The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-10-20


those dead and wounded. and also NJ
those suffering from want Of proper at.
tention, was something appalling. Hell,
was needed, and that speedily.
For a brief space all was confusion
Then, as though by the stroke of a
magic wand, divisions formed of two
distinct masses-thoso who we're to &c
forward to action, and those who were
to remain and play the less labo rioms
roles of spectators.
Among the former, as tho relief ex-
press rushed out Of the station, we're
Jimmie Harris and Vera Halton'
IN tho first frantic appeal for aid,
some one had asked Thalia Lynn to go,
but they had shrunk back dismayed
from the ghastly and iunwomanly Joke,
that she preferred beholding humanity
complete to scoing it in sections. It is
doubtful that she would have been so
c4llous, were it not for that which Mr..
Harris had 80 lately told her.
at length the train stopped. Such
a sight AZ met their eyesl 10 the last
hour Of her life Vera IIalton grew weak
and cold at the bare remembrance
But just then she set valiantly to work
like the brave little woman she was
Many speeding spirit took her sweet
image with 1T into eternity. Many
a shattered frame struggled back to life
with strength renewed, thanks to her
gentle ministry.
1t was near midnight, and a serene
moon was silvering all the Iandscarr
when Jimmie Harris game hurriedly up
to hor. W
"Comel" he said, "I have found
MAXI: "'''
She was quite exhausted from her
exertlons, but she took his arm and
went with him. >'
They found Max lying by an oyer-
Iurhed engine, very pale and faint from
loss or blood. His head was cut, his
arm broken.
Jimmie slit his sleeve and Vera hound
the wounded limb with soft. deft fin
gers.
And all the time he watched her with
new look i'll his eyes. How fair, and
s"eeC' ana womanly she was, to be
snrel Harris was right after all. How
could he-how could he ever have been
idiot enough to ignore such a dear, mo-
dest little thing, for a Hunting CO.
quette like Thalia I.ynnl
ALI the wounded and their nurses
went back to Saratoga by the next
train.
The following day Warren 3 mother
came to him. 1t was some time beforo
nc was fully recovered, and then he
learned that Vera Halton had pone tn
Europe with her father.
ii tIaG aad vanished ut tFSf"is F6f Shichi hih
was That Max was inspired with FRAN
tic desire to leave America.
One night, a few months later, there
was an immense audience at the Grand
Opera House in Paris.
Ii was the opening of the opera sea-
son, and Patti was going to sing.
There was quite stir III Il lady and
gentleman came into one of the boxes
- ne, tall, fair-haired, handsome; she,
IL lovely little creature, with a skin of
rose and pearl, and pair OF soft, dark
eyes. Quite Dewitching vision, too,
III her foamy weddlng-dress Of costly
lace, with diamonds III her hair and at
her throat.
Thalia Lynn, sitting directly oppo-
site, looking pale and worn and slightly
passe, bit her lip as sire saw them.
Jimmie Harris, beaming and jovlal,
made his way over to them.
"llow are YOU, Mrs. Warren2 Even
ing Maxi Say" in whisper to the
latter, ''look over therel What do you
Say to me no,D!'
Max Warren looks from his wife to
Thalia Lynn and back again, then.
quite forgetting where he is, gr;tsps his
trends hand and lifts his glad eyes to
the kindly ones above him. No word
~ spoken. Look and grasp are enough.
Jimmie is content.