Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1900-06-30

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came from her lips in a low. pathetic cry
the sort Of cry a disembodicd soul might
give. who saw some face 1t loved coming
to meet II In the other world
The sound made Godfrcy's heart stand
still, and yet 1t touched him profoundly,
too. What could he do but let her 60 on
gazing at him? lie bent down presently
and kissed her hand; in his intense pity
and sclf-rcproach a minute aftcrward he
kissed her cheek.
MY poor Margaret! my dear Marga-
ret.' he said to her. not once only, but
again and again.
He believed she was about to die he
fore his eyes. and II he could have saved
her at this moment by any sacrifice he
would have done 1t. But he could not
save her, he cried to himself. There was
no future for her: there was nothing to
thing of but these few last hours. She
had lost her life through him; let all
considerations give way to his ono re-
morscful aud overwhelming desire to be
tender to her.
lie sat with her. holding her hands in
his. sometimes In silence. sometimes
speaking to her a little. as she seemed
able to bear II, till, soothcd by the com
fort Of his presence. she fell at last into
a kind of sleep: and then, wrctchcd and
half stunned. he went back TO his own
room.
The days went on. and. as they passed,
those who waited beside Margarcts he'd
watched the struggle she was making for
life. till all their thoughts and hopes be-
came almost ns much absorbed in IL as
h.. Il "a, la, si,,,., hn1
ceased for them. and left them no inter-
est beyond the walls of her sick room.
1t was not only through anxious days.
but even through anxious weeks. that
they had to wait before n, last they could
venture to allow their hopes for Marga-
ret to grow greater than their fears. Her
Illness had become one of those compli-
Gated illnesses that battle doctors skill,
and weary the hearts Of those who watch
beside the sufferers: for. rs happens SO
often after scar.atina. the fever, al.
though itself long subducd. had left the
seeds Of other evils behind II. and when
even month had passed, Margaret had
only begun to show the first faint symp.
time Of conva,esccnce.
II think she will do now" DR.. Carson
had allowed himself to say, but he had
still only said II obviously. "She will
need the utmost care for months to
come" he warned Mrs. Helstone. you
will bc wise presently to take her TO a
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