News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-24

The train came in view and drew up al
the station. Mr.. Whitaker looked
eagerly at the persons who got out OF
the cars, but Ellen was not among
them. She had not come. He fell back
upon the bed with sigh and began
again to grow angry with her.
But the poor woman was on that train
Alarmed by the discovery when she
rose in the morning that Mr.. Whitaker
was not in the house, her alarm was in
creased when she received the telegram
sent by bin. What could be the ex-
PLANTATION of the mystery of his disap
pearance ? She was so agitated that
she could hardly prepare for the jour-
ney. But she reached the depot and
got into the car, and began to move
toward Bristol. Somewhat weary from
too great nervous 6xsiterneas, she placed
her muff against the frame of the car
window and rested her head upon
it, while her veil covered her
closed eyes. Unhappily she had
arranged herself with her deaf ear up,
and so she did not hear tho conductor
when he shouted "BristolW and she
was so deeply absorbed in thinking of
Mr.. Whitaker that she did not notice
that the train had stopped.
When he found that his wife had not
come, Mr.. Whitaker made up his mind
to go home at all hazards. A steamboat
stopped at the wharf at half-past nine,
on its way to the city; and borne upon q
litter he had himself carried on board.
In an hour he was at the city wharf,
whence a wagon carried him to his
house. He was shocked and disap-
pointed to ascertain from the servant
that Mrs. Whitaker had gone to see him
in the train in which she said she would
go. He could not comprehend why she
had missed him; and all day long he lay
in bed worrying about her and wonder
ing she did not come.
Mrs. Whitaker got back to Bristol
about noon, and ascertained by inquiry
that her husband had returned, with
broken leg, to the city. There was no
train that she could take until four
o'clock, and she spent the interval in
inquiring about the accident to Mr..
Whitaker and in trying vainly to ascer-
tain the reason of his extraordinary
conduct.
About half past five o'clock he heard
her voice in the lower entry. He lis
tened eagerly to her quick footsteps
upon the stairs. Then she flung the
door open. Mrs. Whitaker did not
speak as she entered the room. She
uttered little cry, flew to the bedside,
and put her arms about her husbands
neck and kissed him.
Mr.. Whitaker felt that if he should
have exact justice dealt to him he would
be sent to the scaffold.
When she had nearly smothered him
with kisses she sat down beside him,
and taking hold of his hand said:
"And now, dearest, tell me what
caused all this strange trouble ?"
"Why, you know, Ellen" said Mr..
Whitaker, sit was your deaf ear p
Show do you mean p
"You slept with it up"
And then Mr.. Whitaker related the
whole story, and as he did SO his wife
began to cry.
'I am sorry" she said. 81 will |
promise you never to sleep with my
deaf ear up again; never, never,
never p
"Ellen," responded Mr.. Whitaker,
"you will do me a favor if you will
always sleep with it up and stuff cotton
in your other ear beside! I have be-
haved like wretch"
Then the doctor, who had been vainly
pulling at the broken bell-wire, knocked
upon the front door and came in to ex-
anime Mr.. Whitaker's fractured leg
Our Continent.