Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1900-10-06

A IT. RICHMOND hnQ surrC rrcTcC TO
~ Gen. Humidity and his torrid solar
AMY. The excessive heat had driven
an. buf those 20 whom fate had been
unkind. 20 shelter from the fiery lanccs
Of old Sol.
A. Gray Mansc the members Of the
family had sought comfort In the cool
cr ar on the wide. vine -bowercc piazza
and the serving people might be
found seeking the same solace in the
grove back OF the cook house. The
evening papers were filled with ac-
counts OF victims OF the invaders fury
and told OF the hospitals filled with
/ persons overcome by the heat"
But Madam Grey and her daughter,
/ Janet. were more concerned about the
/ dispatches from Mexico. yellow
Jack" was raging along the gulf coast.
The latest news reported that the viii
/ lagos along the Tuia river had been al
most wiped out OF existence. Tho tenn
porary hospitals flying the yellow
/ flag" at Panuco were overcrowCed.
Physicians we're not plenty and were
ovcrworked; nurses. there were none
but the natives.
The newspaper correspondent wrote
that no news had been received for two
weeks from the outlying plantation.
anc that it was feared that the plant
crs had succumbcd 10 the yellow
plague
As Janet Grey read the dispatches 2,
her mother her face whitened anc II
the tightening lines about her mout.
Madam Grey thought she read IN
birth OF so ne new resolve which no OF
D position could weaken.
Then as the soft moonlight Nlumi'le,
the younger woman's face. and in the
! pale light there seemed something al
most divine In the Inspiration tha
p shone from within the being OF ne
sweet southern beauty. she broke IN
5 silence: Mother, l must so 20 him"
The mothers answer came softly. rs
d signedly. but with no Feproach: ~
. once. love. Poor Jack!" Then tw
= pairs OF hands became as one anc III
e pale moon Peeping between the leave
5 wondered az two women weeping /
, each others arms.
a Next morning among the passenger
> on the fast express flying swift
5 southward was young woman WI
/ might be % and whose sweet, sad fae
cOntrasted strangely with the air
'e eager inIpatience which enveloped he
IF A grip at her feet bore the initials 4"
d G." Sixty miles an hour seemed slow
ie Janet.
D. Five years before Janet Grey, 4
"a only daughter. had been q student
ID the New York training school Z,
nurses. Not because she needed a pr
ID fession. she told herself. but becau
1t she wished 10 be able to be useful.
e. was q hobby. firmly rooted hobby.
IN o young woman who was TO be sor
or day owner OF some of the finest land
Virginia.
So when Jack Masters, a chil6ho
playmate and the son of an old fa mi
friend, sought her love and twice ask
- her 20 become HIS wife. she, though $
was very fond of him. had twice y
him off and had refused TO consic
matrimony as a serious possibility u
he I'll she had won her diploma as
he trained nurse.
go Furthermore. she had limited 10 ia
he that she was not sure of his constan
ir- and that she had doubts about his bu
lid ness ability; for il was common DIT,
"a erty that. though Jack had inherited
is most desirable estate. the young e,
I've tleman had not done all that might
les expected OF him as a landed propr
er. tor. and that Masters hau was not ,
20 hall Of the old time.
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