Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1889-08-31

and often during the conrss OF tue harta
tion felt q sympathetic pressure OF W,
hand laid on his, which spoke az tnat ~
sealed lips OF the listener would nave sal',
Still, with even tha lght Of TINS Alhu
nurse breaking through the gloom y was !
terrible fortnight Happily Aoner's poh'
/ ton behind the high altar hld from nun ~
I heartrending scenes which war3 hourly %
/ ing enacted in tbs body OF the clurch ouS
/ he could hear the cries and groans, am ~
I even learned tho meaning OF cersaln
/ measured tramp Of heavy fc9t along Tue
! stone floor, for they had more than ones
1 visited his neighboyhoOi, and each time
/ they had borne away a rigid, silent hgnre
wrapped up in military cloak.
The hospital accommodation was utterly
I inadequate TO the enormous demands mau'
on it. so that patients were discharged rs u
was possible TO remove them without risk.
And their places were Immediately filed
up. The carloads OF wounded who had come
into Brussels with Abner represented but q
fraction OF thoss who had been torn ana
MANNED in the battle, and every day eSplor'
ing parties brought in men who had wander
ed away to the woods or 10 farms and cot
tages, while the number OF those who We're
yet undiscovered could never be eitimated
So Abner received h 5 discharge long
before he felt that he could move without
help. His last duty before leaving was TO
bid his kindly nurse cool by, and TO thank
him
II can never forget your kindness" said
the young man, land 1 don't deserve any,
fN,. I batr al Of 10 life
But 1 have been spared through all this
danger and | have learned 10 know that
bad as | wur before, | wnr still worse
when | sought death. dareu't return
homa but Pm min sure tina. shall lad
myself there some tins or other, II il only
be TO find out IL my poor Mehitable was
ever discovered, and to see where thoy'y
laid her"
Then he pressed the nurses hand, and
limped out.
For six wesks longer he remained In the
conyalsscent hospital establish d In Benc,
dictiue monastery situated in tho outskirts
OF the city Perfect rest aud kind treat
meut at the hands Of the brothers restored
him sufficiently TO health 10 be able to
leave Brussels with his battalion for
Amiens, where it was to b. quar- cred dur,
ing the occupation Of France by the allied
armies.
He paid last visit 10 the AugustiBes
church before leaving, in order to sec his
soldiernurse cnce again, but was told that
he had left for England with his b I,talioa
Almost exactly on the anniversary OF the
day when Abner Harrington hal parted
from Mehitable Buttric!S witn On angry
speech on his lips. N, Lon Ion Royal
Blue coach Sc. him down at the door OF
the "Blac': Boy in Eln.od He passed.
along the front Of the ina 10 a back l4ns
unrecognizcl, aud PROCEEDED % the river
He paused for few moments b. tho
bridge where Mehitabla's clothes had been
found, and then pashel on with slow. ua,
certain steps toward Cuton Oay d year
had passed since he hal last troi this path.
vet so much hal happened during that brist
span that he seemed surprised 10 aud mis-
surroundings so little altered
II was Saturday and Abnar could already
see the boys floc,sing or 70 the crlcks . tie!d
by Summertield church, and more than ona
pair Of lovers strolIins over tho distant
fields.
With s1mothingor tho old dread over him
he wanted u avoid meeting ans ono an 40
turned on - tho woodland, away from tho
towing-plth About the Copscs and m e.
cts, under the FRESH bright lattice WORK OF
young leaves, he wandered until the sun
sat amid royal prOfusion Of many-tgnted
clouds, which gradually drifted away and
left pure UnbroScn expausc ot blue, dotted
here aui there with an early star.
Then he quilted the woodland shades aud
his steps toward th3 river and
pursued his way more DO dly in tbs dirs..
ton OF Cuton He we III make himself
known as little 80 possible for he simply
10 hear about Door Mehitablc. and
then he would turn his back on his native
village forever.
II was dark when he reached tho first
houses in CutOn village. but Tn ira yya4 tho
Red Lion, and in 1t there would c,rtatnly
be some wh) would at oHcc reao ,nizo him
uttered in appearance as he was after hls
years absence.
80 feeling very much as no felt on tho
night Of his discovery that Mehitabled had
disappeared, nc crept along on the opposit,
side OF the street under the shadow OF In,
'ottage caves, and only brcathca freely
when he arrived within sight OF John But
,rick's cottage.
Strange, he thought, that man W no had
aced Napoleon's cavalry and the dauger4
md horrors OF a military hospital sho i'd IA
'fratd to face the complnoas Of his boy.
rood, tho inhabitants OF an o5scura lrtlla
English village.
There wa a carriage AMI suir Al Tho
Keepers lodg gate a most unusual a cdr.
ence "A reason for which Abner was 81 n
oss to find. lie waited until he saw n tall
nan in long cloak, accompanied BIZ n
adv enter it and drive away: then bc
rossel the road ON tip toe. plshel o1na
he little WICKER & te, crosIld il, ptseh
4 garden and Deered in through the win.
low "''
There !-seated in the big arm chair nj
nc table, just as he mad seen her hnndrnd
ims5 was Mehitlbl3 Butrick. She WA
loosely wrapped in a wooden shawl ana ,y1a
xamining closely something in casa
ortrait, brooch or something.
He drew back, trembling all oyer Tho
oy was 30 greI 1t that il ha nj most stunnct
i'm. Had he been dream'nyi Had ho
eally ever left Cuton and pono far \
older, with the brand of Cain scarin, hia
Orshcad.
IL was some time before no colld colleot
himself suficientlyto m llss movs tow,rI
be door, open IL and announce himself n,
reps away 10 this porch seat and triad -
rasp the inhnity OF hia b,,,i