Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-06
TO-DAY'S INSTALLMENT.
Seventeenth Chapter-Continued

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Partly undressing, l climbed into
my cot and lay still for the next half
on my mothers pulse and the nurse
spread a linen cloth over table and
put four or Ave lighted candles on II
remember that ! was thinking
that if God sending for my mother
meant that she was to be put into d
box and buried under the ground 1t
was terrible and cruel and perhaps If
! PRAYED TO Our Lady He would not
find it in His heart to do so. l was
trying to do this, beginning, under
my byeath, 20 Holy Virgin thou art
90 lovely, thou art so gracious
when the nurse said
Here they are back again
Then heard footsteps outside, and
going to the window | saw a sight
not unlike that which ! had seen on
the night Of he Waits.
The Sacrament.
A group OF men were coming to-
ward the house, with Father Dan IA
the middle of them. Father Dan. with
his coat hung over his arms like u
cloak. was carrying something white
in both hands and the men we're car
rying torches 10 light him on his Way.
! knew what IL vast was the
Blessed Sacrament, which they were
bringing 10 my mother. and when
Father Dan had come into the room
saying Peace be TO this house and
laid little white box on the table
and thrown of his coat. he Was wear
ing his priests vestments underneath.
Then the whole OF my fathers
household-all except nay father him
self-came INTO my mothers room, in
Guiding Aunt Bridget, who sat with
folded arms in the darkness by the
wall and the servants. who knelt IN
group by the door
Father Dan reused my mother h.
calling hsr again, and after she had
opened her eyes he began to read
Sometimes his voice seemed to be
choked with sobs as II the heart Of
the man were suffering. and some
times IT pealed out loudly as IL the
soul of the priest We're inspiring him,
After communion he gave my
mother extreme u1ction-enointins
the sweet eyes which haG seen no
evil. the dear lips which had uttered
no wrong and the feet which had
walked in the ways Of God.
All this time thsre was a solemn
hush la the house like that OF a
churoh-no sound within except my
fathers measured tread in the room
below, and none without except the
~ y, l.
when II is far away and going out
When all was over my mother
seemed more at ease, and after ask
ing for me and being told ! was in the
cot she said
You must all 90 and rest. Mary
and I will be quite right now"
A few minutes afterward my moth
er and I were alone once more. and
then she called me into her bed and
claspcd her arms about me and lay
with my face hidden in her neck
What happened thereafter seems To
he too sacred to write of, almost too
sacred 20 think about vet 1t is all as
memory OF Yesterday, while other
events of my life have fioated away e.
the ocean of things that are forgotten
and lost
Listen. darling. she said. and then
had heard all ! had said about the
convent and Vondered If | would not
like to live there always, becoming
one Of the good and holy nuns.
! must have made some kind o.
protest, for she went on to say how
hard the world was 10 a woman auC
how difficult she had found H.
Not that your father has been To-
hlame-you must never think that.
Mary, vet still
But tears from her tender heart
were stealing down her face and she
had to stop.
so YOU see we shall never be part
ed never really. We shall always be
together. Something tells me that
wherever you are. and whatever YOU
are doing, | shall know all about IL. So
This Comforted me, and think it
comforted my mother also, thong
God knows If it would have done so,
IT, with her dying eyes she could
have seen what was waiting for her
child.
1t fills nv heart brimful to think
Of what happened next