The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-03-23

N,non ne saw me James I0r ms name
was James Noblc) made curt and (
orotesQue boo and said "Maistor
John, this is the MISTRESS she's got
| trouble in her brcest-some kind o an
income, we're thinlin,"
by this time ! saw the woman's face
she was sitting on sack filed with
straw. her husbands plaid around her,
and his big coat with it's large white
metal buttons. over her feet
never saw almore unfor~catble face
pale. serious, lonely, delicate, sweet
! without being at all what we call fine
| She looked sixty, and had on a mutch
white as snow, with its blacS ribbon;
| her silvery, smooth hair setting of her
/ dark gray Cycs-cvCs such ass one secs
only twice or thrice in a lifetime, full
of suffering, full also OF the overcoming
Of it; her eyebrows black and delicate,
and her month firm, p1tiont and con-
tented, which few mouths ever are.
As have said. never saw % more
beautiful couutenauce, or one more
auOducd to sottIed quiet
allie" said James. this is Master
John, the young doctor; Bab's freend,
We ken. We often speak aboot you,
doctor" She smiled and made Il move
neut, but said nothiug and prepared
to come down, putting her plaid aside
and rising. Had solomon, in all his
rlorv, been handing down the Queen of
Shaba at his palace gate. he could not
have done it more daintilv, more ten
Derby, more like a gentleman, than did
James the Howgate carrier when he
lifted down Allie his wife. The CON
trast of his small, swarthy, weather.
beaten, keen, worldly face to hers
pale subdued and beautiful-wls some
thing wonderful Eab looked on con-
carned and puzzled, but ready for any
thing that might turn up were it to
straurla the nurse the porter, or even
me- Allie and he seemed to be great
friends.
"As l was sayin', she's got kind O
. trouble i'm her breast, doctor; win We
talk o. look atit?' We walked into the
consulting-room. all four; Rab grim
, and comic willing to DE happy and con-
idential If cause could be shown, will
j ingalso to be the reverse, on the same
, terms. Allie sat down, un1id her open
E gown and her lawn hlndkerchiefround
her neck, and without word showed
, me her right breast. 1 looked at and
, examined it carefully. she and James
watching me, and Rlb cycling all three.
= What could L say? there it was that
a had once been so soft, SO shapely, SO
: white, SO gracious and bountiful, so
''full of all blessed conditions hard as
d a stone, a center of horrid pain, making
!
d able eyes, and it's sweet, resolved mouth,
u oyPross the full measure of suffering
@ overcome. Why was that gentle mod
q est, sweet woman, clean and lovable,
. condemned by God TO bear such a bur-
e den2
I got her away to bed. ''BIay Rat
81 and me bide?" said james. 'You may
and Rab, if he will behave himself
J Use warrant he's do that, doctor;
and in skunk the faithful beast l wish
you could have seen him. There arc
no such dogs now. He belonged to q
lost tribe. AS I have said, he wa.
: brindled and gray like RubisIaw gran
ite; his hair, short, hard, and close, lilz,
a lions; his body thick-set, like a lttl,
bull sort of compressed Hercules of q
, dog. He must have been ninety pounds
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9 Teiabton,s fathers. the REMAINING ev,
a had the mower of two: and above il. a1l
in constant communication with il wa,
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