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

and prayed for his restoration. And
Frank--our Frank-lived. He awoke
one day out of sleep and said, "Where
has it flown TOT"
"Where has what flown TO 2" said the
Doctor.
"Oh," replied Frank, "the angel that
hoyered about me, upholding me-"
ut is net far away. It will come back
soon," said the Doctor.
IBID it stay, Doctor" said frank, "bid
it stay near me, lest die"
81 will, WILL" replied the Doctor.
And Frank slept again, quietly as a
babe, and soon, very soon, our Frank
was we'll and strong again.
+ CHAPTER v.
LOOKING UPON THE DEAE-AYD VARI-
oUS 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 will
never accept the testimony Of others. I
will sec 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 mono 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
II she and Mona Liza dared to look upon
q body that had been put away such q
length of time, they would surely die.
we 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 stockipp
from the right foot Of the corpse, "For.b
said she, "my Frank had lost the small
toe Of the right foot"
The men obeyed her, and they saw
that it wae even as she mad said, the too
had been removed when he was 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 y
and it was done.
The bereaved women remained at
Thos. Williams' home for many months.
They bad abandoned the South.
And when our Frank passed out Of She
sick room, end looked shon. 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
q rose crushed upon it, and her 1.-THE,
taultiess 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.
de did not except even the lovcl and
lost, Miss Marsh. Nal there was about
Miss Smith pens yeness born Of her
sorrow that enhanced her lovelinees.
And ne said within himself, just as the
ether Frank had often said "she Is every
inch q 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 I have thouehtt,,
again and again, that it is SO much more
endurable than my own that I could
even exchange with you and gain by it
if exchanges in such matters were posi-.
BILE. My good, true cousin lived and died
loving you truly, faithfully. And
The love where death has set his seal.
Nor time can hange nor rival steal,
Nor taisehood disavow.
You even have something tn be proud OF
In your utter bereavement. I can realize
what your sorrow must be. I think
can, for all my life l have longed for q
brother, and have lost my brother. For
l feel that as brother could have lousd
my cousin. In truth haze felt utterly
unable to bear that great loss"
II have had just such thoughts" re-
piled Mona, "as you have entertained in
regard to 10Y sorrow in regard to yours
have thought that your sorrow is go
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 q 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 thai
you we're false and that she was Tilted
She was at heart true IS steel, for she
loved your cousin, even when under the
mistaken idea that he was the man thai
she had loved and promised to marry
Miss Marsh was to be piticd, net cen.
sured, for doubtless she suffered much
And she married rashly and in haste, tC
repent, perhaps, at leisure"
"Oh," said Frank, II think you are In
error there. think that Nellie cannot
possibly repent her marriage, for hei
husband is one of thousand. He Is Q
prince among men. If there is a mar
upon earth that could have given the
the woman loved as my life TO-, he il
that same h1r. Brown that she married
Yet think that if Nellie had died, I be.
lieve could have borne that better thar
this nl
SO, Frank" said Miss Saith, "say-
thing but death. Dearly as I loved
Frank, could have sent him to marry
another woman, rather than borne this
and could have smiled but it Is q
hard to think of Frank, cold and dead
| o, it is all gloom, gloom"
"And have temptations, too" sale
Frank. Sometimes feel like Wrestling
Nellie from her husband"
Would she be your Nellie, the Nellie
of old?" said Mona.
/ Never, never" replied Frank "Nel
lie IL as truly and entirely lost to me q
if dead"
"Let her be buried, them" said Mis-
Smith.
al viii, WILL" said Frank.
And Tomorrow" he continued, "w.
4 will plant some flowers On that Lover
ones grave"
u And when the morrow was come the,
two went together to plant flowers upol
the grave. And they sat down besid
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