The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-02-06
TIL oHltp HEARD AND
IpkR3TpeD.
THROWING tEk hKH1 AfRW
hER fa1Es5 HREaT,
IN AN ABANDONMENT
OF GRIEF, 5xE kl3ieD
lbs HIN PALE CHEeK5.

bade him to refuse any call for help. and
having put on his coat he hurried out.
All, this is the place, [ suppose?" said
the doctor, as they stumbled into a tangle
o. vans. tents. tethered horses, and al
the scattered, ragged and dirty parapher-
MALTA of a stroller's
Natl" said a voice out of the darkness
and apparently proceeding from 81 large
van, the windows of which showed n dim
light. through the grimy blinds. got the
doctor? The old mans nearly gone. He's
bin calm for you this art our or more
right, Doctors here. You keep out
side till / tells you.'
On the lowermost bunk In the hot. stln-
ing van lay q man. evidently prematurely
Old. Ills 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. Il thought So"
Filling a small pocketglass with brandy.
ne put his arm under the sick mans
head, lifted him slightly, and made him
drink the spirit.
1t was at this m 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. e girl child, whose large
round eyes were fixed in terrified intensity
upon the face of the dying man.
You sent for mel" he said to the latter.
Lave l seen you before? Do you know
me 2"
Yes. I know you, but you have never
seen me-" was the whispered reply.
Il don't understand"
You siSter-doctor-Ivy"-
What do you know of her. man" cried
DR.. Beckett. started out OF himself. my
sister disappeared years ago! What OF
her?'
"She-she died-when this little one was
born"
You are dying" the doctor responded,
with almost brutal f~rankness. .tYou would
not; you could not deceive yourself or me
with such a statement, IL 1t were not
true"
ut is true!" came the labored articula-
ton. In those days I was just from
Milan, young, famous, rich, I saw your
sister at Liverpool. / loved her, she loved
me, and. heaven forgive mo If / did wrong!
I persuaded her to marry me and to cast
in her lot with me-"
Yes, yes, and then"
Then went on the dying man, with
cver-incrensing gasps for breath-"ther
was the happiest time OF all my life. One
two, three children We're born and died;
n now. come closer-I cannot see yo,-
n~ow-my--my little Iyy-my baby. / &C
from her."
The child heard and understood. Throw.
iDE herself across her fathers breast. ir
an abandonment of grief. she kissed his
thin. pale checks. b%esecching him-cryins
bitterly the while-rot to leave her.
Tenderly the doctor detached her arms
from around Giuseppe Baretta.s neck ant
lifted her away.
Sitting her on his knee, with her head
against his shoulder. he spoke again.
You are distressed for the cliiid's fn
ture?" he said. "But why did you no,
send her to me when my-when your wife
d.ed?r
Send her away" was the almost ierc,
reply: the last flicker of the lamp Of life
My Ivy--the one thing in all the world
! hati to love me odd 10 lover,
Neutrality-suspicious. you could not. Btu
listen. ! will take her now She Is my owl
flesh and blood. We-my wife and I-hav'
NJ children. She shall be to us as
daughter. VIII that comfort and conten
your
eyes rested for a second Only srpon TIL
f~air-haired child he was leaving. and witt
q satisfied smile upon his lips. he fell bacl
dead.
The following extract IL from the Morn
Ing Post OF September rs.
Sir Randall ynnd Lady Ivy Eandys hay
returned from the Australian Tyfcl
| whittier they went for their honeymoon.
LADY 6ardys, who it may he remen
Y bered Is the niece OF Sir Miles, Beckett,
phyxtcian-in-orainary TO hia nsaicaty. !