Evening journal., 1890-02-06

him, although / knew be was longing 70 ask
me to do it, | Didn't even 81 with hln 70
the door, and when he kissed Inc good-oy
just let him do 1t and stood like dumb block
while he walked out Of the house-oh, Nancy
50 slowly and unwillinglyl 1t wasn't bit
like his stepl didn't stir to 60 to the win
dow, where had always stood every morn
ing to kiss my hand to him when be went
down TO the office But / watched him from
away back in the room where he couldn't see
me, and saw him 90 down the path and stop
under the honeysuckle at the gate TO look up |
at the window When he didn't SEQ me his |
face turned absolutely dark-the most awful |
| thing and he rushed Off down the street with |
never glance behind him. That was our
| first partingl We parted under a thunder
| cloud, Nancy have lived in the heart of
| it ever since. II you had not come think |
must have gone crazy, thinking and living it
| all overr
| My sympathy quieted her somewhat, /
hope, but am afraid the battered platitudes,
Of which, as is the case with most younglings
| Of inexperience, I had great stora, wrought
| more specifically. Pausing for breath and
| a reply, at length, discovered that she was
asleep
Chilled and chagrined, laid her from my
arms upon her own pillow Something slid
from her lax hand. 1t was her husbands
miniature, glass and setting warmed by her
passionate holding / thrust il impatiently
under her pillow. The cut was not danger
Gus, / reflected, with judicial fatuousness,
when the patient could slumber under the
surgeons hands.
l Twas aroused in the morning by a shower Of
kisses upon my lips and eyeiids In the slow
awakening from the slumbers of health and
youth, ] dreamed that was walking through
a vista Of honeysuckles that bobbed dewily
against my face, and opened laughing eyes
upon Augustus conntenance. She wore
white gown, bound at the waist with blue
sash, Franks favorite color; the honeysuckles
were in her belt; the breath and fragrance
and refreshment Of the May morning were
, about and in her had oversight myself by
matter Of two hours, and breakfast was
ready Augusta sat at the open window and
chatted while l dressed.
, II am quite another creature today she
said blithely. you have wrought won.
/ derful cure upon me, DIR. Nancy. / am go
7 ing to follow your prescriptions, put useless
{ regrets behind me, and behave like rational
! Christian in future. l have been thinking
a too, over the possibilities of Franks getting
1 back on Friday, instead of Saturday l fee
i almost sure that he will be here tomorrow
4 This is Thursday, you know. can imagine
K how he will thank you when he hears what
r good advice you gave me-
Could remind her that she had dropped
| asleep before reached the application o.
J my homily2 She was still chatting, when
r fully dressed, / Joined her at the window anC
il put my arm about her. A white jasmine
: tackled along the window frame, cast grace
d full streamers from one side to the other
d Smiling happily and roguishly, Augusti
/. pulled down a spray bearing as many five
q pointed flowers as leaves coiled it rapid,
d into wreath, and laid it on my head.
a "And you shall wear starry crown~ sh
II chanted, gayly.
i think the gate latch clicked. know W
Il both looked out at the same instant
Il Frank Deane was just entering the yard.
Have said that he was a handsome man
a had always thought so, but never believes
Il he could be SO royalty beautiful as now
4 framed in the honeysuckled arch Of the littl
gateway His face was alight with hnpp
G ness and love; his eyes eagerly sought til
window, and, as low exclamation of raptur
II escaped the figure beside me, he smiled, tosse
ID his hand into the air in glad greeting, an
to bounded quickly up the walk Augusta fe'
OF into the hall to meet him. j, left alone for
moment, saw him, ! solemnly aver, as he 81
his foot upon the lower step of the porch, I'll
n flash Of the May sunshine upon his blonC
head, uncovered in knightly reverence befoi
- his wife,
= Then, a wild shrek of terrified angus
rang through every corner of the cottage
AZ reached Augusta as she reeled back, faintn
ar My arms-not her husband's-received he
nd The porch was vacant; SO were the path an
the trellised gateway. The radiant presen
Of that had glorihed all three an instant befo
en- had passed into thin air when the wife soug
ar to grasp it.
a. Frank Deane, as a few old Virginans ST
IN living viii remember, died suddenly-it W
H. said Of heart disease---in Richmond, at {
,n- very hour and minute in which we believ
nd that we saw him come in at tho wicket gai
IN Perhaps the Society Of Psychical Resear
~ may announce the existence and define t
Nh operation of the law Of mental inhuen
,at which enabled the released spirit to project
AL simulacrum of his physical presence upon
ner imagination Of her who loved him passic
at ately, and longed inexpressibly for the asst
the ance Of his forgiving love.
yht "God let him come 10 lift the cloud,n I
A. widow said to her dying day.
,av We dare not step, even with unsandal
emit feet, upon the sacred awfulness Of IL
ora ground.
,lk His love was SO mighty that he made
om believe that she beheld him with her bod
rlv eyes, say psychical Swans, reverent in IA
her to what they cannot explain.
inc But what then, was it that I saw2 Mari
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