Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-01-05

| NOt i. i hUottluu nave any uSS
for them if / won, except to give them
back to you; and i couldn't afford to
lose. Besides, don't bet on certain
ty," said the careful Mr.. Bowman.
And Just then Hetty Morris coming
ur, they stopped to admire her
precious acquisitions; and Hetty heard
of the wager, and shamed Mr.. Bowman
into taking it, before they parted and
went their opposite ways, more merri-
" than was their Sunday wont.
Not so Mr.. Templeton. AS soon as
his wife had banged the door behind
her she tore off her bonnet and threw
herself on sofa, and called for Jane to
bring tho ammonia, and her husband
to drop the shades, and Maria to take
the children where she could not hear
them, her head was splitting with pain,
as any ones would be, treated as she
was. And she would not go up stairs
to bed, and Mr.. Templeton's Sunday
romp with the children was abrogated,
and his dinner was made an act of 81
lent and solitary penance; and if he
told his wife he was going to aftarnoon
service. and did go over to his cousin
Hetty's, she, at least, had no right to
blame him.
But woe to Mr.. Templeton when he
anne home that evening Mrs. Tenn
pleton had been removed to her own
room, which reeked with steam Of
camphor and alcohol; she lay there in
her white night-gown with her black
hair strea ming over the pillow, with her
great black eyes rolled up and fixed on
remote point of the ceiling, and with
the foam standing on her lips, CHASTITY,
stiff and immovable. 1t made no odds
to Mr.. Simpleton-I mean Templeton
that he had seen her so fifty times
before; in fact always when she want
ed something she could not have. Cold
terror struck to his soul lest he should
lose his torment; all her virtues swelled
into the hosts of heaven, all her faults
were wiped out as with a sponge. He
was down on his knees beside her in a
moment
ooh, darling my Juliet my love!
speak to mel Tell me you know mew
lie cried. run for the doctor, Jane.
Where is DR.. Harvey? Why haven't
you had him here already? Get him
at once. Give me the brandy. Heat
those soap-stones. Where are the hot
water bags?"
And he was bathing her lips and
rubbing her hands, and kissing her
forehead, and adjuring her to give any
signs of life. But it was not till the doc
tors step was heard that Mrs. Temple
vouchsafed any indication; and then
her breast began to heave, her hands to
tremble, her long, supple body that had
been stiflly resting on its head and heels
only, began to sway and subside, her
feet to twitch, and presently those feet
were beating a tattoo on the ot-board,
and the lips parted in shrieks, and the
shrieks turned to sobs, and the doctor
was pouring choral between the teeth,
and the sobs sank away into sleep, and
tho Mysteries were over
"What could have excited you so,
my dearest, and thrown you into such
a terrible convulsion?" Mr.. Temple
ton was saying next morning. Hys-
teric" was a forbidden word. Mrs.
Templeton would have had another
attack at the sound of it, 1t must
have been the heat of the church; it
was overpowering. Thurow has -ever
learned to regulate that furnace"
"The heat" sighed Mrs. Templeton,
family, "and the gisten of those dia-
monds They kept dancing SO before
my eyes with their bright spots that
they dazzled the brain. Oh, I'm afraid
l was very cross yesterday, Jairus. |
didn't know what | was saying. Oh, |
never want to see any diamonds again"
You shall have pair of your own
before | am week older" exclaimed
the feeble husband.
ooh, no, no, mol | should be asham-
ed | don't deserve them. Il couldn't
think of it. Indeed, indeed, wouldn't
have you, Jarius darling. should feel
just rs if | had begged for Them" But
when Mr.. Templeton returned from the
city that night, as pretty a pair Of
solitaire earrings as he could buy with
the bond he sold glittered in velvet
case marked with her name.
As he opened the case and held it be-
fore her, Mrs. Templeton shuddered
and turned her glance away from the
beautiful white sparkle, and said
they looked at her with two great
eyes of reproach, and she ought
not to have them, and they were
rs heavenly as twin stars. And
presently they were glittering in her
ears, and all the faintness and lapguor
were gone, and she was running to the
glass and holding her head on this side
and on that, and admiring herself, and
turning to her husband for admiration,
looking, with her largo, liquid dark
eyes, her pale face, her perfect fea-
lures, her dazzling smile, all illumined
10y the shining drops, as beautiful as
the most beautiful Juliet that was ever
loved. And her husband felt twice and
a hundred times repaid for the sacri-
flee of his little savings in the only
bond he had yet been able TO buy and
lay by for the future, by. the vision of
her and by the delighted kisses she
showered upon his lips, and the warm
embraces Of the long, white arms.
1t was not once but twenty times
that Mrs. Templeton looked at the flash
of her new splendors in the mirror,
took them out of her ears and put
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