The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-08-28

Miss Jane had emptied her quiver.
ana paused. but calista Was running
her needle slowly through the block OF |
pink print. as II every arrow had flown
over her head.
She laid her work on her knee now.
and looked through the window away
70 the blue hills that melted into the
horizon. ~ didn't sleep much last
night" she said. gently a shade stole
over Miss James sharp face, but Calista
went on, quietly "and thought. ~ !
laid in my good clean bed. Just as the
light was coming, and heard the birds
singing everywhere. and the lay-locks
brushed against the window, and thoy
snlelled 50 pretty thought how Mis-
Chandler said some OF them dear little
things ncyer'd smclt a rose. nor 90
much as seen any green grass.
The voice ended in sobs, and Miss
Jane felt her own eyes grow dim. and
realized that her strong tower of de-
Tense would fall il she fingered here
much longer.
She rose determinedly. and tied her
honnet-strings in a snugger knot
There! don't feel bad about it." she
said. TN think it over, and-we'n
see.r
Dear Lord. do Thou be in her
thoughts" silently prayed the sister
left At home. but she only said. cheerily.
as Miss James shoes crealSed out across
the kitchen floor: They re the Lords
little ones, You know but Miss Jane
| vouchsafed no reply.
Never saw no grass" she shifted.
| rubbing her nose.
there is in the world! An won't have
. sarsy young one here" But a. her
shoes trod cnergetically over the short.
crisp moss and crushed the fragrant
pennyroyal. she found herself wonder
ing vaguely how 1t would seem Il this
were the first time.
No one but herself and her God knew
OF the warfare that went on down in the
southwest pasture that afternoon. but
Calista knew who had the victory when
they sat down to their five o'clock sup
per. But she said nothing. And even
after the dishes were washed and the
milk put away, aud Miss Jane tied on
an ancient black straw ''hackerney'
and said, after q little hesitation, that
she guessed she'd run over to the min
isters and tell him .'if he can ketcf
hold OF likely little girl, well try an
git along with her two weeks"-ever
then Calista only said: "Well. ! would
sister A little girl wouldn't DO g
much trouble for you 8 boy, mos
likely
But after Miss Jane had gone on hcl
errand Calista went into her bedroom
and shut the door. She had enteres
into her closet
What Miss Jane said to herself as SIN,
| trudged away was: IF I'm . selhsl
pit. Lord, help me not 10 squcal ant
knock over my vittles every time can
i,have sem 10 suit me- And she backc'
up her prayers by her deeds.
Twenty years ago Cali>ta had close
the eyes of her husband, young Lieu
! tenant John Emmons. in Souther
:. hospital. She stayed with the sick an
} wounded two years longer. and the
, came home with the malaria that mad
, her an invalid for life.
~ jam Sewall haf heard. as her neigi
bors had. that Alexander Merrill WI
) shot through the head as ne flung him
; self in desperation across the fatal deae
line Of the pen at Andersonville; ~
there had been no engagement 81
J nounced between them.
He had whispered to her under II
: blooming apple trees the night befor
7 his regiment went away. and asked
J she would wait until he came back. an
! after his death II was whispered abo'
that he had been kind o. shinin' up
Jane Sewall." and the postmaster W:
sure "he had wrote TO herr" but 81
0 modesty OF the New England villae
!, would have been shocked IL she ha
r presumed to openly mourn for hin
u And so the sorrow that flowed fro
Calistas wound. leaving 1t sweet IN
ready for healing. had cankered
= James heart, and formed crust tn
. few broke through
d She and Calista lived comfortably
the old place with . little money ~
Calsta's pension; and though their liz
lc might not lie in the sunshine, and q
LIGHT was subdued. il was tender. q
% gloomy. and the only real shadow tn
(" darkened the path was the dread tn
< sometimes thrust itself forward tn
2 one might be left alone
4. The fatal Tuesday. a. Miss Jal
,! would have expressed Il, came -
found Miss Jane frying so many doug
q nuts that Calista said, laughingly. 3
a must be expecting q 10y, after all; .
D they were both surprised when the mi
Y lister stopped at the door with boy
y his wagon.
q IL said q girl" said Miss Jane, g
70 phatically, meeting the minister on
= doorstep. !.
II II know YOU did. Miss Sewall'
= y know you dd." said the good ms
y ..but now Ill tell you just how i
\, y This hoy has brought . dog with hir
y Miss James face was gorgon-like
= = its stoniness wv and nobody wants hi