New Britain herald., 1918-09-23
REVELATIONS
 OF A WIFE
How Nudge Comforted Katie and
 Brought Back Her Will to Live.

l Hours afterward Lillian came into | the room, her face lined with anxiety. l Mine must have reflected the peace l I had attained, for her eyes frightened 1 as they met mine.
 "Now you're my own brave girl
 again. she said, as she came up to l the bed bearing a tray with a, cup of
 steaming coffee and some toast upon 1 it. And there is a, task before you that will tax your strength-so drink this first"
 obeyed her. and then sat up de- 1 terminedly.
 ,"You're not to bother one bit more about me-" I said with decision. I'm 1 perfectly all right, ready to bear a 1 woman's part instead of acting like a spoiled, hysterical child. What is it you want me to do?'
 You judge yourself too harshly, my dear" Lillian said kindly "But I'm glad you are feeling all right, for you have a sad time before you" "Katie-?" I ventured, with fore boding. "Yes," Lillian inclined her head sadly. Katie has lost her little child, 1t died at birth. And, of course, she is wildly inconsolable. The physician fears for her life if she cannot be quieted otherwise than by drugs. And she's asking over and over again for you"
 I had risen from the bed at her first mention of Katie's name, and by the time she had finished I was hastily donning a loose house gown and slippers and twisting my hair up into the simplest and quickest pos sible coiffure.
 T will go to her at once" said, and two minutes more saw me bend ing over katie's bedside. It was an almost unrecognizable
 Katie whose grief-haunted eyes stared
 up at me. Ravaged by pain, torn by
 wild rebellion at her fate, there was l little trace of my volatile, happy-go- 1 lucky little maid in this woman with 1 the burning face and wild-staring 1 eyes,
 1 I had heard her calling me "Oh, ] Missis Graham, come Qveeck to /, Katie" Over and over the cry rang ! out, and she was still saying 1t mono 1 tonously as I bent over her, her pain 1 dulled brain evidently not yet realiz- 1 ing that had come to her. I put my hand on her forehead.
 then knelt down by the side of the
 bed so that my face was close to hers.
 1T am here, Katie" I said slowly, | distinctly. Don't be afraid any l more"
 She stopped moaning, turned her 1 eyes to mine, and then her poor ban l daged face began working and she
 burst into wild weeping. The Relief of Tears. I heard Cousin Agatha draw 8 deep
 breatt as if of relief, and the physi-
 sian, giving me a quiet signal to let
 the poor, grief-stricken creature cry
 her heart out if she wished, beckoned to Cousin Agatha, and they both left l the room.
 i Of course, l saw instantly that until l this moment Katie had not been given the blessed healing relief of
 tears, and that the physician wished
 me to be alone with her, thinking that 1 the poor, undisciplined child might
 yeild to my comfort and
 authority made no effort
 to stop Katie's tears, simply
 passed and she rested quietly in my l arms, weak and spent, but with the 1 wild glitter gone from her eyes. 1 The physician came noiselessly back
 into the room, stood looking down at
 us for moment.
 That is better" he said, a note of
 satisfaction in his voice. He busted l himself with his medicine case for a
 minute, and brought a potion to Katie :! which she swallowed obediently. l Let her talk for little while," he
 said to me, "but first bathe her face l in some cool water. And when she l gets drowsy cover her up and let her
 drop off to sleep. She will be better 1 when she wakes.'
 Katie watched him scornfully as he l went out of the room. After I had l bathed her she expressed the thought 1 she had registered in her face. "vot he know about vimmen' s 1 hearts?" she demanded. 'He tink I 1 be better, I tink I die. I never never
 live, not got my baby
 But you must live, Katie" ] said l authoritatively for Jim.' 1 She looked up at me startled. You know vot?' she asked after a
 moment, and her tone was aved, re- 1 morseful. You know dot poor Jim, 1 and he feel so bad, too, ven he hears.
 He set his heart on that little baby"
 "Al the more reason why you should l be brave and be ready to comfort him | when he comes home from the war;
 I said pressing my argument while her 1 ears were ready for it. "I suppose dots right she said