The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-04-17
RISING SUM- CECIL COUNTY, MD. FRIDAY, APRIL II, 1891
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Boughton pushed him aside with hisfoot,
and calling him 'hound," added an ugly
word back of his teeth.
But when the women came to dress her
again as maiden, he was kneeling there
beside her with his face upon her hand
and they thought that he, too, was deads
So the days wore away, and it was Christ
mas Eve again when the doctor, coming
from Judiths room, said that for the first
time he could tell them to "hopc." On
Christmas morning she turned her sweet
face with recognition toward tine half-cur-
tanned window, and said:
"Don't hear the bells, dada"
He answered 'yes." 1t was all he could
say, the dear old Colonel. And then she
said: "Why, it must be Christmas Day?''
And this time he could only nod. So she
asked them to draw the curtain, and lay
very peacefully for q little space, looking
out at the saffron glare of the weather glIni,
behind the network of the tulip trees just
outside her window. After awhile she
spoke again. Just one word this time:
"Dickp'
Then when he came in, his poor, weak
features working piteously, she took him TO
her soft breast and crooned over him, being
too weak for speech. And after many
words he whispered:
''Ohl Judith, darling, YOU have given me
something never had in my life until now."
And she saidi
"What, dear boyr' I
Whereat, bending his face in her pillow,
he sobbed out,
Courage"
Then she reached for him with her thin,
little hand, and here is what she said:
81 am so glad, dear boy. 1t is the only
Christmas present that / can give you,"
and she smiled at him and kissed all of his
face that she could reach for the pillow.
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He came and took her hand without say.
ing any thing, but she could hear the
elamor of his heart as he knelt close be-
side her.
stPhif,' she said, "I-I-thought you
might have a Christmas gift for mea Have
yous"
II would have gotten you q thousand if
had KNOWN" he began; but she stopped
him.
MIsn't there-the the braeelet9n she
said, not looking at him. 81 would like it
very much. Idon't know whether it would
stay on"
He rose white. even to his lips. and went
and fetched it. Then, as he took her hand
to put it on, he said:
judith, you know what this means?"
"Yes,n she said, "and II have some
thing for you, Phil; not much, but /
thought you might not like it, you know''
ANY thing that you Will give me will
appreciate" he said, ssif it's only the rib
bon that has tied your shoe. Tell me, what
is it?''
Then said my Lady Tongue, making a
sweet, outward gesture with her little,
slender armi
VT is-it is myself"
They were married before he rejoined
his regiment, and even the cruel war did
not divide them; but Dick was shot at
Gettysburg, and they said that no lad in all
the South had ever died more bravely.
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