Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-05-25

Merclful heavenv he exclaimed.
HAS the dead come to life? In Gods
name, Mrs. Dalrymple, speak to mel
And falling on a chair, he wiped the
cold beads of perspiration from his
| brow.
Il am not Mrs. Dalrymple," she an
swered, quietly, after a momeut's
pause. did not Mr.. Corbett tell you
that it is OF her | wished to hear?"
Pardon me- he said; ''but when L
entered this room. I thought Mrs.
Dalrymple herself was before me.
Never have ,sYn so marvellous a
likeness. 1t scented, Indeed, her liy-
ing self"
You know Mrs. QaIrymple, them
You can dlrectsBe 10 herg' she SAID.
Il knew lMf, madame, yes. i
thought her thu most beautiful wo-
man | had evdpi be1elq in my life;
yet, / see noyy&t hat. you are even
more SO. She IN Capfsif Darrymple
came here imrdediately oR. Hxriving in
New Orlenas. Il donsr knew why. bn,
TIE captain seemed to Ike me-, and T.
Well, | never met d mar / niofestlfor-
oughly admired Early in June, n
rty left New Orleans for the far
est. to prospect some new mines
which were said tssbe ofsgreat vaftt.
The captains interest became very
intense regarding them, until he deter
mined to put his own capital in them.
A company was formed, n conditional
deed of the mines given. if they full
filed. on inspection, the promise made
for them. Having so much at stake,
he went out with the rest
"And his wife-she went with him?'
interrupted Florence.
"No, poor lady. better had she done
so. 1t was too hard a journey for
her TO undertake the captain said,
and too, good n chance, he seemed IT,
think. for him to lose. He begged her
to be brave. and not make his duty
more difficult.
/" Il want to prove to them ut home
Dorothy / heard him say to her,
once, that | was right when 1 de-
clared hat / could make enough for
us two in this great, glorious country,
without their pitiful help. 1 will only
be away four months, dear, and then
/ vii either return to you, or you shall
come to me-
Before he left he asked me to find
a home for his wife somewhere, that
she might, IL possible, have near her
Il woman friend. She was far too
beautiful to be left alone and unpro-
tected in a hotel.
Il was able to secure for him Just
what he wished / knew a widow-a
lady who had a charming little cot
tage away from the din and hustle of
TIE city. She had never taken boa-d-
ers, but when / explained to her what
Il NyfShaH Shn arSanAH both hn,r haarf
and home
THANK Godv' interrupted Florence,
again, needless of the strange illusions
he had made in his story TO something
sad and terrible yet to be disclosed.
"She is there safe and well. then, and
you "a take mt TO her at once"
Her listener gravely shook his head.
would to heaven that / might" he
said. madame, the lady who well
coined the poor, young wife so cordial
ly. Is dead. She fell one Of the first
victims to the fever"
when I heard that Madame Fayal
was stricken with the fever, l went at
/ INC TO the house." he continued. as If
still desirous Of po%stponing telling OF
| the evil tidings.
II found the two women alone to-
1 kttItI. LIE NtINuulS I'LL uGu iitu. i
told Mrs. Dalrymple that, strictly
quarantined as we were, | could find
! some means to enable her to leave the
| city and rejoin her husband, or, at
least await his return in some place
not infected by the pestilence. But
she, who, heretofore. had seemed a
very child, had suddenly developed
into n woman, whose brave courage
put my own weaker manhood TO
shame.
Il cannot desert my friend" she
said. Nor could ! carry to others the
! germ of the frightful disease. DO you
know that If l left this house this poor
/ woman might perish Of thirst. or die
of hunger, without one to hold to her
lips q drop o. water. or give her the
medicine and nourishment which may
yet save her life?'
II looked at her as n looks at a
Martyr, about whose head is the gold
en- glory OF a saint. Then l glanced to-
ward the bed. l had seer too many
. fever patients not 10 know that here
death had set its seal.
lit is useless l said. Madame
Fayal cannot live forty-eight hours.
You must think of yourself and OF
your husband
".Bertiev she exclaimed. while the
loyeliest smile l had ever seer played
about her lips-'Bertiei You think he
would tell me TO desert a friend? All.
you do not know my husband. Be
sides. l am in Gods hands. He will
guard me from evil for my darling's
sake
"She. too, trusted In Godr' interrupt
ed Florence, but speaking her thoughts
only to herself. regardless and forget
full of her listener. "She, too. trusted
in God. And God proved her trust?
Go on, go onf'
Madame has set me a hard, hard
task. As she would stay, l stayed
with her. l could not leave these two
dssolate women-one dying and one
almost a child in years-alone togeth-
or, so ! stayed to give what help K
| could. 1t was little, for, on the very
next day /, too, was stricken with the
fever.
IL had sense enough to drag myself
away from the house, and rot make Of
myself only an added burden on those
little white hands. For weeks 1 was
very I'll When / rccovnrad NV drat