Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-10-23

"No, Rex There is One more your ally
than any earthly being can become. Life
| is MANNED to most of us. l went to thu
hospital yesterday, carrying something te
| the patients-and there was negro boy
with both arms cut off above the elbows
| by car-wheels man with his eyes
| blown out by mine explosion shock
you! Oh, there were scores of them
men, women, little children bound dOwr
| by all manner of bodily woes. Ye
they are human lives, just like we are
Rex"
II never thought of them as such be
fore"
"And they must suffer all their days
The perfection of this life, the full devel
Opment from stage to stage of happiness
| which God meant us all to have, many
must miss through their hard circum
stances. But let us not miss of Heaven
too. Better go in halt or blind. Oh, Rex
your body, your times, the undertow o.
evil are all against you. You must over
come-0oercOn,e-
al will. l see! I've often turned or
the Lord for putting me at such disadvan
tage. Things didn't seem half fair before
Oh, what a woman this is, that can draw
myself up to this heroic point! Marian,
am your soldier"
Goodbye, my soldier" She wisely
dismissed him before his weakness had
time to rebound on and humiliate him.
MAY send messages oyou?"
Eyes"
"And will you answer thems"
Eyes"
He kissed the pink centres of her hands
Her steel-true eyes struck his head full OF
sparkles.
say it is good to make a lover; youl
nine hundred and ninety-nine charmers
can do that; but it is sublime to make o
hero; only your thousandth woman can
do that For the sick oyster of sentiment
lies so close to the pearl, wisdom.
Thus they parted
And thus did each fare.
Days afterward, Marian read to her fret
full mother, and secretly wished-humar
girl - that life were less monotonous,
when she was startled by a telegraphiC
message In an instant she OWNED Rex's
secondary reason for using wires between
them. He was too proud to show his
palsied hand.
".Serpents-I haze .toaon TO tue Rock. Bul
its hard TO hold 0n-Cant see things as goa
do-Orders SOLDIER"
Thus the message ran.
Marian flew to the wires and flashed
back
"Hold on to tue Rock or ace are lost. Orer-
come. 1t can't last l0ng"
A lapse of time afterwards the express
i've American idiom, ',AN righti" was
dashed into her hands.
On which she hailed him: Lire ht
King"
So they stirred each others lives with
lightning. Sometimes at intervals OF
weeks, sometimes at intervals of hours.
The longer Marian watched him, the
more her heart broke for him. His curse
aoas in transmitted blood, not in his stom.
ach entirely, as is the case with happier
men.
"One of the melancholy days" our Bry.
ant sings, she received his last message
She darted to her feet reading it, and was
half ready to go before its meaning was
plain.
"Please come to me. Come quick, Your
soldier got has discharge REX"
Some gentlemen - his friends - were
waiting for her at the end of the route.
AS she stepped off the train, they rocog-
nized her. by instinct, ! suppose; (men
sometimes display instinct almost equal
tos that of the more sagacious creature,
woman; they took her in charge, and
supposing she was his bethrothed, tried
to prepare her as gently as gentle-men
can do, to look on what was wait
ing her Wisely, they told her first how
worthy a thing he had done Through
fire and panic, he threw himself into big
tenement house where some children were
roasting to death, given over by their dis
tracted parents and the equally distracted
firemen, he brought them out safe, cover
ed by his own clothing. But he swallow
ed fire himself. 1t Tapped into the sockets
of his head, and drank up the eyes OF Rex
Blind, and dying in agony, he had yet
called to her triumphantly.
ale was noble fellow" murmured
one of the friends, turning to the carriage
window, and brushing his cheek. He
spoke of you first, of course, madam His
mother and sisters have also been sent for
They will be here this evening""
So they took her to where he lay in
state. For it was state, though he was dis
figured, and his eyes had the Justice
bandage ON.
Marian put her arms around those big
helpful shoulders, and her head on his
breast ooh Rex, my Kingm
No, shall tell you no more about this
human woman, beside her dead victor.
About sunset, his family found him in
his casket, and thick green leaves were
bound over his black temples. Who had
crowned him they knew not; but the
leaves looked we'll there-they let them
be- Mother and sisters walled over him
in the passionate fashion of women, for
they could not know how well it was
with him.
AS for Rex, he lay in everlasting maj
esty. He was king.-Wood's House'told
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