Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-08

a.AeG.uy Iue. t, nor the stern look on his face, to tell them that the end was near. Louise was partly raised on pill lows, and her eye glowed with the fe- yer of madness that had all along been consuming her.
 ''Come-' she cried peevishly, we shall be late. Don't you hear the clock striking:" It made every one in the room start to hear the great clock in the hall just at that moment strike Il.
 Come, give me my gloves and fan, and tell Jem to drive around at once Be careful of my dress. Do I look right? The dances will be started. We shall miss the first. How slow you are! 1 wanted lilies of the valley. and you sent up the freiSias. l don't think they are bit pretty. Doctor, you said hot to leave off my cloak when l went cut to the carriage. It seems cold. What is the matter? Hark. l hear the music! Why don't they play faster? It is not fast enough.'
 She stopped talking, ard her eyes opened wider. She seemed to see what the rest did not. Then s:le cried in a terrible voice: Aunt Royal. Hal. silIl SolIis5 duI Audd. OOIiOIy , doctor, save me!'
 She fell back, and the doctor shud- dered and for q second buried his face in his hands. Stuart never saw him dc that before. When he lifted his head, no one asked what the end would be, for it had already come. She had died. as the doctor had really supposed she would, suddenly and painlessly. Her life had gone out like q candle flame in a winter night, when the great docr of the mansion is swiftly opened and the belated owner of the house is met by the servant in the hall.
 'Tell the musicians to play q little faster" said Aunt Royal few minutes later. and they did so.
 When morning began to come in gray and cold, Stuart was standing by the window of the bedroom as he had stood about year before when his father died. Louise lay there. now that thevife had gone. her face almost as beautiful as when Stuart saw her on his return from Europe. The jewels were still about her neck and the race lets on her wrists, while the freisias of which she had complained lay across her bosom.
 Stuart was looking out of the win dow. X crowd of miners had come down the road and was standing silent ly in front of the mansion. He saw them there. and even in his grief he respected their purpose ill coming thus early to show their sympathy before they wer.t on down to their days work.
 He went out to the hall
 "Tell the men to come up. shall be glad to thank them," he said to serv- ant.
 Rhena came in. God has given you to me-" he said, ''else this would be more than I could bear,'' and he stood thus with his arm about her, and the tears of his humanity fell fast at the sight of that pale clay on the bed
 Then be turned toward the hall with his wife%
 God is merciful," she said "He has given us something to live for We will spend our all in doing his will"
 "Tes,'' replied Stuart, Humanity, after all, is worth saving It is worth living for. We are our brothers keep CTS. There is nothing better in all the world than the love of God for his chil- dren, and the love of his children for one another" And with the words he went out and shut the door upon the; dead and its past, and with the woman of his love by his side faced the living and it's future.
 THE END. ~.