The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-12-23

her in the wasted little arms With a smile sha
elasped her close and in a few moments was
again asleep.
CHAPTER VI
On the following morning at the breakfast table
IN. Calvert said TO his mother:
Il have d trip planned for You today want
YOU TO 90 with me to the hospital'
Then the little girl will live? was almost
afraid to ask
She will and Mother dear. want 10 have her
I'VE with us. She is a Wait; no one claims her;
no one knows who She is. but | want her. OF
course YOU must see her first. Ii YOU feel that
You cannot undertake the charge why then We
Will think of something else for her"
IN the crisp morning air they sped away TO
, hospital. The robes tucked so closely about
them thai they did not feel the cold On the
Way Herman decided not TO say anything to his
mother about his dream, but confronted himself
with giving her all the information which he pos
sesSed concerning the child
\ lew weeks ago YOU may remember Mother
there was a terrible collision upon the Gulf coast
Among the survivors picked up and sent TO New
orleans WAS g mother and child found dashed
together, With their life preservers They we're
taken TO the hospital, where they we're only able
10 md out from the mothers rawlings that her
husband was at her side when the disaster oc-
Cured. and that she had relatives in st Louis
to whom she begged to be sent She had suffered
some injury about the head. and was i'm a more
or less dazed condition. The child Was ILL., and
as me hospital there was crowded with sufferers,
me lholilel ana cHllu We're forwarded by boat
10 ST. Louis, and BROUGHT to the City hospital The
mother who had been more seriously injured than
was al first supposed, died soon after her arrival
ne clothing worn by them showed evidently that
they belonged The higher wallis of life
loeke1 taken from the mothers neck after death
disclosed the face OF a handsome, well.bred man
and Within the ring upon her wedding finger was
engraved monogram, A. W. The child after
Delll2 saved from Il watery grave WILL if thing
happens, make Il marvellous recovery from this
Illness She seems to have been cast into our.
arms Nobody wants her unless her father comes
forward 10 claim her, which | hardly anticipate
now, as a month has elapsed since the accident
And-thele is another reason why we want her
winch | Will not mention until YOU see hen. and
decide 1Of yourself what you will do believe
now have told you all that | know about them
soon after they We're standing by the bedside
OF the child whose eyes, looking unnaturallv
large and blue. fastened themselves hungrily upon
the handsome face of the mother bending over
her Her line spun golden cmrls We're still spread
ont over the pillow like Angelas There was a
look OF Angela about the child as the mother last
saw her. She seemed 10 be about the same ace
and kissed the wan cheek
~ lroRt mn -naMa. " Whispered the child hold
ing up her little arms
Let me be yom Mama answered the mother.
bonding over her. And so il was settled.
Poor Christine lay on the pillow beside tl,e
no doubt that She was going to lose another little
friend
Give me this old doll, said Doctor Calvert
to lhe nurse, Ind will bring YOU a fine new one
instead
NO, no." said the little one, holding ont her
hands for it,
The mother lifted it from the pillow to hand
II over to the child. The one blue eve Enclosed
and seemed to look anxiously into her face with
almost Il look of recognition