The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-01-14


bear repeating. What either of these two
people would ever have said to one anoth-
or can never be known now
They stood looking at one another
Their interview had been short, but they
had found out something in it: they
found that they cared for one another.
Still, the man had cast away his life on
the altar OF avarice, and the woman,
as woman will, had dedicated hers to
religion.
Together, mutually helping one an
other, what might they be yet? What
might their children be yet: They stood
lace to face, close to one another, know
ing that it was their last interview. The
laws of honor and of the world would
take bin from her: the laws Of religion
would take her from him Around were
the happy dead, with the feet turned up
to the sky
A loud sound of talking disturbed
them. They retired into themselves.
The Bengal officer came up and said
One Of these denominations Of percus-
sion shells is lying here uneXplOded.
Come up, Dickson, and look at it."
She took his arrG and went with him
One gentle pressure told him the truth
She loved him still.
Delaval, the Pole, had the shell in his
hand. 1t was about nine inches long, and
pointed. The German laboratory i not
50 good as the English; We are more
clever in details \ comparatively large
number Of the German shells never burst
when fired at low trajectory \ hus-
bandmdn while blowing on the heights
above Paris, long after the siege, was
killed, with both his horses, by turning
up one of them. Near where they stood
were four young men lying with their
heads together by the explosion of one of
them, and, in all probability, five others,
lying close by, were killed BY the same
shell We only wish our readers to IN
derstand that these shells are terribly
dangerous things, and that their time Of
explosion Is 10y no means 50 asceTtainable
as could always be wished.
DelavaI had the shell in his hand. As
they advanced he was discoursing about
it and holding it aloft The percussion
fuse in this one is gone wrong" he
said. See, | will throw it down among
US, and you shall see that it will not cx-
plode."
Before anyone could stop the mailman
he had done it. There was "a great blue
flame and a sound totally different from
the report OF "A cannon. A SCATTERING,
broken noise, then smoke, and an in
stdnt's silence. The Gardiner officer,
the Bengal officer, the Independence
Belge, and Miss Milton were al I'M
wounded. Delaval was PROSTATE, horri-
bly, Injured about the head, and George
Dickson bad his left arm torn away and
was crying out for water
There was burylng party near.
across the road, composed mainly of the
citizens of the town, who seemed to pre-.
Ter this dreadful occupation to watch
ing the ruins of their own homes They
came and helped the two wounded men
but London doctor who was there
said that there was no hope for either of
them.
They carried them into Givonne, and
laid them in barn. in the straw, side by
side. y Turko had to be moved to make
room for them and he cursed them by
Allah, at first; but when the young lady,
whom we shall in future take the lib
erty of calling Elizabeth, gave him some
water, he blessed as strongly as he had
cursed
The English doctor attended to George,
and he tried to sleep; but the man on the
left OF him was restless, and in trying }
soothe him, he found that it was Delaval
grooming heavily.
Why, are you hurt too?" said
George. " am SO very sorry for that
What fool you were to play with that
shell"
Il did it on purpose" said Delaval.
saw that she cared for you still. |
wished to destroy you. Are you badly
hurt"
g | am a miserable cripple for life"
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forgive you. Why did YOU do it,"
q tell you that | saw she cared for
you. | love her, and she hates me. |
wanted to kill you and her too. Is she
dead?"
No, she was not injured" said
George.
II wish she was. But now that YOU
are utterly ruined it does not So much
matter One comfort is that she will
never look at you now"
i wish that ! had never set eyes on
you" said George II think that |
should have killed you had known the
truth about you. will not curse you
| am III need of mercy myself. | will
heap my bitterest revenge on you. len
trely forgive you. There must have
been something noble in your nature
once, or you never could have woucd
such woman. But what have | done
to God that He should have thrown us
two togcther?n
We always know so much better than
Divine Providence, May not the war
cause the creation of "A new and more
noble France?
Dclaval died that night. but George
was delirious and did not know it, His
head was confused for long time, and
he came TO himself very slowly The
ilrst person he knew was his father; he
ianClcd that he must he III London. he
cause his father never went out of Lon
don on any pretcnse whatever, and his
father, rs he thought, would never take
the trouble to come ten miles to see
HIM; though he might spend hundred
pounds IN sending him doctor, and
sCoid him violently for the expense after
ward. When he saw ms father at his
bedstead he concluded that he must be
in London
But only at first; these walls were not
London walls, so bright and So clean;
and those leaves tapping at the window
were vine leaves, which certainly grow
IN London, but in most dingv state. !
he first information that his father
gave him was that he was still in !
'iN'iill's anu INIT 1dtlS was btSlegGu.
There was an intense tenderness in his |
fathers manner which he had never no. !
tced before. He made a guess at the !
reason of this when his mind fully re !
turned to him He knew that he had |
lost his left arm. And my father" he |
argued. " thinks that l have forgotten it !
ID my delirium and hesitates to tell me |
Of it"
The next time that the immovable old |
lace came near his hC threw his remain |
ing arm round the old mans neck and |
SAID: If | had two arms, father |
would put them both round your neck. !
Forgive your poor cripple for any sor |
row he has caused YOU"
My own boy, you have caused me no |
sorrow. am going to cause YOU some. |
Are YOU strong enough TO bear it,"
" Is Elizabeth dead:'
Your faithful nurse, God forbid
hat such thing should happen. She is
close by. But the match between YOU
and Ada is broken off She has behaved |
more heartlcssly than | could h0v' con
eelVed. She has refused, do you under
stand to marry you after your accident
1t Is all over, my poor boy"
Thank cod said George
Are YOU glad, then" said his father.
don't know yet Did you say that
Elizabeth was here? Send her TO me
And, dear father, go away"
When the father came back a beauti
ful woman had thrown off her wlmple
anu had disclosed the magnificent radi-