Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-12-30

Again he knocked, and again in an
cry tones repeated his demand.
But no answer cane-the loud bark
of the dogs sounded from another
part Of the building; and, after & few
minutes delay, Saul, with another
dreadful oath, went on his way.
CHAPTER XIV.
AT FAULT.
But Nelly was unaware of her sec
ond deliverance, insensible to the mar
row escape she had had; for her, the
terrors Of anticipation or the gratitude
for danger avoided no longer existed;
for the time, life and all it's cares, all
her own troubles, and WEAKNESS, and
Misunderstanding were blank.
When good dame Tibbetts again
visited her patient, before herself re-
firing for rest-after the alarm OF her
| self and niece, occasioned by the I'M
usual application at their doors, had
subsided-she found the poor woman
in high fever, and in a state OF mind
bordering on delirium.
There needed not much consdera-
| ton on her part to decide on remain
| ing by the bedside OF her strangely
| found CHARGE and, dismissing her
neice at onceto her night rest, she en-
tered upon the self-imposed duty, like
the veritable Samaritan she was.
Through Nwhole week OF painful,
tedious sickness these kind creatures
nursed the unhappy Nelly; the dame
administering her own simple rene
dies, soothing her troubled mind, and
restoring the fainting and suffering
frame,
The malady did not take any turn
so alarming which the good woman
deemed to call for medical aid. She
had, through long life, neither sought
it for herself nor others whom she had
nursed through far worse affection;
and perhaps she didnot err very much
in the reliance on Nature, left to her
self
The stranger vas suffering, in fact,
from hereaction consequent upon eN-
cessive tension OF the powers, bodily
and mental; the last stroke OF terror
had overcome her, and she lay utterly
PROSTATE.
For two days and night she wan
dered pitifully in her mind; at times,
talked of things utterly incomprehen-
sible to her kind watcher, chiefly ex
horting her to protect and save her
child, of whose welfare she never lost
sight, though failing to recognize even
her presence.
AS much as was possible. they kept
Ida from her loom; the pretty niece.
Rachael, being quite content to make
her her constant care. The child was
never happy but by her mothers bed
side, yet she yielded to the young
woman's kindly caresses, and was won
upon to relate, in her artless way,
many Incidents Of their weary flight,
and of much preceding it, that set
Rachael pitying, and filled her with
curiosity to know more.
Rest and kindness, nourishlng food,
and, more than all, a blessed sense OF
safety, gradually restored the sufferer,
and at the end Of the week she had
left her bed, and was sitting, with her
child upon her lap, beside her good
Samaritan to whom she had been re-
lating so much of her story as suffic-
ed for the general understanding OF
her situation.
The good wonlafB sat for some min
utes in silence, then she saidy gently
II guessed much OF what thee hast
told me; perhaps it might be from
some of what thee mast said LIN thy
sickness, unknowingly. And / am
glad thee hast told nae the truth, else
I should have thought worse OF thee,
Judging, as | say, What was thy gllef
Young woman, am sorely grieyed
for thee indeed, and thy case seems a
sad one, yet | cannot approve thy
act.
~Thou say'st thy husband was
harsh and unk'nd,. and thy hfe was
aweary, yet thee shouldst remember
that He who lays the burthen upon
us Will not suffer it to- bear LIS to TIE
earth. and that, though We bend and
groan beneath it's weight, we have no
light to cast it FROM us, nor to say,
1t lis heavier than [ CAN bear, | will
no more OF it,"
She stopped for Nelly, leaning over
her sleeping child, was weeping
May" the dame went OH, lido not
think me harsh nor unkind- Indeed,
[ afn but saying that believe, and
WHICH / deem most wise and prudent,
and BETTING one who has Christian
part TO fill
4NGod had seen fit thou shou1dst be
this mans wife, and thou hadst 50
accepted HIM Was. it then for thee,
after thou hadst SO become to
| Judge him? to cry, He is unworthy OF
me; | will quit him who is my master
and my husband, to whom have
| pledged my life and my troth?' What
wouldst thou say OF q servant, even,
! who should so quit thy service unad-