Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-28
'SUSY KEMP'S ROMANCE.
by C.. J. V.
I0risinal.1

IOrisinal.1
At the time our story opens, Susy
Kemp was a plump little widow o.
about thirty five. AS n girl she had
been very beautiful in face and figure,
very artless and romantic in her dis
position. and so was very easily
aptivated by n penniless adven.
turer and persuaded into n clan
destine marriage. The marriage
it is needless to say proved very
unhappy one, but Susy faithful
to her marriage vows, struggled
bravely to make the best of things,
trying to train up her children
Alright and reform drunken husband
A hopeless task she found the latter
as many another has before her.
Beauty faded, health failed still
she struggled on till death came to he
release, taking her unworthy hus-
band in n fit of drunkenness.
The husband was scarcely buried
when her two children, a bright man
ly boy of ten and a lovely girl oil
eight, sickened and died with that
dread disease, Diphtheria.
Susy stunned and bewildered was
stricken with Brain Fever, and lay
for many days unconscious. cared ior
by kind friends. By the Providence
of God her life was spared and lay
came slowly back to health and
strength.
Life looked very dreary to poor
Susy, as she faced it after having re-
gained enough strength to think oil
the future. Plans were soon formed
however; renting a single room taking
the little furniture needed to furnish it,
the rest was sold and applied to some
of the numerous debts of which she
foul d herself the possessor, for dur
ing the sickness Of he rselfand children
bills had accumulated till she found
herself owing not only the doctor
and undertaken, but the butcher the
baker and the candle-stic maker, as
well. Securing position in n print.
ing Office as type setter, she set out
bravely to earn her daily bread and
pay her debts; feeling as she cheerful
ly said, that even that was better
than to he without any object in life.
BY steady work and much seli-denial
Susy found that she could support
herselfcomfortably and lay by small
sum every month, which was careful
ly and conscienciously divided among
the many creditors, while mucl,
to her satisfaction she soon found
the many to be growing few.
The doctors bill was the largest
and Susy found herself looking for.
ward with much pleasure to her peri.
odical visits to my DOCTOR" as she
called him to herself.
DR.. Warner, the physician who had
attended Susy and her children in
their sickness, was single man o.
about forty, very silent and reserved
very kind and courteous; man
whom every one liked as a physician
yet whom few called friend.
A comparative stranger in the
place, yet so singularly successful in
his practice that he was as one
might say, upon the topmost wave
ofpopularity and success.
He had been much interested in Mrs
Kemp's case, few words let fal
by neighbor awakening his inter
est at first, and as he watched hel
daily life as she came back to health
saw how patient and cheerful she was
how quiet and unassuming, yet how
firm in her determination to be indie
pendent of charity, he was filed with
admiration and respect.
One memorable evening as Susy
called at his Office she said, as she
handed him roll of money. CDR
Warner, think l am the happiest
woman in this city tonight. 1 have
accomplished the object which / SET
before me, and now so far as | know
/ owe no one cent"
He smiled as he filed a receipt for
the money, and said, at is a grand
thing to have carried out ones
plans and TO have made nc
failure, heartily copgratulatey you, y
'ebut" he add,d, edo you not find
your pleasure in different channels
than most people; that is usually
considered OF 80 small moment, that
it scarcely enters into the account oil
things TO be thankful for, ut least il
appears so to me-"
well" said Susy' cit certainly is
a great thing TO me and l am going to
celebrate the event by taking a week 4
holiday" After little more desul-
tory conversation Susy left, and the
usually busy doctor sat for an hour
thinking of Susy, her words her life
and her changed appearance, for in
regaining health, she had also regain
ed much Of her former beauty; even