The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-01

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ealousy and filed me with anew despair. a
She had discovered her children. She had
ound out her husbands residence In West
snd square. and she had planned and plot I
ed to see them. even to speak TO them with
Ill the earnestness and passion of woman
II BAY. il
why did you not tell me2" I asked, when
he secret came out at last; why hide il all
rom me2'
"You would have been angry"
'No."
"And | could not keep away. For the soul
Of me. Ernest. / could not keep away. /
wanted to see them, oh, 30 badly"
1T can do no good"
II know that" Il
ut may do deal of harm"
at may" she sssented.
You have not told them who you ate?"
oh no; God forbid that have only
asked them q direction In the street. just
TO hear the sound of their voices, just to
look at them little closer and be sure that
they are my own boy and girl. Don't you
understand me?" she screamed; won't you
understand me?''
Yes yes | understand" was my reply |
: bat this will drive you mad"
at may"
at is too late in the day for this exagger-
ated sentiment" added even more hsrshly
Had you loved your children more. you
That's true" she answered gloomily; 81
own it. Twas selfish. I did not think of
them at first; thought only OF you then.
oh, Eva, forgive me. did not mean to
cast that dart at yeu."
of them q great deal. and IL knew they
would be happy with their father. and well
cared for at d loved. He was always verv
fond OF children. Just. good, hard mar"
she sdded thoughtfully, and very fond of
children, very"
You see all this has brought fresh misery
to you; rendered You wholly unhappy and
restless What IS the use of it7' ask.
II don't know" was the helpless answer;
asd she wrung her hands together for an in
stspt; Il AN trying to zee the use of it. the
good oft. How should know what Is good7
l don't even understand why 1t should come
to me after all these years to find them out,
to yearn for one look at their bright young
faces, as one like me might yearn to look at
Heaven just for once-but it has come, and
they are my boy aud girl. Whatever am
whatever have been-they are mine. Dom
you see tbat2 Don't you see can not help
all this? can't; / csH'tl'
Her grief. her self abaD Comment was 80
great that could only attempt to sootne
Ii, implore her to be calm, to be reasonable,
to forget my harshness. to exercise some sort
of self.restraint, and then the calm fol.
llowed-that dread calm which was very like
despair
i l not set an interdict on her move.
ments: did not inquire again where she
had been had to let things take their course
and remain In ignorance Is to which way
they were tending l seemed to expect q
J, catastrophe, to be waiting for 1t, to be- Won
deripg how long Ii would be. And yet /
was not wholly passive I was making sr.
, rangements to GO abroad again, to be quit OF
} England this time, forever.
; When the tine came to tell her, she shook
her head sadly.
| II can not go, she answered
81 have made all preparations"
B You will kill me IL you take me from
I Englard any more" she said; "but II you
insist must die"
J d d not answer. / resolved to speak of II
, again 10 morrow. when she was less excits
A BILE, when she had grown more accustoms q
I to the news. bad surprised ard shocked
D her. / was not a wise man. d nothing
that was right.
!, And on the morrow the catastrophe fol
which had waited had come, and there wa,
no talking or reasoning with her again. II
! had come to myself-to me who was unpre
Q pared for 1t, who had not looked for II in my
own direction. had not dreamed the hand Of
. fate could strike 90 heavily.
, My horse had taken fright aud | had been
crown. IL was terrible accident. and they
9 picked me mp rs they thought, for dead.
/ was carried to the nearest hospital In one oil
I the wards Of which found myself days Of
terward lying like child, spec CHESS. nerve
less. with not even the strength to turn my
3 head. Strange faces come aud looked at me
for an instant and then vanished In q mis-,
, that grew about them; voices very far away
sounded meaninglessly in my ears where
there Was always the rushing sound OF q ses
, aud the breaking OF its waves in thunderoui
mi N Inn n kAa ii la
, thought when the fist thought came back
|, to me
There was no power TO move was like d
man chained down. At that time did no,
} know what had happened, whether / was
not In dream or trance; everything about
, and around me belonged 30 completely 10
the unknown, and IL was 10 full Of clouds
into which / was always vanishing. some
times very slowly, at other times with a
celebrity that was ike being hurled into an
} unknown death and then forgotten.
A womsnsf face looking intently into mine
Was the first thing recolec,ed as part oil
/ Whispered Eva" swcindsrinsiy, s as Al q,
change in her for which was unprepared,
and yet was not wholly surprised.
All am not Eva" said my nurse,
smiling.
Hush. You must not talk any more.
You must wait"
I remembered that Injunction. and obeyed
her. read the meaning In her clear, bright
lace, and said no more The doctors came
and looked st me, and would hsve spoken
TO Que OF them, but he shook bis head, and
lightly touched my lips with his fingers be
fore he turned To those about him.
Hes conscious" one said.
Marvellous" ejaoulatsda little man with
dark spectacles.
win he pull through fs II possibis2'
asked another.
Hardly"
Then they passed on down the ward, and
| lay aud thought they were talking OF some.
body else. and faintly wondered where they
had come from, and why they had oil looked
al me, gill iloated away onoe more into for
geifulness
By.and.by-a day siterwsrd, was told u
was-f became more conscious OF surround.
ing objects, animate aud inaninstet 4 Knew
thai WAS au inmate OF one OF the wards OF
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