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bal th0urhi - much about and suffered
10 much for.
But he was coming home. and Il was
very little I cared for the fortune. IL
once more | could b. IN my own little
home with him and the children. How
/ counted the months, the weeks, and
finally the days before he wOuld reach
us. The joyful suspense was really
painful, but lie never came, as you
know. Within days sail OF New York
he was attacked with cholera, and in
few hours was dying. So near us, and
yet passing forever from our earthly
sightl Oh. children, my heart has
known such grief as no words can ex-
press. seem, even now, to taste again
the bitterness of those days, and to feel
the darkness closing about me as then
it seemed to do.
A brother Mason, whom he called to
him in his last moments, faithfully
brought to me his money, his clothes
and last words of goodbye, and assured
me that his body was buried as decent
ly as might be at sea. And not until
1.-The sea shall give up the dead" shall
I behold the beloved husband Of my
youth again.
I have suffered much since then-with
but small means and my children to
care for, and not being, as you know,
"smart" woman, we have seen hard
times. Sometimes when eating one
scant meal we have not known where
the next would come from or if it would
come at all. We have tried to cultivate
this little piece of land we own, but
have often done but very poorly at it.
1 have helped my little boys to husk
their corn until my hands were so sore
1 could hardly use them, and my knees
raw by kneeling on the ground. As my
boys grew up saw, in helpless agony,
their need of fathers hand. l have
known the bitter-sweet charity of
friends, and hunger and cold, and such
keen loneliness as your young hearts
have no thought of. But amid all, it
has been joy and glory in my thought
that it was all for loves sake, and love
was worth the price. o, yes, over and
over againl So there is my story, chill
dren, and now that am old and gray
hairel, tell you, from the depth of
my experience, that if you truly love
those whom you are going to marry,
you are rich, even if in the worlds eye,
you are very poor, and you are safe
though all the "darts Of the wicked
one" be aimed against you. You will
have a peculiar happiness and support
in the worst storms of adversity, and
round about your greatest sorrows will
be halo of JOY"
We kissed auntie's fearful face, lit up
with such tender beauty, and drove
home in silence, pondering the sweet
truths of our engagement story
Golden Rule.