The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-12-14

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/ So they worked on and in the evenings,
they looked ut the photographs Of the
FyrenecS. . - -. -. ~
Another year passed and Charles again
showed his wife a large roll Of bank
! notes.
Here is another arm of our windmill"
ne s,i1 kiits'ng his wife And md s9!'ins her
They had both grown little thinner.
lilo was even II t,itie bent and she had Il
| cn'ish. Hut still they worked on. their
eyes dazzltd by the dream Of the future.
AS the end drew nearer their n,ptitiellte
ahd carhestilcss iiicrMset, The tender
ness hey would have lavisled oil 4 child
was directed toward the promised land
for their old age. All their lrea,iis and
tant. blue niotlntaiiis with their majestic
feats and white etertiul SHOWS.
When the third Arn of the windmill
wIs gained Claire fell i'll. and the doctor
forbade her to return. to the bank.
Charles found out that she had cdns,mip-
ton: Then he wavered. ,
'"Wrrtch" he said to himself: 1T IS :!
wh" am the cause of I'LL this. I allowed
YOU to work too hard, and I have hot
given you proper food. God is Furnishing
me-"
He felt he was gqiils mad. She waS
then going to die! She whom he called
.":Mauame Ia :nirunicte" Mig Lady Miller!
TO die even before She got her mill! Uh;
it was too bitter! -.
you will live"
Charles sent her to PAU, where She
passed the Whole winter: She refused to
go ut first. ind iliwilliiiy; to give tip their
dream and spend OH Il doctor the nioney
they had SO painfully saved. l.,
in spite of the cold and the fog. She said
this in feeble voice, holding her hus-
bands head in her hands and shutting her
eyes tightly to prevent the tears coming
out.
But Charles WAS firm. He went on
with her t" Pap; and together they went
Claire spent the winter with Adele Bey
ri"S, her husbands old aunt. He RECEIVED
two letters IL week from her. and Claire
assured him she was getting better.
lie sent her 800 frames il month for the
doctors bills and hec living expenses,
while she wrote loving letters, saying sll"
did not need 50 much money and urging
him to put it away in the savings bank.
But Charles urged her to take good care
of herself. and continued to send the
money. One after another the arms of the
old windmill tlisappeare,l And he had
nearly, ll;'l them all il his grasp, If his
wife had not fallen i'll they might have
owned the whole mill by this time.
kut what good was there i'll thinking of
such things at all:
In the month Of May lie received tcle-
::Comr ut oncc Bring nil the money!
Charles turned pale. lie left ON the
same day. His wife met him at Pau.
How thin she was. how white low hol-
low her checks! He wcijt lis lie kissed
her.
''Oh. Claire. yoii did hot tell nie the
truth ,whcn you said you were growing
hctter!'
YES" she. said, II toii toil tile truth;
| am better. assure you! An! / ami hot
very strong. nor very fat; thit will Coiiie.
But. oh. Charles. you do not knUw yet
what ! have to tell you. 1t belongs to us
What is ours:'' he asked in amaze-
ment.
1.-THE mil''
'What--you say -"
~ es. see. here are the bank notes you
sent me- Two thousand seven hundred
francs! And here is some more l earned
myself. putting $50 francs out of aiiother
pocket.
stay in the hotel because l felt just as i'll
there as did in Paris. So got work as
Il governess in an English family. Not
only have not spent our three arms of
the mill: but | have saved a large portion
of the fourth @
But | had to leave because / was too
III. anyhow, here are 1850 francs. With
the 1000 You have we can buy orr mill
;tt once. Hiss me, dear. again - and
again.
And Claire tainted away.
"I"or girl. YOU have killed Yourself" said
Charles. taking her in his arms to y car-
Claire. came back to consciousness. She
right. ''''' VIZ
Thus far she had deceived herself but
now that her dream WIS about to be
realized. and she was with her iusla nd
a ;t She knew and r,ecognized the gray
WAS going to die.
Ihey carried her into hotel and out
her to bed. and sent for a doctor. All
they could do for her, however. was usc-
less. ' "''>
She grew daily weaker and weaker.
one evening. feeling her life Slipping
away from her, she took her husband S
face in her hands. which were already
growing cold
A'lieu. Charles, she murmured: ",]o
not cry: | shall die just the same. You
know. it * impossible to cure cons,nn,t
ton: DO not cry.
ID" you see the mountains yon,ler:
rio" beautiful they are tonight. Take
III" nearer to the window 50 that | can
! see the SHOW and the great preciljices and
the forests and waterfalls.
"tharles: she added. in voice that
grow fccblcr every second. Il must he
buried in this beautiful country, in the
shadow or those mountains And yOu-
you must buy the mill" her voice, al
most failed her-"and live there always:
and i'll the evenings You must gaze on the
great mountains and tlink-think Of me;
won't You. CharlcS:'
SO Claire died. and i'll the far distance
the lights Of the sunset touched the biz
Sb"ll'irrs Of the Pyrenees and shone on
their slopes Of everlasting snow.-Fron,
| the French