The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-11-06
WIDOW AND MAID.

way down 10 breakfast.
"The doctor just went out, didn't
he?" queried the young man as he
reached the landing ON which she was
standing. II thought heard him. How
is Tom this morning? Any better?"
She sat down in big armchair stand
ing by the window, laid her head on
the window sill and burst into tears.
1T isn't as bad as that, is itg' he
| finally asked 1.-THE doctor has not given
him up altogether has he?'
She raised herself up and wiped away
| the tears from her eyes.
"There is little hope, Bob. He didn {
say so in so many words. He meant to
| be hopeful, but he failed"
81 suppose he is still delirious?"
Eyes. He is Us bad as ever. He still
keeps up that monotonous cry of Mary,
Mary 1t is SO curious when no one
except himself knows who Mary is. Oh,
Bob, if he should die without recogliiz-
ing me! That is the hardest part of it
all. He cannot last much longer unless
a change comes for the better"
|
looked out on the square, with its great
trees almost stripped of their autumnal
| splendor.
Something has got to be done, f" he
said half excitedly "He can't die. He
is too good fellow, too bright fell
| low, the kind of man the world needs
most.
| DIT xt.Lo
hopelessly. 1.-THE doctor has done every
thing that he could do, and we couldn {
| have done more.
Bob walked down the hall to the door
of the room in which the sick man lay,
and put his hand on the knob Then he
turned quickly and came back to the
window, and the little figure in black
crouched in the big armchair.
tom is delirions. We don't want
him delirious That is the point, Mrs
Thomas, isn't it?" said Bob.
Mrs. Thomas nodded her head.
IF the delirium passed away. he
would sleep?"
YES"
"Well, that's it. He has got to sleep
soundly."
Ibid you ever hear of cases where the
presence of one particular person in a
sickroom exerted a great influence over
a delirious person."
''Imight have, Bob; but never knew
any one who did it. ;"
tom wants Mary" tho young man
| went on, land perhaps if she came to
him she might save his life. think it
is worth trying; at any rate, it cannot
do any HARM"
But who is Mary? You told me that
| you did not know.
| Eyes, l know did; don know for
| a certainty, but think l could pick her
out in crowd. Tom never told me her
name, but he told me good deal about
her. Putting one thing and another to-
gether, think l may venture to say
who Mary is
"And who is she, Bob?''
"She is the unattainable, as Tom
called her. She is wealthy. she is beau
| tiful and she is said to be good. She is
| leader in her set, and has as many
| young men running after her as she
| probably finds convenient. Her father
| is the chairman of the Great Southern
Railway company, in whose employ
Tom and are fortunate enough to be. "
| MARY Summerhayes! Why, she
would never come here! 1t is almost ri
diculous suggesting such thing. You
| don't know her, do your"
| ''Im sorry to say that don't. You
see l am hardly in her set Tom has
met her, though. He was sent up to the
chairman's house one day with some pa
pers requiring Mr.. Suinmerhayes' sig
nature. He had to wait about half an
hour, and during that interval Miss
| Summerhayes. who had found him
greatly interested in q picture in the
drawing room, showed him her father s
collection. When Tom came home that
night he told me about it. He started
| to tell me about the pictures, but when
he had finished found that had heard
great deal about Miss Summerhayes
and very little about the pictures.
"And is that the extent of his &C.
quaintance with her?"
~ believe she bowed to him in the
street one uiiy altcrMdIu.
"She never would come here, Bob.
The idea of asking her is absolutely ri
diculous "
1T does seem that, assented Bob re-
luctantly. "But there does not appear
| to be any other way out Of it..
"You don't understand il, Bob. She
is a young woman, not one whose age
would allow her to visit the bedside of
strange young man. You don't realize
the position it would place her in
perhaps not When her fathers
office boy was sick, she visited him and
carried him fruit and flowers, though.
eyes, but he was only boy. Tom is
| q young man, and that makes a great
deal of difference
81 dare say it does. Still, this is
matter Of life or death. and she might
come if you put it to her in that light
"But can't ask her, Bob"
lyon must. He is your only son.
and he is dying"
The little woman burst into tears
again.
"Come, don't cry" he said tenderly.
Il didn't mean to put il so brutality.
mly wanted you to see it plainly.
but can't ask her. l haven't the
courage"
IF she comes at all, twill be only
because you, as his mother, asked IT.
She will do IL out of sympathy with
Won. IL she does it Mt all. II will be ON
the impulse Of the moment She won't
stop to consider the improperly Of the
thing. couldn't create an impulse.
We have got TO lead trumps and play
trumps all the time. II she won't como
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