Daily Kennebec journal., 1881-01-01
fcontinued from lirst page.

oy09 OlOO09nOt. rom SIeepleSS nights,
when ife's battle 'twixt duty aud self
filled the homes with agony.
How long the days seemed before the
morning of the New Year dawned clear
and bright.
She was perfectly conscious, and had
asked for her husband, the Doctor said.
and cautioned him to appear As far as pos
sible the same as though he had seen her
daily.
He went in quietly and sat BY her side
She, in her weakness. content to gaze up
on him with her face pillowed in his hand
till the eyes closed like a wearied child's
in refreshing sleep.
How long he sat thus, he knew not. but
the Doctor stole INTO the room. and gently
releasing his hand bid him lie down up
on a lounge at the farther side Of the
room. whispering as he fixed the pillow
under his head, 'stbis is too hard for YOU,
my friend, = and, taking his place by the
side OF the sick lady, a smile Of satisfac-
tion stole to his lips. as he saw him fall to
!. sleep almost instantly.
But where had Colonel Prince been all
those years when every trace of Kim
seemed lost to his friends?
Let MS listen to DIR. Hull. as he tells the
Il was in Germany" said he. when
the var broke out, completing my course
in medicine, and returning. driited South
TO the city Of Nashville, nearly year
ago, and there opened an Office and COM
menced the weary waiting for practice.
which is. believe, the regular course of
seasoning for doctors and lawyers.
Well, gained quite a respectable prac-
ttNn hsxksr xr,bs sxt ,<~Lt IL
n0toriety which craved.
One day strolled into large dry
goods establishment in which friend of
mine was junior partner, and while there
noticed the peculiar appearance OF tall.
fine looking man, who was employed
about the lighter duties of the establish
ment.
In aswer to my inquiries about him. my
friend SAID that man had been
the subject Of many conjectures, for
he utterly obliterated from his mind. He
came to them three years before and lik-
ing his looks had taken him IN and taught
him to perform many of the duties nee
essary to them, and said he Joe i rs
regular and faithful as the clock
They had an idea from different things
they had observed that he had been SOL
der and had had got hurt about the head
somehow, for when he tried to remember
anything he would put his hand to his
head with half groan, as though it hurt
him.
"That," said the DR.. gave me an idea
that If | could restore that mans mind by
surgical operation. for l suspected that
some portion OF the bone might be press
ing upon the brain; he was so well
known, that It would at once bring me in
to notice.-Pure selfishness You see.r-
smiling. "Well found n chance to in
terview him, and gained his confidence
sufficiently to allow an examination, which
convinced me that my theory was correct
and ! coaxed him into my office often
while studied his case and he would sit
and gaze at my books and at me. as sal
writing. with such a wistlul look in his
eyes that became more and more firmly
fixed in my purpose, At length all was
ready and with help of pain-dulling ethel
and several assistants the delicate and
difficult operation was safely performed
and as health and the powers o. his mint
came back to the poor fellow, I felt amply
repaid and forgot the fame it was to bring
me in my anxiety for his complete recov
erv.
Then found out who he was. and thai
he had many natural friends and when he
came North. decided to accept his invita-
ton and see the .play out" visit my
"Alma Mata. etc. you know the rest"
''And for one shall always be crate
inl to you for performing q good deed
even il it were, in the pursuit of notoricty
under difficulties" said Ralph.
''And you my friend" said DR.. Hull
turning to the Professor.
''And ] see in this only the directing
hand Of an overrulng Providence. h.
answered, rs he turned and walked quick
ly away,
There said the Dr. ''is man whs
does not need to make any talk about hi.
religion; he lives it every day in the eye:
of all men,"
The days passed swiftly on, and agair
Ralph's .'littlc mother was the centra
life, round which gathered the home cir
cle. once more unbroken. Professor
Lyons decided that he needed sea vov
age and a bit of travel. but assured Ralpl
with sly twinkle in his eve. that h,
would be on hand TO help examinatio,
time"
''Yes. the way they help us fellows owe
the road-and he's the worst Professor o
the whole lot. t.''-growled Ralph. aside t,
Mabel. Hope he won't get back in sea
SON.
The DIR. was easily persuaded to 9,
with him. Ralph was obliged to go bacl
to the University for the concluding months
of what he had told Mable he had re
solved should be "solid. hard stud,
to enable me to come out right mex
July"
II know you will succeed. Ralph, an,
q we shall be so proud of YOU as one
the first in your class" and she looked u,
at him so proudly that it reused all th'
manliness within him. and bending towar,
her. he said in his half playful way:
We'll, would it please you, Queen Nab
TO know that l. Your loyal subject. has
signed the Total abstisence pledge las
evening. in company with my classmates
Rhuel Williams and Tom Danvers ~
sWhy." she exclaimed, with sparkling
eyes. as that so-do you mean it?''
Exactly, my radical little reformer
and furthermore. Tom said that he neve
should have thought Of doing it If it wer,
not for something that YOU sang the othe
evening when he was here--that old sons