New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-02-24

All this took time. 1t was several
years before he was able to earn
his 81 a day. and even then there
was not always work to do. 1t was
not till Emmett had been In America
four years that he began to put aside
a fund to bring Eileen to him. This
fund he started at the beginning of
new year and calculated that he would
have enough by the following autumn
to buy Eileen's ticket across the water.
Unfortunately he was laid up by ILL
ness soon after he began to put aside
this fund and was idle for two months.
Eileen received letter early in
January telling her of her lovers in
tentions and another shortly afterward
that he was laid up with an illness.
She had saved enough money to pay
her way to America and made up her
mind to go to Emmett of her own ac-
cord since he was not able to send for
her. She came to this resolution in
February, but it was March before she
could make her arrangements to de-
part Then, too, she must go home to
say goodby to her parents and re-
ceive blessing from Emmet's father
and mother to take to him. However.
she got away at last. anxious to reach
her lover. who was still an invalid.
Eileens intention was to surprise
Emmett. and in none of her letters did
she give him the slightest hint of her
coming. She wrote him that she long
ed to be able to nurse him back to
health. and he replied gratefully that
if she We're with him he would recover
more rapidly. but his greatest disap-
pointment was that he was using up
the fund he had started with which to
bring her to him in necessary expenses.
including doctors bills
The last letter Emmett received from
home before Eileen sailed was from
his mother. She was very pious wo-
man and had often written her son to
be sure not to neglect his church du-
ties. In this letter she told him that
she was sending him gift that he
would receive on or about st. Pat
rick's day. She believed that it would
make him well, for she sent with it her
blessing.
Emmett was very curious to know
what this gift was his mother was
sending him and wondered how it
would come. He saw no way except
by express, and, although his mother
had his address, he sent a postcard to
each express companys local Office
that it might not be delayed for want
of his street and number.
On the morning of st. Patrick's day
Emmet's gift had not arrived. There
was a telephone in the house in which
he lived. and since he was too weak
to leave his bed he asked his landlady
to telephone the express offices to ask
if any package had been received for
him. Every Office declared that moth
ing had been received for him, and he
was disappointed. About II o'clock in
the morning the landlady came to his
room and said to him:
''Your st. Patrick's day gift from Ire
land has arrived. Shall bring it up?"
"Of course. Bring it up at once"
II don't know that I'm able to car
ry it."
IFS it very heavyy'
II think it must weigh about 100
pounds
"Well, we'll! l suppose it must stay
there till I can get up and handle it
myself"
Maybe it can come Of ITSELF"
Before Emmett could reply to this
apparently absurd proposition the door
was flung open, and Eileen ran to En-
NETS bed and. kneeling beside it,
threw her arms about him.
'1'm the gift your mother sent you.
Emmett" she said. Both she and your
father hoped l would arrive on ST.
Patrick's day. They said they'd be
thinkin' of us all this blessed day as
bein' together"
Thanks be to God!' was all the in
valid could say, clasping his arms
about Eileen.
And now that I've come you must
get well right away"
''That will. I'm thinkin' I'm well
already. But how did. you manage
about the money for your passage
Eileen, SEEM had none to send you?"
II saved it from my wages"
At that moment there came strains
Of martial music from without.
tits the parade" said Emmett. "I'm
thinkin' I'll get up and We'll have
look at it,
"Are you strong enough?"
Strong enough? could carry an
OK on me back now.''
Emmett. wrapped in the bedclothing,
with Eileen's assistance. managed tc
get to window, where a chair was
placed for him. The arrival of his
love. the sight of the paraders moving
by. the sound Of bugle and beat OF
drum. were so inspiring that he said If
he had known how strong he was he
would be marching with them. and
Eileen needed to hold him in his chair
to keep him from starting up. She
managed IN xoon him n,1iot nv pivino