Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-08-08


Kindly emotion.
~ reused me from
IT, my gr~ief-strieken
attitude.
Monsieur, permit me 20 persuade
Jon 10 come away. Poor little child.
she tE free from pain now. Her fancy
that y0u were Der father was a for
tUna:e deiusion for her. II made her
last moments happy. Pray cone VITA
mel can e this has been a shock 10
your feelings"
Reverently / laid the fragile corpse
back on the yet warm pillows. With
. fond touch ! stroked the faxen head;
] clOSed tae dark, upturned and giaz-
Ing eyes-I kissed the waxen cheeks
and lips, and folded the tiny hands In
an attitude OF prayer. There was q
Craze smile on the young dead face
q smile OF superior wisdom and sweet
nesG. majestic In its simplicity. AS
sunta rose from her knees and laid
her crucidx on the little breast-the
tears were running down her worn
and wiafzrfed c-cantenanca- AS she
strove 10 wipe them away with her
apron, she said tremblingiy:
at nus be told TO Madama-" A
frown came on the Doctors face. He
was eYfdeus1y a true Rritlsher. dacl-
sive in bis opinions, and frank enough
90 declare them openly.
"feS," he said CURLY, "Madama, as
you can her, should have been here"
THE little angel did not once ask
FOR her," mnrmured Assunta.
True" be answered. And again
there was silence. We stood round
the small bed. looking at the empty
casket thai had held the lost jewel
the Rawiess pearl OF innocent child
hood that had gone, according 20 a
graceful superstition, to ornament the
festal robes Of the Madonna as she
walked In all her majesty through
heaven. A profound grief was at my
heart-mfngled with a sense OF myg-
ferrous and awful satisfaction. / felt,
not as though I had lost my child, but
had rather gained her TO be more en-
1irely mine than ever. She seemed
nearer to me. dead, than she had been
.-sSz living VINO could say what her
future might have beenS She would
have grOwn 10 womanhood--what
then What is the usual fate that falls
g. reD the bess OF women? sorrow,
pain and petty worry. ~unsatisfied
tongings, ineompIeted aims. the dis
appointment Of an imperfect and fet-
tered life-for cay what you will TO
h contrary, woman's inferiority to
man. her physical weakness, her i'm
ability 10 accomplish any great thing
for the welfare OF the world in which
she lives, win always make her more
or less an object Of pity. II good, she
needs all the tenderness. support and
chivalreus guidance OF her master,
man; liz bad, she merits what she re-
sceiyeS, his Ditiless disdain and meas
Ureless contempt. From all dangers
and griefs OF the kind my Stella had
eseaT@d-fOT her, sorrow 40 longer ex-
listed. | was glad Of Ii. | thought, as
I watched Assunta shutting the blinds
close, ~ a signal TO outsiders that
death was In the house. At a sign
from the doctor / followed him out OF
the room On the stairs he turned
round abruptly and asked:
Twin you tell the countess"
Il would rather be excused" 7 re-
piled, decisively. Il arp not at all In
The humor for a scene
lyon think she will make a scener'
he said with an astonished uplifting
of his eyebrows. x dare say you are
right enough! She is an excellent &C
tress."
Dy :hss s.fiie y , hal cached ths foot
Of the stairs.
'She is very beautiful" I answered
syassvely.
sOh, very! No doubt OF THAR And
here a strange fr0wn contracted the
Doctors brow. "FOr my ewn taste.
i prefer an Hgly woman to such beau
ty.'
And with those words - lcft rsa. dis
appearing down the passage which led