Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-10-13
LANDRY 'S
 LIE TT R. V
By GRACE e. BosrwzcK
,copyrtght. 1904, by Daily Story Pub. Col

- N~~-S [ FELT horribly sorry for Katherine | when Landry died. It must have been an awful blow, for she seemed to lose every bit of her spirit and went about pale and listless for months.
 You see, Landry was g fine fellow. an unusual fellow. I don't believe there was selfish fiber in the mans whole makeup. He was essentially big-hearted and lovable. Homely in feature to positive ugliness, he was still attractive in appearance. He was famous in small way as the author of certain delicate love sketches, very tender and dainty in sentiment, and so unlike him as to seem inconsistent' with what we knew of his. character. A right jolly good fellow, with plenty of sense and cheerful lot of brains under his sandy poll
 He and Kit had been engaged for a long time, and knew that he fairly worshiped her, though he was very quiet about it. I felt mild sort of envy, for had never plumbed the depths of love myself. I'd had my little affairs, but always hated my- self during their progress, because couldn't really feel--I was only amused and entertained, never touched. My friendship with Kit was the one real sentiment of my life, for we had been like brother and sister for ten years Ever since she had begun to yearn for long skirts and put her pig-tails up into the crown of womanly dignity. Whenever Landry was away I took his place at her side, and jolly good times we had. and many of them.
 A few months before Landry's death Kit .semed to change some way. She took to incoming about for all the world like a disappointed lover. Lan- dry, too, went into the dumps. He grew thin aud pale and more imper- sonal than ever. He was very tender with Katherine, and so I knew that it was no lovers quarrel that was wear ing on them. She sort of chung to him as though she felt him slipping from her. and I've sometimes thought since that she must have had premonition of what was coming.
 One morning, on my way home from an alI-night vigil, old Damon lost his head and came pretty cropper. It wasn't far from home, as luck would have it, and managed to get to the house. was pretty much used up, taking my weariness and the shaking up together and my knees shook as if I'd been officiating at my first opera ton. Afterward, when Kit came in to see me, I tried to laugh it off, and I jollied her up.
 Landry II be good and jealous if you don't watch out told her. .I believe you're in love with me, old girl.'' Her face famed sudden crim- son over it's old pallor, and she looked at me sharply. Then I caught her hand and pulled her down to me. I kissed her, as always had, and for a moment she laid her face against my cheek.
 What if you'd been killed?" she whispered. What if you'd been killed?"
 You'd still have Landry" I retort- ed, and Kit slapped me. 1t wasn't the first time by any means, for you see we'd been boy and girl together. I couldn't help seeing that her eyes looked funny. A new expression, I'd never seen there before-and won dered.
 It was shortly after that poor Landry came down with typhoid. It was hard case from the start. Sometimes it gets a grip on a man and an M. D. can see that there's no hope whatever. Thank goodness, we, were all there with him. He wasn't alone, as he had been the greater part of his life-since he ] been a little chap, in fact. He wasn't lonely Sometimes it seemed to mo that he was happier than had ever seen him. I felt that he was glad to go, and I couldn't understand it. It broke us all up, every one of us, for we loved the poor fellow.
 I found her on the veranda one eve- ming, alone in the soft darkness I felt a bit down myself. Things weren't going very we'll, and I began to think that I was not fitted for a profession al life after all. felt too sorry for my patients. couldn't give a judicial, impersonal sympathy, as physician must to be among the ranks of the successful. Every death that came under my notice worked on my mind to such a degree that it unfitted me to caresfor the living.
 She took my hand and held it tightly in both of her own. felt sudden