Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1886-05-22

deilSa'';YT during tnes evening", tffu IT.
mained SO late that Mrs. Wiseman
haagbeen sleeping somehours when
at last her husband reached his
room. Sometime III the middle Of
tho5night, he became aware that
his wife was dreaming she seemed
so restless, and just as he became
wide.awake he heard her say SLOW
~ and distinctly few words which
struck to his very heart with sud.
den:chill.
Then she grew quiet and slept
on, but John Wiseman grew rest
lesssand nervous and wished that
Che night was gone.
In the morning while dressing he
turned to his wife AID said, rather
testify:
Mabel, / wish you could rec.ilI
dream you must have had last
night
why, John?'
well, because. You were rest
less and uneasy, and all at once
said. plainly: Put some in my
right hand, john Now, can yon
tell me what thai meant?'
Mrs. Wiseman's sweet face
flushed and twitched for Il moment.
then she said calmly:
Yes, remember; i dreamed l
was dead, and you were crowding
all tile flowers into my LETT hand,
and | thought my light hand had
loved and served you as faithfully
as the left one, so l struggled hard
TO speak, and finally did manage to
say. Put some III my right hand,
john
Perhaps it wasnotunlille q great
many other men might have done,
but john Wisclnan faced sharply
arohnd again and asked. with on
tirele unaccustomed lierceness:
what made you have such a
dream as that, wonder7' THEN he
added, with something akin TO u
wa; .'Ss.Or. | might saS,suehaan mad
dening dreaml"
He left the room u moment later.
and Mrs. Wiseman crossed her
arms and said softly to herself:
lie does care for me. John still
loves ME, know he does! There
was more tenderness than wrath IN
that outbreak, for l know John
Wiseman well. His neglect bias
only been owing to overwork, and
one OF these days, if PHI only pa
tient, he'll forget his Indifference
and be my own loving Jack again.
l know he WILL
Alter breakfast, Mr.. Wiseman
took his usual hasty departure and
went forth to what promised to DC
a very busy day; but a great haunt
ing dread had taken possession OF
him. All the morning he tried to
battle of tile impression, but he
knew instinctivcly season of sell
examination and reckoning was
close at hand.
lie was not a superstitions man.
but he fairly shuddered at rhe com
cidence when on taking up il little
book which had been left near his
desk, he read the thrilling, reproach-
full lines:
You placed this rose in her lrlnd, you
This beautiful rose i'll her hand of clay?
Methinks could she open her sealed eyes
They would gl;ince at you WIFI Bric'cu
surprise.
The next verse asked:
pray, when did you give her a rose be-
fore?"
Then great scales fell from John
Niseman's eyes, and he knew the
whole truth. Fortunately he WIS
alone in his office, or any one might
have thought the man was wander
ing as lie strode-Hot paced-the
offics floor.
Lord!' he exclaimed, not irrcver.
entity, ito think haven't seen it be-
fore! 1t amounts to nothing short
Of sheer neglect-hying out to
meeting here, hurrylng off to meet
an engagement there, leaving ey
erything, the thousand and one do
.nestic duties, the care and training
Of the children, everything left to
one frail woman to manage, while
| have iancied myseIftoo busy even
to take an aifectionate leave OF that
precious wife. sec now why Low
ering's calessing hand put SUCH IA
staring look into her great, heauti
full ewes Yesterday morning. Bless
my Mabel and her dreaming! MS
sweet May flower! Thank God she
I is neither dropped nor faded While
I chaSed-whats
All we'll enough for q man to lie
public spirited aud active in bust
ness and all that, but God pity the
fool who forgets the loyalty OF a
husband and becomes indifferent
! to the sweetest and Iloliest OF all III.
huence-the love aud constancy OF
a faithful wife, and that too, that
he may gain such unsatisfactory
things as popular favor or merely
business rotitsH
That afternoon, as Mrs. WISE
man sat waiting her husbands re
turn. he softly entered tue library
which was lighted only BY the
glowing coal in the CRATE, anu, go
] ing directly to her side, ne gently
littt d her right hand and placed III
it a bunch OF sweet bright flowers
1 He telt conscious as hc d Il 50