Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1886-06-08
PARIS. MAINE, TUESDAY. JUNE s. 1856.
leaving no token behind her, bidding no

Six years later the accident occurred
on III. midnigh, train, which filed ,h'
hospital Of 0-wi,h moaning life. oI
crushed and .hspeles bodies in which
wa. ltf, scarcely strength 10 Sigh.
The nurses wen, from pale, TO pallet,
holding bandsges. aiding 10 bind up
great. gaping wounds. shrinking from
the sigh, Of severed arms. but putting
per.onal feeling away before the great
needs ,ha, met them
One nurse with swee, blue eyes tender
and pi,ifal. gave a low cry a. last, {" 'h,
surgeon, whose as.i.,an, she was. paused
beside = co, on ~hieh youns man lay
unconscious
"You know him ," the surgeon asked
her. regarding her blsnehsd face curl
ously.
She ben, her head in silence, a 'ob
bursting from her lips.
Half an hour later he lay there under
her eyes. cold and s,ill. with strips Of
linen across hi. bosom. q broken. BAN
d.s,d arm. and court plaster holding
together the red edges of cash that
ran perilou.ly near the temple and she
knslt beside the CO, with an a'hen pallor
In her young face. . she .,roksd back
the hair from hi. forehead
"Af,er six years" she whispered. sof,-
IT, "Oh. my love. after 'is ye,r'. dur
Jog which I have s,riven 10 fsreet your
face. TO see I, 90 cold and white But
YOU shall be more ,enderly cared for than
IN you had a sister near you and when
you are well enough to know me We part
again"
For the crushed And wounded man was
Clarence Livingston. the knselins nurse.
the sirl TO whom he had refused bis
diving father 10 make offer Of bic hand.
Lena Monroe.
Long day. and nights followed each
other. and Clarence walked from .,upor
10 mad d.lihum. in which he told bis
p.,ien, nurse all of which she already
knew. and much be.ids.-,old her OF the
wealth he had vowed never 20 touch,
living in hi. solicitors hand, for the girl
he could no, trace Of struggle and trial
which he had gone through. which made
her blue eye. dim.
Ba, he said no word Of any woman
whose love was hi. gusrdon. and she was
glad that was spared her.
Once, in midnigh, hour, when the
ward va. silent. and the lights low abou,
them. he suddenly put forth bis uninjured
hand and took one of hers; his eyes.
brilliln, with fever. were fastened on her
face.
my father loved you as daughter.
he said. .ohly. "And he told me you
loved me ba, did no, believe IL. aud
I wanted him to leave M free. Child.
Why did you hy from me, Did you fear
| would learn 20 love you ?
She ben, her face. and tears flowed
silently down her cheeks
II va. d,lirium. she knew; but she,
Who had been unable TO forget. remem'
bered ,ha, long hour 10 the early nigh,
too viyidly no, to sgsin feel some OF i,'
pain n she heard her.
4, was weeks later. when after long
sleep, he wsksned TO full consciousness
one morning At day dawn.
The light. we're low. the scene spec
trail. and hi. l.nguid eyes TUNED from
objee, to object.
At las, they rested on the quiet figure
Of hi. nurse asleep in her chair. aud there
they fingered.
How .~se, and Girli'h the weary face
VI. under the stiff cap'-and sad, too.
q. thi. lie va. no, such as her heart
yearned for. And the hands lying idle
IN her lap were so fair and white and
slender. dainty enough TO be deeked with
gems, fair enough to be kissed. bat too
frail and white for the tearing OF linen
and lifting Of dying heads, he told him
.elf.
Then .or, Of memory came 10 him OF
those so'' haser on hs .. S'o'. ~.'a -. !"
had seemed oafh'He' o. ,'s 'a.. ~ -. ~ =.
had taken IL for the face Of an angel.
lie had seen 1, before. bu, where
re'hAp, 70 one ~ 80. -. ~ =. III h;n..I,
ne ~oaid never '0'se' w - IL a.,a".I ag
as hs own eyes e'O''ns' "' '''PP'' v"
10 sleep ,,,.
II ". midday when ne 49, s sa .sI.
.nd found hs' 9ena'"s 0''' "
''me fecosn'Lsa h'm % .,.,o go, 80,
Lens nc s''''' "'e ~
h' manu- .L u .,i n, N.
p.' ns W"
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iou -, ~
'a,n,"s PA ,aI~,,,o,.ll vou {"
Il Know YOU ,., A.u va T 80. ~ vs. @ ,n
ne answered, 's''.,y, a"u ~ -. :
glow In his eyes you arc ~ n'"s
there !. no need TOT you W w WIS "
My ,A'hef-, u. .,i. ..,a
II kno" ~, ~. al M
'hN was ~ny e', i,'"u u -
you think ! ~Vu'a e.ssn ,Ou ,r %
your father mas oeeh k'hu W 'ne' W,