The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-08-15

SHiP'y 'St7''''- 20 -
the open end protruded the feet Of Mr..
Worth, while smoke and the smell OF powder
poured out all around them.
Nina rushed to the fatal spot, and helped
me to lay hold of Worth and drag him
out. She had turned pale as death, and
cried out, with delightful feminine logic;
You're dead, dear. Forgive me- Then;
Don't die, John dear, don't die. love
you
was STOPPING over the body from the
other side; the head was just emerging
from the hogshead, and the face was turn
| ed toward me. twas uncommonly radient
for corpse, and / heard the dead man
whisper, Hush it's bnnder. I'm not
hurt. Don't want to mortify her. Put me
to,bed and John became rigid again.
McAllister drawing near, Nina cried out
savagcly: Don't touch him. Nobody
but me shall touch him. John, dear
Johng Then, sebbing, she bathed his face
in the ice-water that Tom had just brought
BERTHE all this time never stopped howl
ing, "he'th dead, beth dead" and Jenny,
heaving profound but decorous sigh, said,
''yes, papa, our poor Muff is dead
Mug" questioned, "where9 how"
"In the hogshead,' answered Tom. "We
| put crackers in it, and didn't know Muif
had crawled inside for nap. Mr.. Worth
went IN to get him OUT
'Ohn sobbed Nina, 'and killed himself
with the powder smoke. Why don't you
send that man for the doctorl This last
was to me, and indicating McAllister.
The suggestion cleared the situation for
me, and after drawing out the woody heap
that represented our deceased Mutf, l
politely requested McAlhster to run for the
doctor He did so, but with very bad
grace.
Under the scare of seeing Worth lying
still and speechless, the children were awe
struck. Only BERTHE grieved aloud over
Muif's lifeless body.
Covering Johns face, / called Dennis,
the gardener, who was safely stupid, and
we carried the dead weight to couch in
an upper room. Then John whispered,
send her away, for Nina had followed
close, all pale and grief-stricken
| told Nina to wait outside, and lie,
me use means to restore him to
consciousness; but she declared, with all
her emphasis turned to new use i won't
leave him; won't. III die too. Oh,
know he's dead. know it,
You 60 away whispered Worth.
:, went, and listened from outside. Their
were sobs and means for awhile; then cam,
agreat cry of joy, followed by silence
Soon Nina appeared all rosy and glad
He's come TO consciousness, she said, and
and
we are going to be married. adde'
; John, in a voice too strong for man VIII
g had just escaped death,
The doctor arriving, Of course found al
e the symptoms Of recent asphyxia, Will
John cast queer glances at me over tn
! learned head.
McAllister caughta pleasure train, an
y returned to the city with other tired-ou
, and disguised excursionists.
: Later John felt able to sit on the piazz
in the moonlight, depending on a hrr
= grip of Mina's hand TO keep him from re
e lapse.
e My wife said, i knew something Wa
going to happen If the children had fir,
a works.
But it's nothing dreadful says Nina, i
o the softest OF voices. i told you Id MARI
the man ! liked best, and all the time
n liked best the one who told the truth, an
didn't make fool of me-
:. But you refused him. / reminded her.
4, 'Pshaw! that's nothing. | quarrelle
with him too, but didn't mean it,
d On the spot gave up trying to undo
1t stand the real feelings or real motives
d any creature of Mina's sex.
1t They were married last week, and Mir
d has Just been told that it was her ow
hasty outburst OF affection that led 10 Il
J. dreadful asphyxia and its happy cons
if quences. She says she wouldn't have ma
o. ried if she had known it, Arguing fro
precedents, Of course she doesn't mes