, 1882-10-06

pressing her lips to the burning cheek
III her eagcrneSs to console the poor old
woman I'm not going to forsake you.
| merely asked if the hospital was not
a better place for YOU because they all
said so.
Yes, they all say it ; and they all
think the grave would be still better
place for Inc. I'm willing to go to my
grave, but not from the 'spital not
from the 'spitul ! can die here alone
just as well, and 1t won't break my
heart rs it would to he sent to the 'spital
Oh, Hetty-Annie - she cried, wildly
clasping her withcrcd arms about the
girls neck, there is no one but you to
take my part; for sweet Jesus sake,
don't let them take me to the 'spital !"
Annie Quieted her with endearing
names and careSses, and laid her gently
back upon her pillow.
"You shall not go to the hospital,
mother; You shall not die here alone
You shall not die here at all ii can save
you"
"Hr manner was very calm, but her
feature We're deadly pale. She COM
mencc, quietly arranging the things in
the little room, as ii she had taken
charge OF 1t. Turning to a neighbor,
she saiu
I'm not going home again until
Mother McSavit is well. Please ask
mother to send me the things 1 shall
need"
When expostulAted with by her par
ents and friends, she only replied:
" Here is poor, terrified, friendless
human being, who clings to me franti-
cally rs her only hope and comfort on
earth. | could never he happy if for
sock her in her agony"
When the influence Of her pastor was
enlisted to point ont to her the useless
ness of her sacrifice, she simply said:
:" | do it for Christ Himself for He
teaches me in His word that inasmuch
as do it unto the least OF these l do it
unto Him."
And so, immovable in her calm pur-
pose, she watched by the wretched bed
side; watched through the fever and
delirium, and all the horrors of the loath-
some disease watched till the danger
passed from the sufferers pillow, and
settled upon her own devoted head.
She lived through the terrible ordeal.
Health came slowly back to her; but
'er beauty had gone, never to return.
A scared and repulsiye face was all that
was left her. The polish of her brow
and the velvet OF her cheek, that was
once so lovely to look upon, had been
lnid rs o sacrifice at the feet of the lonely
old woman.
"No, Tom; they had been laid up as
treasures in heaven, said, as Tom put
the volume aside.
"Dispose OF them anyhow You
please" he replied. Further the book
saith not"
"Ry Jove she was noble girl |"
Could YOU forgive her uglness if you
Jaw her?"
"Mary, have I ever deceived you ?"
he plaintively asked. 81 never have
As proof of my sincerity you can take
this basket to the asylum yourself p
"And I'll do it p she promptly re-
piled as she relieved him of it.
"Mary, hadn't you--?'
"No, sir. l hadn't You'd better
hurry up with that tsh-pole, as the man
may want it, and be careful how you
stand around in the hot sun -
She left him there. He watched her
take the car for home, and then he re-
turned the tish.pole and crossed the
street and said to an acquaintance
Tom, I'm suffering with neuralgia,
and the excursion is off till next week.
TCo bad, but we can never tell what d
day may bring forth"
There was chicken and pickles and
other good things on the table ut dinner,
but he never smiled. Even when his
vile wishe d she was an orphan, il that
was the way they were fed, he never be.
trayed the gloom in his heart. 1t was
only when she handed him the bottle he
had so carefully tucked into the basket,
and he saw it labeled Good for Little
Children" that he said:
" May, it IS an awful thing for wife
to get the impression that her husband
is cold-bloolrd liar !"
"It must be-" sho replied, as she
took the other chicken leg-Detroit
Free Press.