The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-13

1 caught her hand and cried. Dear. kind
 nurse best of beings. forgive mel for | give me"
 "Oh, deari oh. dearr exclaimed Milly in deligh ted wonder. Why. eevrybody l seems to like me today! Oh. dear; oh, dear! how happy and thankful I feel for all this?'
 | The guileless. simple way in which she said 1t and the tears that stood | in her bright eyes were as touching as they were delightful. As soon as the clamoring young let 1 terbys would let her go. she accom- panied Rediaw back to the college. When they entered the keeepr's house Phiilip was sitting before the fire with ! his eyes fixed on the ground. and his son was looking down ct him. AS soon as they saw her a radiant change came into their faces.
 "oh: dear: they are pissssd to sas. see me her hands.
 Pleased to see her.s Pleasure was no word for it. Her husbands arms were around her and he would have held her all winIer. no doubt, if old Philip could have spsred her. But he couldn't. He had arms for her. too.
 How are you. fatherf' asked the delighted William, looking at the old man proudly. "How are you7 Are you pretty wellf' [
 strong and brave. my boy" said the old man.
 "what q wonderful man you are. fatherf' said William. How are youS Are you really pretty hearty. thoughf- MT. William might never have left on batting the old eentlenian,s back and asking him how he was ie Philip had not spied the chemist. "Mr. Redisw," said Philip. "this iChristmas morning reminds me of one when you were a student here yourself and, you came in here with young lAdy--your sIster---that you was very much attached to. remognber, though I'm ST. And I racollect as \ wat stirring the Ire that she might warm her pretty hands. she repeated out loud the words on the scroll of that picture of one of our founders: Lord. keep my memory greenl' And she said it was a good prayer, and that it was one she would make very earnestly if she was called away young. My memory green of me and do not let me be forgottsnP"
 | Tears coursed down Redlaw's face. Philip" said he. 'T am stricken man You speak to me. my friend. of what !
 cannot follow. I have lost my memory of sorrow and trouble. and with that I
 have lost all man would remembers' He sank Into q chair ant hid his face.
 Milly. seeing him thus. kneeisd quietly
 beside him and began to put soma warm clothing on the boy who sat there.
 T wish we had a child of our own for you to love and cherish. Miiiy. dehr." said her husband softly. Our | little dead child that you built such hopes on and that never nreathed the
 breath of nfe--it has made you quiet
 like. MiIiy"
 LIT, am vary happy fn sAe reeoiI6nsson
 of t. william" she Answefed T think
 Of 1t every day."
 liam" continued she. ..T have been hap- | py in q hundred ways. Even when nay
 little child was born and dead but 2 | few days. the thought arose that if ! tried to live a good life should meet
 in Heaven. bright creature that would call me mother"
 Redlaw fell on his knees with loud
 cry.
 ooh, thou, he said, 'who through the teaching of pure love hast gracious l Iy restored me to the memory which l was the memory of Christ upon tho
 cross. receive my thanks and bless tFerf' H84 + Some people have said since then that Redlaw only thought what has been
 here set down. others declare that he
 read 1t in the fire one winter night while he sat breeding. Others again say that the phantom was but tho 1 representation of his gloomy thoughts. Be that as it may. This much lB csr-
 tain. As they sat that night in the
 great room which used to be, before ! the ten poor gentlemen committed. the | great Dinner Hall: when all the Swfd- 1 gers who could be gathered on such I short notice and all the Tetterbys had
 eaten till they could eat no more. even though encouraged by the repeated ad- lmoaItion that Christmas comes but onca
 a year: when they had offered thanks | for good news about George; when the | lights were out and only the fire | Kieamed upon the ancient walls; then
 suddenly the sejate face In the por-
 trait with the peaked beard and tho ruff shone out clear aid plain. and
 from under its wreath of holly gleamed | the words: Lord keep my memory 1 green"
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