The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1878-07-04

why 1 should not love you, Jessie
Tell me, dearest"
"Oh, Frank That is Ike your kind
sympathy for me. or course YOU
I guess. II il because am blind, you
know"
/ Frank reeOIled as IL he had been
stung, q choking gasp escaped him,
snd he could not speak for q moment
"Blind :" he repeated at length, 81
! in 8 dream ''blind Or, Jessie
/ So am -
It was too true. Blind from his
birth. Frank Carson had never
dreamed that Jessie was afflicted like
himself. Maggie had never told him
/ this, and the terrible fact VISA now re-
| vealed to the lovers for the first time.
Franks knowledge Of the ground and
neighborhOOd in which he had lived
| for years had enabled him to keeI
Jessie in Ignorance OF his infirmiLy,
which sue OF course, fancied she was
aWAre OF.
And had It come to this after all
Jessie seized his hand. "Oh, do not
tell me that Frank, dear Frank say
you can see me. Have you never seen
me, never at all ?'
She waited breathIess for an answer.
IL fell almost like blow.
Never !"
And this was the end OF her dream
OF love She had been so happy tU
TO think that one man at least had
been so kind and sympathetic /; thst
one man had seen her vacant eyes
and SCARED face, and had loved her
for herself alone, not for her beauty
and her Rsalth. But nOW-the charm
was snapped-the golden bowl was
broken. She bent her head. a great
warm drop fell upon her hand, now
clasped in his once more. She started
as she felt it. He was suffering, too.
She drew herself up, beautiful smile
on her face, then bending toward him
she pressed kiss, the first kiss OF her
pure lips, upon his forehead.
"FOr better, for worse, till death do
US part, dear Frank, / am yours, II
you will take me so :"
"'Till death do Us part, he re-
peRted, sOlemnly, and he In turn was
stopping to his love, when
A hot and brilliant flash OF light
rent the cloud overhead, q rattling
peal of thunder followed it to earth,
and Frank and Jessie lay extended
beneath the riVen tree, hand in hand,
TO all appearances locked In sleep
the sleep that knows no waking.
Till death did them part Was
this TO be their parting, on the thres-
hold OF their lives
Peal after peal OF thunder ratified
overhead, the lightning flashed around
them, the rain poured down In tor
rents, and there they lay unconscious
Of the elemental war-asleep
"Merciful heavens, have pity on
them 90
It was the rector who spoke, as he
and some others of the party came
suddenly upon the senseless forms be-
meath the tree.
Was the prayer heard We dare
not speculate on subjects such as this.
Who can tell ?
The bodies were born to q cottage
close by; the light clasp Of the fingers
was unloOsed at length. Jessie, the
bunch OF roses contrasting SO with
her pallld face, was laid upon q bed,
Frank was In the next room, Insensi-
bic still.
A stIfied sigh frat proclaimed to
Maggie Denne that her heartfelt
prayer had been answered, and Jessie
sat upright. Turning to her kind
she said family:
"MRggie, dearest |"
Maggie, full Of joy, hAstened to the
bed. There was Jessie HRmblyn, in
deed I; but IL was the Jessie of old.
Her eyes were open wide and full OF
life.
at Is true, Maggie, darling 1t is
trua, and L can see you once agsiu-I
can, l can Look, here are my roses,
there you stand. Oh, thank heaven,
| can see the sky once more :"
She fell back exhausted, then, rising
again, cried
els it true about Frank? ? L love
him, he loves me the lig Inning
struck us-yes, but give me sight for |
him. Thank God Where Is |
Frank ?n she inquired after q pause. |
sin the next IOOm," said Maggie,
rs she wiped away her happy tears. |
'Oh, Jessie how thankful we all are |
We feared the worst for both %
AT this moment the rector entered |
anftly.
"Oh, come In, papa, come In dar-
ling Jessie can see US all again. Is 1t |
not wonderful am SO thankful J"
at Is indeed wonderful" replied
Mr.. Denne. "And nOw," he said, |
after he had affectiOnGtely congratu> |
lated Jessie. "I have more good |
news Frank has recovered, and has |
asked for Jessie. May he come in ?"
/ will go to him." she said rising |
from the bed. And before they could |
stop her she had hurried away to the |
next room where, lying upon sofa |
WAS poor Frank Carson. She hasten
ed toward him. "Oh Frank |" she |
cried, dearest Frank, / am so glad"
Then blushing rosy red, she whisper
ed, "Tlll death do us part. God has
given me my eyesight once again, to |
nurse and tend you all my life. Dear,
dear Frank u'
He said no word till, rising up, he
knelt beside the sofa, and Jessis's |
and his went up to |
heaven together.
But little remains to be told. The |
overs were united before many |
months had passed. AIRernon and |
Maggie soon followed the good ex-
ample set them by Jessie and her
over. On the former wedding day |
the only gift presented to the lovely !
bride by her devoted husband, Frank,
was q bunch Of roses.