The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-04-30

as frivolous as she appears. You
haven't seen her best side. She is
fitful and capricious before you be-.
cause think your Indifferent manner
rather pioues her. The child IS very
young and has been spoiled by too.
much admiration she is accustomed
to see every man she meets do hom-ll
age to her pretty face"
The answer came musingly and alb
sently:
"Yes, your cousin might be pretty
nay, beautiful-ln some eyes, but
10 me there is something wanted in
the face. perfect IN outline and color
though it is-the Undine neesia Il
SOUL" ia - Fl
| My glass showed me two DIR
.mischievons eyes, SET is1a d fsu1IzI 8 8
face a small curved mouth, a straight
nose. "UnGine needs soul J" What
could he mean? But my mirror does
not possess a like gift with the am
cient oracle, and turn away unan-
swered and dissatisfied.
The last week of our VISITORS stay
has drawn to Il close, and he has gone.
All truly in three short months of
daily companionship l have grown
to fully understand Johns adInira-
tion for DIR. st. Clair. Never before
have I had such mine of varied and
entertaining knowledge unlocked be.
fore me. OF things above the sky,
reverently touched upon-ef things
below; of the .marvels of foreign
countries, and of the interesting OBJ
jects in our Own-upOn each and every
topic he has beeh equally at home {;
and though he has paid but little at
tention to me, l have quietly listened
and benefited by what l have heard.
Now that he is gone awake to find
that, like John, have allowed a
hero-worship tn spring up in my
heart, that / miss his quite football,
and that though l fear he does not
even like me-deems me doll.like
and frivolOus-I have grown to care
for this grave, plain man, so different
from the shallow youths of whom l
meet a plenty in society. When L
ask John he readily tells me all
about his friend, and I learn how it
was that he came TO be lame. How,
when a mere youth, he had been
present at IA large fire. and how, when
no one else had dared-when even
the firemen had feared to risk their
lives-he had climbed ladder in the
face of the blazing flames to save Il
little child. The ladder had broken
before descent had been completed,
and he had fallen with the little one
in his arms. The child had been un-
harmed, but then it was that he re-
ceived the injury which made him a
cripple. AS | listen to Johns en-
thusiastic description of his friends
brave act my heart stirs and throbs
within me. This is the man of whom,
in my girlish thoughtlessness, spoke
slightingly, almost contemptuously !!
HIS SIDE.
There ~ a lull in the storm. For
at least three days 1 have not been
called to any new cases, and at last
think 1 may safely say that the cloud
Is lifted which for the past few
months has lain so heavily upon the
people of this iIl-tated South. l write
hopefully. and well | may; for, to-
gether with the joy of knowing that
the woe about me is abating, into my
own life has dawned an overwhel.
ming and entirely unlocked for radi.
ance. l will tell how it has come
about. AS one morning. a month
ago, went my rounds, in one of the
hospital wards, bending over pa.
tient, saw II new nurse. watched
her n moment unseen, when sudden
ly, as she slightly turned her head,
recognized one whom | had not seen
for Ave years. Notwithstanding the
stiff regulation dress and the close cap
which confined the hair, knew her
for was it not face which the more
/ had tried to forget. the more it had
remained engraved on the inmost
tables of my heart? l had seen it
first when dear friend had persuad-
ed me to give myself a. short rest to
recruit at his country home the health
! which my arduous duties had i'm
; paired. went, promising to remain
a month, If nothing urgent recalled
) me. l found an ideal home, such as
one reads of in books, situated In a
spot nature must have created with
! Il smile upon her face. The hostess,
, a gentle. gray.haired lady. made me
, cordially welcome-''a friend of her
sons was as her own" she said.
( There was another inmate of my
4 friends home his young cousin. A
! gay, radiant creature, with music
as of ripping brooklets in her merry