Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1908-03-05

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s.You have been very ILL., You arcs
still weak. You must not talk much.
But tell me your name"
katharine Regina"
'sWhat?" Miss Willoughby started.
"How did you get that namew
1T is my Christian name"
"What Is your surname? What was
your fathers name"
"Willoughby Capel?'
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Regina! II
Is very strange. Have you any rela'
lions named Willoughby?"
II have no relations at all"
Then she closed her eyes again.
leave her now" said the nurse
"She is weak, and had better rest and
60 to sleep again."
Next day Miss Willoughby called
again, bringing grapes. Every grape
upon the bunch was big tear of re.
pentance because she had thought so
cruelty of her patient. Only the patient
never knew. When one goes about a
city great deal and meets with many
experiences, most Of them of a truly
dreadful kind, one naturally draws
conclusions which would seem to many
ladies most wicked. In the same way
the doctor, when you tell him certain
things, at once suspects the very worst
Katharine never knew.
She was sitting up In bed, already In
a fair way Of recovery.
"Are you strong enough to talk to.
day?" asked Miss Willoughby.
"Oh, yes; can talk to-day. But !
have only just begun to understand all
that you have done for me. can not
thank you yet"
"Do not talk of that at all"
"YOu must have thought me most un
grateful when I was working at the
sewing machine. But all that time
seems like dream. I only half remem.
ber 1t. You were in mourning first
and then you put it off, and you told
me something"
II was-I was in the very deepest
grief as well as the depeest mourning,
for my lover was said to be dead. And
now I am in the greatest Joy and
thankfulness because my lover has
been miraculously restored to me.
Ought I not to be happy?'
II am so glad! My lover too is dead.
But he can never be restored to me-"
"YOur lover, dear? Oh, you had a
lover, too, and he was killed, like mine?
Ohw She took her hand and pressed
1t. II know his name, because the Sis.
ter read his letters in order to find out
who you were. His name was Tom"
"Yes. 1t was Tom. And Tom Is
dead"
"Will you tell me something more
about yourself?" she asked. "Not more
than you want to tell. I am not curl.
Gus, indeed, but If l can help you---
Oh! let me help you, because met you
on the very day that the telegram came
which brought my lover back to life.
In the evening, when I went home
after left you-they brought it to me.
Oh! my dear-my sister brought 1t cry.
ing-my father kissed me--and my
mother kissed me--and they were all
crying, and I knew not why-on the
very same day when I found you. Can
I ever think of that day without think.
ing Of you, too? Ged has given you to
me so that may deal with you as He
has dealt with me. And I can never
let you 60 away-never, never"
"Ohw said Katherine, deeply moved,
"what can 1 say?"
II shall never forget that day. oh,
how l rushed to tear off the black
things and to- My dear, you are a
part of that day. Now tell me more.
You said your name was Katharine
Regina. That is my name, too. There
is always Katharine Regina In the
family. And l never heard Of any
other family which had those two
names. And your fathers name was
Willoughby Capel. 1t is SO very odd,
that I have been thinking about it all
night. Tell me more. dear. You said
you had no relations"
mo; I~-know Of none. MY father
would not speak Of his relations. 1
have sometimes thought that they
quarrelled with him. He was once,
know, in the army with the rank of
and he had an annuity or al
lowance, but do not know who paid
It. or anything else at all about him."
what strange story!"
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one, and had to give lessons. was
governess to lady-oh, not very
grand person-whos husband was
clerk In the city. went there every
morning at o. and came home at 5. She
was good woman and kind to me.
was more companion and nursery
governess than anything else"
"Well, dear?"
My father died suddenly at the be-
ginning OF this year. But / was en-
gagged by this time, and as had Tom
was happy and full of confidence.
went to live at Harley House, place
where governesses can live cheaply."
II know the place, Sister, what did
ron say about her face2 You was quite
light. Go on, dear; / know Harley
House,
"Then very curious thing happened.
rom's uncle died and left him all his
money, and for week we were rich.
Bat a solicitor Toms cousin-- dIscov-
sred that all the money belonged to
else. So we were poor again.
md Tom went out to Egypt
TO Egyptf"
"Yes; he was a, war correspondent"
"Oh! Katharine Katharine Miss
caught her hand tell me |
tell me what was his name? r.