The herald., 1894-10-31


land had been before the wonderful iror
road traversed it. There was no romance
for her in the widely varying tracts that
train canle.throUgh, and she had no de-
sire to see more OF tho country i'll which
her lot was cast. 1.-The gorgeous east"
held for her neither glamour nor glory.
Her days were passed il an endless sue.
hoping that she would feel better to-
morrow.
Toward the end Of November Abdool
ran over to Mrs. Gasparoz's house ono
morning with an urgent message
My" said Mrs Gasparez as she
caught up a solah topee, "onlee seven
month";
That was at breakfast time, and John
Port was away up tho limo and would
not return till tho morning of the next
day.
81 am sorry to bother you," said FL
len through her agony, ''but was that
bad all night and did want some ono
to speak TO. +"
"Ooh, l will stay gladlee,' said
4flLf. plIOZ, ANU L W III SSlltl lOT tlft
doctor, and you will soon be ahl right. :"
The doctor came presently and went
and came again. Mrs. Gasparez wept
fluent tears over the sufferings that
could not be allayed, even as she said,
''Ooh, you will be ahl right veree
soonr' Ellen lag with clinched teeth,
trying not to writhe or cry out. II do
ate to give you ell this trouble, " "sheeaid
often.
But she was strong" said Mrs.
Gasparcz to the doctor in the next room.
"Sho worked SO hard, she did, ooh, CIV.
erythingl | ain not strong, but was
never like this, never. ,"
''She has worn herself out" said the
doctor. "The climate counts for some
thing, and she has never considered it, "
Some time after midnight the child
was born-a dead child-and the doctor
went to Mrs. Gasparez' s house for lit
tie rest. Mrs. Gasparez sat nodding and
blinking and drinking strong tea, and
Ellen seemed to be sleeping.
Just before dawn Ellen reused herself
and talked for q few minutes to Mrs.
Gasparez. She had message to leave
with her
"Ooh. no; you are not going to die!"
sobbed Mrs. Gasparez. "Go to sleep
again and Go not DO SO sillee. The next
babee will live, aud it will ahl be jol-
lee"
Ellen smiled family, Don't you for
GET" she whispered and turned her
head Oh the pillow, but instead of going
to sleep her face changed and worked
strangely, and Mrs. Gasparez ran out
calling wildly for the doctor. Ellen's
last doleful scene was acted alone, but
it must have been short one, for when
Mrs. Gasparez and the doctor came
back they found her dead
John Ports train came i'll at o'clock
The doctor met him and told him of his
wifes death. but he did not realize or
understand what had happened till he
came to the little pini. house. Abdool
was in the veranda lamenting ostenta-
tiously, but Port put him aside and
went into the bedroom. 1t smelt stuffy
and sickly after the fresh morning air,
and it was exceedingly untidy. A white
sheet was thrown over the bed, and
Mrs. Gasparez, hei eyelids puffy with
crying and want of sleep, came to meet
him.
81 have message for you, she said.
81 was to give you her love, and she
was veree sorree not to see you again,
and she hoped you would not mind that
the babee was dead, for it was REALIZE
much better and would leave you quite
free to marree again. Ooh, she did love
you
John stood by the bed and laid his
hand on the brown hair, pushing aside
the scarlet flowers with which Mrs.
Gasparez had surrounded the still face.
Never another wife for me-, he said,
never another woman in your place,
old girl, all my life long"
And through the window came the
sound of the high pitched voice of Miss
de Cruz. She was taking morning
stroll with devoted admirer
"Ooh, yes, Mr.. Woods, that is ahl
veree fine, veree pretty, dare say, onlee
you do net mean it.
1t was in the spring, five months lat
er, that John Port married Miss de
Cruz, and Mrs. Gasparez explained to
her friends that sit was not such a
veree bad match for Eulalee, for that
nice wife Of Mr.. Ports who died, poor
thing, was very thriftee, and she had
saved, ooh, quite great nance ru-
pees!'-Beatrice Kipling in Pail Mall
Gazette.