Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-02-16

dress vas secuSed and Marshall wired
the surprising Message:
Our darling is dying. / am here
with her. Come and / will love you in
the same old way"
The short moments intervening be-
tween the ARRIVAL of her answer
seemed hours to the impatient and
penitent husband and father, but in
time he received the two words only,
Il come" Death, however, unfeeliag-
~ interposed before the happy reunion
could be effected, and claimed the lit
tie one before the mother came. 1t
was an awful blow to the father. He
had not been permitted to see his
daughter since he saw her last play
ing round home in Arizona. The dis
ease being an infectious one, the SUI
perintendent refused to allow him to
enter the patients room. The daugh-
ter had been called at home by Captain
Tom and his wife "our darling" and
this is why he sent notice of her III
ness as he did. Marshall went to the
station to meet his wife. The train
came in and the two recognized each
other at a glance. Two sobbing
clasped figures told to the station
master and the others near by thai
some pathetic reunion was occurring
and people wondered what il was all
about. The two, sorrowing and silent
walked arm in arm to the home. They
were denied admission to the room
but Marshall had expected it, and he
had formulated plans accordingly.
He desired that he and his wife
should see the entire form OF thaii
darling lying at rest in the room rather
than to see simply the face through
the glass OF the coffin. His plans were
that platform even with window il
the room should be erected. This wai
done, and, accompanied by the chap
lain OF the home, they climbed lad
der and mounted the platform. The
description OF what happened there
has been told only by the chaplain
The memories of the occasion are too
sweet and touching for the outside
/ world, and no one else has ever neart
OF 1t from their lips.
The chaplain says that through tn,
window there came the sight OF al
beautiful picture as he had eve
been privileged to see. Upon a bic
lay the form of the dead girl. He
face, with the exquisite complexion
rendered so by the fusion of American
and Castilian blood, and with heI
beautiful hair falling in graceful
curves around, had the appearance o
an angel, says the chaplain. He tel!
that he looked with rapt attention up
on the sweet. calm face for half an
hour, thinking that It was but few
/ minutes.
Finally his mind was diverted tc
Marshall and his wife. The two were
sobbing as IL their hearts were burst
Ing. Their arms were twined about
each other in firm clasp. They
seemed unconscious of the outside
world, and with closed eyes were ap-
parently going over the past and
thinking of what might have been Il
Capt. Tom had only been true to his
promise to "honor and keep true tc
this woman" Finally the good old
man who was with them ON the plat
form was over come, and he knelt
down. AS best he could for he was
sobblng so, he offered a fervent prayer
to Providence that the choicest bless
ings should rest with Capt. Tom and
his wife.
The body OF the girl was laid to rest
In the home cemetery, and Marshall
and his wife took their boy and went
east No one knows just where they
went. They told no one. desiring 10
begin life anew among strangers,
without fear that their past should
ever be recalled by curious and UNI
sympathetic public. Before leaving
and without telling his wife. Marshall
! did something that proves that he has
| irrevocably renowned his past life.
1t only took minute to go to a mar
BILE dealer and arrange and for a tomb
| stone. This tombstone now stands at
the head OF the grave, and on 1t is the
simple inscription, Our Darling"
Few of the people that visit the GEM
etery ever go away without tears in
their eyes, Their attention and in
tcrcst are AZ once aroused by the pecu-
liar inscription. and they naturally in
| qulre of the old sexton it's significance.
The story that he relates to them
has just been told.-Chlcago Times
Herald.