Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-03-27
No, we are almost there. | should never
forgive myself if did," she answered,
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catching her breath as she spoke.
ut is only You am worried about"
VI am glad to be able to help you," he
said. And ! think he spoke the trouth.
Inside the cottage poor Grace Pooley
lay on her hard bed trying to breathe on
little longer, if so the good God might
send some good friends before she died. tc
care for her orphan boy.
When the door opend her eyes bright
ened, and she raised up little.
"The Lord bless ye for coming. | know
he will, ," she said as Edith threw oft hei
wet covering and went toward her.
This is only one OF the boarders who
came with me, she said in reply to the
woman's questioning look. " should have
come to-day had | known that you w, rc
worse.
She sat down beside the bed, and Ansor
Grey watched her AZ she spoke in low
tender voice to the grateful woman
Among the words which he could distin.
guish was n promise to see to jamie; and
when the old woman who seemed to be
nurse came up to administer something,
and in IL half whisper asked Edith to pray
with them, he began to think he was in
another world. And it was another to
MIN truly. Surely she would never dc
that. But she did. kneeling upon the
bare floor, clasping her white hands, she
sent up such prayer for help and strength
as AnsOn Grey had never dreamed oil
hearing before.
After that night Anson Grey knew
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dares not approach Edith. She seemed
an immeasurabe distance from such as
he, but he cherished the memories of her
prayers as the one glimpse into heaven for
which he should thank God all his life.
Edith mother was a gay woman, and
such she meant her daughter to be,
though for her life she could not keep her
from fcrrcting out and helping also, an
innumerablc number of fOrorn, poverty.
stricken people who had no earthly claim
upon her, as they went their fashionable
rounds. 1t was notifying, even exaspcr-
ating, but she was pOwerlcss to prevent
it, They would be off again, soon, Anson
Grey heard; but he would have missed
seeing had he not accidentally met her as
she was hurying up the beach toward
their boarding house on the very day they
left. He could not let her 60 without
telling her what was in his heart.
MAY ! speak to you a momcnt?' he
said, abruptly stopping her.
Certainly"
AS the word left her lips she saw what
his speaking was going to be.
"Oh, not that Mr.. Grey"
Somehow he took courage from the
4uick pdling of her lips.
"Ies, that; ! love you and want You
for my wife"
81 am to be married Christmas.
He turned and was leaving her, when
something made her speak.
Mr.. Grey"
He faced her again and she saw how
white and stern ho booked.
"lIad | been free you would not have
asked in vain"
For days and weeks afterward Anson
Grey hugged the memory of her look us
she said those blessed words, to his heart,
caring more for that than the love and
clresses of any other.
Christmas came, but death came with
it, and Edith'S lOvm went his long Jour
ney, leaving his anianced bride and her
schcming mother to console themselves as
best they might.
In Il way mysterious to all save VIII
liam Skinner, Edith heard of Anson Grey 5
Illness, and, as we have seen, vert to him
and had the courage to become his wife.
The people of Burlingame learned to
love the gentle mistress OF the old stone
mansion on the hill, and never suffering
one called for help in vain, as long as
my lady, as they called her, was mis-
trcss there.