The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-11-27
.Anu me money!

lnOulUdlllS cNGIy Ndy oiiu ShJoy obSiA' OH'
how happy we shall bel Kiss me, kiss
me, Mrs. Millerl"
And Charles embraced his pretty young
vito as if he was holding the entire range
of the Pyrenees to his breast.
They went back to Paris and worked
with enthusiasm. In order to realize then
dream they economical in every direction,
lodgings, clothes and even food. Claire
succeeded in obtaining copying work, and
Charles kept books for Il small storekeepor.
In this way they were ablo to set aside 20C
francs a month.
At the end of tho first year Charles
showed his wife a roll Of bills.
''There is ono of the arms of our wind
mill, " he said, and together they sang the
we'll known air, 1.-The Pyrenees Noun
tains."
So they worked on, and in the evenings,
when the pen fell from their tired fingers,
they looked at the photographs of the Pyr
enees.
Another year passed, and Charles again
showed his wife a large roll of bank notes.
Here is another urn of our windmill, "
he said, kissing his wife and calling hel
Mrs. Miller.
1llCy IidA DOUh AAOni q HAAASA
He was even q trnlo bent, and she had'a
cough. But still they worked on, thei1
eyes daz2lea by tho dream Of the future. AS
the end drew nearer their Impotence and
earnostncss increased. The tenderness they
would have lavished. on q child was direct
ed toward tho promised land for their old
age. All their dreams and thoughts were
Of the mountains = those distant blue
-~1.-4+o;,~, ,ri+b fbnfp 1naioctio foatS and
white eternal SHOWS.
When tho third arm of the windmill
was gained, Claire fell i'll, and the doctor
forbade her to return to tho bank. Charles
found out that she had consumption
Then he wavered.
Wretch, = he said to himself, sit is l
who am the cause of all this. 1 allowed
you to work tee hard, and l have not Civ
en- you proper food. God is Furnishing
mel''
He felt be was going mad. She was
then going to die! She whom he called
my Lady Miller! To die even before she
Sgot her mill Oh, it was too bitter!
Don't fear anything, he said to his
wife. ''You. will not have your mill, but
you will live.
Charles sent her to Pau, where she
passed the whole winter. She refused to
go at first and was unwilling to give up
their dream and spend on a doctor the
money they had SO painfully saved.
She said sho could get well in Paris, in
spite of the cold and the fog. She said
this in a feeble voice, holding her hus-
bands head in her hands and shutting her
eyes tightly to prevent the tears coming
cat.
But Charles was firm. He went with
her to Pau, and together they went up to
see the old mill.
Claire spent the winter with Adele Bey-
ries, her husbands old aunt. He received
two letters a week from her, and Claire
assured him she was getting better.
He sent her 800 francs a month for the
DOCTORS bills and her living expenses,
whilo she wrote loving letters, saying she
did not need SO 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 disappeared, and he had
nearly had them all in his grasp! If his
wife had not fallen i'll, they might have
| owned the whole mill by this time.
But what good was there in thinking OF
such things at allP
y g 4
In tho month of May he received a tele-
| gram from Claire,
Come at once. Bring all the money
Charles turned pale. He left on the
| same day. His vito met him at Pau.
How thin she was, how white, how hollow
| her cheeksl Ho wept as he kissed her.
"Oh, Claire, you did not tell me the
truth when you said you were growing
betteri''
Eyes" she said, 81 told you the truth.
l am better, I assure you! All! 1 an
not very strong nor very fat-that will
come-but, oh! Charles, you do not know
yet what I have to tell you. 1t belongs to
us now-it is ours!'
what is oursP' he asked in amazement.
1.-THE mill"
"What-you say
Eyes. SEQ hero are tho bank notes you
| sent me! Two thousand seven hundred
francs! And hero is some more l earned
myself" pulling 400 francs out of another
pocket
You know" she explained, 81 did not
stay in tho hotel, because l felt just as i'll
| there as l did in Paris. So l got work as
Il SOVeFlICSS If an NaSlisA AdihliS. No'
only have / not spent our three arms oil
the mill, but I have saved q large portion
of the fourth. But had to leave because
1 was too Ill. Anyhow here are 3,15C
francs. With tho 1000 you have we car
buy our mill at, once. Kiss me, dear,
again-and pgainl". =
And Claire fainbed away. p
Poor girl, yuu have killed yourself, =
said Charles, taking her in his arms to q
oarriagcA They went to q druggist, and
Claire came back to consciousness: She
was llable with great difficulty to stand up
right. nso ita5 It'd .sG. ID
THUS far sho had deceiyed herself, but
now that her dream was about to be real
lied, and sho was with her husband again,
she knew. and recognized the gravity oil
her position. She knew that she was go
ing to die. ss.t. 80 ~, 4
They carried her into a hotel and put
her to bed and sent for a doctor. All they
could dosfor her, however, was useless.
She grew daily weaker and weaker.
Ono evening, feeling her life slipping
away from her, she took her husbands
face in her hands, which were already
growing cold.
.Adieu, Che,rles, y she murmured. "Do
not cry. I shall die just the same. You
know, it is Impossible to Ire consump-
ton. Do not cry"
do you see the mountains yonderi
How beautiful they are tonight! Take
mo nearer to the window SO that | can see
the snow and the great prccipices and the
forests and waterfalls.
ssCharles - she added in a voice that