The Hickman courier., 1878-06-28

~ ,ossible effect the less of her beauty
e, .ne have on her husband, who is now
5n;Iv nG expected. His ship has been at
ena so we have been unable to write to
S;n IJ and only on his arrival IN Ply
-aonth Sound will he hear of his poor
ing wife's illness and Disagreement
o. paeaTs her sickness she had been count
20 tbe hours, now she sees every day
- are nast with a shudder, feeling that she
hrrouOht twenty-four hours nearer to
4ba dread trial. At length his vessels
live and / receive telegram telling
- when we may expect him, ana
ba,oing me to break the news gently
bis wife. She receives 1t with
sood of bitter tears and sobs,
crv,n0 I'm out that he would hate and
IoStbe her, and that she is about to lose
an The happiness of her life. My wife
,,-aans ,,-a with her, and J am conscious of
oboFine sensation in my threat as we
80 leave of her half en hour before
NJ Ogilvie isexpected, and pray God to
HESS and sustain her.
We are sitting in rather melancholy
r,ood after dinner, talking of the poor
--onng husband and wife, when MIR.
H5iiyie is announced, and | hasten to
The door to meet him.
- Che will not see me" he says impet-
.,orsIv coming in without any formal
I-ceeting. "She has shut herself into
6or room, and calls to me With hysterical
+oors that she is too dreadful to look
,,ron that | shall cease u love her a
Ion as | look upon her, and that she csn
~ fsce il" Aud then the strong man
fsIIs into a chair with a sob.
m bod o. fbat - I haoriTa
~ don't care how bad il is, he cries
G.. sbe need not doubt my love. Ny poor
5aTIing will always be the same to me,
ybetber she has lost her beauty or not"
Whereupon | extend my hand to him
and shake his heartily; and know my
wife has great difficulty in restraining
herself from envelOping him in her
mothe.ly arms and embracing him.
: - - must IeSHrt to stratagem," !
ssy / viii go down 70 the cottage at
once and yon follow me in ten minutes
with my wife. / will try and Coax Mrs.
Ogilvie 10 come out and speak to me,
and you must steal upon her unawares. /"
Mrs. Ogilvie at first refuses 70 see or
speak TO me; but go up TO her door and
am mean enough to remind her of my
wlfe's devotion 10 her, and to entreat her
for her sake to come down to me.
g Where is Frank ? " she asks.
lett him at home with Mary
Anne, ," l reply, feeling that l am worthy
of being q diplomstist at the court OF
st. Petersburg, as she opens the door and
and descends the stairs. I take her out
into the garden and begin to reprove
her for her conduct, with assumed an
ger. She listens with eyes blinded by
tears. /, on the lookout for it, hear
the latch OF the garden gate click, but
she absorbed in her sorrow doss not no
tice it. ] loot up and see Frank Ogil-
vie's eyes fixed hungrily upon his wife
Her changed appearance must be q
great shock 10 him; but he bears IL
brsvely; and in msment he has sprung
forward, clasped her in his arms, and
the poor SCARED face Is hidden on his
true and loving heart
Then Mary Anne and l turned gently
away, and leave him 70 teach her that
there are things more valuable, of high
er worth, than mere beauty of face or
form.
After all we do not lose her, for Mr.
Ogilvie comes into some money, leaves
the navy and purchases a small estate
in our neighbOrh0od, on which they still
reside. Mrs. Ogilvie is no longer young
and has 8 family of lads and lassies
around her who inherit much OF their
mothers loveliness. But one OF the first
things she teaches them is not TO place
q fictitious value on it, "lor," she says,
thought to much OF mine, and GOD
took it from NE" No one ever hears
her regret the loss of her beauty; "for
through that trial" she tells nv wife; /
learned the true value of my Frank
heart"
She simply worships her husband and
is ia all respects a happy woman. In
deed, seeing the sweet smiles which
adorn her face and the loving light
which dwells in her eyes, l am some
times tempted to call her as of yore,
Pretty Mrs. Ogilvie.