The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-02-01

II that the 4bgfe cfeAbuIb Wdb crJA1B DAe
terlv, and he immediately began pointing
down toward the stream, and lispine
one. mia madre, mia madTeI"
4 q bent over and looked down IN the
4 direction the little one was pointing, ant
h to my dismRy among the rocks, at the
verge of the river, beheld, lying pTostrate
i thirty feet below, the motiOnless form o.
! the mother.
I Then ensued a scene which 4 will not
dwell upon. 4 few up TO the sanctuary
for assistance. hfy wife, clasping the
little one in her arms, hastened down to
q place where it was just possible by q
very rough scramble to get round to the
/ bed of the river. Here i and those
whom q had brought with me presently
\ ioined her, and we made our way to the
i iiuckless woman She WIS not dead, but
quite insensible, and after infinite IrOu-
i Bile and care we managed to carry her
i ND to her home, my wife with Paoio IN
I her arms preceding us, and breaking the
sad news to the aged father.
/ The only sort OF medical aid obtaina-
BILE in that primitive place came from
the sanctuary, and soon an old monk, TO
whom the natives all seemed to deier,
was in attendance, and after careful
examination of the patient pronounced
that by great mercy no. bones were
broken, hut that the poor woman was
suffering from conclusion of the brain,
and that some weeks might eiapse before
she would be about again.
edo YOU still hold TO your Determine
ton of returning bomeP" j said to my
wife, when she excitement and the sor-
row which the catastrophe had caused
were little abated; tor Town that j was
selfish enough to hope that out of this
evil good might come in the shape OF
making her prolong her holiday. The
none was realized.
mo-" she answered; 'fperhaps ] can
be of some use here; j will not go back
vet. This little one will want mothers
care now; will be that mother, for j
leve him more than ever, and j wish more
than ever that ne belonged TO me-"
need hardly say that under other
circumstances j should have entirely
objected to her assuming such maternal
responsibilities: that j should have
pointed out that it was no duty OF hers,
well-born lady, in this fashion to leeF
after the offapringof an unknown yeas
woman, and that there were plenty of
neighbors willing and ready to undertake
the task, and who were really the proper
people, etc.
But what could j do? Was it not
cher holiday" had j not promised
hundred times to conform to her every
wish, within, Or ice2--because j
Thought she had none, and i never ex-
pected to he put TO this sort of a test for
had i not married q senaible woman? i
was puzzled, hut could only conform,
saying to myself, '''they are strange
creatures, women; one never knows
them-no, not after ten years OF the
closest intimacy"
SO we staid on; ahe devoting the
greater part of her time TO attendance
upon the sick woman t(who still lay 4
nnconscious) and her child, whose lisping
and imperfect words had told ns too
plainly tnat it was while stretching over
the edge OF the precipice to Rather black
berries Tor him that his mother had lost
his footing and fallen headlong down.
My wife would spend hours by the bed
side. j ventured to demonstrate, and
got a severe snubbing for my pains.
One evening about week after the
while j was waiting for her
at spot hard by the sanctuary where
we often sat, she came up to me in the
most excited frame of mind. j was really 4
alarmed; 1 had never seen her equable
90 disturbed.
SO Walter" she exclaimed, 81 have
nst came from the poor woman, and 3
nave had such q shock! She has fegained
but not her senses, which
The good frate who watches her always,
ellis me frequently happens in such
sases."
'sBut what of that? What should it
excite you so?,' i asked, quite mysti6sd
Dy my wite's words.
'aAh, don't know; Icannot tell you;
my hopes, my belief, have hardly taken
orm yet; only come quickly with me up
10 che house. o Walter, it lie all 80 won
ierful! Come, let us go on faster; iii,
kant 60 to get back that you and i both
nay listen to Lucia NianeroIs broken
words, prove their meaning, and 90 clear
up O doubt that"
sfWhat do you meaneo cried.
'Whatsca she have said to so strangely
move your" aid j inwardly Thought,
%, that had never consented to ther
,olidayp'
~ will tell you ii gou will only hurry
~ az last as you can Signs,ot ANNA
ion set in about an hour ago, and her
irst worGe were 'Paolo, Raolino2 1sheld
he boy up 10 her, hut she took no heed
'flhim, and went on murmufing another
'ame over snd over again 10 often that (
ifeit quite imystariously affected. III
VAS" But here reaching the door of
he chalet. INV wife hurried me to the | i