The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1915-10-08
CHAPTER xxV-conti,u.d

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oaoron could not reply. Her rib
% MS and flowers and Jewels shoe, ~
MS eyes like a Kaleidoscope III
nusn mad made him more natural In
nis invalid state, with his hair bruabad
BACK from his fine brow. there was
something spiritual and baautifuI
ABOUT MIN. The Marquise dEsclianac
looked on man who had been far
ana VINO had determined of his own az.
cord to come back. She said moro
gently, putting her hand affectionatoIS
over his: O'''' 'ei'
get strong, monsieur-get well Eat
all the good things we are making for
you. l dare say that the army cannot
pare you. 1t needs brave hearts
Sabron was so agitated after her
departure that the nurse said he must
receive no more visits for several
days. and he meditated and longed
and thought and wondered, and near.
ly cursed the life that had brought
MIN back to a world which must be
lonely for him henceforth.
When he sat up in bed he was a
shadow. He had a book to read and
read few lines of it, but he out it
down as the letters blurred. He was
sitting so, dreaming and wondering
now true or how false it was that he
had seen Julia Redmond come several
times to his bedside during the early
days of his Illness here in the hos.
pital. Then across his troubled mind
suddenly came the words that he had
heard her sing, and he tried to recall
them. The Red Cross nurse who so
charitably sang in the hospital came
to the wards and began her mission.
One after another she sang familiar
songs.
How the poor devils must love it,"
Sabron thought, and he blessed her
for charity.
How familiar was her voice! But
that was only because he was 50 ILL.,
But he began to wonder and to doubt
and across the distance came the
notes of the tune, the melody OF the
song that had haunted him for many
months:
God keep you SAFE my love,
All through the night;
Rest close in his encircling arms
Until the light
My heart is with you as 1 kneel to pray
Good night! God keep you in his car,
Away.
Thick shadows creep like silent ghosts
About my head;
lose myself in tender dreams
While overhead
The moon comes stealing through tn,
window-bars,
silver sickle cleaning mid the stars
For I, though I am far away,
Feel safe and strong,
To trust you thus, dear love-and yet,
The night is long.
say with sobbing breath the old fon
prayer,
Good night! Sweet dreams! God kee
you everywhere
When she had finished singing Their
were tears on the soldiers cheeks an
he was not ashamed. Pitchounet VIII
remembered the tune as well, crep
up to him and laid his head ON hi
masters hand. Sabron had just tim
to wipe away the tears when the Du
de fremont came in.
"Old fellow, do you feel up to see
ing Miss Redmond for a few me
ments?"
When she came in he did not know
whether he most clearly saw her SIN
ple summer dress with the singI
Jewel at her throat, her large hat tina
framed her face, or the gentle Lowell
face all sweetness and sympathy. H
believed her to be the future Ducf
esse de fremont.
Monsieur de Sabron, we are all $
glad you are getting well.
THANK you, Mademoiselle.'
He seemed to look at her from
great distance, from the distance t
the end of which he had so wearil
been travelling. She was lovelier tina
he had dreamed, more rarely sWee
and adorable. ,
Did you recognize the little sons
Mopcieur9"
1T was good of you to sing it,
This is not the first time ] hay
cen you. Monsieur de SabroH
came when you were too i'll TO kno
Of it." ~,
Then l did not dream said tn
officer simply.
He was as proud as ne was poo
He could only suppose her engage
70 the Due de fremont. 1t eApIaIne
her presence here. In his "ilde'
dreams he could not suppose INA ="
had followed him to Africa J'I'a' %
her mart. having done an eT'TaoFai'
.rv and wonderful thing, Ike ever
brave woman. was seized With tfrro
and a sudden cowardice- Saprol
after all was a stranger. How fou'
she know his feelings for her. 81
sne,t a miserable day. He was GU
of all danger; in for'nlsnl !, u
Iaiabt leave the hospital She d
,ot feel that she could see Nv
.goin as things were. Inc on