New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-27


his legs holding TO them till collapsed the ground.
At the hospital they said | had fractured skull,
couple Of ribs stove in Spralned wrist and two KnucE
les Of nv right hand broken BY this time was all IN,
and didn't care much what happened next When they
took me out Of the public ward into private room Mr.
Escott engaged for me- well two nurses for night
and day, | was out Of my head and ravlng
For several days 1t was touch and go whether |
should ever pull out not and then took big urn
for the better. As was fit 70 see people Mr.
and Mrs Escott came and Miss Stella and they
as Overlooking as though I had done something very
fine and noble instead OF being merely batted on the
nut for sticking to a sood job. Nh Escott came nee
Mrs Escott twice or so; but Miss Stella came nearly
every afternoon and stayed till the sent her way
What her visits meant to ne IS beyond all telling. She
did more TO make me well than twenty doctors al-
ways look back those days as the happrSt ! ever
spent OF course never let her know the truth was
too sensible cry for the moon, or have any ,razy
ideas Of that sortbut she must have seen She was The
breath OF life to me, and was too human and |onany
not 70 be touched.
One afternoon she brought a gentleman with her.
He was named Livingstone, Mr.. Bruce Livingstone and
looked be about thirtytwo or three, with square
head square laws and a SnappSh way OF talking Ike
man biting off the end OF cigar. He very imp ing
and well dressed with pearl pin and Svcr-hantled
cane and she called him Bruce and he called her Stella,
and took it they related. Somehow the afternoon
that had been looking forward 10 eagerly and unit
ing every minute the clock seemed to withcr AMI be-
come miserable. There people who can DO that iuSt
by being near YOU and this Mr. Bruce Livingstone was
one Of them. | almost glad when they both vent
away.
The next afternoon when asked her who he was She
said he was a New York lawyer and wonderfully able
and successful Indeed, she could not speak too SAy
OF him. and seemed 10 enjoy laying II on Mr. LIVING.
stone was this that and tOther 10 beat the band ana
from the way she on, hardly seeing me nor 'ting
anything. YOU would have thought he WAS the .enth
wonder of the world. When SAID something !. .nsy
TO this effect, she answered:
"Why shouldn't | think SO? Mr.. Livingstone -nd |
are engaged 10 be married.
1t is strange how words can hurt more than real ingS
That strikers boot coming down on my heat ever
hurt me the hundredth OF what | suffered then Tn
gagged TO marry Mr.. Livingstone. II went throu- me
Ike a knife-we through my heart and StuCs ere
as though II could be pulled out again. suppose
il | had not seen Mr.. Livingstone II would n0' lale
been quite SO bad; but had sized him up for yold'
harsh man who would put his own interest first ciore
was strictly limited to M Bruce Livingstone. was
all could do to pull myself together,to try and de
the killing blow 1t was 20 me- My voice tremblcl as
congratulated her-Sad the things one has 20 s.N, or
be put down as a boor So said them, with that Anhe
still sticking in my heart.
COT out Of the hospital the week before she was
RED. The strike was over and reported ever lay
at the factory; though for time had to sit in a chair
and take easy. But did not take so easy not
10 rustic up present; which was a beautifully carved
silver box that paid siXty-ive dollars for, and was
meant TO stand N ladyS dressing table and hold pms
and what Inside the lid had the Jeweler engraye
a verse | found in an old book. and had him rub II
down as though ii had belonged there originally, as
well as making the letters tiny small | knew II was
forward thing do; yet impelled in spite Of my
self, wanting have her think Of me perhaps IN the
years 10 come:
There is a lady sweet and kind.
Never face so pleased my mind;
did but see her paSsiHg by
And yet love her till die.
Though | received invitation TO the wedding ana
the reception afterward. | naturally kept away:
hadn't the clothes the manners the knowledge 70
figure in such affairs, matter how obScurey Besides
| would not have gone for million dollars, paid IN
advanceto Stella walking down aisle that IS ana
holding to the Of Mr. Livingstone, her husband !,
was a terrible thing to live through terrible and awful
dim. ,uns na;nn tint hlnn Nnld