The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1910-04-23
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she still greeted him smilingly and
made no comment Well, If reliev-
ing her Of his presence did not make
her unhappy, It should be a conclusive
answer to his unspoken question.
Yet Ellsworth Ferry fought the con,
viction, chung to the remnant of his
old happy faith IN her affection Not
that by word or deed had Eunice Civ
en- him grounds to question her love
for him, but that only added fuel to
his ranking suspicion. Once, brush.
ing his hair he stopped, appalled, at
the silver sheen of his temples, the
stern lines IN his face. He was middle.
aged. growing old She was just a
girl Why should she have cared for
him? She certainly could not have
cared for him,
There was a tragedy in his fPCe as
he turned about. and Eunice saw il.
What is It, Ellsworth" She had
asked fearfully.
He had taken her by the shoulders
and looked deep into her eyes and
then turned away, the question un.
| spoken Strangely enough, feeling as
sured as he did that she had done so,
he still felt he could not insult her by
asking her to put In words the bald
fact that she had married him for his
money. He found her surveying him
thoughtfully, quietly, after that and
she did not laugh so much. She seemed
always to be slipping out Of sight, un-
obtrusiye when he was about.
Things had changed in the Ferry
household in the two years since
their marriage; the old light hearted.
ness had gone and the mistress of the
big place was paler and quieter
though still smiling, while the man
who owned the pile of granite and
marble was sterner more absorbed in
Lis business. always courteous, but
much to himself The lover into which
Ellsworth Ferry had bloomed so sud
denly, SO completely, had vanished
forever, he told himself, grimly
Nearly every disaster has its re.
deeminS lights When his automobile
chose to blow up while Ellsworth
Ferry was travelling at a reckless
speed to see some new properties and
he was picked up as dead at first 1t
seemed a solution of all his problems
and worries.
But he was not dead, and when he
began dimly to float back to earth
he noticed someone beside his hospt
tar bed. Always when he opened his
eyes she was there. He did not try
to think who she was. She never
stirred except at times to move the
fan above him or to lay cool hand
on his hot head. He grew to expect
to see her there and the vision never
failed him.
On one of the days when he kept re
ceding from everything on horrible
waves of suffocation he heard her cry
out once a low, despairing cry. a cry
wrenched from the depths. Someone
had at once taken the despairns
voice and carried 1t away, though he
tried to come back and stop them
Then when again he opened his eyes
sanely, he saw her there back In the
same chair. 1t was Eunice, he OBJ
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did not seem to be any emotion with
in him any more than there was
strength.
| But the days crept on and slowly
| Ellsworth Ferry came back to liyinl
| and recovery. Her tenderness was
very lovely, yet there was somethins
, lacking within him. 1t was as If he
were looking at a lovely picture thai
, did not belong to him. She was his
wife, and Of course her place was
there Eunice he remembered. al
ways did the right thing
The day before he was to be sent
home the house physician sat beside
him, Eunlce being absent, The doc
tor was a young man, but he had met
and faced life in various phases, and
moreover, he had quick perception
MIR. Ferry he said, as he arose
Il want to tell you that the reason
you are going home tomorrow. thai
you are here to go home at all, +;
, that your wife wouldn't let you die,
None Of US, no power on earth, could
have saved you If she had not held or
, to you with set teeth and unwayering
will and-and loved you back to life!
All the science In the world stop;
, there-we can't explain It, we dom
, try to, out I've seen 1t before won
an simply defying death 10 snatch the
) man she cares for absolutely, YOU
can thank Mrs Ferry for your life
Ellsworth Ferry, left alone, though
, many things. Down in his heart ht
knew the doctor spoke the truth arl
he cringed with shame that lie ha1
, ever doubted her When she returned
, to his bedside and be saw nith hi.
newly opened eyes how careworn wa'
, her face, how thin the hands, how tx
, hausted she was with her long vigil
and, above all, when be saw the brood
} ing light In her eyes az she ben
, above him. he realized that the ques
} ton never would bother him arai'
He knew.
/ And she laid 1t to the vagarles D
sickness when be clutched her band.