The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-24

1 L,
undulates and wavers as you walk;
why, that's sign for YOU 10 take that
medicine. and take it quick oh. it
viii warm you till the little pale blue
streaks in your white hands viii bulge
out again with tingiing blood and it
VIII start UP from its stagnant pools
| and leap from vein to vein till il
reaches your beings furthest height
and droopS and falls and folds down
over icy brow and face like a soft veil
| molStened with pure warmth. All! il
is so deliriously sweet and restful,"
heard moaning in the room below,
and then steps on the stairs, and a
tapping at the door 1t was Mary Mrs
Clark had awakened and was crying
for her son. But we must not waken
| him." 1 said. Give Mrs Clark the
medicine the doctor left for her-that
will quiet her.
But she won't take il, sir. She
won't do anything ar all for me-and
if Mr.. Clark could only come TO her,
for just a minute, she would"
The woman's speech was broken by
shrill cry in the hall, and then the
thud of naked feet on the stairway. Il
want my boy-my boyi" walled the
| hyStericai woman from without
Go to your mistress-quick." 1 said
sternly, pushing the maid from the
room. Take her back; / will come
down TO your assistance in a moment
Then / turned hastily to see if the
sleeper had been disturbed by the wo-
mans cries; but all was peaceful with
him yet; and SO, throwing a eoverIet
over him, / drew the door TO silently
and went below.
| found the wretched mother in an al
most frenzied state. and gathering in
a violence that alarmed me to the ex-
tent that L thought it best TO again
summon the physician: and bidding the
servant not to leave her for an instant.
hurried for the help SO badly needed.
IhlS time the doctor WAS long DELAYED
although he joined me with all possible
haste, and with all speed accompanied
me back 10 the unhappy home Enter
ing The door, our cars were greeted
with shrek that came piercing down
the hall till the very echoes shuddered
as with fear 1t was the patients voice
shrliling from the sieeper's room up
stairs: 20 God, My boy. my boy, I
want my boy, and he will not waken
Tor me-! An instant later we were
both upon the scene
The woman in her frenzy had broken
from the servant 10 find her son. And
she had found him.
she had wound her arms about him.
and had dragged his still sleeping form
upon the floor He would not Wakeu.
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heart and shrieked her very soul out
IN his ears. He would not waken. The
race, though whittier than her own be
toKened only utter rest and peace. We
drew her, limp and VOiceIess. from his
SIDE We are too late the doctor
whispered. lifting with his finger one
OF the closed lids. and letting it drop
10 again. See here" He had been
Keeling at the wrist; and, as he spoke
he slipped the sleeve up, barring the
sleeperS arm From wrist to elbow il
was hvid purple, and pitted and SCARED
with minute wounds-some scarcely
sealed as yet with clotted blood.
In heavens name, what does it all
mean?" 1 asked.
Morphine, said the doctor ~ard
the hypodermic. And here he ex-
claimed, lifting the other hand-"bere
is a FOLDED card with your name at the
top"
snatched it from him. and I read.
written in faint but rounded charac-
tiers:
like to hear your voice. 1t sounds
KIND 1t is like faT-Off tune To drop
asleep, though, as I am doing now iS
sweeter musie-but read on have
taken something to make me sleep. and
py mistake 1 have taken too much: but
you VIII read right on. Now, mind YOU.
Ihis is not suicide, as God listens to the
Whisper OF this pencil as 1 write, 4
Gld II by mistake For years and years
l nave taken the same thing This |
time took too much-much more than
meant to-but am glad. This is the
second favor I would ask: Go to nv
employers tomorrow, show them this |
H1ndWrItfng. and say / know for my
sa ke they viii take charge of nv af- |
ialrs and administer all my estate in /
the best way suited to my mothers
needs Goodbye, my friend-I can only !
say goodnight to you when / shall /
take your hand an instant later and !
turn away forever
through tears L read it all. and end /
ing with his name in full. turned and
iooked down on the face of this man
lhat had learned TO love, and the full /
measure OF his needed rest was with
MIN; and the rainy day that gIowered
ard drabbled at the eastern windows of
me room was as drearily stared back
At by a hopeless woman's dull dement,
I'd eyes.