The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-13

of my students"
 .Tt's e sick young gentleman. sir said Mrs. William land very poor. I'm
 afraid, who is too i'll to so home for
 the hoiidays and lives in Jerusalem buildings In but q common kind of
 lodging for 6 gentleman"
 ''why have never heard of him?''
 exclaimed Rediaw. why has he not
 made his situation known to mef Elekl Give me my cloak! Poor!
 What house. What numberT'
 But you mustn't go there" said Mrs. | William calmly and confronting him
 with her collected face and folded ilt- world he would not be known to you,
 though he Is student in your ciass.y
 why did he say so?r asked Redlaw.
 Indeed, can't tell" said Miliy. after thinking a little. ''because I'm not at all clever. you know. He muttered
 something in his sleep yesterday about some great wrong done that could never be forgotten. but whether to him | or to another person I don't know. Not done by him, am sure~
 ssYes. sir" said Mir. William, step ping close to RedlAw and whispering
 intr his ear. "Yes, sir. Mrs William | will look after him. She has done him 1 a world of good. And all the time l the house the same as ever--fasher l made snug and o0SnfortAble--not . crumb of litter to be found if you was to offer fifty pounds for it--Mrs. vii.
 liam apparently never out cf the way | wards. up and down. up and down. a mother to htEi!"
 Heaven bless hsri''T said the chem.
 ist.
 '.And not content with this. sir.' 1 whispered tho proud and loving Mfr. l William. "agrs. william goes and finds | this very night a creature more like a
 wild beast than q young child. shiveF-
 ing on doefstep What does she @ but bring it honae to wash it and fs6d ! 1t and keep It till our annual bounty | of food and flannel Is given away on | Christmas morningl It's sitting before | the fire in the lodge now--at lesst 1t 10 | if 1t hasn't bolted..
 s.Heaven keep her happy" said the chemist again. 'sAnd you, Philip! And I you. too, Wiiliam!"
 | "I .thankee sir: thankee!' said the
 old man. Lord. keep my memory
 greeni It's q very good prayer that. very good and pious. Amenl An1enH 1 As they passed out and the doors
 reverberatsd in a train of thunders be- hind thern- the room turned darker. Ag the gloom and shadow thickencd
 around him 1t seemed to take form. I By process not to. be traced by any. human sense. the form serieed to take l on an awful likeness to the man, who
 sat rumlnatiHG before the fire. This
 was the dread companion Of the haunt
 cd manJ @
 | The living man and hls image looked at each other. Did the spectre's lips move or dtd its meaning fashion itself | in some pneArthly way into words that ! reached the chemiat's eense aa if they had been uttered loudly enough to snaeske the cid FAfters rfn97 es.S8 Under the green end scarlet glory of the holly the phantom evoked again
 the dark and mournful shadows of the 1 pas6--~the early struggle through | misery and poverty; the toll that gladly
 sacrificed the joy of youth; the labor ! that lasted through weary nights and counted not cold or hunger; the sister who helped him, brave. loyal, bright
 companIon of. his strife; and. beautiful
 as she and as dear. that other who was
 to share their fireside when he hau won! .And the friendi That true and de- | voted friendr Had the spectre | spoken? styEet me blot it from my msmcryr cried the chemist fiercsiy. The spectre F did not move. Slowly, remorselessiy. I1t painted the picture of the friend | whom the chemist had bound to his 1 side, with whom he worked, with whom | he dreamed. He saw the fireside of | fhe past. He saw the growth of love | Between his sister and his friend. He l saw again the glowing pictures in the | l6nR-dead embers of that vanished fire --hls visions of the tirae when they I would sit together before the fiarneE. l his sister as the wife of his friend, and by his own side the woman for whom
 he struggled. sN
 Let me blot it outl" he cried again. The phantom glarsd on him with its chanRelese eyes. The chemist saw the sister and pass between him and the woman who was the centre of his hopes. He saw his sister. doubly dear. doubly devoted, uncompiaintOg, live on, until she saw him famous. and then lie down to die, gentle and uncOm- plaining still.
 "rhus." said the phantom. T bear within me sorrow and wrong Thus memory is my curse! Thus prey on myselfi'' ~
 T call heaven to witness" said tho chemist. ''that have never been a hster of my kind. never morose or in- different or hard to anything around me- If have made too much of what was or might have been. the evn has fallen on me alone. Aet, SAu N@Ss
 It ont, shall not do so9 Who would not forget sorrows and wrongs? l
 would forget if I'cOuld! Has not tnaS been the wish of thousands. genera tfon after gsner&tionf Au human memory is fraught with sorrow ana
 trouble. I will. will forget my sor-
 rowsr' ..v cancel the remembrance or ali tne .s.r, sor- row you have known. It departs rom thts rsonaent. You shall be the bene- Sactop of your kind. The gift that ! have wivey, you, you shall heneefortn
 wiva to all whom you approach. Col Ysa IaAnpv In the good you have won ana the good you dol'' IA. with a terrible smile in which its chanReiess oyes did not paTttetpate' tns
 Redlaw turned to the fire aG@in ana suddenly covered hts face with notn hands. For now he was. indeed, alone Alone. alone
 He suddenly ,heehought hinself of the student. Mechanically he reused hinWelT to go out. Why he should so to him he hardly knew. He walked as enc in dream. 'shry mind is go- ing blindF' he muttered, and parsed his hand acrOss his forehead with confused motion.
 At. Jerusalem buildings he Inquired I for sick student and was directed to a house that had a small shop on the
 ground floor with an ambitious sign, "Tettsrby 6 Company. Newsmen." The
 show of goods in the windows hardly came up to the ambitious sign, which. indeed. was c pcetical abstraction of Mir. Tettsrby. who was Company and all. .s.