The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1871-08-17

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harm-if yoa'il only let NE
! IL NJ. byrns had stopped 70 think about
! it, he would have found it almost impossi-
bic to recognize the voice that now had
spoken as his own,"
! =" The harm is all done" said she. " But
g, | must forgive him-or how shall be able
to live through it The trouble was with
Albert's head; and my husband-can |
/ help You with those flowers they're tan
/ gled, l see" And, while she was vet
/ speaking, Mrs. Bike disentangled the vio-
lets and japonicas, of which Nathan bade
fair to make sad havoc just at the moment
when she began TO speak about her hus-
band. There were coming TO the point
about which he had speculated, until he
was glad to drop and forget it. My hus-
band said,' she went on, " that we must
have the best advice in the city for our son
We were advised to 20 to doctor who was
said to be the best for such troubles. Nv
husband said there should be no bunglng.
| The doctor told US we We're to take Bertie
to the hospital, and he would attend to him
there; but we would not do that, we could
not, and so he stopred asking us to do so,
and came 10 US. '. : told him money was
no object. But, when the time came that
the operation must be performed, then we
went with him to the hospital, and the
young man--the DOCTOR son took ont the
tumOr. Albert lived two weeks after that
and they let ME stay with him. My hus-
| band was matchmaker, and doing good
| business then. lie asked the doctor for
his bill, and the doctor said he woaid con
slider ii settled if Blake would clean his
watch and keep it III good working order,
and he let Clarke put new face on it,
with black figures and black pointers be
cause he didn't see as well as once. he said,
and cOuldn't read the gold figures easily. 1t
/ looked very kind of the doctor aud hc
| seemed to feel friendly toward us. After
my husbands accident, Clarke got a terri
BILE blow in the fire that destroyed our shop.
The old doctor heard of it and came right
down; but he coulln't do anything
WASH t anything to be done. lie toll US
/ again that we weren' ( to feel as if we owed
him anything, though he would have
brought a bill in for five hundred dollars, if
he had brought one for dollar: but he
| considered that it was settled already. His
soa had gained more than double that
amount of money, he said, in advantage
! from attending the case"
Well said Nathan, in the most re
/ spcctful manner, for she stopped here so
! long that it seemed as if she had finished
the tale; ''well, he isn't you're encmy-thc
doctor. 1t isn't that you mean
:" 1t is what | never can forget, she said
with subiued vehrmence which told how
earnestly she must have prayed" that
| young man practising on my Albert, and
| learning how to operate on rich man 5
/ son by what he did for mine; but it is what
| must forgive him, or shall lose my rea-
so. u bar would five hundred dollars
! have been to Clarke and me to have kept
! Albert with US Aud he thinks to pay
me, now | am alone, by not bringing in a
! bill :"
| Poor Mr. Byrns what could he say to a
mourner mourning like this one ? lie sat
! still, and thought the matter over, rill yeri-
! ly it seemed as if he must have been inspir-
| ed to speak, SO little reason was there for
| expecting that lie would utter such words
as came from him. He looked inspired
| too, as he rose UP, with eyes gIistening,
| and said:
Why, ma am, ne meant, don't You sec,
! that it was a rare case, and that his son
might never have an opportunity Of seeing
| another treated by htm. If the old gentle
/ man cared straw for his reputation, you
! needn't think that he ever took his eve off
! off his son; he watched him, I'll warrant,
as cat does a mouse. He never let him
take a step that he did not point out him
SELF
1t took the poor woman some minutes TO
comprehend what Byrns had said sufficient
/ y we'll to perceiyc~ the vast amount of
comfort there was to be derived from his
| words. At last he said, in low voice
"Do you mean that, while | have been
trying so hard to forgive the doctor, there
was greater need that ] should be forgiven
myself for suspecting him ? "
WELL" said Nathan. slowly, consider
ing well his words, q do He was hon
est in that, but he doubted the wisdom of
/ speaking just in this way to Mrs. Blake
! 1t was a moment of as keen suspense as he
/ had ever known-that in which he waited
to hear what she would say next. But he
never would forget the joy that followed
/ her words.
Oh, Mr.. Bvrns,' she said, what a
weight you have taken from me : / have
been thinking, if it hadn't been for that
young man, my boy might have been with
me, and that the doctor knew it, and had mt
the face to charge US anything; and it ISN'T
! So thank you. 1t was the LORD mat
took away, who gave.
Mr.. Byrns forgot that he was sexton,
or florist, and did not speak in the least
ike preacher when he said:
/ Il have often noticed that what's hap
! pened in Your case happens to people.
| They look above for help to do what they
think can't be done hardly, except by
miracle, when, first they know, up steps
another human creetur like themselves, and
says word which makes what looks 50
! difficult done easy. And so prayers are an
swcred and we're made more human-like."
at has happened to me, said she;
''and YOU have spoken that word. How |
thank you
! Nathan Byrns had thought many time
that ii would be a happy day for him if he
could make her sad face less sad, and he
/ had been able to relieve her heart OF Il