Judge — September 22, 1883 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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EHE JUDGE. Ip Heraclitus has not had enough of Berk- ville for once in his Tife, he has at least had nee to Tearn what it is tobe * penny wis d foolish.” All I wonder at is, that after what I’ve been throw alive to tell the tale. I knew all alon; the reason he was so anxious to get mea from Lo ch was on account of the his sister Lu left us in peace at the sea-shore. As might have been expected, when we ar- rived at the home of his ancestors, we found nda up and al about the house. 9 mad when I saw how well she was, and knew that we'd been dr for nothing, that I had hard w me prett chilly, had a splitting. he immediately to bed. instead of bei: better, and suffered excruciatin: Fortunately there doctor in the place, th cd man wants to settle in such a mis- erable little hole for, I can’t conceive. 1 Thad an attack of pleurisy; and rew worse instead of better, Heraclitus be- came frightened, and tele York for our own doctor, oga fo my mother. Owing to the » the tele: and it was two or three pre cith rrived. In the meantime the f. ly had got pretty well tired out ta- king care of m Heraclitus scoured the town for a professional nurse, but neither love nor money could procure what didn’t exist. He was so disgusted at his want of success that in an unguarded moment he said he didn’t what anybody wanted to live in such e for, any- how. Mari in the room at the time, exclaimed, his is no village, this is a wildy with nothing but a few snakes and squirrels, where not so much asa bottle of Vichy or seltzers can be found.” When evening arrived, two of the neigh- bors came in, country fashion, to sit up with me. I was so miserable that I didn’t much care whether I lived or died, and I was scarcely aware of what was transpiri wards midnight I fell asleep, and when I as filled with a disgusting from the kerosene lamp, and I became painfully conscious that the two old crones were whispering, and about me. From their remarks they Levidently been examining part of m drobe, and finally one of them said, “She of never be any better than she is now. replied the other; “I sup- RS, if she dies here she'll be buried here. hey’d probably use the new hearse, and I guess there'd be a pretty big funeral. Du. The next T had a pain in was a though what an morning, edu nd to Sar days be | one of the w | go on a buckboard. | half to death, but he v sharp things; but Twas cold and Ie | as 1] raphed to New | | of my illness would be | bother your little h ring the pause that followed, I lay thinking of the tawdry gilt-and-black hearse seen drive empty past my » day before, passenger; but these cheerful reflections were interrupted by n_ wondering “ What she'd be laid out in.” This was a little too much, and if it had killed me the next minute I couldn't have kept still. 1 couldu’t raise my head from the pillow, but fortunately the power of speech had not entirely left me, and told them to call my husba he came in T said, ‘Th y made elaborate preparations for my il. If I die here, never let me be b ied here; and don’t have my body carr the depot in that horrid he Heraclitus As soon as seared He 1 very mad. requested the old women to deps heard him muttering curses under his b ‘The next day our own doctor and mother rived, and thin an to assume a more cheerful aspect. vector insisted that I should be taken home as soon as T could px sibly be moved, and mother quite with him, and they commence parations for my departure clared it would kill me to move me in the low state I was in, and T finally told her I rather die in a » where peo- ary you that th “had left ced_ makin Miter this 3 be nina pi ple were in such a hurry to they couldn't wait till the bre your body before speech she subsided, b terribly injured expr Mother and M ings, which we nd Her- remark on the folly of having so many cloth said there was great sense in bringir those things up there when all I required was night-dres I told him if I ever id dispense with even those; a coffin and a shroud would probably be all L should necd, and would save the neighbors troubl Then mother told us both to be quict, and he came over and kissed me, and promised me all sorts of things if I'd only get well, I told him I guessed the expenses at all he could af- theexpense! Don’t about that.” This ford, and he said “ D. HALLo, orp Bor! but as Her was comfort very well could expect any and T must 8: and was as devoted as I Such a time as they had Of course the doctor had te no one knew what might h: tus took me out of bed and carricd me down stairs in his arms, ‘They got meto thestation somehow or other, and’ into a compartment in a parlor car. I was about gone when we reached the house, elitus laid me on my own bed in my own room, to cjaculate “"Phere’s no place like home!” and fainted dead away. ptting me home! with us, for Ieracli- were a baby, ‘This was over two weeks ago, and Iam now ning quite rapidly. soon as Iam able ng with mcmma up to Lenox to visit her sister, aunt Pcnelope, for whom I was She is very rich, and has no daugh- wants me to have Toodledums her country place. dear child had us is such a heathen that 1 emced to care whether sh have died he would never it don As soon I'm well enough, Til have this sin of omis- sion off my conscicnee, at any rete. Be- yponing at the height of the Lenox season, it will be quite and a Pen. will be sure to have everything very swell. I suppose I shall look very pale and ca xt will make me all the more If during my suppose -1 the expense! ; , with a different inflection Il never agree on a suitable 1 the child, Tam sure. ed in my Yoom t fit of total nence has und champag usual, The doctor has warned him ‘that in must not be worried or excited. er is still my devoted nurse will see that he is not ins trunine ntal in ting an end to the career of hi wife, PENELOPI lath: put: unfortunate PEN NYPEATHER, GOT THE WRONG MAN. comicbooks.com