The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-10-20
CHAPTER XIIL-(ContInuedD

much experience in religious affairs
that in many cases nothing is SO ex-
prcssive as silence. The silence was
intense. The aneurism, under its
slight covering of snowy linen,
throbbed audibly. Vivette moved
gently to adjust the pillow under the
patients head; and, at that moment,
DR.. Ross came in. He did not disap-
prove the religious rite, and it was
ixcd for the next day.
DR.. Ross found his patient
no better; he had not expected
any improvement. Being pressed for
an opinion, he said that the aneurism
hao visibly enlarged since his last call,
and might burst at any hour. At these
words her husband went to her side,
where she sat propped up with pill
lows, threw his arm gently about her
neck and said:
Mary, the last anniversary" (allud-
ing to the recent wedding) sis
past" His voice was low and loving,
and growing still softer, its tones came
like child-sobs. ''lIow poor return
have made for all your love-"
She pulled his face down and kissed
his check, already wet with tears that
would not stay back
Never one unloving word, Joseph"
said she.
TIE tumor throbbed violently.
you never gave me cause, Mary"
The tumor throbbed more violently
Joseph and Vivette be blessed as
\, l.. 4
her adopted son came into the room,
took Vivette's hand in his and came
close up.
The tumor throbbcd as if striving to
overthrow some fatal resistance. Mary
Gust threw up her hands suddenly, and
with one great cough fell back upon
the bed.
Presently she said:
IL am relieved"
DIR. Ross came forward, found the
,umor placid and the throbbing gone.
at has burst into her chest. She
may live an hour at most"
'Oh, Joseph to her husbnnd) "tc
think that the good Father lets me die
so easy"
"Ycs, yes, Mary; and still knowing
me and all of US to the lastr'
The next hour about that bedside is
,.ncred; words were dissertation.
God will demand no other baptism
from Mary Gust" said good Father
Burl<y as he went out. And death
found the loving wife in the arms of
her husband, and took her.
The funeral was largely attended
Mr.. Gust had filed his place of city
surveyor and engineer 50 long that he
was widely known and everywhere
esteemed.
| The plain coffin which inclosed the
body Of Mary Gust was covered with
white vclvet-an innovation directed
by tie husband. There was no Grape
upon the door; no symbols of mourn
ing anywhere. The room where she
lay was adorned with cvergrecns, and
rustic letters of cedar twigs over the
voilu, where she lay like one asleep,
read: II am the resurrection and the
lire."
There was no sermon: but at the grave
Father Burky spoke briefly of the
IlOIlc llIS Ol pm uiibi -hdi y uHNi
concluded with these words:
And now. when this grave shall
opsn to receive the body of this tenn
porarily bereavcd husband, could
write the inscription on their tomb, IL
would be this brief history of their
married life:
Two OLD LOVERS, JOSEPH AND MARY. :"
day or two after this sad funeral,
sad to Vivette as il Mary Gust had
been her own dear mother, n large
package came to the address of Vi
vette Molier, post-marked at New Or
leans She hesitated about breaking
the seal, lest it prove another appeal
to her love from her cousin Adolf.
When she had ut length, opened the
package, she found letter and docu-
ment bearing the official seal of the
state of louisiana The letter proved
to be from the father of Adolf whom
she had never seen. 1t was affection
ate and very sad. Adolf Molier was
dead! Cholera had reached New
Orleans, and Adolf, in a second at
tack, had fallen n victim. Her uncle
teIailcu bHe nNc uhyo ouiiSi
ing of his son; his lamenta-
tions in the last hour over
the absence of his cousin Vivette who
had been his faithful nurse in the
former attack; and his sons dying de-
claration that she was his one great
regret on leaving the world. Then he
announced that Adolf, before dying
had sent for an attorney to prepare a
will, and had devised to his cousin his
entire estate-a very considerable sum
and stated that she would find in
closed with letter copy of the will,
duly certified under the laws Of Louis
lama.
After vivettc had sufficiently recov-
cred her usual composure, she wrote
loving and grateful reply to her