The Princeton union., 1893-01-26


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as the davs 81 bnsv man 4 Z. y hen one
7nv ha rooi;yad tho+ = =, J, ,,.a an
~ Le.:1 yusso y y1 Vas nlelo ons
:, AIw.oAs s since ne nad nearQ 1rOm NE NE
chll0 friend, Laura Holt. ri
How odd that little soul has not
written" he Thought: s.perhapa she.
too i a. f.raa : -, s.. 70 5s'S'
However, as he had lust cot some
numbers Of 8, magazine ia which O
short story Of his was annaarino that
month, he put q wrapper around one
and addressed It to 4 Miss Laura
\ Holt; .tand by return Of posts there
came for him q letter in q strange
hand writing. bearing the most mark of
the town in which she lived
Ave. but was it so stranger Amyatt
stared at it for full minute before he
opened it, his memory going back,
back, back--O to the days Of his
boyhood, gone never to come back
again, never any more. And then,
when he tore the cover and found
that it contained a little note in his
friends round handwriting. that
memory straightway vanished.
..na.r ,,r 1ahn n - !, : i; : ..,,,.n,,
you SO much for sending me tie story.
Mother is just going to read it to me, but /
wanted to write to you first. You must
Ive AVE. Soag oGH ninn Wrlse 50 ton9
for a few minutes an and WI write with = = nencil
now. I think am rather better i have
been five weeks in bed already. Ever your
loving W 1rlend .. .@. LAURA "a :: :E'I ,'. S
Naturally. Amyatt knew Init little
about the ailments of children. but &
seemed to him that for a child Of nine
wears to ,he in he'd Ave weaks az; >
stretch, with no immediate prospect
Of getting up again, was a Yery bad
sign, and in his anxiety he annealed
to the repimental SURGEON.
"What's the matter with the child y
he asked. III .55 MS.
sI don't know
.Then you'd better make the i'll.
ness snorCer, or give IL scarlet lever,
he said, thinking that Amyatt was
merely stating a case for one of his
stories.
<.put - :, oh;,a ,,4.
Duo ~ 10 @ ret'l chAlu, Vie HAaJo1
explained. I:
every bad lookout, then, returned
the doctor. decidedly
nv 49,.
81 eh ehamh M @UC wioIe " 70 Ine nio1nel :y I,
IL shall be grateful 1t you will tel
me how nv little friend ia" he said
- assure you II l had known mel 4
1or twenty. years l could not Zee
more ANXIOUS than her. letter ma mas
maoe me 1eei @Jhls morning. re.
even when TINS was gone, ne still
could not take his thonghts away
from the dear little friend whom he
nao never sean, lying pros5rate, 1ol
the handwriting told him she must
be indeed very III, on a bed OF sick
ness ana pain. .a
In two days the reply came, writ
ten IN the same hand as the cover o.
the chlld's last letter, hand writing
Whlch set every nerve IN ms BODY
throoolne, every pulse beating ike
steam engine.
"Mv little girl is yerv, yerv ii. y Mrs
Holt wrote, much worse since she wrot,
to you, and the doctors told me last nigh
t1ae Whan nmst M oe ready 10 iaee the worst
a'ona - 4bi. nr1S 'nv " ..;,d a. n -,
what my agony is. I can't write about it. ]
can onIy tnank you ana otess you 1or 81
1er navt ne
that this blow NAV not fail upon n n ME. = : =
Yours gratefully,
LAURA ST.. MARY Holt"
cutter stranger that YOU are!,
Why. even in.bis concern and distress
Amyatt almost lauphed aiond 4
stranger to her-a stranger to her
the letter. the andwrit;ng' the name
had ali broupht back the self.san,.
memory that the cover ofthe child'l
letter had called hack onlv tho othn,
Gay! Inc memory OF what? Well, just