Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-03-14

ping III one attack OF dellrlum tremenS
of the subdued kind; beginning with
suicidal depression, going on to fits and
starts and hystelia, and ending with
downright raving. As he sat in chair
in front Cf the fire, or walked up and
down the room picking handkerchief
10 pieces, you heard what poor Mor1arty
really thonght Of Mrs. Reiver, for he
ravCd about her and his own FL for the
most part, though ho ravc.>l some p.
". D. accounts ito the same skein of
@hCnght. He talked. and talked and
talked in low, dry whisper to himself
Eld there YVES no stopping him. He
seeMod to know that there was some
thing wrOrg, and twice tried to pull
himself tCge, her and confer nationally
with the doctor, hut his mind ran out
Cf control at once ard he fell back to q
whisper and the story Ct his troubles. 1t
is terrible to hear big man babbling
like a child of all that man usually
locks up and puts away i'll the deep of
his heart. MoIiHrty read out his very
soul for tie benefit of any OHo who was
in the room between 10 80 that night
and 40 next morning.
From what he said one gathered how
immense an influence Mrs. Reiver held
over him, and how thoroughly he felt
for his own lapse. His whisperings can
not, of coulse, be pat down here, but
they were very instructive as showing
The errors of his estimates
X n. i n
When tie trouble was over and his
few acquaintances were pity!ng him for
the bad attack of jungle fever that had
so pulled him down, Moriarty swore a
big oath to himself and went abroad
again with Mrs Reiver till the end Ct
the season, adoring her i'll IL quiet ard
dcforential way as an angel from heav-
cn. Later on he took to rIdng-not
hacking, but honest riding-which was
good proof that he was improving, and
you could slam doors behind h III with
out his jumping to his feet with gasp
That, again, was hopeful
How he kept his oath, and what it
cost him in the beginning, nobody
knows He certainly managed to com
pass the hardest thing that Il man who
has drunk heavily can do. He took his
peg and wine at dinner, but he never
drank alone, and never let what he
drank have the least hold on him.
Once he told bosom friend the story
Of his great trouble, and how the ''in-
tluence of pure honest woman and an
angel as well' had saved him, When
the man-startled at anything good be-
ing laid to Mrs. Reiver' S door-laughed.
it cost him Moriarty S friendship Mori-
arty, who is married now to a woman
ten thousand times better than Mrs
Reiver--a woman who believes that
there is 10 man on earth as good and
clever as her husband-will go down to
his grave vowing and protesting that
Mrs. Reiver saved him from ruin in
both worlds.
That she knew anything of Moriarty's
weakness nobody believed for a moment
That she would have cut him dead,
thrown him over and acquainted all her
friends with her discovery, if she had
known of it, nobody who knew her
doubted for an instant.
Mcriarty thought her something she
never was, aud in that belief saved him
Celf, which was just as good as though
rhe had been everything that he had i'm
GsinCd.
Eut the question is, What claim will
Mrs. Reiyer have to tho credit of Mori-
Grty IS ssalvation when her day Of reckon
Ing comes?-RUdyard kipling.