The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-12-17

And just then Hetty MOTIFS coming up
they stopped to admire her precious
: acquisitions; and Hetty heard OF the
wager, and shamed Mr.. Bowman int
taking it, before they parted and Wen'
their opposite ways, more merrlly than
was their Sunday won't
Not so Mr.. Templeton. AS soon as
his wife had banged the door behino
her she tore off her bonnet and threw
herself on a sofa, and called for Jane
to bring the ammonia, and her husband
to drop the shades. and Maria to take
the children where she could not heal
them, for her head was splitting with
pain, as any ones would be, treated as
she was. And she would not 60 up
stairs to bed, and Mr.. Templeton' Sun
day romp with the children was abrO-
gated, and his dinner was made an act
of silent and solitary penance; and II
he told his wife he was going to after
noon service, and did 90 over to his
cousin Hetty's, she, at least, had no
right to blame him.
But woe for Mr.. Templeton when he
came home that evening! Mrs. Tenn
pleton had been removed to her own
room, which reeked with steam OF cam
phor and alcohol; she lay there in her
white night-gown, with her black hair
streaming over the pillow, with her
great black eyes rolled up and fixed on
q remote point of the ceiling, and with
the foam standing on her lips-ghastly,
| stiff, and immovable. 1t made no odds
to Mr.. Simpleton-I mean Templeton-
that he had seen her so fifty times be-
fore; in fact, always when she wanted
something she could not have. Cold
terror struck to his soul lest he should
lose his torment; all her virtues swelled
into the hosts of heaven, all her faults
were wiped out as with a sponge. He
was down on his knees beside her in
moment. "Oh my darling! my Juliet!
my love! speak to me! Tell me you
know mer' he cried.
g Run for the doctor, Jane. Where
is DR.. Harvey? Why haven't you had
HIM here alreadyP Get him at once
Give me the brandy. Heat those soap
stones. Where are the hot-water bagsP"
And he was bathing her lips and rubbing
her hands, and kissing her forehead,
and adjuring her to give any sign of
life. But it was not till the Doctors
step was heard that Mrs. Templeton
vouchsafed the least indication, and
then her breast began TO heave, her
hands TO tremble, her long supple body,
that had been stiffly resting on its head
and heels only, began to sway and SUBJ
side, her feet to twitch, and presently
those feet were beating tattoo on the
footboard, and the lips parted in shrieks
and the shrieks turned to sobs, and the
doctor was pouring choral between the
teeth, and the sobs sank away into
sleep and the Mysteries were over.
"What could have excited you so, my
dearest, and thrown you into such a
terrible convulsion?" Mr.. Templeton
was saying next morning. ("Hyster-
ics'' was a forbidden word. Mrs. Tenn
pleton would have had another attack
at the sound of it, 1t must have
been the heat of the church; it was
overpowering. Thurlow has never
learned to regulate that furnace
1.-The heat" sighed Mrs. Templeton,
family, "and the glisten of those dia-
monds. They kept dancing so before
my eyes with their bright spots that they
dazzled the brain. o, Pm afraid 1 was
very cross yesterday, Jairus. l didn't
know what l was saying. o. never
want to see any diamonds again"
You shall have pair of your own
before l am q week older" exclaimed
the feeble husband.
80, no, no, no! l should be so
ashamed. don't deserve them. II
couldn't think of it. Indeed, indeed,
l wouldn't have you, Jarius darling; l
should feel just as if | had begged for
them" But when Mr.. Templeton re-
turned from the city that night, as pref
ty a pair of solitaire earrings as he
could buy with the bond he sold glittered
in velvet cased marked with her name.
As he opened the case and held it be-
fore her, Mrs. Templeton shuddered,
and turned her glance away from the
beautiful white sparkle, and said they
looked at her with two great eyes of
reproach, and she ought not to have
them, and they were as heavenly as
twin stars. And presently they were
glittering in her ears, and all the faint
ness and languor were gone, and she
"ho iuhuiAS w euO glass; duu uOlulDg
her head on this side and on that, and
admiring herself and turning to her hus-
band for admiration, looking, with her
large liquid dark eyes, her pale face,
her perfect features. her dazzling smile,
all illumined by the shining drops, as
beautiful as the most beautiful Juliet
that was ever loved. And her husband
felt twice and a hundred times repaid
for the sacrifice of his little savings in
the only bond he had yet been able to
buy and lay by for the future by the
vision of her anG by the delighted kiss
es she showered upon his lips and the
warm embraces of the long white arms.
1t was not once but twenty times that
Mrs. Templeton looked at the flash of
her new splendors in the mirror, took
them out of her ears and put them back
again, tangled her hair in them so that
her husband might loosen them and be
struck afresh, as he did so, with the
pale-pink seashell of the ear, the curve
of the throat, the exquisite oval of the
cheek; and she went at last to the win
dow and shielded the pane with her
hands while looking out and up at the
stars. 81 Declare" she said, ''the
| glistening of Orion's belt is no more
splendid than my diamonds. never
thought, should have diamonds,
Jairus."
Nor did che have H. -. \ q. = 4, ,