Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-02-08
The Widows Lodqer.

NvNtprR TwENrY-sEvrN

neatncss unsurpassed by any Of its kline
in central London. The time had beer
when Cranmore Square could hold it.
own in the way Of good old houses ant
fashionable people against many Of
most at the West-end, but that time wal
gone, and Cranmore Square had to bt
content with retired citizens of solid
wealth, high-class Journalists, men oil
science, painters, respectable solicitors
and others whose avocations kept them
in the heart of the metropolis, or who
liked to live there. Number twenty
seven, however, was clearinghouse.
Not clearinghouse Mary Allenby
whose pensive face, seen SO often at the
dTawing-room window, would haunt the
passerby like some fair vision, was not
equal to that. She was only flve-and-
twenty, and had worn her Grape nearly
twelve months now, and her baby Ar
thur-a fine little fellow nearly three
years old-absorbed all the time she
could spare. Not quite twelve months
ago there had been brass plate on the
door, bearing the inscription, "Mr. Ar
thur Allenby. Surgeon, &c.; not quite
twelve months ago there had been q
small silver plate Oh cofIin-lid, bear
ing the same name and his age, twenty
seven. A handsome pillar of white
marble bore the same inscription in
Highgate cemetery. Mary took her
baby there once every week at least, and
wished, as many others have done, that
day could be set apart for mourners,
when the gates would be closed against
The idle and curious, and the friends Of
the dead might look at the graves Of
their own undisturbed.
When Arthur AIlenby FIRST started ON
his own account people predicted bril-
liant career for him. He had every
thing in his favor-an earnest love for
his profession. singular success owing
10 his delicate skin and rare insight Of
character; and his friends had means
enourh To keep him supplied with
ricnay until his practice should make
him independent. The first blow to the
ambition they had entered in him was
his marriage; he had not been in prac-'
tice single year before he made Mary
Lennard his wife, and his mother and
sisters declined to receive her or to visit
her. This so stung his pride that he
would receive no further help from
them, but preferred to live on love and
his own resources. He gave UP his
brougham-tbeir money had paid for it
and went to his patients on foot. He
wss rising man, full OF energy and
hope and genius; but one long, trying
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ana coilectlng matter Tor Dusincss-llko
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ior IT, Inc poor oId scholar was glad
10 earn lew Sh'l!lngS day at a labor
ne deIlShted IN, ana Mary was so &C
customed TO helping him that when he
feli III she could take MS place with the
ald OF rev notes pancii.rd down at his
pedsloe.
but thls TOOK her away from him. and
tne tlne came When she was wanted
Always. Inc old man grew Ike Il enid
ior heipieSsntss. IL Is to the credit OF
the man VINO mac employed him, that,
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ana thougltlesS imI rovidenco, they
went to the sick mans room and saw
That he did not want for anything; in
fact there was rather asuyplus Of calves
root Jelly, port wine, and cooked chick
en-, there being general idea that thcss
We're The correct things for an invalid.
ihelr Kindness was not the less sincere
tnat IL came too late, Years of priva-
uon mad done their work already.
mere was q E'ndncss that he valued
ny much-perhapS more than this Ar
thur AlleDby spent many an hour with
ms patent, listening "ith sympathetic
attennon to the old mans talk Of early
days, and the student dreams that chung
to him even now. Arthur became at
last quite as much friend as physi-
clan, and the time which would have
peen his own for leisure was very will
ingly given up for the old man and his
dlngy room, and Mary.
IL was no uncommon thing for her to
come from the HlISenm and find tina