of the house with a glad
hopeful smile upon his honest old face.
'Strange," be remarked, ''that the idea-nevel
occurred to me before Zounds what poor ole
fool 1 am, to be sure! Running about like mad
man and calling upon Maggie when might have
known that Miss Louisa would not have the heart
to leave her here all alone. Well! well might
have known as much, from the very fact that no
body took the trouble to tell me anything about
her; whereas, if they had been compelled to desert
her, they certainly would have told me the very
first one." And the old man laughed aloud, and
walked briskly forward.
The cool shadows of twilight were creeping a.
round and enveloping the Gravely mansion. An
unusual and impressive silence relgned through,
out the stately edifce so vocal before with music
song and laughter: and as the eye looked up in,
ouirngly to the closely curtained windows but one
Eobla +onar ol;mnnrad out into the deepennp