Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-05-27

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"Thank you; can wait Perhaps the
sight OF another stranger might fatigue me
But Thought he might safely be left
alone for while.
nHe nil talk all the time" I said to my
grandmother when she went upstairs.
81 don't see but he's quiet enough. she
said, coming down again In a few minutes.
ssHe wants YOU to write letter tor him
I wrote On this wise from his dictation:
sDEAR MARY-I came to grief within
five miles of Meriden, and they tell me 1
have been laid up for matter OF ten days.
The business that brought me on will have
to be done all over again. Nevertheless
I will not abandon hope till Ienter the
gate, which, according to Dante, bears that
inscription.
Ever your, I'D. DEANE."
esyou must not speak another word, /
said imperatively.
II promise, if you will sing again what
you were singing when found myself IN
| the body this afternoon.
So / sang sAllan Percy" and "Auld Rob-
| in. gray,n and two or three other old ballads
| of which / had q store, and my patient
soon fell into healthy sleep. The next
| day he found his appetite, and from that
| time came back to health with wonderful
rapidly He was docile as lamb to my
grandmother. but with me he became the
most exacting and troublesome GONZALES
cent that ever tried woman's patience. -
He openly preferred my grandmother's
dainty dishes, andif / left him for an hour
his bell would ring, and l went back to find
/ his pillows on the floor, or his head so hot
that nothing but stroking it with cologne
and singing all the while would cool it. To
keep him still read aloud for hours, think
ing far more of him than of my book.
We grew very well acquainted in these
long summer days. till | went to Meriden
on shopping expedition. | found thick
letter at the postofice for Mr. Deane, which
had been living therer nearly three weeks
r. was directed in d lady's hand, and l
thought the sight of it brought shadow to
his face. He looked 50 glad to see me af-
ter nv two hours absence that went up
stairs in quite a futter of spirits. Gould
it be possible that was to taste at last the
ioy of which I had heard aud read with un-
satisfied longing? But ] would not stop
to think aboutit
ssHere's letter for you that Job brought
in while you were gone,' said my grand
mother.
I took it and glanced at MIR. Deane. He
sat by the open window reading one sheet
of his letter with knit brows. while the 9TH
er Law beside him. Suddenly light breeze
whirled it out into the fower-plot, and l ran
out to get it. 7 1t had not occurred to me to
be curious about the letter, and nothing
was farther from my thoughts than 20 read
even the date of it; but the writing was
/ large and plain, and, as I stopped to pick
| il up, the first four words were burned into
nv mind like letters offire.
envy own dear husband" Surely it
should have been nothing to me that Mr..
/ Deane's wife had written to him; but, woe
lis me! the fact of his having wife at all
| was like death-blow to like the in
slant before drowning when one sees at o
| glance the whole man of ones life.
| T. gave him the letter without looking at
him, and went up to my room.
4 Doubtless this was the t'dear Mary" to
whom had written that first letter from
his tlictation, and had foolshly taken it
Tor granted that she was his sister. lie
had never spoken of her; but married peo-
pie are always mysterious, and her price
4 might be far above rubies nevertheless. -
! He had done nothing to make her jealous.
i Once he taken my hand and touched 1t with
/ his lips; and all the rest OF the foundations
/ Oh my cdStlo III eu0 oil 10Y ~ AoSNA' -ANo -
less expressed.
/ But the love, it appears, was all on my
side. He was idle and grateful that was all.
\ Z would go away at once, no matter
/ where. Mr. Deane was SO far recovered
that nv grandmother could easily attend
| to all wants, and he could soon return to
his own place. 1t would be something tc
remember, if nothing more.
i Then read my own letter, and in it was
my way Of escape.
Aunt Rachel wrote to say that '.she was
at deaths door with neuralgia, and would
| I come to help her with the children?" She
saw that door SO often in her own account
of her sufferings that familiarity with it had
rather hardened my heart toward Aunt
1 Rachel but now was ready to lay all the
/ stress on her letter which it would bear
sWhat will Mr.. Deane say to your going
away?" said my grandmother, when hao
impressed on her mind my duty to Aunt
Rachel. G
4 81 don't care what he says.
sLor! said my grandmother, with 8
look which implied two-hours' speech a.
4 least. 40 ~a.,;.g e.sT3
looking anywhere but at her.
She never answered word, but just kiss.
4 ed me or both eyes, and stroked my hail
tenderly for a minute or two. Then we
parted for the night, and | went away IN
/ the morning before Mr.. Deane was up. B
Aunt Rachel was out of sight of 'sdeath's
i door, long before reached her, as had
confidently supposed she would be; but
4 she welcomed me heartily, and the kisses
4 Of the children soothed somewhat the sore
spot in my heart
For the next three days the activity OF
/ the abusy bee" long ago impaled on 9
i poetical pin. was not to be compared with
mine. If there were any gifts OF healing
4 in mere work, Twas determined to have
4 them out Of it; but the image of Mr.. Deane
}. was ever in my minds eye, and, as people
say who have not been to the Normal, Il
| got no better fast. W
Last of all I went huckleberrying with
i the children, and picked as for my life.
ssTheres strange man coming across
the field said one of them.
/ / looked up after a minute, and took Mr..
Deane's offered hand. as
ssIt you teach school as you pick berries
Iyour fortune will be soon made, /" he said,
\ with the glad look in his eyes which seem.
ed to Danish that dreadful wife of his to the
uttermost parts of the earth.
i "How did you find me?
s.By my wife, chiefly. Your grandmoth.
er was as mysterious over your departure
as if you had gone into convent; but
when told her I had good news for you.
she relented and gave me the clue to YOU
hiding place. y .,
Il sand Aunt Rachel directed you here?"
Precisely"
fs.What is your good news2"
81 have heard of school that you car
have for the asking"