Evening journal., 1905-09-04
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60 annually 20 cemetery TO StreW /
flowers on a grave. This is the story
that is connected with their devotion to
the dead:
The night was dark and the wind
howled as though it were the mingling
of voices Of a thousand lunatcs, who,
released from the body were wild with
eEhilaration at their freedom.
Louis" gasped Mrs. Baylies, II
fear am going to die"
Great heavens" exclaimed the hus
band, and, getting out OF bed, he
scratched a match and lighted a candle.
"Go for doctor" sasped the wife.
"And leave you here with no one but
that ignorant maid? How can I?'
you must"
Louis Baylies hurriedly got into his
clothes. awakened the maid, then went
TO the stable, saddled his horse, mount
ed and rode away.
II was good Eve miles to the doc
tors. and though the rain had ceased
IL had left the road hard TO get over
Baylies was Obliged TO trust to his
horse, whose eyes were far better than
his masters. but the brute seemed TO
have difficulty In keeping the road. At
any rate, he was constantly flounderlng
in some bog beside It. Baylies encour-
aged him, but the mans dread that he
would not bring the doctor ia time
that on bis return he would find his
wife dead-put q tremor into his voice
that was not reassurlng.
The distance he traversed was un-
known 10 him till he came to the ceme-
terry, which he knew was halfway. Then
suddenly a fash Of lightning the first
illumination in a night Of pitchy black
ness-shOwed him on the other side Of
a stone wall a tombstone on which was
carved the name Albert Seymour"
Baylles shuddered. He and Seymour
had been rivals for the hand OF Mar
garet Burns. Baylies had won. and
Seymour had never been the same man
afterward. Stricken with deadly dis
ease, he had declined treatment. aveD-
ring that he wished to die. And now
the woman he had loved was at deaths
door, and the man who had won her
was trying TO save her.
Whether It was the binding effect Of
the lightning on the horses eyes or
the fright that made him shy in the
inky ensuing blackness, he came against
the wall Baylles went over It, and
that was the last Of consciousness for
him tin the first gllmmer Of dawn
showed him that he was lying on the
grave of Albert Seymour. His horse
stood on the other side Of the wall,
with his nose over It, looking at him.
Baylies. horrifed at having thus been
delayed, got up, staggered to the wal
and climbed over to the other side. He
knew that when he had started It wai
long past midnight, so he supposed hs
might not have been lying long uncon
scious. AT any rate, he hoped not
There was but one course for him-t'
/ go forward. One thing arrested hi
attention-his horse was painting, no
as though he had stood waiting for hl
master to come to himself. but a
though he had been galloping and hai
just stopped. But there was no tim
for speculation. Mounting. Baylie
spurred onward and in half an hou
pulled up at the doctors door. A mais
opened 1t and. recognizing Baylies a.
one Of her masters patients, looked a
him surprised.
'The doctorlv he 'Zaspcd. 'Ts he NJ
homer"
"Hes gone to your house. SIR"
''My housef Then they. have sent
some one else for himT
''Yes, sir; they must have"
''But there was no one to SENDS
~He was a gentleman, sir. and he
came on that horse See the cut on his
fore legl It is bleeding yet"
do you mean that you noticed this
horse and know him by that cut2"
Indeed do. sir"
who rode himf"
"A tall. thin. pale gentleman witt
sandy hair and side whiskers; and nov
1 remember, on his finger was a quee
looking gold ring made like twineC
strands"
Baylies' blood ran. cold. His wifi
before they were marrfnd. had RiveI
Albert Seymour such a ring. After he
engagement with Baylies he has
begged permission to keep it. and sh'
had consented.
Without a word Bayhes turned am
rode back. Passing the cemetery, ther'
was the tombstone beneath which slep
the mortal part of the man he ha,
suppianted, the man whom he firnll
believed had taken up his message an,
while he was unconscious carried
on its way.
Baylies had hated his rival while b
lived, and since his death had no
ceased to be jealous Of him. But now
as he looked at the inanimate marbl
that marked the grave Of one from
whom he had taken all that made lif
desirable. there rushed upon him |
sense Of the selfshness OF man. tn
benefcence Of immortality.
On reaching home, he found the doc
tor working with his wife. whom h
had succeeded in bringing out Of dan
ger.
why did you not wait for the doc
tor, dear?" asked Mrs. Baylies, "an'
why have you been so long coming?"
Baylles stood looking from her t
the doctor without reply; then he askei
the latter:
did you see my messenger
"No. he had gone before / cam
down"
what messenger asked the wifi