The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-09

She entered the house He started
to follow. And in that instant his
brain whirled, his knees gave way and
he sank trembling to the ground.
Thus the woman found him when
she returned a moment later. She
grasped the real situation at a glance.
She was not surprised. In her ap-
prehension she had expected some
thing like this.
she thought. She half carried, half
| dragged him to the bed, and applied
restoratives. He opened his eyes.
I'm tired, darling" he said, family.
Tired. I'll be rested soon. Don't
mind me; go on with your dinner"
I'm going for the doctor, Larry.
It's better to go at once. I'll not be
gone long"
And before he could utter a protest
she had sunbonnet on her head and
was running down the slope.
The mining camp of Redeye was
| three miles distant. Two hours passed
before she returned with the doctor.
Larry was mumbling in delirium. The
bed clothing was scattered on the floor.
| The water pitcher was broken.
'It is the fever" said the doctor,
briefly. HE has been laboring beyond
| his strength
mot consumption, doctor?"
mo"
The woman clasped her hands, rails
ing her face to the rough ceiling.
Thank God for that!" she murmur-
ed. Our struggles have not been all
| in vain even if he's taken from me.
| Thank God, thank God-for hope!"
Then she prepared for the fight with
death.
In the doorway Of the dwelling on
| the long, gray slope sat a man with
| the first faint signals Of returning
| strength showing through the pallor of
his cheeks. About his shoulders was
| a bed quilt. His chair was of red
| plush, strangely homogeneous to its
| surroundings.
Kneeling at the mans side, holding
| one of his thin hands caressingly, was
woman.
At the foot of the slope the stream
sang and danced.
and" the man dreamily took up
story at point where, under stress
of emotion, it had faltered and fallen,
"the men whom they thought rough
and unkind turned out to be angels in
| disguise. Didn't you say, dear, twas
| the mayor himself that brought them
the red plush chair and stayed by the
side of the sick chap three days and
| nights when the blessed wife's strength
was gomez"
Eyes, Larry. But twas all the doc
tors doings in the first place; twas
the doctor that stirred them up. Sure,
that preacher who looks like a cut
throat was, here for three weeks, day
light and dark, and he'd have been here
vet only he was called away five or six
hundred miles to attend funeral. And
all of them offered me money which
wouldn't take. o dear! TITS not such
a had world after all larry"
mo. A good world, Molly. I'm
thinking that maybe tits better than
some of use deserve. I know one that's
a vile hypocrite, and yet blessings are
roosting all over him and he sits in
red plush chair like a king"
20 Larry!"
"'Tis so. Did not the doctor come
to him one day and say Larry, your
wife must be taken away from here
or she'll die?' He did. And he said
that twas a case of tuberculosis, but
that he had not told her. For said
he, twill do no good to do that. She's
woman, Larry She is the man adj
mitted. And if you say so,' said the
doctor, putting his hand on the mans
shoulder, TIL tell her it's you that have
the disease and must go away. IT'S
hard 1 know. You'll have to give up
your place and your little home, but
she's worth it, Larry said he. She'll
go If tits for you, but she wouldn't
listen to it if twas for her. And-and
so twas done, darling"
The woman kissed the thin hand
again and again.
"And how, Molly, tell me the secret
you've been keeping from me for two
weeks"
II WILL" she said, chokingly. "Twas
the fourth morning of the mayors
stay with you. He was sitting by the
bed, where he'd been all night, and
was curled up on the floor beyond the
curtain there when he called to me.
I jumped in a fright, for there was
something in his voice that made me
feel sick-here. oh sir / said, what
is it?' He was twisting the curl on
your forehead with two fingers and a
thumb, and then looking at them and
tasting them and smelling them. lis
eyes We're rolling with excitement.
Madam he said, where do you get
your water to wash in?' From the
stream / told him. And he hoped
to his feet and walked back and forth
very fast. OF sudden he stopped
right before me. is this claim of
yours filed according to law?' he ask
ed. 1T is said I. Then said he,
you're lucky 'Why?' said I. Be
cause said he, dancing like a loon,
you've struck gold, madam, gold! The
water with which you've bathed your
husbands head, madam, is rich with
it-flour gold-precious gold! See!'
The oil of his hair acted as natural