The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-06-29
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
CHAPTER XIX.-(Continued.)
By FRANK BARRETT

dark There Is no light IN the caves.
But can bear the light better and better
every day. | can wait till the blue flow
ers have UNFINISHED and show the beauti-
fu! tints within. Ny brother knows their
names, and tells me all about them. He
taught me to speak. l could not say q
word when he first came to me. could
not understand what he said. | knew
nothing but what l thought. But he
taught me patiently till l could under
stand what he said and made him under
stand me. Then I wanted no more in
the cave but just to sit and listen to all
he said about the world, but now when
there is so much to understand / talk all
night. But still the greatest happiness is
to sit quite still by his side and listen
to him talk
"'Were you long together in the cave?'
"'Only a little while it seems, but
when l remember how many times we
went down into the wet sand under the
rock making the hole that let us out into
this world, and how many marks my
brother cut into the wall to show the
Gays we had worked, think it must have
been a long while. / must look for him,
she said, rising ABRUPTLY want him
oh! want my brother where is hep
"'Can you tell me where you live now,
dearT
"'Yes, I will show YOU It Is quite
near. Come With me, and when we find
him you shall hear him speak you shall
look at him and know what it is to have
BROTHER"
Ethel suffered herself to be guided,
Psyche taking her hand, out into the road
and along 1t TO the cottage. She knew
that Mrs. Benham lived there, and that
/ had lodged there, but she had heard
nothing of my old landlady's departure,
and believed that / was in America, for
her father had not spoken to her of our
meeting.
As Psyche led the way without hest
tation through the side wicket into the
garden, she conceived that the poor girl
was a patient placed under the charge of
tho old lady, and that her malady was
form of mental hallucination. If that
were the case it was her duty to return
Psyche to her guardian, and she willing
ly helped to look for the brother" who
she thought existed only in the girls ro-
mantle imagination. When they found
no ono in the house or in the garden she
concluded that Mrs Benham had been
called away, and though it was getting
iatC she resolved to stay with Psyche un-
ill her return.
Psyche grew apprehensive and silent,
but her new friend soothed her by assur-
ing her that the brother would return,
and led her on to talk about the past.
Psyche could go no further back in her
history than rhe eventless life in the
cave, for that perpetual monotony had
cffaced all memories of the period before
hel illness. Ethel was struck by the con-
s.stent thread of the wonderful story
nothing was contradictory, Psyche never
wandered from the subject except to won
der where / vas. "He will come back
to me-" she repeated with positive insist
ance.
she must come. He would not leave
you, knowing how you love him." Ethel
replied, yet doubling still if the brother
existed-so incredible was the story of
Psyche's life. Her perplexity was doubled
when she recognized me, and Psyche cried
again my brother has come back"
"Can l believe the story have heardf
she asked me.
''It must be true" / answered, "for
Psyche has not yet learned what false
hood means"
'And you are that brother whose love
has given her life?"
''Yes, in the wide sense that those are
brothers whose love is brotherly."
Ethel put Der hand into mine, and a
star lit the tear that fell from her cheek.