The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-04-09
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AS luck would have it | was obliged
to go to b again the next day. and |
took my negative with me. promising
myself to look for the mysterious beauty
of the stairway. for the face had IL
strange fascination for me, and | deter.
mined to find the girl whose picture |
had so unaccountably taken. if | could
possibly do SO.
81 hurried through my business and
rushed off to seek my friend the gar
denor. | found him and at once showed
him my pnzzling negative. The moment
he saw it he dropped into Il seat on the
bench beside him as if he had been shot,
trembling like Il frightened animal and
with II look of terror in his eyes. In Il
moment or SO he found his breath and
gasped;
"'Good God. it's Miss Annie!
lyon may imagine my surprise. The
old man locked ut me and at the picture
with a scared look, as if he suspected me
of some unholy relation with the devil.
But after awhile he Gained down a
little. and IL good stiff drink from a flask
| happened to have in my pocket seemed
to brace him mp and persuade him that
| was not an imp in disguise. and after
awhile | succeeded in getting the follow
ing explanation from him. which | will
condcnSe for you, not trying to repro
duce ms words and his Scotch accent:
During the wal of the rebellion Mr..
s. lived Ill this house with his wife
and an ONLY daughter, Miss Annie, IA
beautiful SRI. who was about twenty
years oil 1t the time of winch / am
speaking Sn" wa, the idol OF the fam
lily and loved by i'll vino knew her. She
WAS to have been married to John r..
IL fine young fellow who lived near bv.
but when the call for volunteers was
made her lover went off to the war. She
was almost overcome with anxiety for
him, for her heart had gone with him.
One day soon after one of the early bat.
tles-l forget which one-my friend the
gardener came up from the town with a
telegram. He met Miss Annie coming
down the stairway and gave her the
message. She stopped on the landing.
opened the envelope and read the telc.
gram.
she stood perfectly still for AN i,l-
slant rs if she could 10 realize it and
gardener was Just in time to
her from falling, as She tainted.
The telegram announced the death of
john R., killed on the
battlefield. Miss Annie never recovered
from the shock. and she died insane in Il
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