Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-06-26


hGure, relieved only by white frills ot
throat and wrists. The pensiye shade
OF smile dwels on her lips a momont
as she looks across on Mrs, Clendenop
IN mute rebellion at the physicians man.
date. -A'''
You need not look defiance" the lady
returns, "for I shall add nv commands
to those of Dr. Constant. This is Thurs.
day, and you have not slept n single nigh+
this week. while l have had two nights,
rest My dear child, listen to reason and
remain at the hotel tonight and get some
sleep"
She does not really know how tired
she Is until she goes up to her room and
throws herself on the lounge, face down
ward Ike weary child, to rest. Sleep
TELL on her very ,softly-a deep, refresh
ing siumber-from which only the morn
ing sunshine aroused her. She rose with
renewed energy for her labor of love, and
kept at her post for weeks afterward.
with only occasional seasons of rest and
sleep. Her superb organism kept her up
through it ALL aided and abetted by her
unfaltering will, Through it all there
came no tidings of her husband or child.
Letters came often from the absentees
in Europe, but without mention of either,
and Grace began to feel herself widow
indeed
The Clendenons. too, were indefatiga-
bic in their cxertions for the victims of
the fever. They were always devoted
and earnest in their efforts, and kept n
watchfuL care, too, over Grace, whose
zeal and willingness often outran her
strength and power Of endurance
Mrs. Clendenon's gentle, placid old
face began to look many months older,
but it was in Willard that the greatest
change was perceptible. His cheerful
spirit never tagged, but gradually the
two women who loved him each in her
own way, began to see that the tall, fine
form grew thinner and slighter, the face
paler, and trifle more serious, while
silver threads began to sprinkle them
selves thiclly in his dark hair. He was
wearing out his strong young manhood
in hard, unremtting toll, and leaving his
constitution enfeebled and open to the
attacks of disease. The idolizing heart
of his mother noted all this with secret
alarm, and she would fain have persuad
ed him to retire from his arduous duties
and return to Norfolk. His gentle but
firm refusal checked all allusion to the
matter and, rs the weeks wore away,
and the fever began to lose its hold and
abate it's virulence, she hoped that they
would soon be released from their wear
ing tasks, and allowed time for recupera-
ton.
The contents of letter received~more
than two months previous from Lulu
weighed also on Mrs. Clendenon's mind,
and she could not, as she often did in
other matters, seek the sympathy of
Grace, as Lulu had desired she should
not know anything of it. SO Mira. Glen
demon bore her burden of anxiety all
alone, save for Him who carries the half
of all our burdens.
A portion of the letter ran as follows:
Mother, do you remember when
wrote you from Brighton, England, about
the little child In whom l was so strange
ly interested Whose great embance
to some one of whom l could not think
puzzled and interested me SO? Well.
have met again with the little darling
here, and have visited his grandparents
at their elegant villa just outside the city.
They are very wealthy and very proud
people--the old baronet, Sir Robert Will
loughby, the haught; st old aristocrat
ever met His w Lady Marguerite,
is of sweeter, gentler type, yet, l tan
CIV, very much in awe of her stern lord.
Little Earle-the heir of this great
wealth and proud ttle--is one of the
most interesting little children L ever
saw. The little one does not at all re-
semble his grandparents. L commented
casually on this to Lady Marguerite one
dav. and she answered no. that, to her
great regret, the child resembled his fath-
cr's family most. and she colored anu
looked so annoyed. that felt sorry had
said so much, and tried to mend the mat
fer by saving that he had more the ap-
nearapce of an American child than an
English one. She flushed even deeper
than before. and said that she had never
been in America, and never to her knoWl-
edge seen an American child, but that
carries parents were in that country at
the time of his birth Mother, this ut
tIe baronet that is to be, this little Eng
lish child. with his long line of proud
ancestry. his naughty, blue. eyed grand
narents, his fragile. blue-eyed mother,
whose picture I have seen IN their PIC
ture rallery-this little dark-eyed boy Is
enough like Paul and Grace Winans to
no the child they lost so strangely IN
Washington two years ago.
"Nov. mother, this Is what Bruce has
discovered. First. that Sir Robert Sld
Lady Marguerite Willoughby never had
but one child, fair and gentle young
daughter. who MORALLY offended them by
eloping with and marrying her drawing
master Secondly. that the disinherted
daughter and her poor aud handsome
husband led precarious existence III
London for ten years, during which time
four children were successfully born to
them and died; all this time the cruei
parents of the willful daughter refusing
her appeal for forgiveness. At the death
of the last child the unfortunate but de-
voted pair concluded to try their fortune
in America. whittier they aceordlnsly
went, settling in New York. There an
other child was born to them, ana TOT
tune, long unpropitious, began to smile
on the loving pair, when the sudden
death of the husband left the umid
Young mother widow and a stranger
With fatherless child. The shock near
" unsettled her reason, and she waited
only for the burial of her husband before
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