The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1902-06-13

no power to create. only to cultivate. Some
times a gentle mother seems To have been de
denied the power of disciplining her children,
yet the influence Of her pure example may leao
them at last into paths OF rectitnde.
Cierties aunt was now very i'll and she tried
, to keep Judge Gray from knowing his wife's
condition but could not. His anxiety about his
wife caused him to have a relapse. Now the poor
girl stood at the window. with tears in her eyes
eyes now So used To tears. Nothing could be
seen in the streets below but the dead being
carried To the grave. Death reigned where
only few weeks before all had been happiness
and peace. DIR. Randall had told her that OF
the many young people she had met nearly all
we're sick dead. The few who were well were
taxed to their utmost to provide for the sick
aud suffering and to bury the dead.
Now she hears his step ON the stairs and
opens the door To meet him. He glanced at the
patient and said Miss Gcrtie go and stay with
Miss Grace. l will call the nurse in your nncle's
room and We will do all we can for Mrs. Gray
Gerties heart sank and she left the room re-
luctantly. for she feared her aunt was about To
leave them too. A little while after DIR. Randall
called her into the hail.
BE brave Miss 6ertie. for must tell you the
worst"
20 DIR. Randall is my dear aunt dead?' she
asked looking into his pale face.
Before could call the nurse her spirit had
taken its flight. and when started across the
hall TO see how your uncle was l met the nurse
telling that lac too had passed away
'Mcrciful God - cried Gertie and she turned
So pale. a. she sank into u chair and covered
her face with her hands, that DIR. Randall
thought she going to faint. 1t seemed to
her that everybody dying and for the
moment she was conscious only of an intense
longing To 20 herself Ia the beautiful land where
her loved ones had gone and where there shall
b. more death neither sorrow. nor crying. "
DIR. Randall's voice sounded far off rs she faint
~ heard him offer her some restorative. She
said ia after years that at this time feeling of
inter desoiation came over her, as if every body
was dying and she alone to be- left on the
earth. She refused the restorative and the chris
tian phys saw that she was mere in need of
spiritual comfort than of medical aid For
tunately he had been reared by a christian
mother and his mind well stored with the beau
tiful promises of the Bible, seating himself be-
side her he repeated in soothing tones Fear
for am thy God: l will strengthen thee yea
l will help thee; yea. / will uphold thee with
the right hand of my Righteousness" As one
whom his mother comforteth. so will l comfort
you Then flood Of tears and the physician
knew that reaction was taking place from the
shock. which had SO nearly stunned her.
Miss Gertie you must bear up now like the
little heroine you and help me save Miss
Grace. All depends on good nursing and on
her being kept in ignorance of her great loss.
She has fine constitution and think. with
the care you win give her, she will recover. The
nurse has gone who with your uncle.
witt send you one of the Sisters Of Charity from
Bethlehem convent. will see to it too that
you will have protector at night during these
bx.- he
her go battle her face and return to Gracie's
darkened room. ''You the nobiest. best girl
in the world. May God bless YOU
The bodies Of the couple united in life and
not sepa rated in death were carried out Of their
earthly home
Later in the afternoon Mr.. C the sanity
ly pastor came to synpathize with and comfort
Gcrtie. But he had not been with her long be-
fore he felt creeping over him the chill with
which yellow fever often appears. Miss Gertie'
hc said, Il am sick. 50 must go home i'm
mediateiy. MY wife is nursing sick neighbor
and will call her."
The sun began To set and twilight deepened
into night; Gertie began to feel uneasy. alone
in the large house, with only sick girl. Some
times she sat in her sadness and Loneliness, when
suddenly g. remembered that the front door
had not locked aud she went down to lock
HN$ vas that noisef Some cue was
In tlia library. Through the half open door she
could - IN The dim light the faint outline Of >