Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-09-18


| arona of tho little inn. who promised 10 help
| in every wav. and then she mounted her lit
| lie carriage and drove slowly back all the
| wsv that She had come looking out right aud
| Lott asking avery one thai they passed
| whether they had seen A slender woman in
black clothes, with dreamy ewes, wandering
| along the road. hut no one had seen or
| heard of AssuntA The mothers heart died
| within her. What had then become of this
| most helpless child of all her most helpless
| little flock
| 1t was quite dark when she reached Ssu
| Martino aud the tired horses pulled up at the
| door of the prore's house a great cloud of
steam rising from their smoking fanks In
the bitter frosty air. The priore was not
| within-he had been summoned late to a sick
| bed--but his housekeepe kissed the cold
hands Of the csreworu woman, Ia her long
black shawl, hardly recognizing the mother
superior to whom she had looked up with
such reverence.
| The streets were all alive with noise, shout
| ing and singing. Moutlnelli's regiment had
taken up their quarters in the town. hNia
| dozen of the soldiers were now in the little
| cabaret drinking aud singing Justify. AT 10
| o'clock the rappel marched through, and
| from every side the stragglin ~ soldiers Tell IN
ami took their way to their new barracks.
ait is the will OF God that have come
back" said the poor mother at Is HIS Will
| that should drink the cup of humiliation 10
the very dregs,"
| But where was AssuntaS In the middle
of the bitterly cold December night Assunta
awaken the sleeping form OF the mother
superior. She was lost, all lost, IN this wlue
! world-the one though wasever In her MIND.
At the Santissims Aununziats was the gate
OF heaven; she must be there waiting in her
white robes, or God would not know her,
and the angels would pass her by.
The door oil the inn was only on the latcn.
| With her little bundle elapsed in her arms
Assunta glided out TWAS cold, very, very
| cold, put her hands ana her brow were purn-
ing, and only one thought possessed her, TO
| get back home again. She walked or
through the day, and when any carriage or
cart came along the road she hid herself be-
hind hedge or uee-anywhere quite out
oil sight carriages and carts were things OF
. . this world, and might intercept her on her
, rapid way TO the gate OF heaven.
, Then the dusk gathered round her-she
| was but half way on her road her ieet were
torn and bleeding. She could only go very
? slowly, she was so unused to walking. She
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rs Assunta was not far from San Martino nov
rs but as the night closed in again, she lost he
Id way, and wandered backward and forward
Ii She slept again in the bitter night air, and /
g. the morning she could not rise or shake o
th the snow till the sun had risen. by dsyligh
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's, that led close up TO the Santiss ina Annur
rs 2iatay and she started to walk home, whe
suddenly, TO her horror, IN the path beior
or her she saw two soldiers, the sun glitterin
We on their sword belts.
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mother superior's words, had been the haun
he ing terror OF her life She turned and lie
in again.
Id She crept in among the chestnut trees AM
Go lay hidden all day strange dreaminess ha
o. come over her, soothing every sense an
at aching nerve: but when the twilight II
IN creased around her, she gathered up all he
sd strength. She took oil one by one the ne
Il, evil clothes belonging to the world, and wit
'e, sun, aching arms she slowly donned her oil
ne dress. NOW the angels VIII know Assuni
again" she said, and she pressed the woode
of cross to her lips.
,r- she waited till II was quite dark, and the
he she glided along, on, on, to the little rector
d. door, and into the convent The reflector
On was quite silent and empty, but strange
er uhaccouhaoIe thlng-the door OF the cIoiste
et was wide open, thing altogether forbidde
n by the mother With her dress she resume
3, the oid gentle, gliding gait the hands Joine
il modestly under her long sleeves, her hea
bowed down, shaded by the creamy white {