The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1870-08-12
Meriden. The doctor say, you must be

| very qulet. .... .- .ra.a- -,H. IH . y
Jupiter Tonans! ten days! Whose house
Is this?' .lIr.. -r-
1t belongs to my grandmother. Mrs,
Temperance Hale. j will call her to SEQ
you .- '.
Thank you; can wait. Perhaps the
sight of another stranger might fatigue
me too much
But I thought he might safely be lef'
alone for while.
He tcM talk all the time laid to my
grandmother when she went up stairs.
4 don't see but he's quiet enough she
said. coming down again in few minutes.
He wants you to write letter for him.
wrote on this wise from his dictation
.DrAn MAnr-l came to grief within Ave
miles Of Meriden, and they tell me have been
laid mp for matter Of ten days. The business
that brought me on viii have to be done all over
again. Nevertheless will not abandon hope
till enter the gate. which. according to Dante,
bears the inscription. -.
Ever yours, J.J. DEASE.'
'You must not speak another word !
said imperatively.'
Il propose. IL you will sing again what
you were singing when l found myself in
the body this afternoon
So sang ALLEN Percy and .Auld Rob
in Gray and two or three other old bal
lads of which had store. and my pa
tient soon fell into healthy sleep. The
next day he found his appetite, and from
that time came back to health with Won
derful rapidity. He was docile rs lamb
to my grandmother, but with me he be-
came the most exacting and troublesome
convalescent that ever tried q woman's
patience. He openly preferred my grand
mother s dainty dishes, and If | 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 strok-
ing 1t with cologne and singing all tho
while would cool it. To keep him still |
read aloud for hours, thinking far more of
him than of my book.
We grew very well acquainted in these
long summer days, till l went to Meridian
on u shopping expedition. l found a
thick letter Mt the post Office for Mr.. Deano
which had been lying there weeks. 1t
was directed In lady's hand and thought
the sight Of it brought shadow to his
face. He looked so glad to see me after
my two hours absence that / went up
stairs in quite flutter Of spirit. Could it
he possible that l WAS to taste Mt last the
JOY Of which had heard and read with
unsatisiied longing? But l would not
stop to think about it. ...
Here's letter for you that Job brought
in while you were gone said my grand
mother. E...
l took 1t and glanced at Mr.. Deane.
He sat by the open window reading one
sheet of his letter with knit brows, while
the other lay beside him. Suddenly. q
light breeze whirled II out into the flower
plot, and ran out TO got 1t. IL had not
occurred to me 10 be curious about the let
ter, and nothing was farther from my
thoughts than To read even the date Of IL;
but the writing was large and. plain, and
asI stopped TO pick it up, the first words
were burned into my mind like letters Of
fire.
MY own dear husband Surely II
should have been nothing to me that Mr..
Deane's wife had written to him; but woe
Is me! the fact Of his having wife nj all
was like death-blow to me-like the in
stant before drowning when one sees Mt u
glance the whole of ones life.
1 gave him the letter without looking at
him, and went up to my room,
Doubtless this was the dear Mary to
whom had written that first letter from
his dictation, and had foolishly taken it
for granted that she was his sister. He
had never spoken of her; but married
pooplc are always mysterious. and her
price might be far above rubies neverthe-
less. He had done nothing to make her
jealous. Once he had taken my hand and
and touched It with his lips; and all the
rest of the foundations Of my castle in the
air lay in looks more or less expressed.
But the love, 1t appears, was all on my
side. He was idle and grateful, that was
all.
would go away at once. no matter
where. Mr.. Deane was so far recovered
that my grandmother could easily attend
To all wants. and he could soon return to
his own place. 1t would be something to
remember. If nothing more.
Then read my own letter. and In
| 1t was my way of escape. f
Aunt Rachel wrote TO say that she was
ut deaths door with neuralgia. and would
come to help her with the children p
She saw that door so often in her own ac-
count of her suflerings that familiarity
with II had rather hardened my heart
toward Aunt Rachel, but now / was ready
to lay all the stress on her letter which It
would bear. '.
What will Mr.. Deane say to your going
away. said my grandmother. when had
impressed on her mind my duty to Aunt
Rachel. .a.r .sr.,. a..-i
i don't care what he says .l r..'
.-.Lor - said my grandmother, with n
look which implied two-hours' speech ut
least.
That letter was from his wife, said.
looking anywhere but at her..
| She never answered n word. but Just
kissed me on both eyes. and stroked my
hair tenderly for u minute or two. Then
we parted for the night and I went away
inths morning before Mr.. Deane was up.
| y Aunt Rachel was out OF sight OF deaths
door long before reached her, rs had
confidently supposed she would be; but
she welcomed me heartily. and tho kisses
ofthe children soothed somewhat the sore
spot In my heart. y, -. = !, 80, f-;, "a 80,
y For the. next three days the activity
OF the rbusy bce.' compared with
mine. If there, were any. giftsi Of heal-
ing in mere work, / was determined
To have them out Of Il; but the image Of
Mr.. Ueane yves ever in my minds eye,
and. as people say, who have not been to
the Normal l 60, no better very fAst.i
Last Of AL -I-went huckleSsrying with
the children and picked AS for my life.
There's strange man coming across
the field, sxid one Of them. ,r7ir dh'I'
I looked up affer q minute, and took
Mr.. Baanes offered hand tiia.ss $40, y 20
III yGn teach school rs you pick berries
I your fortune will be soon made he said,
with the glad look In his eyes which
seemed TO bcni,h' that dreadful wifs Of
hi. % The Stisrmos. part: J. Of tho earth. !;