Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-11-03

again sat by the bedside.
Tel me once more" said John
gently. lust how it was that she-my
mother-came to you."
He had gone over to peer into the
unseeing eyes of his father, as if to
make sure that no sign of awakening
intelligence vas there.
II am afraid she said ~nervously.
IF he should really be able to hear, he
would curse me 1 am sure for"
Nonsense, mother" he said. He
| will live to bless you. Matters will be
very simple after all this. is passed. He
will thank you for giving him back his
son."
Eyes. for robbing myself of one," she
lamented.
You will always be a mother to me
said he gently.
Tell me again of her-the other one.
1 have to get it all clearly in my mind.
It's vague now"
She repeated the story of how he
came into the world n into her pos
session almost Immediately after that
event. Now she told it clearly, con-
cisely. not distractedly as in the night.
She was a woman of few words, and
always had been. Her prayers were
short. morning inc night. She could
not have made them long.
adam came to my husband one day
and said that Lucy Barlow was in
trouble. She was expecting a baby. He
implored Henry to take her up to Hall
fax on the Lanigan. h was the dear
est. sweetest girl in all Gloucester, 1
will say that. laddie. Her father was
the captain of a whaler n was away
for many months put of the year. Her
Of her time with an uncle who lived
here in Corinth. In the summer time
she e to Gloucester to visit an aunt.
But while she was here. we saw q great
deal of her. She met Adam Carr at
our house. He was already married.
the woman he was married to. He
wasn't NOR than % or "a and she was
s.. They were not happy together.
Well. of course. he fell in love with
Lucy. That's the long and the short
Of It;
1t was hat right and natural. Well.
my husband asked me what we should
do to help her. and l said at once that
I would go up to Halifax with him on
the ext Oyag and take Lucy along.
Your father-I mean Adam Carr, Of
eourse-was boarding with us at the
time. His wife lived In Gloucester. He
persuaded Lucy to go with US, prom
ising to come up as soon as he could
arrange to do 80. He was mate on his
fathers fishing schooner and couldn't
get away at that time. 1t was his plan
to get a divorce from his wife. but just
how it was to be done I can't say. 1t
never did happen. but it didn't matter
In the end. She died a few years later.
It's a Gods pity she couldn't have died
before Lucy had her trouble. We took
Lucy away, On the Lanigan. I was to
stay with her through 1t all. and the
Lanigan started back to Corinth. She
side Eddy's Islands on the awful night
you've heard of-oh. but / can't speak
Of that! My husband was lost.
Il left Lucy there and came back
here to wait for the sea to give up my
dead. My own baby was coming. All.
laddie. Well. one day, fOu or five
months after the wreck. Adam Carr
came to me with 4 letter from Lucy.
She wanted him to come to her at once.
I went with him by steamer. We got
there just before you were born. Lucy
died The next day. Three weeks later
my baby came-a girl baby. and my
only one. NY little one died the day It
was born. but Lucy's lived and thrived.
1T was then that Adam Carr sug-
gested that I be mother to you, that you
be known as Henry Pays0n's boy as
long as you should live He begged 20
hard and I wanted my OWE baby SO
much that I-well. / fell In with his
plan. That II how you came into the
world and how you became John Pay
son. son Of Henry Payson, lost at sea
months before you We're born. I have
tried to bea good mother TO yyou. laddie.
all these; years, and now As
He leaned over and kissed her, the
tears streaming down his cheeks. She
broke OF In the middle OF the lament
70 stroke his hand and murmur words
Then. as ifS moved by ! common I'm
pulse. they arose and stood together at
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