The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-11-04

but miserably poor-so rebelllously poor, In
deed, they felt as though their poverty. shut
against them. the gates Of paradise. Chance
threw In the husbands wey a girl, fresh from 9
yery nearly blind. lie had been called in to
treat her. eyes. and, finding her, almost friend
less, decided to take her Into his own home,
But before she came the husband and wife had
agreed to pnss TO her as brother and sister, and
that II possible he should marry the young crea-
Her life was apparently not worth q years
world to get a viii drawn in favor Of an adored
and ndoring husband. And her fortune was big
enough to be, worth q create, risk than they felt
only on natures aid to their scheme.
The day he married the helress It did not seem
SO frail She could scarcely stand, and so dim Of
eye she ran her fingers over her new husbands
face as n luckier woman might have looked at
him. He took her away TO the West indies. His
sister" left behind, heard from the pair but
rarely, until word came that they were coming
absence the sister had bought, fitted up and
furnished exquisitely with part Of the brides
coming over the threshold a blooming young
creature, clear. eyed, light footed. love healed.
There, too, she saw that her copertner was
caught I'm his own net-he had grown to love his
Rgs u MaIs Ss re n fcr whstc came meta later atri she et neiS SeY
i h%eTislf ,I tg , siye s shSm the = fSS pTSs's e ssSstl tSSnts
tress at the head Of the table at dinner, in spite
of her blushinR protest. As they sat over their
by he filled three glasses and babe the women
drink with him to health and success, AS he
something into one of them then pass II to her.
Instantly her resolve was made. She drank half
Of Its contents, then managed TO- substitute hers
said, her lips already twitching:
You must drink every drop or the charm
" He AT once drained the draught. The woman
sprang up and caught him In q straining en-
You are mlne-at last" she shrieked mine
Only the servants saw and heard. Later on
they sent for the good priest, who buried the
man and woman In one grave, and sent the poor
girl. q raving maniac, TO a safe retreat. The
story was hushed up, as not good to the use Of
edifying. Then. after a year or so, n desirable
tenant was found for the house:
But the desirable tenant did not stay. He
went out ut the end of a week, and after an in
teryiew with the agent had his lease duly can
IL in the fall. lie remained a month, then gave
II up. rendering no public reason. But n third
family talked With 9 Vengeance. They, could get
who went, waiting up and down. beating her
breast and crying out that she was deserted.
long piercing shrieks as OF one in mortal agony
and after them the words. growing faint and
fainter, Mine and Death'sl Mine and Death's!"
GIVEN FEARFUL wARNING.
"Yes, II believe in ghosts :, an English gentle.
woman said to me. TO do otherwise would
d~iscredit my every sense. ! grew up, orphaned,
you KNOW. anu WIFI " very HluucThlt iOTllllt,
but that never struck me asa misfortune. since
] lived with my uncle's widow. who was in her
S wSs dead. and she had no children-not a relao
tive. in fact, except a bachelor brother, who
lived with her, Though had none OF her blood,
she was very fond OF me, and said always she
meant to make me her heiress, provided mar
ried to suit her.
AS | married the man Of all others whom
she preferred, II seemed that my future was
safe. stu, she put OF making settlements and
changing her will until / had a second daughter
IN cbristpu. Raby wAa six weeks old. and my
aunt had sent word she would come to see us
next day and stay, over, for the, christening. So
II was natural | should 90 bed In a futter OF
pleased expectance and bearing my dear relative
In mind. But, unnatural, / think, to awake, at
AUNT Margaret is here. | have just felt
N"He laughed at and tried to soothe me at first;
then scolded a little, finding me crying hard. |
took refuge in the nursery, where there was a
wrapped myself warm. and tried to read, but, do
what might, | could not rid myself OF the
with which | had awakened. | sat at last, star
ing into the. FIRE, shaking with the weight Of an
known grief. Then | heard the clock strike 8
and. after 1t, q. queer little %rustling noise at tho
opposite side of the hearth. ] looked across, and
f hee, @s as k R1ain,M Gs samisI pale. With Is fearful eSef e sSS
and curious, twisted lips, that tried in vain to
II started toward her with outheld hands. I
could speak no word, but a sense of ease. had
come to me. As l made To touch her my hand
u ia utuilN nv Nlb .i'atA i'I 4
flung myself on the bed and slept sound and
dreamlessly until break fast time. My husband
rallied Inc a little, but all | said was:
49," saw Aunt Margaret, She is dead Later
came II telegram saying she had been seized at
when she appeared TO me. She was unable to
speak after her stroke, they said. though from
the effort she made II was evident there wa,
u knew what that was when, n little later. it
was found that she had destroyed her old will
and had instructed her solicitor to draw n new
one, providing richly for me and my babies.
The new will was written; but unsigned so. as
everything as heir-at-law. 1t was to beg my
forgiveness for her seeming neglect that she
Same sinnst to me tina sn night. IT,. ! k hays never sssa hrT
and love her memory just the same"
DIED FOR LOVE.
There IL genuine pathos in this recital, which
/ heard from the lips of a dear. silver-haired
."fremember the. trouble 1t made when my
Aunt Patty died" she said. " was a tiny GIL
then, but not too young to take notice OF every
thing. My aunt was n beautiful young woman,
just turned 20, she had been. rs they said,
was the soul OF strict Integrity. some, one
brought him in II tale that his daughters lover
give him up. She obeyed, though It broke her
heart. She died three months from the day OF
fhsis ReFHiRRs her " %ed Hhs ss day. oe' They wf buried si' hs sP
at the foot OF the garden, where grandma, sit
ting at her window. had sight OF the grave.
she sat there more than ever after Aunt
Patty died. One afternoon, about ! O'Clock, wo
saw her start up. crying out to her husband,
Patty Is coming back! | must meet the child
'She ran. out To the gnrden gate. went inside,
and for an hour we saw her walk up and down,
her lips moving sometimes as though in speech
with some one beside her, sometimes shaking
her head as though dissenting To something she
heard, All summer this went On-if sh" told
grandfather anything he kept IL To himself,
though he was very grave and quiet. lie grew
graver still when, in October, II was proved To
him that Aunt Patty's lover had been falsely,
even maliciously, accused. hut grandma's face
lit uD. She laid her hand On his head and said,
with streaming eyes. THANK GOdl The child
can rest now In her little bed
'She was right. Poor Aunt Patty never came
again. ] have always fanCied her urging her
mother to proclaim her lovers innocence.
grandmother had Scotch blood. which, perhaps,
made il possible for her 10 see what was hidden
from the rest. Any way, to the day of her death,
she maintained that throughout those three
months upon each afternoon, at . o'clock, she
lad seen her dead daughter rise from her grave,
float up the garden walk. and becKOn the mother
out TO her. No, nobody ever said grandmother
was touched in her mind. On the contrary, she
was noted for her clear head and good judg-
ment. Whether she really saw and heard any
thing ! cannot say, but ! am as certain that she
thought she did as that | am talking to you at