The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-09-22

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TAKE ME IN. JANET: TAKE ME IN
TO DIE"
began to find fault wi my talk and my
manner and my dress and wi a 1 did or
said. And ne put me under his mother
10 learn how TO be fine lady, and she
was gey and hard on me and set Archie
against me, and made him scold me for
just naething at all And l was III, and
she said / was only awkward. and my
head ached and 1 couldna learn the books
! be to learn, nor walk as she showed
me. nor talk like her, nor do anything at
a She tried to max me do. on, the
weary. weary days that haze fret myself
through, and the lang painful nights, and
some times Archie sac kind, I thought l
must be in the wrang, and l would try
again, and sometimes Archie sac cross,
l thought / must die wi the shame and
the heartache o il, and at last / could
thole it no LANCER and / went ava to
Jessie Largs and she wasna very kind.
was in her way. / seem TO haze been in
everybody's way. When l spoke to Isobel
o my trouble she wouldna listen TO me,
because, she said, Mistress Braelands'
custom was worth thirty pounds a year,
no TO speak o. her influence. And | kent
/ must die soon. sac | tholed Jess!e's cross
ways as weel as / could, for / wanted TO
save you and Christina for the last hour
and she put her thin hand out to Chris
tina and laid her head closer TO Janets
breast
And l would Ike to see the man or
woman who would daur TO trouble you
now, my bonny BARN." said Janet, with
sob in her voice, and she crooned kind
words 10 the dying girl. until she fell
asleep in her arms
When she awoke, she was in a high
fever and delirious. and her one cry was
for Andrew: Andrew was in his steamer
but the ship was lying off in sight of Pit
tencraigie, and Janet went down TO the
village and got two men to put TO sea
with q message for him. Then she sent
TO the nearest doctor and called in at the
minister's, and told him all that had hap
pened for, she said, you yourser doc
tor, will be the only pairson that will be
caring to so to Braelands about the puir
soul"
The men were too old to be at the fish
ing. and were therefore old and infirm for
the labor of reaching Andrews ship, but
strengthened by pity for the dying girl
they managed TO bring their craft near 10
the melee of boats surrounding her. Some
were discharging their boxes OF fish, 9TH
erS struggling 10 get some point of van
tage, others lighting TO escape from the
uproar. For the air was filled with the
roar of the waves and with the voices of
men. blending in shouts, orders, expostu-
Iations. words of anger and words of jest.
Above all this hubbub Andrews figure on
the steamer lowered, large and command
ing as he watched the trunks OF fish
hauled on board, dragged, pushed, thrown
or kicked as near the mouth of the hold
as the blockade of trunks already ship
ped would permit.
Il,rt chs ~ a ~ thunder a
torian voice called: Captain Binnie
wanted! Girl dying at Pittencraigie wants
hjm! Andrew heard. and in a moment
had deputed his charge to Jamie and was
at the gunwala; and selecting a point when
great wave lifted one Of the small boats
10 the level Of the steamers bulwarks, he
scrambled into her and was soon going
shoreward as fast as his powerful stroke
al the oars could carry him.
Sophy. however, was beyond his power
10 reach; the tendc-est words could not
comfort her for life was inexorably COM
ing to an end, and every one Of her NUT
tered words was mysterious. important.
wondrous. though they could make out
nothing she said. save only that she talked
about angels resting in the hawthorn
bowers"
Suddenly Christina remembered that
some large. impOrtant-ldoking papers had
been sent that morning 10 the dying wo-
man, and Andrew on examining them saw
they were proceedings in the divorce case
Between Archibald Braelands and Sophy.
Does she ken aUght o these?" he sternly
asked Christina, and when his sister an
swered: Ma. ma They only cam an hour
ago from Jessie Largs. And whatna FOR
would we tell here Death will break her
marriage ring without judge or jury vera
soon. the doctor says. IN a few hours at
malst."
Then Andrew put the papers in his
pocket and strobe rapidly down the eli
and away 10 Braelards. He met the mas
Ter al the door and At Andrews look he
disCounted from his horse. and they
turned into a small room without a word
Then Andrew threw the papers down on
table and said with passionate sorrow-
"Youn no need 20 fash folk vi the Ike
o them, Braelands. Your wife IS dying Al
my sisters house. Go 10 her. Go at
once"
What is tina: TO you? Mind your own
business"
1T Is the business o'.every decent man
70 call comfort 10 the diving. CO. and say
the words YOU ought 70 say before II is too
late"
Why .s'nv wife at your sisters hOuse?'
God pity the pur SOUL she rad No ither
place 70 die fn. For C'hr.st's sake. 80 and
put a right between YOU
she left ne OF her owr~Free Will Why
should I goe''
Nl man, man. TO Tor your am sake,
then Tomorrow L VIII be too late 10 say
the words YOU VIII weep then 10 say. Go
FOR your ain sake. 20 spare yourself the
black renorse that Is sure 70 come. II you
di1na care for the puir wife, so for your
air sake
Il DO care for her. 7 Wished
Then dinna lose a moment. Haste We,
Haste We II Il is hut one kind word. give
Il 20 her before YOU part forever. She has
lo'e1 YOU weel. She loves You yet-at the
graves mouth. Haste We man Haste
ye''
His passionate hurry drove ike a wind,
and Braelar6s was q a straw before IL.
Andrew urged him to his horse and saw
him flying down the road 20 Pittencraigie
ere he seemed conscious o. his own efforts
Then he drew a long sigh and began 10
hurry his steps Half way down the Brae-
lands garden path. Nine. Braelands step
ped In front % him
What have yoV come hsrs foE.s' SIC