Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-20

Through the long still night SaIome was by her
child; she did not 60 TO bed, she sat N the room
| by its crib, sometimes taking it on her LAP, IN
her arms then, when ii was composed 70 sleep,
laying it again in its cradle. She heard every
| stroke OF the clock at every hour. she coulo
not sleep, she could but watch and pray.
Every hour or two Philip came to inquire
after his child. He stood by the cradle whenis
was sleeping there, stopped and looked at the
flushed face and the little clenched hands; but,
when 1t was on Salome's lap OF in her arms he
/ did not come so near, he stood apart, and in
stead OF examining the child himself, asked
about IT. Salome controlled herself from Civ
| ing way to feeling; her composure the conf
| dence with which she acted, impressed Philip
| with the idea that she had got over all other
| troubles except that caused by the child's i'll.
ness; and were this to pass that she would be-
herself again.
But, through all her thought for the child
/ ran the burning. torturing recollection Of what
| Philip had said concerning it. She was not
sure that be desired that it should lve-live to
grow up Beaple Yeo-a Sehofeld. The house
was perfectly still. All the servants were
when, at O'clock in the morning, as the day
was beginning to break raw and gray in the East
| and to look wanly in through the blind into tha
| sick room-Philip entered.
Salome was kneeling by the crib-a swing crib
Of wood on two pillars. She knelt by It she
had been rocking, rocking, rocking. till she
could no more STIR an arm. Aching in all her
joints, with her pulses hammering in her weary
brain, she had laid both hands on the crib side,
and her brow against it also. Was she asleep
or was she only tagged out and had slidden into
IosaLJ S II 80 .sI ~ ous 1i
Ta R1ner % ai aac,od ~ + ~
af cne lamp on tne oIesslngSSoIe 4 On one asn
NOT hear PhiIin as he sntered Hit6erto- when
aver he had came "a throno6 the door sbs had
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on side.
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te, ie ne sS" nov now @ worn - o%s Sns was ne saw
tnat sne VINO nao Deen SO nearly, so SHong, IN
few days had become ONE thin d1a- and md frail in ap
Pearanee, tnae k @9 tne dresn @9 cosor s NAG gone from
tne SWEEP dlmpie haa ieIt her mouth. ne saw
ner lIve anu seLh-usEosi1h Iol nsr enIlq, the
comPieteness WIN wnlen ner s9ul was ooond
up IN IL. ana ne saw now loneiy sne now was
without her mother TO talk TO ABOUT the mala-
dies, the requirements and the beauty OF her
darling;
, oIe Iiu ho nos sAnce ,sa p ~ ~ sns t on ne
Woulo nave seen TOKENS Oh meltlng IN MS cold
eye.
he renamed standing oy ner, and ne looked
at tne cnlo now sleeping qulebly. IL was Det-
less it was better.
Then, all at once, Salome recovered con-
seriousness, saw him, and said: "Oh, Philip,
you do not want me to der?
Philip drew himself up.
"I on have the crib too much tilted, he said.
He put his hand to it to counterbaIance her
weight, but she raised her head from the side
and the crib righted itself. He still kept his
hand where he had placed it, without any rea-
son for SO doing.
"Phllip," she said again, with passionate en-
treaty in her voice, you do not wish my darl-
t:How can you ask such a foolish question"
he answered. II am afraid the long night
watching has been too much for you"
"Oh Philip-you do love him? You do love
birnNaIthongh there is Sometime of me in him
Emit she said hastily s'he is mostly yours
He is like you he has dark hair and eyes. and
his name is Philip and of coursa he Ia he ia a
Observation-Disclosures oh. PhiIipI You loYe him
dearlyT'
"Of course love him; he is nv child. Why
do won doubtp',
1Recanse - sba said 'I-I am his mother
Rrt that is ALL am univ n SORT of snnerIor
nnrss He a Pennycomeouick through and
tbronob and there is noNnoEnothfno ~ whas
- Jraod in him
icy s.Yas he ia a Pennycomeouick.
"He can. he will be no other than good and
nobIa man He can he will ba thar If Cod
gDares ~, !, - -
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daad a indead IL I.ooI< at bis dear 1ittIe f.ce
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az he IyoS so doin0 Saiome Who stiII LneIs
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aIt,S- ssyss The child ia bsttar y ana isft tLa
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sible she could have been kept in complete
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