Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-05-10

"Where is my motherg she asked the
nurse. fcebly.
"Your ma is taking nap; we won't
wake her yet. Can YOU take little wine
think o.
cam very ill?"
I'm afraid YOU be, miss. returned her
indiscreet attendant. Your ma hash t
had her clothes OFF. =
ANIL better o.
Not that know of amt of them as
thinks it best to hide the truth from the
patient. Who knows but body may
have something to do or say before the
great change? And then betwiXt the
saddle and the ground. if mercys found :
and we all need it
Am going to die o. grasped Carrie.
making wild effort. as if She would
move away from the Destroyer's grasp.
Hush. child not to-day. Drink the
wine and you will feel better. You won't
90 to-day, reckon
Not to-day? Shall die soon-to-mor-
row ?"
"Who knows? Your symptoms may
mend all at once. Don't fret; you'll not
leave us to-day? the doctor himself said
rs much
Carrie lay so still upon the pillow, like
marble image of Silence, that Mrs. Will
ful thought she had been asleep, when she
spoke again.
If I'm going-to die soon, | must see
DIR. Gilbert. Make haste. please
Was it the moist of death or Illness
through which Carrie saw DR.. Gilbert,
that gave his countenance that ghastly hue,
the eyes that melting tenderness, as if sui
fused by unshed tears? She put out her
hand As he approached and smiled family
rs If the effort were too great for repeti
ton.
"You would have saved me-if you
could" she said. II thank you; you
have always been so kind to me.
"Who could help being kind TO You
j have been only kind to myself. am
afraid ! did not think SO much of YOU in
my Kindness as of myself
''But when the secrets of all hearts are
opened, You might feel sorry to find was
not So good as you thought-not worth
your kindness; and | could not bear that
You should have hard thoughts of me-"
lizard thoughts of YOU ?" repeated DR.
Gilbert with culver in his tone and
great sob in his throat. IL shall never
have any but the sweetest, tendcrest
thoughts of you. of whom am not worthy
to think at all
You fancy so now; wait till YOU hear
my story. must make it short, am so
tired. But that dreadful money is not ours
at all. How much wrong-doing it has
caused You must tell mamma. Aunt
PARROT had left me only string of gold
beads so--I--burned the will She gave
it to me to read; l meant to have told her,
but in the morning she was gone. And
then her nieces seemed so hard couldn't
tell them, and the secret grew so biz |
could scarcely drag about with it,
You might have allowed me to help
you"
II was afraid 1t was all so different.
from what she would have done
''Who ?''
1.-The woman - you--you love, You
know. But You will explain 10 every
body, will you not, and set it all right,
and let them have the miserable money,
and give my gold beads to mamma p
You could not ramemhcr the date of
the will, Carrie? Don't try If it does not
come readily, he said
1880 cant get rid of it; it's burned
into my brain. | swept up the scraps
they are in my Japan box. remember
the corner with the date was badly
scorched''
"ls60e Could you bear ltd good
news! At least we must try the effect.
They have later will while you We're I'M
conscious Old LAWYER Equity, who was
away out West on a visit, happening to
hear of Miss Parrot, death. FASTENED
home, and brought forward u will She had
entrusted 10 him, dated 1865. don't
think we need to explain TO any one, Car
rie The will you burned was already null
and void"
But it was just As wicked in me-.
IL suppose so. but YOU have done pen
ance enough
Thanks. | am so tired. Perhaps |
shall sleep now
And DIR. Gilbert held his finger on her
pulse while she slept, and when he crept
downstairs, in the grey of the morning.
he said to Mrs Fame as he passed out
Her heart beats stronger. She is going
to live, thank Heaven"
Ii was not till Carrie had been able to
sit up, and take short walks across her
chamber floor on DR.. Gilbert's arm. that
he ventured to say:
''You have never asked about Miss Par
rott's final will
Il don't care about it, shereplied. Il
can still keep school. used to long so
for money, but I've outliNed all that -
And there is another affair You have no
curiosity about, You once spoke of the
woman love Why don't you ask me
about her Pr
Yes. | will. She is beautiful of
course ?'
''She has the sweetest eyes that ever
were seen. Why do you drop my arm ?"
Il must learn to do without it sooner or
later. She is young and rosy, / know"
''Just now she resembles a charming
ghost -
She is very good, suppose
Il shall believe it when She agrees to
love me-"
"oh. is she so hard to please"
Il shall think not if | please her. There
| knew you were too Young to 90 alone.
The williulness of women, Since Won dis, |
dain my arm. it may seem PRESUMPTION
in me TO offer my hand to the ONLY woman
] love, have loved, or shall love-evcn
with my heart in ii VIII YOU take it -
Il like presumption--in some people.
said Carrie. and DIR. Gilbert held her in
his arms, and kissed her cheek and brow
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