The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-12-24

Janet, after she had carried to Adam
Clement tho stockings his mother had
sent, and to Jesse Burton the hoadrest
Mary sent aud the boxes Of home. baked
cake to 10. Siratton and Walt Victor,
aud the letters to twenty othors, whom
she found in one hospital aud another,
appointed herself to duty one day at
ii jspital No. 81, with note from DR..
Macuregor to our good friend, Dr.. Sam
pie, who was in charge there. The note
said that she was a perfect nurse, and
could speak French and German well.
Sample had little to do with French or
with German; but he had no surplus Of
perfect nurses. Aud so it vas that, one
morning when Tom Trevor was waiting
for his breakfast Of mush and molasses.
it was brought to him, not by the nice
red-turbaued black woman who brought
it Monday, but by Il tiny little white wo.
man in the full dress Of sister Of chari.
ty. Tom hoped foot off bis bed when
the sister Of charity turned round on him
but the sister Of charity magnetzed Tom
also, so that his Jane: !" died uuspokeu
But from hat m oment | can tell you,
Tom 10 an to get we'll
So did John Widair, who lay in the
next bed aud so did all the Smiths and
the Joncses and the rest, with whom this
story has nothing to do. Never was there
such II sunshiuy place as was that ward
of No. q, till they were all packed up
and packed off, aud sent back into the
country.
Aud thea Why, by that time, Mile.
Lacratclle had her way as perfectly as
any red tapist of them ALL Not Dr.. Sam
pie nor Dr.. MacGregor could draw up
acquisitions with more formalty, insist
on precedent more precisely, or do as he
chose more certainly, than could the
French nurse. She never asked for any
thing that was not right; and, when she
asked for anything, she asked as if she
was certain it was to be granted. Tom
Trevor was assigned to Lynchburg. Dear
me how John WiIJar wished that he
could be assigned to Lynchburg. He
would have given his hand had he dared
asked her to assign him to Lynch5urg
And the only reason he did not dare was
his fear that she would find out, by his
asking, how it was n matter of life and
death for him to 90 there. Queer human
nature He hoped she knew sne was
all in all to him; and yet that was the
one thing ne did not tell her. and was
afraid she would frd out, Why was he
afraid? Why ? Oh it is the old, old
story. What ifshc did find out, aud then
J moved Tom i.to Ward A, and let Eebec-
ca como into Ward B in her place.
what would John WIdair do then. poor
thing? So John Wildair did not say one
word, aud so he was assigned to Lewis
ourg, when they were assigned to Lynch.
burg.
Die Of broken heart? Not a bit ol
; it. He did not die at all he got we'll
. lie bribed black brother to let him ou,
. Of "a window, aud he stole horse and
, rode him thirty miles before daylight
Then he slept all dav ia barn fher h,
stole another horse, and then another
,nd so he turned up at Harper's Ferry
, aud so he was in Battery Seven in from
. Of Petersburg; and so he marched unde
e Ord to Appomattox Court House; auc
!, -o when Janet brought poor Tom, still
d linpiDg. down to our lines. and hunte'
o up the Fortv-seventh Maine, John Viii
u dair was in commrDd, because he rauke,
c every officer in the field. Aud did no
t John WIdair tell her then how glad h
!. vas to see her
| Yes. And she was glad to SEQ him
!, And John had her and Tom sent back t
!. the feld-ho'pitai in an old carryall, an
70 in the evening came down to sec ho,
Tom had borne the journey. Aud afte
A. that he took Janet out to see the suuse
behind the river and they walked an
le they walked, and John told hor how dc:
IL ,Iate all his lite had been to him sine
. he and Tom went to Lynchburg; an
e. begged her. by the love he bore her. ne
: ,r to leave him again, without saying
IT, night come after her.
1t don't know what he said to her, bl
Il. | know that. alter the Forty-seventh WI
4, paid of, | married them both, and thi
l. here, according to all rule, this stor
ought to end.
:" When Mr.. Billings sent the painting
H. John to look at. aud said it was name
I'd - Confidence" Janet asked if Conf
a. lence' was not Latin for " Brass" b.
I'd John said No." Hc said that it was
o word which meant Faith and Love nike
,r. together. And we hung the picture abo'
$ he mautel in the dinug-room and,
n We sat looking ut it, the brothers and 81
IL ters came in for prayers. and old Chl'
ell brought in the lite Donald. And o
it. Grandfather Trevor opened the old Bib
y he brought from Cornwall, and he resd
nd " givo unto YOU power to tread I
nd 'erpents and scorpions, and over the po'
Id or ofthe enemy. and nothing shall
cd my means hurt you. From " OLp Al
a Ngw for December.