Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1898-02-26

tea" he added. with laugh
Fancy paying your wife comph- I
ments after having been married
month"; she smiled; lyon are not /
keeping up your role of old married /
man"
II can't do that at the expense of !
truth, he answered; ''and you know I |
always had TO say out what I thought. |
Bat you have q tiny frown, sweet /
heart; what's the matter? no bad !
news, hOpe?" he said quickly.
ooh, no." she returned. This is
letter from Olga, and she always
RIBS me up the wrong way. somehow.
She says: Il presume you are having
perfect time; now tell me what is
the crumpled rOseleaf In ell this hap
piness?-for there must be Oner And
| thought for a moment, If ever one
should come. If it could go on like
this always without changing. IL seems
too good 20 be true" she added in q
low tone; "but there is absolutely not
even a crumpled roseleaf SO far.
mo, dear, he said quietly. bend
ing down and kissing her hands;
there is no serpent in orr Eden"
bered the bitter irony OF Fate that
prompted those words, and they were
soon absorbed again In their letters
and themselves The men were down
stairs in the cabin, and no one noticed
the tiny black adder which had crept
from the basket of flowers, aud now
lay summing himself on the deck just
behind Molly's chair. The warmth
Of the sun made him quite lively, and
he began creeping about. and grad
ually disappeared under the chair.
Suddenly she sat up with a sharp
cry; "Ohi Harry, something has hurt
nv foot" she said aud looking down.
there lay across her instep the little
snake. lis head firmly fixed into the
silk stocking. With a muffied excla-
nation OF horror Harry tore it OF, and
fang II into the sea; the pretty white
foot lay bare, and seen through the
rent In the stocking were three tiny
red punctures. Mr.. Ashley rushed
down the cabin steps in a mad hurry
civilians, Williams" he called; you
must GO on shore at once, at once
do your hearp Mrs Assley has been
stung by a snake, 60 and bring a doc
tor as quickly as ever you can" Com
, ing back he took up the huge basket
of flowers, and pitched them over.
board; then, taking poor Molly in his
: arms, he carried her 70 her cabin
where her maid bathed her poor littl,
/ foot. IL was swelling already, bu'
there was no pain.
''I'll sit on the deck until the doc
tor comes, Harry" she laughed
= please don't worry, don't believe /
was anything but a common adder.
But when the boat brought the doc
5 tor, IN about al hour, he looked yer,
$ grave.
D 81 cannot say anything for some
, time yet;" he said. after examining
{ the sting. 81 don't like the entir
5 absence of pain. Can you not de
I scribe to me what the snake or adde
a looked like?"
But poor Harry had flung it ava,
n without looking. and was in such
r state that he could absolutely remem
y Der nothing. Gradually poor Moll
got worse, the swelling increased, an
u terrible numbness, which GREY
' slowly right over the body, set IL
lie The doctor stayed on. but more &c
< the sake of Mr.. Ashley, who was b'
side himself with grief, than for Moll,
II who lay quite still and qniet in kin
/? OF stupor from which nothing coul
lie rouse her. About six in the evenin
she awoke, and family asked for he
he husband.
he Dear love-" she said. putting he
to arms around his neck. try not to tai
n it too hardly If =" but Harry lie
~ her and rushed on deck.
lie Good God, Wilson," be cried,
5. the doctor. "can't You do anything
e. Let's nave someone else, let's
oil his eye fell on the native who hs
OF brought over the flowers In the NOR
s. ing, standing talking TO Williams, al
in his frenzy, he turned on him.
'ir You scOundrel," he said, going l
rs to him, edo you know your careles
az ness has killed my wife? If she die
d I'll have you thrown into the seal''
lis Master Harry" said the sta
ks Williams, who had been his mast
be since he was a boy, don't hurt Il
er man; he's q native, and these nativ
er are sometimes very clever with meS
st cines, perhaps he can do somethil
Of for my mistressT
80 'God bless you for thinking Of
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