Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-08-16
CHAPTER XvH.-CoSr1Nrrp.

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CHAPTER XVII.-CoSTINUrp.
"Leaye them for those who need them
more. They will do me no good LIST
en- to PIE, doctor. l shall save her and
purse, which | have found. with money
in it. Send her away when she is able
to be moved. There is no safety in this
poisoned air. For. me. l neither fear
death, nor would / avoid it; L only wait
for my release"
"fLoly mother! it is the priest she
!. needs more than me- muttercd the doc
tor, angr.ly. Let them believe they
are going to die, and they VIII die in
spite of us"
He saw his successoraS he had prom
ised and urged his interest in,tlese two
eases, hut with victims multiplying with
every passing hour. with the braveSt
flying from the stricken city, with t. @
death-cart rattling all night long through
the streets. and only Il handful of de-
voted men and women to minister 40
overwhelming numbers. 1t is notzsur-
: pris ng that those two We're forrotte en-,
sAVhen, cfavs Ter. %thef new phviician
seaue OPPOSITE the house and Suddenly.
.renremb&,e dshe chargehe had feceived,s
the death cart stood before the door. j
q {.Aericst came down the stairs as the
doctor assembled.
at IS the nurse who is gone" he
said, in answer to the latters inquiry.
Found dead at her post by the lady's
bedside. The Sonora Oliphant viii live.
so far rs can Judge. but | will wait
for your opinion and report it 10 Sonora
Alverez." .
Were Won here while Almedi at
tended them ?" DR.. Flores inquired.
Twice. He gave me q charge to
have the Sonora removed as soon as you
thought it advisable"
u news travels apace, but the second
q. week was well advanced before the fatal
sweep which the epidemic was making
came in vague rumOrS to the ears of
that party in the interior Of the island.
Power Oliphant, asSailed BY The sharp
est anx ETY. on account of his wife, left
them Immediately, and, attended by a
native servant, sat out on his return to
Havana The road was the merest
bridle-path through billy Wilderness,
and on one of the steep deScents.
stone turned under his horses hoof: the
beast stumbled and came to his knees,
pitching his rider ov'r his head upon
the rocks which lined the way, where
he lay bleeding and unconscious heap,
with no bones broken TO tunately, but
dislOcated shoulder, bru ses and loss of
blood from small artery which was
severed, made it five long weeks before
he reached the hacienda where the
Senior Alverez had meanwhile rejoined
his family. =
Here he was informed of his wife's
favorable condition. She had pinned for
the little Dana, and Father Nicola had
himself come for the child few days
before. He was strongly advising her
to leave the island without awaiting her
husband $ return, the time of which had
been reported to Senior Alverez as NEST
uncertain. Power pushed on with all
haste after hearing this. quite unmind-
full of n package of letters and papers
which had been given him ut the
hscieni:s; but Ahe reached the city to
learn tNat his wife had already departed
by the steamer to New Orleans.
Hefellowed by the next, which started
that Sanle-eveninr,/ and when he was
alone in his state-rOOm examined the
package of mail matter he had thus far
neglected. There WAS sorrow in store
for Rose. A black -bordered missive
announced the death of both herparents,
one sorrOwful event succeeding the other
by a very short interval. He, must be
more than ever tender and devoted
husband. Power thought, with increas-
ing impatience to be ut her side once
more.
1t was, an Impotence which turned to
wonder and anxiety when New Orleans
wasreached, and he found no trace of
his wife at any of the lead NO hotels,
but an address which had been found in
Il notebook belonging to the nurse, re-
curred to hiSsnfnd. He called a Car
riage, drove 2toa the place. and Sent n
his card. A moment later he was adj
mitted and ushered into a spacious
drawing-room, where a woman in dead
black turned 10 meet him, with Il look
of apprehension in her haggard eyes.
You have come for my baby" she
said. in G,iick. startled way. 1
81 have come to make inquiry re-
yardiflr my wife. / have reason to
Suppose that she. would call here after
arriving at New Orleans. She-and /
owe a debt of gratitude to one who was
a member of this family, one Rose
Mignon Almont, lately nurse in Ha-
e;lna. Perhaps You do not know that
she wis in attendance upon my Wife
when she died. that she saved Mrs. Oil