The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-31
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| His eyes were hoiulhk her e3os now. And you might have loved me" he slowly asked. The dead can lnot love the living" she breathed. but he heard beyond the words and knew. | It seemed an hour that silence lay between this stricken man and wom- Ian. Then Dr. McGregor, his tones an unnatural strain. said: You shall Inever go behind those whitewashed
 walls if l have life and will to pre- vent, and Madeline, you must obey that weak brother. I speak plainly. He keeps nothing from his wife. Once sent away for life and your for tune would come under his control. That woman would order it to be done, and you know the rest. Let me see, you are threatened with incipient tuberculosis. That will be enough for your brother to know. I have ordered a home in the mountains for you. And, Madeline. I know a strong wom- an, whom pity has forced me to allow to live with husband in first stages of leprosy simply because she will kill herself if he is taken from her. I will send her with you. The man himself has years of strength before him. Can you be contented, Madeline, I alone with nature and these two?"
 Glints of hope were showing back of the tears in her eyes. "Oh, that si- lence and freedom will be heaven be- | sides those shut ip places, and those people in them. May God bless you Dr. McGregor. I realize what you risk in hiding me away, but no harm will ever come to one because of it. I will be very careful until die" And then refusing his offer to call a car- riage for her. she drew on her gloves, and covering her fa.e with her black veil, went humb1y away while Dr. Mc- Gregor, with such pain in his heart as it had never before known, went dumbly back to his professional du- ties.
 But Dr. McGregor had only builded on the mercenary faculty in the heart of Madeline's brothers wife. That such a woman could have with a mur- dcrous intensity never accorded a bet ter woman, he had not taken into con- sideration. and neither did he know that she had married Madeline's brother-not for riches, but to be in closer touch with the man Madeline was then to marry-the only man this | fair woman with the beautiful but I tigerish eyes. had ever cringed to for | love. and the only man she would love to the death. She secretly believed that she had broken the troth between this man and Madeline but with bit ter hate she realized that while Made line lived unmarried he would never cease to love and seek to bring her back to her broken promise. That Madeline had chosen to order her | brother not to disclose her present home to living soul beyond his wife 1 had been qualification to that wife on account of the eager desire of the man she loved to follow Madeline l with his love. and she had thought it mere notion on Madeline's part to thus seclude herself. and had whis- | pered fiercely to the silence about: Tuberculosis kills in spite of noun tain air. She will die. She will Ndiew I But when the months had lapsed in years, one. then two, this woman went to see secretly for herself. She reasoned that one did not shrink from near friends with ordinary sickness and then she set herself to, study dis ease. Then. one day pr. McGregor meeting this woman, realized that a | gleam of triumph flashed over him from the yellow depths of her half closed eyes, and his heart turned cold I One face. one name was ever upper most in his mind. it, ranked above all of earth's joys and successes for him. Had harm come to Madeline?
 She had never allowed him to come near, but sometimes he had stood afar and talked to her. Now he pushed his way into the cottage, into the very | presence of the leper and his faithful | wife. The woman answered the ques- | tion in his eyes. She Is gone. They came last night. Two men with au- thority, her brother--a snivelling, lit- tie nothing, and his wife. The poor child arose without a word and went with them." With a wave of her hand about, the woman continued: She gave me all this and much money. They did not guess that my husband was as her, only worse. She said low to me. They did not hear: Tell Dr. McGregor Wiedersehen for me- It is favorite word with him. We shall meet again is its meaning. But I will not meet him again until he reaches heaven"
 'Wiedersehen. Oh. my darling. Must you walk the road to Gethsamane alone while I live free and untram- melled with pain? No. no. We shall meet again. And on earth. What is it to me without you?' The strong man groaned aloud as he went down the wind-swept paths of the hills about him.
 A fair face, with misery set deep in the sombre eyes that look beyond l luS AASh WhliS tneIr owners In from the world, pressed close to the window of an upper room in the Leper Colony House. Below stretched other houses. Here a woman sat at the door of her own private cottage; there a man worked in his own plot of ground, even here there was love and marriage. She turned from it all shudderingly. Clasped in the yet firm, spotless right hand. a bottle gleamed. One touch of it's contents to her lips. and there was rest, oblivion to all life's misery. The hand came slowly to the mouth as an attendant hurriedly> entered the room Into that other hand he thrust a card on which was written "Wiedersehen," Dr. Me- Gregor. The bottle dropped from the now nerveless right hand, the attend ant secured and hid II away. You will not be alone" the man said as he went out of the door. ''Dr. McGregor accompanied by a young priest, came this morning. For the love of God the priest has renounced the outside world to care for these people; for the love of a woman, Dr. Gregor has come to assist him. Our lives are our own to give for love and good"
 Fort Smith, Ark, Dec. 29.-Fire earl, today destroyed four blocks of business houses and residences in the town oi Hartford, twelve miles from here, en. foi tnn