The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-09

nDel Tor too many CT them are thorough,
klhd' and. when they are not il is because
tneS nave lost faith in the humanity which
mas treated them too badly, time and time
| again. "''- ''ii'e
Ohe day when Amelie came In she paid
ner Dill In fun. that poor. little bill. but
lhat night ] noticed she did not wear her
Match' sun never asked her question.
iou could not have offered her money.
ohe sot an order to do two or three
'hetches, and was paid a small sum. but
sue grew thinner and paler and even the
| cross old scientist forgot TO hurry his din
her one day, and told me that the girl
hdu some trouble. l knew il was so. I
/ hhe" mat the long. loving letter, those
'hat meant encouragement to her. had
Neaseu TO come. l knew that although
! sne went about searching for work. she
uiu II without having her heart in the
search and that she could not understand
one would not ask her people. and. though
she mad written and written. there was no
WOrd from her sweetheart First she
.housht ne must be III. Then. she thought
ne must be dead; and yet. it seemed
/ 10 her, that somebody would have written
her about It, For three days she had been
| up IN her room. l had been III and unable
10 go to see her, but the first time | was
up met the postman and he handed me
letter and paper for her l recog-
nized the writing on both and ran with the
greatest glee to her room, dropped them
beside her, leaned over and kissed her and
| left her alone with the message from her
| lover.
That night we did not see her
Inc next morning we heard a wild
| scream from the top of the house, and
| all of us wondered and went to see what
was the matter. We were certain that
Maria had fallen down the staircase. but
| II was worse than that Maria had gone
| INTO the little room TO awaken its occu-
pant and found her asleep Sleeping that
sound sleep, that long sleep, from which
| there IS no awakening In one hand was
| her lovers letter, on the floor the paper
| That came with it. Somebody took the
| letter.
This was what he said! that brute for
whom she had worked, strived and died:
| My Dear Amelie: 1t seems as if YOU
would never achieve what YOU started
out to. and l fear that, much as | care
| Tor you, l cannot wait any longer The
| daughter of the president of the railroad
| that goes through here has been visiting
us, and for the sake of my family | have
| concluded that It will be wisest for me
| to marry her. l am sure my dear, that
| you Will understand this and realize that
it is not because l love you less. but that
must consider my position and my birth
| l am gentleman and cannot work, and
heaven only knows when you would earn
| enough to take care of us Perhaps YOU
will meet some rich yankee who will ask
| you to be his wife. Good-by Always
/ you friend"
And he called himself a gentleman.
And he broke the heart of a brave
| woman.
| At least, that was what they all said
| Bait the cross old scientist came to my
| room and showed me something that he
| had picked up and that he wanted nobody
| to know about but me- Ii was a tiny cut
| glass bottle with a gold top. On the TOP
was engraved the name of "Amelie." Ii
| had come out of the work box, but that
| perfume had never permeated it. 1t was
| the close smell of chloroform Nobody
was told of this, and when we dressed
| poor Amelie for the last time, Maria
| brought in as her Offering, because she
| said Miss Amelie always liked them, a lit
| tie bunch of bleeding hearts. l put them
| in her hand, and so she carried them to
| her grave. And nobody in the great vast
| city knew how that poor heart bled and
nobody knew how one woman had died and
| how one man had stamped himself a
/ scoundrel
Somehow, after that, the scientist and |
felt little nearer to each other. because
| he knew the truth, and knew the truth.
| just an episode in boarding house-not a
| romantic place, but, my friends, people live
| and die there, and nobody knows.
| Away down south poor Amelie is sleep
| ing. and this Decoration Day there went
down from a queer old man. to be put
| above her grave, box of roses. while from
| grabbed Scotch servant there was a
bunch of bleeding hearts that bore her
name as well as that of Bah.
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