The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-17
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 knew there was a childP' ! No one says anything fur a minute. And then Miss Lucy says agin: J 'Yes-he. died-'' N.
 And then she fell into a kind of a muse I have been myself in the fix she looked to be in then-you forget fur a while where you are or who is there whilst you think about some thing that has been in the back part ] of your mind fur long, long time. What she was musing about was that child that hadn't lived. I knowed all in a fash, while looked at her there, why she had adopted Martha LSur her child
 It was a wonderful look that was ! onto her face. And it was a wonder : ful face that look was on to. felt Hike I had knowed her forever when : I seen her there.
 Miss Lucy, she was one Of the kind there's no use trying to describe. The Heller that could see her that-a-way and not feel made good by it orter fhave a whaling. Not the kind of ssticky, good feeling that makes you uncomfortable, like being pestered by your conscience to Jine a church or Equit cussing. But the kind of good Ethat makes you forget they is any
  lheart and being willing to bear things you can't help.
 Colonel Tom, he clears his throat Bike when you are awful dry.
 ''The truth is''- he begins.
 And then he breaks off agin. Miss Lucy turns toward him when he speaks. By the stranges1ook that come lon tn her face there must of been something right curious.in his manner Boo.
 ''The truth ts,'' says Colonel Tom, trying it agin, that well, Lucy, the child may be dead, but he didn't die when you thought he did, | There was a,hash of hope fared into her face thatsIshated to see come there sBecause when4it died out in a minute. .as expected itewould, have to, it look ed to me like itAmight take all her life out with it.
 'fWhy did youPnever tell me this that there was. a4child?" says the doc tor. very eager.
 Wait says Colonel Tom, 'let me Cell the story smyeownSway.''
 Which he done it. It seems when he had went to Galesba1Eg this here child had only beeA sborne a&few days. And Miss Lucy was ststill sick. And the kid itself was sick and liable to die any minute. by the looks ohthings. Which Colonel Tom *wishes that it would die in his heart He sure hates ssfhe idea of it and he mates the sight of Fit The second night he is there he is sBetting in his sisters room, and the iEFoman that has been. nursing the kid land Miss Lucy, too, is.1n+ the next room with the kid.
 She comes to the door and beckons to him, the nurse does. He tiptoes to- liEard her, and she says to him, very How voiced, that ''it is all over,' Imeaning the kid hes quit struggling fur to live and jest natcherally doated away. The nurse had thought Miss iLucy was asleep, but as both her and sCoIonel Tom turn quick toward her ibed they see that she has heard and !Seen, and she turns her face toward iEhe wall Which. he tries fur to con- Hort her, Colonel Tom does, but she .stares in a wildeyed way at him and lays there and looks desperate and says nothing
 Tn his heart Colonel Tom is awful glad that it is dead. He can't help Feeling that way, and he quits trying to talk to his sister, fur he suspicious That she will ketch onto the fact that he Is glad that it is dead. He goes on Into the next room.
 He finds the nurse looking awful funny and bending over the dead kid. lShe is putting looking glass to its Hips He asts aher why. She says she thought she might be ,mistaken after all. She couldn't say Hest when it died It was alive and feeble, and then purity soon it showed .no signs of life It'was like 1t hadn't had enough strength to stay and had
 
 land 1t didn't appear to be breathing, land she had watched it and done everything before she beckoned to- EoloneI Tom and told him that it was Eead, but as she come back into the room where it was she thought she mo- Hced something that was too light to be called a real dutter move its eye lids.
 Colonel Tom he just stands there and watches that nurse fight fur to hold onto the little mist of life she Thinks now is still into 1t. Finally the nurse begins fur to cry. Not because ehe is sure 1t is dead, but because she Es sure it Is coming back. Which 1t Noes, slow.
 . SBut I have told her that it is dead" Bays Colonel Tom, jerking his head to- ward the other room where Miss Lucy IS lying He speaks in a low voice and closes the door when he speaks. Fur at looks now like 1t was getting strong enough so it might even squall a little.
 T don't know what kind of look there was on my face" says Colonel From, telling of the story to his sister and the doctor, but she must have eeen that I was-and heaven help me, hbut I was-sorry that the baby was alive It would have been such an teasy way out of 1t had 1t been really Hdeadi
 She mustn't know that it Is living,' said to the nurse finally" says Colo nel Tom
 ~sYou don't mean'- Eaid the nurse, ntaEtleds~