The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-02-02

ward answer to my q 4estion. There 6
more depends ON it thaa your think.
ask you il you can prove by other means
! than your own word that j on are Thomas
| Tyler's lawful wife?a
ssWhy, there's the certificate, sir, that
Elder Bird gave me, and / had it put in
a gilt frame, and hung it up in the
keeping room till we broke up, and
Thomas catne West to get work, and
was going to send for me and the child,
only he took sick and died, and"
Where is that certificate, Mrs. Ty-
lerf'
"Why, law, sirl how you do fluster a
body with your questions It's in the
trunk right at your feet. fetched it
along, cause like to look at it, and it
makes me think of the day was mar
ried to my Thomas"
''Then we are all right. You did a
good thing, marin, when you brought
that document" said Samuel Dale
Now, Mrs. Tyler, / am going to help
you through with this matter Ali
you've get to do is to mind orders. /
feel a deep interest In it, for worked
alongside of your man last summer, and
I'm bound to see that he has justice done
him.
~ want to knowi Deari dearl Why
didn't you say SO before, sir? And I
nisdoubting you all the whilei hum
bly, ask your pardon, sir. And SO you We
known him all along9 Only to think
of IL! Then maybe you can tell me
what carried him off. You see the let
Ter don't give any particulars How did
the disease take him, siff"
There was curious expression upon
the young mans face, but he answered
her gravely:
He was hard sick with it, marin,
when first knew him"
mot dangerous, sir?"
swell, yes; called him dangerous
the first time set eyes on him"
II want to know The poor dearl
And yet he worked all summer, you
say? I s'pose he kind o. pinned away
gradual. 1t was an inward disease,
wasn't it?'
"Clear into the heart, marin, and
worked outward
'Lord massyi Did he have heart
disease? Jerushy Ann Billin's, that was
Aunt Martha's second cousins child,
she had it awful. They said she used
to have tremblins and futterin's and a
clay cold, corpsey feeling the heft of the
time. And she grew weaker and weaker,
and her heart kind o. melted away in
side Of her. Did my poor man have any
Of these symptoms?'
"Well, no, it worked just the other
way with him. AS near as could judge
from appearances, marin, the heart in
side of your husband got to be as harda as
a neither milestone"
Poor man! How it must have hurt!
Couldn't the doctors do nothing to help
hinlT
''Mrs. Tyler" said Samuel Dale, sol
EMMY. ave heard tell it was easier for
black man to change his skin, and
wildcat her spots, than for a fellow to
get cured of that disease And your man
had it hard. If a way could have been
found to take the old heart out OF him,
and put a new one in, it might have done
the business; but the doctors in these
parts amt up to such tricks"
did he die easyY' she asked in trem-
bling voice.
There, don't you ask any more ques-
tons, Mrs. Tyler, and keep cool now.
You'll need all the pluck you've got,
shortly. Do you see that square house,
with tall chinneys, at the top of thehill?
That's Peter Barclays. They are looking
for me, but not you.
He drew huge silver watch from his
pocket.
at is time we were there" he said;
and to his companions great discomfort,
and the imminent peril of the precious
freight they carried, he urged the old
white horse to gallop.
Up the hill they went at furious
pace. The rapid motion was relief to
Samuel Dale in his excited state of mind.
Perhaps he had restrained himself to the
utmost limit, for after a glance at the
box containing Mrs. Nancy Tyler's tes-
timony to departed worth, and at that
estinlable woman in her widows weeds
at his side, he no longer refrained from
giving outward expression to his satis-
faction.
He shouted to his horse and piled the
whip without mercy. He whistled and
sang, and brought his broad hand down,
first upon one knee, and then the other,
with resounding blow. a neighbor
called to him halfway up the hill.
81 can't stop, said Samuel Dale. Tim
going to funeral, and there'll be no fun
till get there"
Then he laughed long and loudly at
his unseeuly jest. A small boy cleared
the road to let him pass, and ran in to his
mother.
''Sasn Dale has been gittin' awful
drunk down to the Corners, mother"
he reported. Hes laughin' and sing
in, and drivin' old White like mad.
He's got woman with him, and her
bonnet's most off, and her hair fiyin'.
ana She holGln Oh to. the seat with both
hands,.
He drew rein at Farmer Barclays
front gate with suddenness that nearly
pitched Mrs. Tyler out of the wagon.
$50 into the house without knocking"
he said. ''and wait in the entry till call
you. 1t won't be long"
He drove his horse into the yard as
one Of the wedding guests came from the
stable.
''Take hold here, Seth Wilson," he
cried. There's a precious bit of stone