Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1900-05-18


thews. They had grown up together
they had come to Vaudeville together.
and he was not as much in the dark
as Clarence WrStovpr would have
/ liked him to be. He closed the front
/ door upon the young man and shut
fled back to the Sickroom muttcring IL
/ himself
I'd Just as lief as not nobody should
/ be spying on him in his last hours. He
! do humble a lot of mortal strange
/ stuff with the fever in his poor head
/ But the fever was all out of Horace
/ Matthews head when he turned to-
ward Reuben and asked feebly:
Reuben, when was Thomas telr-
graphed for:"
Might before last sir"
And what did you say in it,"
"Guardian very i'll. Wants to see
you. Come at once"
HAS he anSweredY'
mo, sir"
"PerhapS he didn't get it,"
Now, there you 60 to frettIng. sir.
At "lli a w llht YOU. / lie doctor says
You was to keep calm"
80 he did. Reuben. so he did, If
he cot the message, when ought he to
be here"
Il asked the telegraph man that
same question. According to his cal.
culation, Mr. Thomas is due here
about a m"
And it is now
Just half past II, sir"
The sick man closed his eyes weari.
ly. How insignificant all things here
below now seemed! 1t was as if he
We're getting his life, with all of its
loves, all of its ambitions, its tolls, its
achievements, its mistakes. in true
perspective at last. And how mean,
how absolutely worthless, the sum to.
tai was.
All the capacity for loving he had
been endowed with he had exercised
Tor one child. He had loved Olivia to
the exclusion of that broader, more
elcvating love for his fellow man rs
his neiglbor. TO make Olivia happy.
to secure her against any mischance in
the future, had seemed the one thing
worth doing. That she might have,
others must give: that she might re-.
Jolce, others must suffer When he
was working his way with strenuous
St''hborhhesS to this goal, he had not
questioned his own methods nor the
danger of working harm, and not good
to the idol of his life.
with the presumption born of phc-
holnenally good physical record he had
looked forward to seeing Olivlo pninv-
l'S 'he fruits of his wise stewardship,
Willie he aided and encouraged Thorn
as BloNton in his ascent of the ladder
which 1t was we'll for every man ia
climb in his youth.
lie was not the first man who has
preh surprised by death in the midst
or unfinished schemes, and presently
thomas BroXton would be standing
where that terrible old woman had
sl"od. defiant, accusing, merciess. He
opened his eyes from what Reuben had
thought was a TRANQUIL SIMMER to Gov
h'rfledly, Il think l should like to see
my daughter, Reuben, before Mr..
BroXton gets here"
ANA 1t was then that Reuben. going
III search of her had found her in her
oN IL room, sitting with her head bur
ieu IN her outstretched arms.
for the first time in her life Olivia
o"eNed the summons to her fathers
presence with reluctance. DIR. Govan
'lou reasS'lred her on the subject of pa
ralysiS.
our father was violently agitatcd
by the visit of that poor old irrespon-
slble creature and temporarily lost his
powers of speech. All agitation must
poS''lVeiy be avoided, my dear, and
when you go into his presence YOU
must remember how much depends