Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-09-24
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hs1p, anA mw fhae ny psvfIna ~ heap
a ruins,
Amidst . perfect Babel Of qoestious.
swheu did you leasef How did you -
cspef We're you inside when 4 fsllf aad
the like, 1 got the poos woman into my roofn,
and thea, vpen he lad recovered, The ex
plzr.>sSon v ~ demanded Of me-
Il was told that I returned al Sis ard
went to my room 10 dress The room fen in
and tore the whole place down iuss as tie
servant was gong TO lay the cloth for any
dime, They al thought that ! Was crushed
To ceath Under the ruins; and what did
mean by such csn,inetf soaring the Eves al
most out Of them in that wayF Spme osser-
vsu1i.s which hal heard when first came
tack gave me- clue To the landlords hesitation
about lifting nse have the pavilion cosetssL
What do you mean | said, by your con
dpcff--aIiowinz me 10 take q place that WIS
liable 20 tumble DOWN at any niouse'ltf This
told, got time ~ think, and under cover 81
questioning Mrs. Lakes statement as TO time,
bad il emphatiealiy confirmed as to fac.-er
what she. q woman in full possassfon OF her
faculties, and without any object to deceive,
was ready 10 swear 10 a. to fact had come
home She had given me my letters. was
in NV roon.-t0 her certain knowiesige-in
teen minutes before the roof fell in
Il told them some Of the truth. had 10
go back to the town and was kept 50 late
that slept there When they supposed t.iat
thf.s letters had something TO do with il /
did not contraAic. them. All agreed that it
YVES a wonderful interposition Of Providence,
ami did not gainsay that.
Il had the ruins carefully removed, nomi
nAily in order to recover my books and
pafers. but really because l would not dis
t..Iieve my sense~. A man resembling Ire
had entered the pavilion; you may say that
Twas overwrought AMI excited; that | had
worked myself up to accept a deiuslon and
was deiuded-but how about Mrs. l.akei She
was making up butter into pats when caiiSe
in. ard Lad absolutely nothing on her MUD,
for il had turned out we'll II body were
found under the ruins the mystery would he
solved.
No body was found, but amid the wreck
of my writing tab were the letters.
-s,ome six years afterward | came by acct
dent upon curious book called Our Chil-
dren in Heaven The author, Sweden
borgian, believes that our sons and daughters
whom we lose in infancy grow up IN
spiritual life--parallel III may Use the word
to our own That is to say, when We pas
INTO the outer WDfiu WEI hiet, hoe ~ ha'~n
or children. but by grown up men and
women, educated we would have liked
them 10 be IL they had never left US. Say
what else you please about 1t, the idea is a
beautiful one, and set me thinking, set me
asking questions among the elders Of my
family and my old nurse; the result OF
which was that | found | was born one OF
twins, but that the fact was suppressed for
very sad reason-when we were ten days old
my mother was seized with puerperal mania,
under the influence Of which she stranSlcd
her other babe That is the reason why
must ask you to give ne your word that You
will not publish this story in my lifetime.
When | am dead, you can use it as you
please, but don't put my real name in it"
have kept my word. He is six months in
his grave, and his last words We're: Dear
brother am coming"