The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-03-14
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able to move or be moved were re
treating across the hills. a hungry
frightened army. Father Putz went t
the bank, drew out every penny of hi
savings and placed the sum in TIL
| hands of the officials Give this to th
people who need said he.
THE ship that had so often takel
him to Germany in his imagination
slipped away in the night. The SUI
that should have risen among the lin.
dens still rose above the palms. Il
was only the silent birds of the tropics
| that stirred the leaves, not the singing
| larks and fiute-throated starlings. In
stead of happy days, days of friendli-
| ness and cheer, the priest saw before
him months of duty, months of hard
! ships, years, perhaps lifetime, of inn
! prisonment in his exile, the final, cruel
disappointment of his hope. But there
was no repining, no compalint. He
went about his work with a smiling
! face. In the greater suffering of the
people he forgot his own. His dreams
had faded, the clouds had fallen, but a
ray from heaven pierced the darkness
on that day and lighted a halo on the
head of Father Putz.'
Gods Own.
1t was at Mentonville that L first met
DR.. Erlwood. We had been spending
three months in New York, but when
Jacks leave was over and the Mayfiow-
er had sailed away out of reach even of
letters for a span of eight or ten weeks,
l took my little Ralph, who in the con-
finement of the city had become pale
and ailing, to that quiet spot on the
coast, where 1 hoped the sea breezes
would bring back his roses once again.
But on the very night of our arrival
he fell i'll, and the time that, followed
was the most agonizing time that | had
ever lived through. l knew no one in
all the town; l had no near relative
who could come to me; l was alone
young, inexperienced, and my baby boy
was very, very i'll.
There was only one other inmate at
that time in the boarding house, and,
providentialy for us, that one was DR..
Erlwood He was a young man who,
like ourselves, had come down to Mer-
tonville to recruit after some illness
caught attending a case in the slums of
New York. His practice was still to
make, and he could spare the time that
ne now ungrudgingly devoted to this
little patient who had come by chance
into his hands.
For four long weeks this big, rough
gentle-handed stranger devoted |
absolutely to the tiny morsel of !
humanity whose life, under |
Sod, he held in his grasp. For a whole |
month, he as well as l, seemed to live
only for that feeble, Pickering life that !
night at any moment be quenched be-
ore our eyes. Day and night, except
or the necessary hours of rest. we
spent at the side of my baby's cot, and
'nly once in all that time did he speak
o me as though were anything but
machine to carry out his orders. It
vas when the first crisis Of the fever
vas going on, and there was but little
lope.
is there no one you could send for?"
ie asked abruptly.
l shook my head. He glanced at the
zee white face on the pillow. then
own to my black gown.
NO one at alp" he repated, more
emily.
No. L answered sadly. thinking of
ack so far away and of my father
mo had loved the boy so dearly, and
nose home we had shared until death !
al called him short year before.
Dr: EIWood said no more; and it was
OF Tor days after that l learned what
lat NO had conveyed to him.
Al last an evening came when for
lie nfst time for such a weary length
~ little Ralph fell into a peaceful {
eep' ana L at last began to remember
lat there was a world still moving {
lWard outside the sick room. |
lie IL do now," said DIR. Erlwood. I
epping after me onto the terrace that !
"a pa along under the windows, where 1 |
I'd gone for the few rninutes' fresb
tnat even when the child was at IFS
orst had not been allowed to forego 4
turned toward him impulsively. and
retched out both my hands. The re-
1 aIter such strain was almost
ore ore lhan knew how to bear.
Ihanks to your care!' cried T
Tow can ever thank you-how can
ever do half, a quarter of what
ght TO prove my gratitude!''
ne heId my hands and looked down
me me Ior moment without speaking.
You could" he said, and his voice G
DIX tone new to my ears. "Some
this" iiiiiiu YOU a
could not mistake his meanins
1e a flash it came to me u-be+ t'ittLis. 4laet
% of mine had meant to him an5
was characteristic of the man that
mad never spoken Of me to the land
Jack. 'oiu MN
Nothlng that We can ever do-n,v
: Spand or l, or little Ralph himself II
4 ever De enough''-despite nvseIf
voice was hardly steady. U
lie dropped my hands-a rustle tba :
10 a moan from within. and he
left me to return to the LITTLE bod
Z, out not before I had seen the
IN OF Ieellng IN those deep-set ewes cs
struck me to the heart. oh tbe- dt
,erS ,' oL such mistake, What a M
urn Tor an that he had done for ust
orn Oliis 2 comfort lay in the fact that
one nut Jack need ever know his &C. co
'hree days later, as soon .as pol,,. -
5 really convalescent, the doctor Iaft
rIoAVlIlei and when on the return oe i,
nayIIoWer, Jack sought him out 10 dr.
NIX MN once again for what he bo6 on
le, ne was on the eve of dena rtI,ra
the western states; and for five
rs we did not see him. However, W;
anniversary of Ralph's recovery al, er
Us brought some token of ren,a,, on
nee from him to the child. and he us
ugn grown to be a school bow now
er let night pass without pravine
the man whose care had saved hiS ta
us
was during the beginning of +ho pa
sPell lhat we had last summer. and
!. au Colue 10 New York to be with
=, VINO had a few days on shore tol
neat was intense; men, women and its
uIen n dropped in the streets like So tn
ly Iies; neat prostration was the Sc.
!, ana the death rate amongst the cr1
was appsling; but the mortality 9I
highest of All amongst The bahiar De
he tenements. "'oieS me
society was formed for the RELIEF of leo
distress, called the New Yorlr lhs
is Free Doctor association; and Dr on
woods name was on the list af 90
'e who gave their services gratis to =
cause, Helpers We're badly needed.
the evening before Jack sailed we
wen down to the office of the as l
alton, and / enrolled myself in Dr. din
woods branch. ing
e was changed by the passing of The