Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-06-22

cluhg to the belief that, some smistake.
had occurred. s'* fts='f : ss v,hS's ~ ','sA'
Indiana's long illness had destroyed
the freshness Of her beauty, but she
still possessed sufficient charms to at
tract numerous admirers, and one of
the most. portinaci0us was Mr.. Spur;
geon, who had been long devoted. to.
her, and who, on Will0ughby's depar-
ture, and, it was reported, dismissal,
again took the field, though with no
more success than before.
Sir William had stayed too long in
India, and after leading an invalid life
for q year in Bath and Tunbridge
Wells, he died, leaving fortune to
his two daughters, who thereup0n es-
tablished themselves in our square,
aud led the useful and secluded life
that we have described. Meenah
Baee, who, though she had been hap
tiled, was still known by her former
name, and the little Leila, accompa.
MED them !; and the child was the OBJ
ject of the warmest affection of both
sisters, and more especially of Indiana,
whose resentment had long since been
extinguished by Anne's kind and
Christian counsels, and who now felt
only pity for the unfortunate Will
loughby. with an occasional feeling Of
pride when she saw his name men,
toned with praise in the dispatches.
and of regret at the thought that such
brilliant qualities should be united
with. such baseness.
One day ten years after the Misses
keiths' establishment in the square,
Anne was confined to the house with
a cold, and Indiana went alone to the
hospital where they were accustomed
to pay weekly visits In one. of the
wards she missed q familiar face, and
in answer TO her inquiries was told
that the sufferer had died only the day
after her last visit. "He talked a
great deal about your kindness to him,
ma'am," said the nurse, and was
very quiet and gentle to the last. But
the patient who has his bed now is
very troublesome. He was brought
in nearly a week ago, having been run
over by cab, and was hurt so badly
that the surgeon doesn't think he'll
get over it. And I'm afraid, ma am,
that he isn't in a right frame of
mind, for he used dreadlully bad Ian.
guage when they brought him in,
though lately he has been quiet"
When Indiana had gone the round
of the ward, and with a few
kind words to each patient, and the
reading aloud of a psalm and a prayer
to such as could hear it, she approach
ed the bed of the man OF which the
nurse had spoken, and, though rather
in dread of what he might say to her.
sat down by him, and, gently express
ing her sympathy for his misfortune,
asked if she should read to him. The
man, whose eyes had followed hel
with interest ever since she came in
assented with a readiness and civility
that surprised the nurse; and as she
read on in her sweet low voice his
groans and restless movements grad
ually ceased, and he gazed on her still
beautiful face with an expression from
which all ill-humor and suffering had
vanished. When she had finished one
psalm, he begged for another; and
when at last she prepared to go, hi
said: 'Did not hear them call y0l
Miss Keith p
my name is KEITH she wondering
ly replied = ~ - >
.'Can it he that you are Indian;
Keith, whom knew at Agra some tel
years ago! You have her voice anG
features; but you are somewhat
changed, though not so much. rs
am ..tEze !. gstE#t i W.
Eyes, am the Indiana Keith, ant
was living at Agra ten years ago; but
who are you! seem now to remem
Der your face but not your name"
slave you quite forgotten Fleetwood
Sturgeon, who was one. of the man,
you made fools of!'' - 4 81
! He spoke with an accent of bitter
ness, and Indiana felt it, and coloret
rs she answered: II remember W,
now, but you are much changed. How
came you in this place 7"
!" When you left Agra didn't carr
what became of me, and soon got int
trouble. and had to leave that place
and then went to Calcutta, and 80 OF
to Australia, where, after some time
got some gold. But / soon lost tn
greater part by gambling and 50, tire'
of knocking about the world, cam
, , back to the old country, and a warn
reception she has given me, The yer,
day l landed l met with this accident
and unless the pain in my side get
! better | don't suppose l shall ever &
out from here.'' rt,>er,yxs - :
His reckless tone distressed Indiana
and she begansto urge on him the ne
cessity of seeing a Clergyman, and pre-
pairing for his end; 1buthe interrupte,
hersby saying: "A pars0n would d
me little good but there is one thin
which must confess before, die, an
to you only, for it principally concern
yourself. You remember Willoughby
of the One Hundred and Thirty-frst Z
1ndiana's blush answered, for she re
NAMED silent, and Sturgeon proceed
ed: :" You probably thought that tn
cause of your quarrel was known 0nl
to yourselves mean his previou
marriage with Meenah Baee-but
knew it all. fol-. it was a plot of my owl
devising. i was mad with Jealousy a
Willoughby's success, and was medits
ting in what way could ,injure him
when my evil genius threw :. in m
may Meenah Baee, who had come
Agra in search of her husband, VIII
was Captain in the One Hundred an
Thirty.first Native Infantry, but, as
well knew, had been missing for
year OF more, ever since some ;skirm
! ish or other. His name, Henry Nil
lingsby, so1capable of TRANSIT ora1atio
into Willoughby the fact 81 the nun
Der of their regiments being the same
and a certain similarity between thei
persons-they were both tall and sfai
and delusion that the poor wona
had gotten into her head, but Will
oughby, whom she saw one day o.
parade, was. really her hlitband, eill
gested to me the practicabiltyj Of ID
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