The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-01-05

and lett her IN charge DINER SlScer.ln.laW,
telling her to take care of her and see her
to her carriage, as she was in precarious
condition The two ladies talked together
for half hour, when the sufferer arose
and declared her intention of going home.
She had just got the door of her carnage,
when she fell dead on the sidewalk. She
was of coarse brought back to the doc
tors office, where, every effort to resus.
citate her had failed, her husband was
sent for and her limbs were composed in
death.
When the jealous man arrived his fury
knew no bounds. He accused the dead
in opprobrious terms; he accused the doc
tor Of having ruined his domestic peace ;
he raved like a mailman; nay, he even re-
fused to have the remains brought to his
own house, and declared that his wife
might be buried in the street for all he
cared. This awful scene was ended by
the arrival Of the eldest son. a young
man of remarkable character, decisive,
and energy. He took his father, locked
him up and caused the remains of his
mother to be also brought home, and
made arr9 ngements for her burial.
On the second day after her death as
she lay in her coffin, her children weeping
around her, and her husband, pale and
haggard. the greatest sufferer ofall, stood
at her feet. the doctors wife, the sister
in-law, arrived. 1t seems that she had
tainted from the shock of seeing her sis.
ter die, and had herself been carried off to
her own room, so that she had not known
of the dreadful scene in the doctors office,
nor of her brothers. new access Of fury J;
so she began quite unconsciously to tell
him and the children Of her last CONVEX
sation with their mother. AS she did so
the poor jealous maniac began to tremble
and relent. 'Were you with her during
that visit to your husbands office g. said
he,
eyes. every moment said the loyal
woman.
They all looked at the dead woman; as
they did so the rigid mouth relaxed and
the two rows of white teeth became Wis.
ible; the smile grew; it was sarcastic and
hooking; but it was smile the husband
looked at it with eyes which started from
his head the youngest boy fell down in
fit; the eldest son, still remarkable for
his self-possession, put his hand on the
cold, pale brow.
''Are you alive. dear mamma e. said
he +; the smile changed it grew infinitely
tender and sweet, and the mouth closed
as it had opened, mysteriously.
He ran out of the room exclaiming {:
She lives! will 60 for the DOCTOR
During this time one witness remained
chained to his post of observation !; it was
the second son, boy of Is. The father
had moved to pick up the poor youngest
boy, who had fallen in fit the aunt
was consoling the youngest child, a girl,
yet to young too understand the dreadful
scene, yet destined to be haunted by it
for life; so that their accounts Of the
phenomenon were various and somewhat
contradictory. But the second boy,
Theodore, did not take his eyes from his
mothers face. He and Augustine, the
eldest confirmed each others statements
to the doctor, and Theodore said that as
the smile died away a slight shudder
seemed to pass over the face
The doctor found her to be quite dead,
and after, of course, every precaution
had been taken against premature inter.
ment, she was bnried in her grave, where,
let us hope, she rests in peace. It would
seem as if that smile was the dead wo-
mans revenge, as she said:
My spirit shrunk not to sustain
The searching thores Of ceaseless pain.
- Then let lite 60 to Him who gave.
have not quailed to dangers brow
When high and happy need l now?
The next best authenticated story
comes from the records Of the Franco
Prussian war.
It seems that one of the red cross
nurses, one Of those Mercy Merricks, per
haps with whom Wilkie Collins had made
us familiar, had among her patients a
young fellow, whose nationality she could
not find out. He was in the Prussian uni.
form, yet not, she thought, Prussian.
He had been struck by spent ball, they
supposed. and was paralyzed and speech
less. Occasionally he would open Ills
eyes and gaze at her with a troubled ex.
preston, and she noticed that the eyes
were very beautiful, black, and soft as
velvet. In her ministrations she got to
understand the language of these poor
eyes, and found out when he was pleased
or disappointed at what she was doing.
One day she took up his coat, and feeling
in the pocket she found letter: she
looked at him and the eyes said tread it."
1t gave her the key to the situation, and
she derived the idea that he could hear
and understand her if she talked to him,
so she would sit and talk and ask ques.
t;ons, and he would answer with his ey es.
She got at the idea that he was young
English diplomat, who has been sent down
to the scene of the war to protect some
one; that he had been received into the
Prussian army as a favor to facilitate his
work; that he was engaged in this work
when he was struck down. She had much
to do, this Mercy Merrick, with her red