Frostburg mining journal., 1894-07-28

I'm your nepheWS WIFE. lliii'
Temples wife. His regiment has ~
ders to march. He did not know wh
to do with us. so he set us here. II
did not have time to write You of It.
am sorry | could not help it.
had to come"
The awc-struck. frightened look With
which he regarded me when | tirSt
stepped before him partially vanished
rs | proceeded with my explanation
My uncle did not answer me. but
turning to woman said:
Here. Martha. is a young woman
my ncphew's wife, who HAS come to
us. See what you can do for her
Then seeming to become obl.vious Of
our presence he entered II room and
left us TO the care of the servants
Don't m.nd masters queer ways.
my dear, the woman sad. lit has
given him quite a turn. seeing you and
the baby coming in this way. and |
don't wonder at it. How like her you
are
Like whom?' asked. but she was
ascending the stairway W til the baby
and did not heed the question:
! was soon comfortably domic;led in
the old hall. and became accustomed
w 'iiN N'iitutit, W hltll llit tNIbtttu
TO be irksome. but which on the con-
trary, was more desirable than any
other life could have been at that
time.
| never saw my host. The day after
my arrival he had sent IA message by
Martha to the effect that was well
come at the hall. and for me to make
myself as happy as possible. Beyond
| 4.
him.
So the days and weeks and even
months We're passed in carin" for my
boy. roaming over the grounds and
writing long letters to Harry. from
whom | heard tolerably regularly.
But at last his letters ceased. and
then came weeks filled with waiting
and hcartache. Eagerly. then,
scanned the papers, and one day
saw the beloved name for which |
had been searching. There it was in
the list of the killed. Harry Temple.
captain 34th regiment"
| was ill for weeks after that.
1--WE did not think you would live
through it," Martha told me when |
had recovered sufficiently to listen and
talk little. The master has been
i'll an awful worry about you. | sup
pose he would not have acted so to-
ward YOU if yod did not look so much
like her
1t waS the remark she had made an
the night of my coming, and again |
asked: Like whom:'
''H : sons wife" she answered. in
whisper as though it were a for
bidden subject. and even the walls
might brtray her. He was Il wild
young man. and married against his
fathers will, just like yourself and
Master Harry, my dear.
'They had been married two or
three years before we knew it, and
then he made it known so sudden like;
brought her and the baby home one
night-it was on his b.rthday-in Il
pelting rain, and the master drove
thvm away in the midst of the storm.
ut has been twenty-three years
since it all happened. but it comes be-
fore me now as plain as anything.
The poor young couple died soon after,
and we never heard what became of
the baby"
'Who was the girl?' | asked. par
tally forgetting my own troubles by
becoming interested in the story.
Her name was Willis. and she lived
at Hillsboro in the south counties"
'WilliS.' | eXcla tined. THAT was
my name. and Hillsboro was my
home"
Martha looked at me curiorsly.
''Where are your peoplc:' she inter-
rogated.
Il have none. | always lived with
my mothers sister"
1T is little queer" she said.
In |, fy,1 do, \,
like her. 1t would be strange # YOU
should prove to be Il cousin or some
thing of that sort. now. wouldn't it?
The young master WAS Il soldier. too,
and Il handsomer man | never saw.
There is portrait of him in the east
room down stairs
That afternoon stole away from
Martha and went down to the seldom
entered apartment where the picture
was hung.
1t represented him as he appeared
in uniform. after Il long illness. and
fanc'ed my own Harry would have
looked just so had not his wounds
proved fatal.
Toward morning | yielded to wild
desire to look again at the portrait,
and. taking the baby up and wrapping
him in heavy wooden shawl. | de-
scended to the east room.
As | looked it seemed to take Il dis
tinct form. and-waS | dreaming or
was it possessed of motion? No. il
was no deluSion. 1t was COMM. to-
ward us.
| heard the child. that had no knowl
edge of ghosts or goblinS. cry out.
Papa! papa" and then Il blissful un-
consciousness overcame me.
When | next awoke Martha sat by
the bedside with the child in her lap
On chair near by was a coat Il SOL
dier'S coat
| put out my hand and touched it; il
was no aparition, but substantial blue
cloth.
They told me the story when | was
ed before he was reported as killed
ana AS soon as he could travel had
been invalded home.
He had arrived at the hall in the
nght time, and, not wishing to dis
turb u~. had entered the east room
through the window that | had left
open. thinking to pass the night there.
So many invllids aroused Col. Tenn
pie. and before we had full recovered
he had become Il valued companion
and dear friend
Then by and by they inquired into
the history of the family, and instead
of being proved a cousin or some
thing of that sort" which Martha had
said would be queer" my identity
was Enthusiastically established as the