Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-05-29

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irregular as though they bore some heavy
burden. Then the sickness at my heart
grew deathly aud all was darkness. When
l awOke my mother was beudiug over me
bathing my face aud sObbing family, as
though the strength of her grief and ter
ror had already past. All Of consolation
that her loving heart could conceive of,
was repeated many times, as she fingered
by my bedside through the hours that fol-
lowed. Somtimes l would hear her words
and again my pulse would cease beating,
and weight would press my brain, as l lis
tened to the confusion of low voices and
mufled footballs in the adjoining rooms.
Telegraphic dispatches were sent to his
relatives in C, one in my name, re-
questing that he might be buried where I
could sometimes see his grave. The an
swer came
"GOd pity you l must have my boy.
l am his mother"
The night passed with US as the day
had done. lay on my mothers bed, ST.
lent, sleepless, fearless. Once DR.. Elers,
Charley's father came in to see me. He
was near nsighbor and valued friend OF
our family. His sons and daughters had
been associates from infancy. He felt my
pulse and my hot, throbbing head, end
bent over me with soothing words as he
would have bent over his own child. But
l was sullen and willful and would permit
him to do nothing for ME that might re.
lieve the tensive pain under which suf.
fered.
The morning dawned, and while it was
yet early, l heard renewed stir and muir
mur in the next room where my idol lay
The minister came; | heard the reading
Of a solemn chapter, the singing with bro
ken voices Of hymn, and then prayer
in which my loss and desolation we're de!
icately remembered. Instead of soften
ing me, 1t aroused me to anger, to hav'
my sacred love and sorrow thus mentione,
even befose those gentle friends and neigh
bors whose kind hearts all bled for me.
l had been left alone. by my own re
quest, during this service. At its clos
some one entered the room aud came has
tily to my side. 1t was Charles Ellers.
Mariana" he said, "will you not tax
one last look ? Rcmember-if you re
fuse you may afterwards regret it,"
l felt that | could not see him dead
| must remember him as / had seen hin
last, with the red bloom in his cheeks an
lips, and his eyes dark and humid wit
love for me. | lifted MY slow, wear
glance to the face of my friend and shoe
my head. He turned to leave the room
then turned back and said, as if to nov
me from my purpose:
"One temple is slightly blackened, bu
that is all; his face is pure and perfect a
an angels"
Again | waved a negative, and agai
he started to leave me. when l detaine
him, saying:
Stay with me Charley till they al
gone. l am so wild and wrethhedw ~
| Without word he seated himself
my side. From my pillow | could sc
the little procession that shortly after le
the house. The black case, borne by b
fellow engineers and followed by stral
ger, the uncle and guardian, who had a
rived few hours previously. Then IN
father and DR.. Ellers and the rest -
saw it all at glance, and turned my hea
away. My eyes rested on Charley, th
only brother | had ever known. His fat
was worn and pale with grievlng for h
friend. They we're brothers by relation
ship the nearness of which did not the
understand. Young, full of life and life
active purposes-the civil engineer ar
the newly graduated physician-full
wild aud almost reckless spirits, thoue
they had been, each for rimself an ear
est christian. And was not. The thoug
smote me just then with strange shoe
reached out as if for help and mere
and said weakly:
''Pray for me Charley, that | may n
lose my reason, and that may not d
till am quite prepared to 60 where
is"
, IL will. | do" he said, taking my han
and bowing his head upon it. Ere he lii
] ed it I was weeping with all my soul.
June came with roses deep red al
t white, and was succeeded by the long ha
vest months, with their perpetual ha
: moon. Then came September, crimso
I. ing the apple cheeks and scattering pate
Q es Of purple and fiery bloom over the laI
n ~ reaped fields. o Mature! most biz
: sed and gracious consoler and frien'
Lie cannot be wholly joyless t, Que