The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-05-30

lowered about me, upn0ldlng me.
"It is not far away. 1t will come back
soon," said the Doctor.
"Bid it stay, Doctor" said Frank, "bid
il stay near me, lest / die"
81 will, 1 will" replied the Doctor.
And Frank slept again, quietly as a
babe, and soon, very soon, our Frank
was well and strong again.
CHAPTER V.
LOOKING UPON THE DEAD-AND vARI-
GUS OTHER MATTERS.
Jane Smith persisted in her determi-
nation to look upon the corpse of the
man hat had been laid away so long
for she said, at is just possible that it is
not my Frank that was buried, and l will
never accept the testimony of Others. 1
will see with my own eyes what thing
has been done." And men were gath
cred together one week after the funeral
to raise and open the coffin, that she
might look upon what was within. ALI
vainly they tried to dissuade her.
The women told her again and again,
that she ought to be, and might be en-
tirely satisfied with the evidence before
her, that it was none other than her
nephew, for he himself had asserted that
he was no other than Frank Williams
son of Francis and Mary Williams, of
Virginia. And they even sought to deter
her by frightening her. They said that
if she and Mona Liza dared to look upon
a body that had been put away such q
length of time, they would surely die.
ave are both prepared to die" she re-
piled.
And the work went on, and the coffin
was opened, and with dry eyes and un-
faltering quiet they both looked upon
the clay of the loved one. And Jane
requested them to remove the stocking
from the right foot of the corpse, "For," I"
said she, "my Frank had lost the small
toe Of the right foot"
The men obeyed her, and they saw
that it was even as she had said, the toe
had been removed when he was a child.
When she saw that foot, she said:
"That was my Frank, my beautiful
and loyal-hearted Frank. Lower the
coffin again, and spread dust over dust"
and it was done.
The bereaved women remained at
Thos. Williams home for many months.
They had abandoned the South.
And when our Frank passed out of the
sick room, and looked about him again,
and took up the burden of life, he saw
Mona Liza. And he looked at the beau.
tiful woman, with her eyes of light, her
full, flowing curls, thrown back from her
polished brow, her cheek like ivory with
a rose crushed upon it, and her 1.-the,
faultless form, and her graceful step,
light and free, like the fawn's in its ma.
tive wildness, and thought that he had
never looked upon more lovely woman.
He did not except even the loved and
lost, Miss Marsh. And there was about
Miss Smith a pensiveness born of her
sorrow that enhanced her loveliness.
And he said within himself, just as the
other Frank had often said, "She is every
inch queen" But when he spoke to
her he said nothing of all this, but he
said, "Miss Smith, have been thinking
of your great sorrow, and have thought,
again and again, that it is SO much more
endurable than my own that l could
even exchange with you and gain by it,
if exchanges in such matters we're possi-
BILE. My good, true cousin lived and died
loving you truly, faithfully. And
The love where death has set his SEAL
Nor time can change nor rival steal,
Nor falsehood disayow.
You even have something to be proud of
in your utter bereavement I can realize
what your sorrow must be. 1 think /
can, for all my life l have longed for a
brother, and l have lost my brother. For
1 feel that as q brother I could have loved
my cousin. In truth 1 have felt utterly
unable to bear that great loss."
II have had just such thoughts" j" re-
piled Mona, "as you have entertained in
regard to my sorrow in regard to yours.
1 have thought that your sorrow is so
much lighter than my own. There is
nothing of gloom in your sorrow. Mel
lie is alive and happy, and you can see
her if YOU choose. True, she is lost to
you as wife, but Nellie was never false.
Your sorrow was the result of the great
mistake of Mr.. and Mrs. Williams
They claimed your cousin as their son,
and she was deceived. She thought that
you we're false and that she was Tilted.
She was at heart true as steel, for she
loved your cousin, even when under the
mistaken idea that he was the man that
she had loved and promised to marry.
Miss Marsh was to be pitied, not CEN
sured, for doubtless she suffered much.
And she married rashly and in haste, to
repent, perhaps, at leisure"
"Oh," said Frank, 81 think you are in
error there. think that Nellie cannot
possibly repent her marriage, for her
husband is one of thousand. He is a
prince among men. If there is man
upon earth that / could have given the
the woman 1 loved as my life to, he is
that same Mr.. Brown that she married.
Yet think that if Nellie had died, I be-
leve could have borne that better than
this"
go, Frank" said Miss Smith, "any-
thing but death. Dearly as l loved
Frank, 1 could have sent him to marry
another woman, rather than borne this,
and 1 could have smiled. But it is SO
hard to think Of Frank, cold and dead
o, it is all gloom, gloom" =,
".And l have temptations, too," said
Frank. Sometimes 1 feel like wrestling
Nellie from her husband"
"Would she be your Nellie, the Nellie
of cld?" said Mona.
"Never, never" replied Frank; "Nel,
lie il as truly and entirely lost to me as