The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1903-01-22
'Not bit of it! Perfectly good.
1t came on again when the baby
died-

mo, it skipped on to the floor that
time. The baby was very low, but
the doctor hadn't given up hope. 1
thought of the coral and put my
hand in my pocket to make sure it
was there. l tell you | felt comfort
ed when / found it, for sure, and
pulled it out, just to be surer-pulled
the chain, you know, and off went
the fish, flying over the floor. knew
there wasn't any hope then"
You jerked it off, somehow, in
pulling it out of your pocket" said /.
Perhaps. Anyway, it came Off,
and the baby died"
Has it ever fallen since?"
"No-those were the only two
deaths in our family, and, so far, it
has only warned me of DEATH"
Everything goes in threes. 1t
must fall again"
1T will" said Bob. gravely.
Nov look here" | said seriously;
/ you simply mustn't believe in it
/ like that. It's awfully odd, of course,
/ to have a snip of coral cutting up
such capers, but it's a mere coin
cidence, you know"
Call it what you like" said Bob,
! lit doesn't alter the facts. When
! ever I'm on the Threshold of sor-
/ row, my little coral is sure to give
me warning; so | can't part with it,
/ you see"
But | cant see that il does you
any good to know something hideouS
is about to happen. Isn't it bad
| enough to meet disaster when YOU
must? Think what a fret you'd be
| in if il came off while YOU are away
| you'd be worried sick. You can
! just leave it with me, Bob. ! won't
let ii swim away-and I'll give it
back when you come home"
But Bob wouldn't give in, yet.
What possible use could it be to me
i didn't believe in it, and didn't
care for it. while he cared for il
more than anything he had-thcn it
might be unluclly to lend it-and
what the deuce did | want il for,
anyhow!
N''l. of course. | wasn't going to
".. ..'u that | wanted ii just because
/ he cared more for il than anything
| clse-bccausc it seemed a part Of
! himScIf-Gccausc ! wanted something
| he had kept always near him: but
| | waN"d very eloquent, and, at last,
! won!
"If I Iir nypr thprc -" no e,iJ No
he Slipped the little coral ON my
chain. you'll be the first to know
il. Dol. The fish viii leave its link
OR IT you tail upstairs. or stub
your toe. } m"rh'd.
y dor ink IT hothcrs about
trivial tn. ho said. solomnly-
"h'. /. N "Il you If | am dying,
".".
..,.1 ,"' %. must have an end,
''t the ed quite endless to
w'. BE- &c me. to ne sure. but
| S Jet could hardly be called
"nino.., nor did they appear
Overwhelming frequency; in
o was lucky to get line a
ton'H, But Bobby had lot to do
| oesidas>-#sy'ite letters, | reminded my
self. There were the sketches he
must send to the Potch Scholarship
committee; and the travelling about
20 see what the great architects OF
the world had done; models to make
ana curioS TO gather; on, was sure
Bob was busy enough! lie wrote
from Pompeii' where he spent fort
night, then nothing more was heard
from nm Tor month; he had been
buried at the National museum at
Naples, he explained, reveling in the
beautiful bronzes, paintings and
architectural fragments dug up from
Pompeil. Next he was in Rome,
where he passed ms days IN the fo-
rum measuring and drawing some OF
the existing remains, or else at the
Capitoline or Tabularium, where
fragments are stored before being
sent to the museums. After the mu-
seums came his study of the Pan
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