New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-03-21

beside her patient in a small room at the city hos
pital
The injured man turned his huge blond head IN
her direction. He was Propped against the pillows,
and ms left shoulder was swathed IN bandageS that
passed across his chest. The bandages were grlmly
suggestive and disturbing Tor the lett shoulder was
mass Of linen and below the linen there was only
emptiness. His right and only arm lay prone on
the cOunterpane. The blue eyeS-blue as corn
hopers-in the broad. boyish face. full OF
questions, The nurse glanced down the printed
See here she said and thrust the paper before
his face and pointed TO a small item.
The patient shook his head | can see It. but
I cant read 1t. nurse said he in deep, low voice
IN which there something OF the old world
Saxon. g. ! never learned to read
The nurse showed no surprise. She withdrew the
Journal and read aloud
Ethel Hartley the Young school teacher gho Attempted
suicide bv throwing herself front OF the Golden ojtr
EEp-s days ago died last night from the Inlu1c-
She received at the time Her rescuer Thomas Ians"'cs
who sEei ms life the VAN effort To save hers ana
thereby lost s st at the city hospital and IS i'm
proving. Il Is SAID that Miss Hartley who beautiful
ana talented girl sought self destruction because OF an
unhappy love affair
SO shes gone. SAID Thomas Lanswick the man
OF the bed.-'gone as my arm IS gone And i 5
all been o no use al all
But It was a brave thing you did said the
nurse and because II was that you viii ind
strangers turned into friends ready TO help You.
The papers ali call you a hero
II be the first time my names printed IN
oaper I'm wishing they might sect As for
[ an work with one arm too I'm tallykeeper
the Pacific docks for q firm o British factors; but
it the thought the grndIn thought. O the happl-
and luck that gone with the arm, OF the good
DAYS % love and q home and all the rest that was
TO come with her" The heavy hand on the white
sheet clenched and uncenched; the wild blue eyes
were full Of dumb and simple sorrow.
/ do not understand. said the nurse who was
little older than the stalwart young Norkshlrenan
who lay before her manned wreck Of splendid
manhood, brought IL bleeding TO death ten days
Well. its fit that We do. said Thomas Lanswick,
and-oh, don't We hold your thumbs that way
when a mans TO your left Belize We don't know
It but 1t an old witch trick in the North Country,
ana nay ulther had found il heap O. evil TO the
aim 'urSe Kelvin. we've been kind to me and
4 must be telln nay tale | must or | II die from
the very woe Of it.
| .yAE from Yorkshire, light from the moOrs
There nothIn' so drear in Gods world nothin'
Dl sky and rocks and boys from everlastin to ever
Iaslin there's naught IN America so drear. Its
d piaee o- awful stiffness and cold winds The devil
MADE the tliter land. and the o the Almighty
CTuShes II down Even the g0rse Is scant and the
heather thin and poorly In summer the Ing solan
gees and the wild swans fly over ii 10 the north
- the winter they fly 1t TO the south keenin
ana cIyin My tether's cottage right III the
neaTt % H. by ms peat pits, another house for
-ieS ana never school AT all So We see It came
cannot read
be nearest house was haunted one where a
D1Cdy murdern squire lived aforetime till he
qel il DIT and drink For fifty years his ghost
Aep' Tt.In ia those walls The winds were terrible
NJ al o Satans nps and fends Tidin' and
t"lalln il the hurricanes from hell When was the
age SIX, night saw he cursed squire a-squirm-
~ II yellow FIRE al - the broken windows and
.I I Held UP ms night arm The hand was gone. but
IAe stump burned Ike a torch | ran home half
1oal. ana my Parents said the squire's BODY could
~ rest ia Its grave because Of his missing hand
y lelheT said he would have sore need Of It at the
80 Day. II was the scythe u a cr0tter had Topped