Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-02-07
Tft Nllp HERD AND
%pfR1THp.
THROWING HER hRfj arRGD
sR farfRj BREa5T,
IN An ABANDONMENT
Of GRIEF 5HE N33Ep
Ms Tim PALE CHEEKS.

babe him TO refuse any call for help. and
having put ON his ccat he hurried out.
"Ah. this Is the place. / suppose % said
the doctor. as they stumbled INTO a tangle
of vans, tents. tethered horses. and all
the scattered, ragged and dirty parapher-
MALTA of a strolier's encampment.
Nat said a voice out of the darkness,
and apparently proceeding from a large
van, the windows of which showed a dim
light, through the grimy blinds, got the
doctor? Tn old mans nearly gone. Hes
bin calm for you this arr our or more. I"
All right, doctors here, You keep out
side till | tells you
On the lowermost bunk in the hot, st,f-
ing van lay a man, evidently prcmatureiy
old. His hair was gray, his features
drawn and ashen white.
Doctor Beckett lost no time, but went
down to look at him.
Here, the light-you,' said the doctor
sharply to his guide. II thought So
Filling a small pocketglass with brandy,
he put his arm under the SICK mans
head. Lifted him slightly, and made him
drink the spirit.
Ii was at this moment that the doctor
was conscious of another presence.
Half hidden by the curtain at the bed
head. he could just make out in the gloom
a little figure, Il girl child. whose large
round eyes were fixed IN terrified intensity
upon the face Of the dying man.
you sent for met he said TO the latter.
lave ] seen you before? Do YOU know
me?''
Yes. l know you, but you have never
seen me" was the whispered reply.
II don't understand.
"Your sister-doctor-Ivy"-
what do you know of her, mani" cried
DIR. Beckett. started out of himself. my
sister disappeared years ago, What OF
herr"
'She-she d~ied-when this little one was
barn"
"You are dying!" the doctor RESPONDED.
with almost brutal frankness. You would
not. YOU could not deceive yourself or me
with such a statement. II il were not
true"
1T Is true" came the labored art:cula
ton. I'm those days | was just from
Milan, young. famous. rich, | saw your
sister at Liverpool. l loved her. she loved
me, and, heaven forgive me If ! did wrong
I persuaded her to marry me and to cast
ia her lot with me-
Yes, yes, and ther?"
Then went OIL the dying man. with
evcs-increaslng gasps for breath-"then
was the happiest time of all my life. One,
two. three children were born and died
and row., come closer-I cannot see YOU
now-my-my little lvy-my baby. / go
from her
The child heard and understood. Throw.
ing herself across her fathers breast. in
an abandonment of grief. she kissed his
thin, pale cheeks. beseechiRg him-cryins
bitterly the while-not to leave her.
gTenderly the doctor detached her arms
from around Giuseppe Baretta's neck anc
lifted her away.
Sitting her on his knee, with her heac
against his shoulder. he spoke again.
You are distressed for the child's fu
ture?' he said. but why did you no
send her 10 me when my-when your wife
d:ed?''
..Send her away" was the almost flercs
reply: the last Kicker or The lamp OF life
my Iyy-the enc thing Ia all the World
h9Q 10 love me I'D 10 lover
neutrality-suspicious. you could NO.. Blu
fis.ea. | will take her now. she Is my owf
flesh and blood. We--ny wife and I-hay,
~ children. She shall be to us as
daughter. VIII that comfort and conten
you?'
Gsuse1pc Bafctta was bsyond sTesch. Iii
eyes rested for a second only upon tn
fair-haired child he was leaving. and will
a sa sisiea smLc upon his lips, he fell bacl
deal
rspg.
The following extract - from the Morn
Ing Post of september Is:
Sir Randall md Lady ivy Sandys hay
retained IRON the Australian Tyrcl
Lady snndys. who II laay be remem
besed ~ The niece ~ Sir Miles Ecckesi
ohysjcian-ia-or1irary 30 h.s majesty, !