Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-01-19
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But the child had seen Lady Redgrave
standing at the open dining room door.
Sn. darted forward and clutched at her
skirts.
.Oh. lady lady - she cried. MAN.
my's ili-she's there she can't walk any
more Oh. LADY,, lady she'll die =
she'll die =
Poor creature - cried Lady Redgrave.
How shocking. Parker, see what it is. ~
Yes, my lady
Parker went outside very reluctantly.
It was cold. and he expected to find some
body drunk on the doorstep.
pr APPS. nv lady, YOU'D better shut the
door, he exclaimed, obsequiously. ''as
sometimes their langwidge when dis
turbed sudden on doorstep is how
dashus.'
Frank Redgrave had risen and come
ont with his mother. He looked at the
child. then. pushing the footman aside.
went on to the doorstep.
Its woman she is ill,' he ex-
claimed. Help me to carry her into
the hail.
Hadn't we better send for the police.
my lord'''
do as | tell you"
Parker, finding further remonstrances
useless. gave way Lifting the PROSTATE
woman tenderly, Lord Redgrave helped
10 carry her into the hall.
The child knelt down beside her.
..Oh, nanny, speak to met she cried:
NANNY ~
The dining room door was open. The
light streamed down upon the senseless
woman. The child drew the face round,
and then Lord Redgrave uttered wild
cry.
Nellie Great God mother. she has
come back from the dead 1t is Nellie "
Lady Redgrave ran to her son. She
thought he had taken leave of his senses,
but one glance at the PROSTATE woman's
face told her all.
Her interview with herson's wife. and all
that followed, had indelibly impressed The
features Of that face upon her memory.
The poor starved outcast lying on the
Redgrave's wife!
In the early DAYS Of Nellie's recovery
her story was told-told while tears stood
in the eyes Of the woman who had treated
her so cruelty once.
Nellie had been in the theatre and had
escaped. Then the wild thought came to
her that she might free Frank of his bur-
then. and the family of one who. they be-
lieved. had so cruelty wronged them. She
knew that if she was missed her death
would be believed in. She sold her jewels.
and with the money went to England.
Then. in due course, her child-her Nellie
nj har hoalth fol a1 fyraIna l.
". and she could no longer teach or sew.
and so she and her child drifted lower and
lower. until they came to be penniless and
homeless on Waterloo Bridge on Christ
mas night.
Toiling along to the lodging house. Nell
lies feeble strength had tailed her, and
she had sunk down exhausted upon her
husbands steps. And that is how Lord
Redgrave. who had mourned his life as
lonely evermore, had found a wife he
thought dead years ago. and child of
whose existence he knew nothing.
The next Christmas day in the great
house there was no silence. The music
and the laughter were as loud there as
anywhere, and bright and clear over it all
rang the childish accents of little Nellie,
as she sat on her grandmother's knee and
pulled the funny caps that came out of the
crackers over her long auburn hair.
The night policeman on Waterloo Bridge
is changed. The man who used to be on
that duty has green-grocery business,
and is doing well. lie had two hundred
pounds to start with. 1t was given him by
"A gentlemen who asked him if he remem-
bered giving poor woman half q crown.
trust his good fortune may not tempt
the members of the force to cast their
bread upon the waters too lavishly.-
". y. Star.