Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-11-22

trunk and come back soon
'When l came back found Miss
Grigg in bed and the doctor sent for.
de was puzzled. l could sec that. He
couldn't tell what was the matter and
Miss Grigg was too faint 20 speak. He
questioned me. | said she had been
very much agitated. He prescribed
something and went of, bidding me
send for him il she got worse. The eve
ning papers published the report that
Miss Grigg was dangerously Ill. and
Mr.. Birch came to the hotel in a terri
BILE fright, as pale as a sheet, to ask
how she was. / took down Her love,
and she was very i'll.
Then Miss Grigg said to the ladies
who had come in: Leave me with my
laithfL. lora, and we were left alone.
can't say that was surprised when
she sat up in bed and said briskly:
"'Lock the door, Flora. I'm sick
If lying on my back. I've taken them
n, haven't IP You sec what / am
about nowP
Exactly, MISS said l; to be too
| II to be married when the time comesP
"'No, said she; to be ill enough to
1e married in the white dressing gown.
I'm going to be married on my dying
bed, Floral
II gave q screech and she laughed,
md then she made supper of sardines
md biscuits and wine, and she threw
he medicine ont of the window.
Early next morning the doctor came.
answered his questions as to what
Iort of nightthe patient had passed
" saying that she had been much the
anne And then took little note
she had written to Mr.. Birch.
II knew what was in it. She told
him that rather than leave the world
without keeping her vow to him she
would be married ON her dying bed.
powdered her up well, miss, and
dressed her in the embroidered dress
ing gown, with tube roses at the throat.
4 pulled down the green shades and
darkened the room. She fixed the
pillows to prop herself up with, ane
then skipped into bed.
"'Give me my pearl bracelets, She
said, and the handsomest of those
handkerchiefs,9 and all my rings; and
Flora, mind you must sob all through
the ceremony. I'm going to be calm.
''We hadn't five minutes more, bu
Just as the first knock came to tht
/, door she whispered:
d 'Oh! dear; if l only could have SLOW
music. Couldn't you catch that Ira
viata haitian hour out the window
He's always on the corner. Flora, ii
leave you something handsome, if yol
do
81 did it, short as the time was.
caught that man and he ground on
his quarters worth.
1.-The clergyman was a very nice
neat, near-sighted old gentleman. Mr.
Birch was the dreadfulest sight-pal
as ghost and shaking from head t
foot. The groomsman looked dread
fully sorry; the four or five intimat
friends looked as though they were a
funeral; and to see her, with he
calm smile and powdered face, on
hand against her heart, the other il
his-I was glad I'd been told to sob
I had to SO something. And so the
were married.
] eel feel,' said Miss Gregg, slowly
that this, perhaps the last moment G
my life, is very sweet. To die thus
with my hand in yours-ah! Dea
friends, adieu. Flora, my faithful
maid, take this ring / saw her pic
out the cheapest; but no matter. Re
member ME by it. Now-leave u.s.
'.Then everybody kissed her ant
went out of the room sobbing.
"In moment more there was {
scream; Mr.. Birch had tainted away
1t took an hour to bring him to.
'sThe reporters of the evening pc
pers were waiting outside for the news
It was published all over that night
but the next afternoon the trayelin
dress came back in the black trunk.
"Yes, miss, of course-Miss Grig
Il mean to say Mrs. Birch-recoyere
at once. And that's the whole story
I'm the only one that knows it, and
wouldn't mention it to any one br
you, ma am" "-NeD York Nea0s.
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