The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-04-26
CONFESSIONS
OF A Wife
\ WIDOW AND \ MOTHER

never expected 10 write on your
white pages again. little book In.
deed. unul to-day ! could not look
upou your red covers. aud ! am sure
! would not have opened you now II
J md not hnd shock ana sur
prise
IN" morning after il WAS decided
that Mother Trent should come aud
stay win biok ana me. DICK did not
get ~ 10 breakfast aud when
went into his room 10 can HIM
found him unconsciouH
aroused tho servants. immediate
ly sent Tor Dr Nirot. but IL wan OF
no avail Dick only reghincd con
sciOurnesa Tor il short time. aud
took my hand aud smiled 49, he
said 1T iH all right. Murgi. dear.
u iH al rEht Remember. thru all
my fooiishness ! have always loved
you. ana you have made me always
happy. would not have had you
changed Ia one particular
lie was silent moment Tor IL
was hard FOR him 10 talk. and then
he said. Il had hoped to live long
enough To see our child. Mlrgic. but
know D., VIII comfort you MnrRle
Don't leave me. DICK said a
little Wildly. we are just begin.
ming 20 be happy"
II know It. dear ! know IT," he
answered sadly. and this last year
has been all my life TO me"
"oh. ! can't let sou 10, can't Jet
you go
Then sou do love me. Nargie9"
why. Dick darling. have al
ways loved you
Even when YOU knew was un
true-cVen when you thought / was
coward asked DICK with a feeble
smile
Sometime. my love. thought I
did not. bat ! know that have al
ways loved you utterly"
Dearest Margie." be whispered.
his voice growing fainter. INT me
az
lifted him up ana he gave ~.
tie sigh Of content as his head WAS
pillowrd on my breast He tried to
raise his arm TO put IL around my
neck. but he could not
Are sou In pain. dear heartg" /
asked
80" be answered. Il am perfect.
- content" and then be stiffened a
little and drew conyuinivc breath
and was dead
have just one thing 90 be thank. !
ful for ia that awful time was
alone with my husband when he |
died Af,erwsrd had 10 share him !
with his mother and endure her !
noisy grief Hut for those Last ~. |
prcme moments Dick was complete. |
~ mine I can feel siiu the weight |
Of his dear body as lifted him up ]
can Huil sec the look 81 lotc IN his ,
eyes. ENrr} Thing. little book. was 7
blotied out except that I had once 1
more my splendid lover back the I
lover who wooed me NO lmpetuously /
and who WAS now dying as h. would {
have wished 10 die. II he must In 1
my arms
But ! did not have this comfort |
long. little book. for whatever sor /
row comes 20 ONE. the world steps in |
and says. You mus, do thus and 80 /
under these circumstance Merci 1
fully, ! was spared all the details OF |
the final arrangements and the de.
tails Of the funeral for that night |
DICKS boy was born. and I was de- 1
lirious FOR tao weeks.
They tell me tina, no one expected
me TO live. and II It were not Tor my
blessed baby with it's fathers gray
eyes would have been glad to 20
Already ! can soc the glimmer OF
that little crooked smile about the
baby mouth altho everybody tx.
cept dear old Jim insists that a baby /
Of six months does not smile
When | came 20 myself after that I,
agony OF body and grief Of soul. |
found myself In my pretty room with /
flowers all about me. For minute
pr two did not understand what
had occurred. and / moved little
restlcssly trying TO think.
The nurfe came quickly 10 the
bed. and az she came she stepped to
he bassinet and picked up fra.
grant bundle of flannel and fine
linen and brought Il over.
When she saw that I was sane
lgaln. she placed my baby in my
arms. For a moment the contact OF
hat tiny. helpless. yielding body
against my heart blotted out every
thing except the mother love-tho
great unexplainablc. incxplcablc.
lnending. unroasoning love that
Daby brings to the one who bears IL
was too weak to- even pui my I
arms about Il. but | felt iis little
soft. moist mouth against my breast.
md tears filled my eyes and rolled
inhlddcn down my checks
ASK Dick 20 come 20 me" said |
weakly has he seen my baby
md thru rsu,,p,h,rot