Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-03-30

wrapped. It seemed to her cruel that
when she was an outcast, her body given
up to slow decay, that Danford should
be coming home from his work quietly,
as though nothing had happened. He
was dressed carefully, as usual, his
whiskers neatly trimmed. Out OF the
car, too, stepped the very Annie Ward
Of whom she had thought so often lately.
She stopped and shook hands with
Richard.
When he went up to his own house,
his wife followed him. He opened the
door with his latch.key, went in and
shut it, she standing opposite. The
wind blew fiercely the snow and sleet
full in her face. The shades were not
down in his room. She saw him turn up
the light and stoop over the crib. Then
he walked across the floor with little
white gowncd figure in his arms.
"Nellyl Nellyp cried her mother.
She ran across the street, she raised her
hand to beat upon the door, and then
she turned quickly and went back to the
depot, and so to town. A stout, gray
haired man followed her, entered the
same car, left it as she did, and, mo-
ment after she reached her room over
the bakery, was knocking at the door.
She opened it.
DR.. Thayer"
"Yes, Lizzy. Any fire? I'm half
frozen"-bustling forward to the stove,
so as not to look at her.
You-you had no right to follow
me"-standing at bay, her eyes blazing.
80 my Godl why didn't you come
soonerY"-crouching on the floor beside
him, sobbing over his hand like a hurt
child.
He said nothing for while, and then
gave a chuckle. "I said all along that
the way to find you was to keep Nelly
in sight. How often have you seen herr"
Every day when could walk"
"Lizzy," the doctor said, turning
sharply on her, "who told you your dis
ease was incurable"
DR.. Prey"
Internal quacki Now listen to me.
I'm not going to betray your secret.
don't want you to die at home, an object
of disgust to your husband. ! can un.
derstand that feeling fully. But l do
mean to know if there is necessity for
your dying at ALL"
Its too late" said Lizzy.
OF course it was not too late, or this
history would never have been written.
Nobody has right to give unwary read
ers a true bill Of disease and death under
cover of story. Lizzy's disorder took
another name, and disappeared slowly
under the old doctors care. After the
pink began to creep into her cheeks
again, one spring morning he took her
home, and placed her in her chair by the
fire, with Nelly in her arms, and there
her two boys found her when they came
home at night.
Shadwell, one of the partners in the
Quaker firm which employs Danford,
heard the current report of the affair,
and was much scandalized by it. 1t is
eccentric conduct in woman. do not
like eccentric women. I'll drop in there
tonight and take look at her. Better
have no doubtful people connected with
the house."
The old Quaker dropped in to Dan
ford's little parlor several evenings after
that; he talked with Richard Lizzy
was busy helping Charley with his
lessons.
In the spring Danford received notice
that the firm had given him junior
partnership.
"Thee has we'll deserved it of u.s."
said Shadwell, meeting HIM that day.
" If l were in thy place, Richard" I"
he added, presently, "I would give thy
wife journey. She is not rugged, and
thee can we'll afford it now. Thee has a
remarkable woman for a wife, Richard" !"
Miss Annie Ward was another person
who thought Mrs. Danford remarkable
woman. What lovely face she has!"
she used to say, heartily. Her hus-
band is such plodding, commonplace
little man, too. wonder what she saw
in him. The earthen and PORCELAIN pitch
ers again"
But Lizzy held Miss Ward at freezing
distance. 81 know very well she had
designs on you when l was gone, Rich.
ard" she says.
"Such folly, BettyI" he cries, angrily.
But, after all, it is her folly that he
loves in Elizabeth, not her housekeeping
abilities or good sense.
They have now started on their jour
ney into Kentucky. They are in no whit
different outwardly from the other mid
dle-aged, commonplace folk crowding
the cars, equipped with the inevitable
linen duster and shawl-straps and sachels.
But at heart they are very much like the
two children who set out to find the fairy
pot of gold beneath the rainbow. They
meet all the world coming this way, agog
to see the Exposition; but they two go
leisurely along, with their secret be-
tween them. Every trifle is an event.
every chance meeting an adventure
They have left office and housekeeping
and middle age behind them. 1t looks
to other people like an ordinary railroad
on which they travel, but they know that
they are on their way to the enchanted
land. And as they come nearer to the
quiet hills behind the setting sun where
they first knew each other, they are sure
that they will find youth and its love and
freshness there again, and will bring it
all home with hem.-Harper's Magazine