The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1873-03-29

me, | know it would"
TO lose your beauty? ? was sternly
asked.
Yes, yes
And you think nothing Of poor
PhilY
lie is man, and-Ch! heaven,
what shall do?'
Go h me-, replied Madgc Skinner,
who had entered, and heard enough Of
the conversation to understand it, Go
home. This is no place for you-for
any enc who fears, and seeing that she
was obcysd without hesitation, she turn
el to Kittic, took her in her strong arms
as if she had been a child, aud contin-
urd, Hush my darling. Phil will MT
die. ! feel that he will be saved. 1t is
indeed a fiery, terrible ordca! for him to
pass yet nothing would have saved him
from liz. Of misery. Now the heart
Iessness oi Jessie Yandcrburgh will be
proved that even he c,nnot doubt,
aud he will be saved, thank heaven
saved "
With such brave and just words she
quic,ed the trembling Kitten, and then
announced her intention Of goin, to take
care Of Phil, as iu that little village no
professional nurse c,ull have been
found.
But you might take it, and
My beauty is proof against its ravages
she ans Scred with 4 touch Of bitterness
aud kiuic saw her not again for mlny
days.
Tie physician too, reasoned with her,
but in vain. Even Phil reused himself
to do the same, but she was firm aud
not to be moved, and having laii a.d,
a"r wra7piugs and barred her arm "a
well rounded aud white onc-aud sub.
mlttcl to the Inject Of the physician to
hc innocuiatcd against the most dreaded
Of all diseases. sd, i5g.t,
Where is Jessie p Phil a4kcl, when
the operation was cndcd, AMI she ha 1
assumed the duties of nurse in the
uana cement Of the room
'Gonc home, and the sub icct was not
mcntjnol again bc.wccn them, no mat
tcr Low i.ach each might have thou .ht
FIX! Elton, though At the very Se t..
of !ct:h, av"ilel pasta; through auI
'Sn ;r'n th+ yo'ly F,iler:. H:w,,
lightly m:rke |, Though mt Sufficiently
- % nrIiccl AL 81 through the
f.7r'ul ,ickuc<s, brave Mad.u Skinner
40 d irn'ly 1T her pc>t-wa4 indeed i
n:ns.c IA. angel bs hi: side. But as
$9'n as able to hell himself, she retired,
'n tn, very same night he letrn;l tha;
She was very i'll, and his heart smoto him
all! such Il feeling as he had never kn,u n
- Jessie Nanlcrbursh began to grow
n in it, almost unknown to him
self
To visit her in his then condition gas
mpo>s.b.e-hc was not aS yet we'll aud
when al! danger OF c,n'ngion WIS passed
Jessie came to see him aud enleavor to
make HIM forget her hcartless dcsertion
- to regain her old power over him
Now he was rs stone to her. While he
III ght not have blamed her under ordn
ary circumstances, yet he did for her
permitting another to take her place an
the uuiec!inS conlact she exhibited as
N;t'ie told lim) when the black shall
ows of death were lowering oser hin.
1t WAS their last interview. Wi;h,u,
even the dclicacy of offering to return
the many and valublc presents he had
given ar (,hpugh such an offer would
have bsen refused with scorn) Jessie
andcrbursh hastily left the village to
seek mother yctim-to-(for the truth
/ milht rs well be told herc) to receive
at least rnc'ical justice few years later
10y being horribly diSfgured by the same
disease that had but sli chilly lcf
its marks upon her lover
In duc time Madgc Skinner recovered
and disappeared from sigllt---sone, il
WAS >aid to visit relatives in distant
part Of the country The fact was, she
dared not meet Phil again for fear Of
bctraying her weakness. She had learne !
TO love him a tlousa nd fold hetter tha,
ever before, and she was too noble t,
have h;m seek to win her in the frs,