Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1888-11-15

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PHGBE READING WHILE nan FATHER WROTE,
my arrangements. Thanc White was in
California thon lie was third o. fourth
lsin Of your mothers, worthless Great
urc, INT we helped him OH account If his
distant relationship
Phoebe, reading while her father wrote,
inquired ut once:
Isn't Thornley, my brother, thonl"
"No; Th9rnoy is Thames son. Your
mother was kind t. the miserable little
soul. We kept him with us his father was
brutal to him. l gave Thane employment
for several years. lie bore n bad name
when he came 70 the coast, and was prob
ably worse than knew but we could hardly
shake him off never imagined then that
he would separate my child from me and
finally shoot me. Your mother had known his
wife in the States, a poor. detected young
woman who died carly; ana the boy fn1rn-
ey was only halfwitted When | read in
your note how T,Sae had used you, it
seemed asif had neyer suffered before In
my life And you forced to appeal to a
stranger while your father lived The sight
of him filed me with such fury | don't
know what might have done if he lad not
shot"
Does he look as he used to, fatherl"
ao1s No I II no,
White. The muscles Of his face look OK
posed, and twitchedn
. 1t must have been you he meant when
he told me there was somebody in the noigh-
borhood he wanted to avoid"
If he saw me rs ! ordinarily go he did
not recognize me tonight until turned on
him. What did he do with you when he
landed in the Statesl'
He must have put Thorney and me in
that orphan asylum at Pittsburgh, He has
been in prison often. Did you know that,
fatheri"
"Yes, hunted him up behind the bars,
and he repeated to me on oath that you
were dead, You were lost overheard at
sea- ! sent him from Virginia City a week
before intended to start, TO take passage
for US on an isthmus steamer May be
gave him enough money to make II a
temptation. May be the idea came into his
head suddenly, and he carried it out, in-
tending to make me pay him well for re-
storing you 1t is hard to read all the
motives of a man ike Thane White. Aft
erwards he found / was poor, and dropped
you where it was most convenient, reveng-
ing himself for his disappointment by dc
claring you were dead. He went over to
San Francisco and engaged passage two
days ahead Of the time ] wanted TO sail.
Then he delivered my letter TO the lady
who had you in charge; she was friend of
your mothers. l asked her TO have you
ready against | came for you. Thames boy
I kept him at the same place-and you
were allowed to 90 on the street with
I Thane. You were about three years old.
He never brought you back. The family
sent for me. We found he had sailed
with you, and believe he took no nurse.
could not discover what vessel brought him
TO New York; and he said you were lost
overheard between the isthmus and that
port. / spent months tracking him, and,
finally, letter from him, which had fol-
! lowed me around, brought news Of your
death. never believed it until l saw him
In prison, and he swore it to me without
having any conceivable object in doing so.
May be I was moro readily disheartened
than when your mother lived"
Father wrote Phoebe on the tablets,
I tive seem so well acquainted My heart
ached so about you the night we took you
that maple sugar that could hardly endure
1t. Do lock at all like used tor
eyes" be wrote in reply. From the
day of your birth your face was very dis
tinctly marked. can see your baby face in
your features YETI
"Psyche Fawcett is my own cousin, isn't
sheg"
''Yes. And she must divide with You,
There was another thing which struck me
like conviction before could be certain. I
saw you standing before my portrait, end
you showed tho Fawcctt as well as your
mothers blood. 1t was young Gurley who
came with you the first time saw you-was
Itl''
ayes
"And he was here tonight"
ayes. He is bringing the doctor The
bullet win be taken out and you will get
ggelln
81 like to see him about sou. He's man.
Remember said this.n
"But, dear, your pain is not very great
now, is it3'
! y
push the quilt in there is room enough for
you TO sit on tho lounge beside mc.n
7 Phoebe sat there until the doctor came II
was twelve O'clock by the tlmo the examine
ton was finished, and the doctor remained
by his patient.
I Phoebe resumed her sent by her father
and watched him al night He dozed or
sunk into unconsciousness, and woke with
n arof1o - 4fvs.ftf, f,grr1lneffrrfa about har
mother. Tie lived over the san Francisco
honeymoon, and he was in tho mountains
assaying ore. Several times no was re.
called TO the present By strcng anguish.
The doctor then dealt with him, and his
gin ofterwara wiped the dampnc3s from
his face.
Neither Mrs. Barker nor tho master left
her. The lamp burned on the table until q
growing pallor outside betokened morning.
Miss Fawcctt VIII come to sec him to-
morrow said Phoebe % Tho doctor, speak
ing as if tho day were sul remote. Mr.
Gurley intends to bsing her. Win that dis
turb him too mucht'
"Oh, no, 2 replied tho doctor, ''no"
"Don't You thini; be is boderl1 inquired
Phoebe, waen the cocks ia the masters
chickcn-hoasc bcreu 90 crow.
"Perhaps / ought TO ton you.n the ply
stefan said aside to hor,' that l orcad
hemorghage"
She compressed her mouth and suddenly
felt the effect Of her vigil, her excitement,
and her days Of contest wish Thanc.
Still, her father was quiet n Eall-con-
scious slumber when Mrs. Barker lightcd
the breakfast Gre and tie master brought
a pail Of water from the well.
All animate things out doors were begin
ming to stir, and the air which came in wac
fresher than ever boforo az II 70 blow ont Of
Paradise full OF doors gnl promises. The
early spring birds were all about, end the
fiicker-s thrill was heard close BY the win
dow.
THAT birds song always smells Of
Johnny -jump-ups- early blue vialgts,
said Phoebe. with smile, to the doctor
The doctors answering smile was trag
siont, for his patient nwoke in a struggle.
Fatheri7 cried Phcbc ''Dcarl Why,
father
In four months the bird.songs had deep