Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-05-19

| night striving to be DOtn prhin ana nanus
to him, without growing into very strong
feeling toward him OF attachment
or dislike. 1t was so with me. though |
scarcely dared whisper to myself to which
order of feeling my own should belong. l
thought of him all tie time, and If he had
died il would have been blow to me, al
belt had never heard him speak con-
scious word.
II was the tenth day Of the fever, and he
had been motionless for long time; a sud
den movement made me look up. His
ewes were fastened on me with new ex-
nression. | knew that he saw me for the
first time
Don't leave me-" he said, family, as l
was about TO call my grandmother. Igave
| him the cordial which had been kept for
this crisis and he revived at once.
'Tell me all about it," he said II was
bound for Meriden, what them"
"You jumped from the wagon when the
horse was rusning near our house, and
were brought in nsensible."
Last night, suppose; must 60 on to
Meriden to-day" !.
"We suppose it was ten days ago, and
You could 90 to the moon as easily az to
Meriden. The doctor says you must be
very quiet.
Jupiter Tonans ten days! Whose house
is this?"
at belongs to my grandmother, Mrs.
Temperance Hale l will call her to see
you"
'Thank you; can wait Perhaps The
sight of another stranger might fatigue me
too much.
But thought he might safely be left
alone for while.
"He wiu talk all the time," | said to my
grandmother when she went upstairs.
II don't see but he's quiet enough" she
said, coming down again in few minutes
"He wants you to write letter tor him."
wrote on this wise from his dictation:
"DEAR MARY came to grief within
five miles of Meriden, and they tell me |
have been laid up for matter of ten days
The business that brought me on will have
to be done all over again. Nevertheless
/ will not abandon hope till l enter the
gate, which, according to Dante, bears that
inscription.
ever your, }. j. DEANE.
"You must not speak another word, |
said imperatively
II promise, if you will sing again what
You we're singing when l found myself in
tho body this afternoon.
50 / sang"Allan Percy, and "Auld Rob-
in gray" and two or three other old ballads
of which had 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
erandn other, but with me he became the
most exacting and troublesome GONZALES
cent that over tried a woman's patience. -
He openly preferred my grandmothers
dainty dishes, andif left him for an hour
his bell would ring, and 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 postoflice for Nh. Deane which
had been lying there nearly three weeks.
1t was directed in q lady's hand, and |
thought the sight of it brought shadow to
his face. He looked 50 glad to see me at
ter my two hours absence that went up
stairs in quite futter of spirits. Could
| it be possible that / was to taste at last the
iov of which had heard aud read with I'M
satisfied longing? But | would not stop
to think about it.
Here's letter for you that Job brought
in while you were gone" said my grand
mother
| took it and glanced at Mr.. Deane. He
sat by the open window reading one sheet
of his letter with knit brows. while the 9TH
err lay beside him. Suddenly light breeze
whirled it out into the flower-plot, and ran
out to get it. 1t had not occurred to me to
be curious about the letter, and nothing
was farther from my thoughts than to read
even the date of it; but the writing was
large and plain, and, as | stopped tt pick
it up, the first four words were burned into
my mind like letters oftire
"My own dear husband" Surely it
should have been nothing to me that Mr..
Deanes wife had written to him; but, woe
is me! the fact of his having wife at all
was like death-b(ow to me-like the in
slant before drowning when one sees at a
glance the whole man of ones lite.
| gave him the letter without looking at
Lin, 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
Ter granted that she was his sister. He
had never spoken of her; but married peo-
pie are always mysterious, and her price
might be far above rubies nevertheless. -
He haze done nothing to make her jealous.
Once he taken my hand 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, it appears, was all on my
side. He was idle and grateful, that was
ALL
would 60 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
bis own place. 1t would be something "a
remember, if nothing more
Then read my own letter, and in it was