The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-06-29

The man was too feeble to make much show of resistance when they removed him, but he hung back and grtted his teeth in desperation saying in a weak, husky voice:
 "Oh, don't take me back don't take me back I"
 Miss H. quickly told the attendant that she would be responsible for the patient and would call next day to see him. Meanwhile he must have every attention that would De shown to private patient who was expected to pay we'll, for he was certainly soldier and for a soldier who had come to his sad estate in the of his country noth ing could be too good.
 To please her MT. P. went 10 the hospital to see that her orders fully carried out, and she was more contented when he brought back word that the man had taken little nourshment and was resting quietly.
 "They have made a new man of him In appear ance already" said Mr. F., smiling. "Im afraid yOu will not recognize your protege when you see him tomorrow, and indeed do not see that any good purpose can be served by your bothering about him"
 But Miss H. had a way of "bothering about" people whom others deemed Of no consequence, and was at the hospital next day as early as she could be admitted to the wards In strict compliance with her wishes, the patient had been placed iu e private ward where he quite alone The matron, who met Miss H. most graciousy in the parlor, said the doctors had been much interested in the poor mans case and after he had been cared for by the bathmAn and the barber had instituted examination which convinced them that be had been soldier, and probably lost his through ugly wound on the head. Since early in the morning he had been fast asleep, she said but his case was hopeh ss, as by long privaton and ex pos ure his system had become 6 wreck-and he could only survive, at most, few days.
 nurse presently notified them that the patient was awake, and, accompanied by the house surgeon, to whom Miss H. was we'll known, they repaired to the chamber.
 As they entered the man looked at them from the pallet where he lay, 6 peaceful smile on his careworn face, a look of interest in his dim and sunken eyes.
 Miss H. kept her face slightly averted as she came in and did not look at him until he had said in a strange tone:
 "Yes-I said was at the gate. And 1t was Par adise-and 1t is Paradise, for there Is Gracel"
 At this mention of her own name Miss II. turned her beautiful face towards the stranger with that sweet expression about the mouth and In the ey es which was always there when she was going to say something to soothe tortured soul
 But in an instant that angelic look was changed to one of horror and dismay. ClaspiDg her hands above her head, she seemed to plunge headlong towards the pallet, and fell prostrate beside it., muttering the words
 70 heaveni Richard"
 And SO it was. We all saw him there the next day, and our hearts were broken as hers had been. For more than tour years he had been wandering about unknown, poor, despised, demented out cast, while loving hearts had mourned him dead and the sweet girl he worshiped was trying to forget him.
 A few days more saw us beside his grave. And now you know why 1t is that Miss H. has lived alone and kept her mansion there on the hill hospice for the stranger and the unfortunate Neto York Graphic
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