The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-02-06

bODDel rs SIG IL llldIOi VIC Cullu III Is
small white cot, and hastily left the
room.
There was no change in tho man;
lie still bore the same stony, immova-
ole look.
lis there any alteration?" she asked
the Doctor when he came for the first
time that night to see his patient.
None he said.
"And you can do nothing"
"Nothing; we must leave nature
alone. STAY, open the window lit
tie; the air cannot harm him."
She did as he babe.
II was soft warm night, and the
sweet scented air from without filed
the room. There was no moon. The
heavens were studded with stars, and
their mild light shone down upon the
earth. There seemed more pity in
this scene than in the one she had be-
held that morn. This time she did
not turn away. Some Of its peace
seemed to sink into the wife's break
ing heart, and led her thoughts wan
dering into the past. She thought of
her young love for the man who now
lay stricken and helpless, of the few
years of happiness she had spent at his
side; and then she could pursue the
vein no further.
Surely, surely" she cried in heart.
anguish, "joy does not die SO soon"
She turned her mind away from the
all-engroSsing topic, and let her ideas
wander dreamily; her long-continuel
watches had tired her mentally and
bodily. She knew not why, OF where
fore, except, perchance, that Eilic's
question had recalled the old story
with new vividness, but her thoughts
ran on about that bird of health
| Should he descend this night, whom
of those that lay i'll on earth would
he elect to benefit? For in this vast
world of sorrow and sick, how many
lay stricken besides her husband?
| The darlings Of other hearts might be
| dying. How, then, would the bird
choose between them? How tell
which life was needtul still on earth
which meet for heaven?
And still the sick man lay notion
less.
AS the young wife sat thus, lost in
| dcep reverie the hours wore on. At
last she was reused by a sound from
without as the rushing OF mighty
wings. 1t came nearer, even nearer:
it seemed to approach where she sat.
1T is death who comes thus, 'twiXt
| cleaning and dawn to seek his price
thought the wife, and her heart turned
faint and sick.
Still the rushing continued il came
closer, closer. She listened BREATH
! less and We-stlickeu. suddenly u
huge bird flew in through the open
window; unhee ing her, he winged
straight toward the bed, and there
aughted and rested himself from his
| flight. His micn was lUruly, as OF an
eagle his plumage, While Is a swans !;
his movements, gentle as u doves. 1t
was the bird Caradrlon.
The wife sat on in awed silence she
dared not speak or move. But hope
began to beat once more III her heart :;
she laid her hand upon it to quiet its
beating; it pulsed 50 loudly she feared
lest the sound might scare the Bird
| Immovablc her eyes were fixed upon
him as he bowed his long slender neck
toward the sufferer, and laid his broad
beak upon the sick mans lips. For
several seconds Of Dreathless anxiety
to the watcher it rcstc there as the
bird drew forth the sore aiImcnt unto
himself. That ended, he once more
flew away. On, ON. with the same
rushing sound wherewilh he had
come; on, Oh, till it grew fainter rs he
flew further from earth. The wife saw
him mount higher and higher as he
{, darted heayCnWar !.
! She could not cease to follow his
, flight; her eyes were spell-bound on
! hl, departing form; for, as yet, the
cure was not wholly wrought, she
knew; ami who could say that il
might not fail even now? So she con-
tnucd gazing, and as she looked the
J stars hight grew fainter, then faded
. quite.
| A rosy simmer Suilused the East ;
at last, III fiery splcndor, uprose the sun
from behind bank OF gorgeous tint
cd clouds. lie had returned yet again
from his nightly slumDer in the DO.
som Of Paradise, And still the bird
was flying on, till his form grew a
mere spcck in the distance; he had
nearcd the sun, and darled within its
flaming circle. Then she who watched
so eagerly could see no moro; the
glare was too fierce for mortal eyes !;
they might penetrate no further. But
she knew that Caradron had taken
away her loved ones sickness, that he
was purifying himself anew in the
eternal light, that her husband was
saved.
"My darling" called a low voice,
"wherc are you;" They were the first
words the sufferer had spoken for
many a day, and fell like music on
the wiie's ear. She hurried towards
the be and fell on her knees beside it,
bathcd in tears. lie laid his worn,
wasted hand tonderly upon her head.
81 feel better than tor weeks past
only weak, very weak. DO not weep,
love. Let me be carried into the gar
den, in the sweet fresh air, among the
spring tloWers. | shall soon grow
strong"
"In few hours" she said, "when the
sun has risen quite, and the dews are
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