Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-03-09

Europe talking about him, but had |
nearly done for him all the same. |
Then cagne weeks of fever and the |
weary journey to Bombay; the re-
lapse on he road, which, but for Mrs. |
Diamonds nursing, must have finished |
him; the almost miraculously accom-
plished move on to shipboard, which
the doctor allowed was an experiment
of kill or cure.
And now he was steaming home as
fast as the p. & o. line could do it,
and every day some fresh sense of
power in mind or body was reborn in
him; one day he could arrange his
own pillows, the next he could read a
few lines of the Times. A little
later he asked Mrs. Diamond If she
could find him paper and pencil, as he
wanted to write note home" Life
was worth living again with Moylis-
callan drawing nearer day by day.
Mrs. Diamond was q little widow lady,
who, since her husbands death, had
been keeping house for brother in
the civil service. 1.-THE Judge" as she
called him, had fallen a victim to the
charms of an 18-year-old school girl,
fresh from England, and Mrs. Da-
monds services we're required no
longer. Coming down country she
had stumbled upon Teddie Blake,
fever-stricken and virtually alone, and
1t was undoubtedly to her care that
he owed his recovery from the relapse,
which had been wose than the origi-
nal attack. She had deferred her
own plans to the convenience of the
patient, had superintendent his trans
fer to the steamship from the Bombay
hotel which she had hardly dared to
hope he would leave alive and was a
witness of his convalescence on board
ship, as day by day his strength and
spirits returned So it was not won
derful that Teddie turned to her for
paper and pencil on the very first oc-
caslon that he felt he could scrawl a
line, and imperiously demanded that
he be allowed to write "to his people"
Are you sure you can do it?" Mrs.
Diamond asked, producing the writ
ing board, but not giving it over to
him Internationally.
quite sure-that is not a bit of it
but I'll try"
Il thought you said you had nobody
belonging to your"
No more / have-no real relations
. but an adopted family that is the
dearest in the world-not a mere ac-
cident of birth like other peoples
families. | must write them just a
few words to say I'm alive and com
ing home, and it'll be ready when an
opportunity comes for posting it,
though it can't reach Moyliscallan
more than an hour or two before do
myself"
"Moyliscallan, repeated Mrs. Da-
mond, what do you know of Moylis-
callan? | only heard of the place for
the first time a month ago, and now il
turns up again!"
ITS my home" Blake said pain
fully scrawling the date at the top of
his sheet of paper. THE castle be-
longs to me, only I've never been able
to live in it yet. My people live at the
rectory-it is to Mr.. O'Malley, the rec
tor, that I'm writing. And what did
you hear about Moyliscallan the
sweetest place on all the earth?"
why" cried Mrs. Diamond excited
", this is the oldest thing My cou-
sim George Strangways, rented the
castle from some one some years ago
from you If appears-and now he is
engaged. married probably by this
time, to one of the rector's girls,
Ellen O'Malley, daughter, suppose.
of this very old gentleman you're writ
ing to! | had the letter Just. before
| met you at Rahmednugged, and had
scarcely gwen it thought since"
One of the rector's girls,
Teddy Blake had seen death glaring
at him from wall of black Afghan
faces; he had looked fever in the eyes
more than once; but he had never
known what despair meant till Marcia
Diamond told him her little story of
odd condolences sitting on the steam
ship deck, halfway through their
homeward voyage. For moment he
repeated the words. ELLEN O'Malley:
there is only one daughter at the rec
tory; and Mrs. Diamond, whose eyes
were on the silk sock she was knit
ting, went on cheerfully: "Oh.
then. that's the girl. | did not hear
from George Strangways uirect! the
news came through any brother, but
of course il is the same-the young
lady at the rectory. Fancy old George
succumbing to an Irish girls fascina-
lions after going all over the habl-
table globe unscathed until now!"
us he a good fellow" Teddy asked.
Something in his voice made Mrs.
Diamond give a swift glance at her
companion, and in that glance she
understood everything.
he is very good fellow" she
answered, a little more seriously than
she had hitherto spoken: amy girl
will be happy and tsnderly treated
by him, though he is an elderly man
So. | should think-and a little &C.
centric and old-fashioned in his ways.
You will find letters telling you all
about ii when you reach England, you
may be sure. Don't you think you
had better let me take that writing
board down stairs again? Ii will be |
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