St Josephs College - Argus Yearbook (Emmitsburg, MD)

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Her lips trembled too much for further speech, and to hide her sudden consciousness of those newly lighted eyes burning into hers, she bent over the patient. Was his breathing lighter, or was excitement deceiving her? Swiftly she took up her preparation again, she forgot everything but her intense hope, and she worked desperately. At last he sighed freely, the heavy, half-shut eyelids fluttered wide, closed, opened again, then closed once more, in sleep. Her soft cry of exultation roused the seemingly brooding man. He had been watching, but apparently uncomprehendingly. Now his eyes sought the girl's. She smiled, murmured 'cHe's asleep, and obeying a sudden impulse slipped from the room. It would be light in an hour or two, she would leave him to meet the dawn alone with his child. , , I She left early that morning, with the doctor, who had brought a visiting nurse with him. Marian did not say goodbye to John, she did not speak to him, nor he to her after their mutual outbreak of the preceding night. She gathered up her things and slipped hurriedly out to the waiting car, and stepped in. She was not needed any longer, and she was worn out. A week later, as Miss Brent was closing up her classroom late in the afternoon, she heard her name spoken 1n. a voice she would never forget. uGood evening, Mr. Actonfi she said, turning from the window she had just closed. Through it the sunset shone on her hair, and warmed the deep gray of her eyes. As he came towards her, John Acton watched her, and knew that he would always remember her as she stood there, bright, smilling, beautiful, remote. ' H' '1 ' ' C4 7 Q77 1S si ence was noticeable. Hows young John. asked Marian. cflohnfi he assured her gravely, His on the road to health again-thanks to you. And tomorrow we are both leaving forthe country, in Dr. Roberts' car. He wants to put John in a convalescent home somewhere in the suburbs, and has found work for me in the same vicinity. So-'I he looked steadily at her a moment, and Marian tried to introduce a note of lightness. 6 MSO, she smiled, fthey lived happily ever after. h 4'Yes, he answered, and that happiness is your gift, because you have shown me how to place my happiness above the trials that may attack it. You have shown me the impregnability of hope. Apparently our lives have touched only for a few hours, we have met but in passing, but in that meeting you have given me the courage to Hnish the journey well. I came to tell you this, and to try to thank you, and to say-.'I Goodbye she finished for him, and held out her hand. He took it in both his. still with his grave eyes on hers, and she felt the new strength in the soul behind them, and rejoiced that she had awakened it. Into his life had come' a new courage, into her life had flowed the ever- increasing richness of a noble sewice, nobly done. c'After all. she said softly, uit is in our own little, everyday lives that we can do the most- can accomplish greater things than we dream of, even though we ourselves are never named for the honors of greatness. He bent over her imprisoned hand. HYou.I' he murmured, 'fare above greatness. And as he had come into her life, he left it, through her narrow classroom door. His fool- steps died away down the hall, and into the ensuing silence there came from the river the call of two ships' horns as they passed in the dusk, speaking their hail and farewell. I ar':.?'CZv. nw . .fI'f',' aa. Is:-DI sv- - - - .116 i4f,Af '+'flif- 5,1313 ..,- I ,-. it IA4 l 3 Q ,QFCQI III' r I: Il? I ,I If I' I .s,ivIk. y II. W., 1 Wx' 5. I. I that I Hx! II .II 1, IH- - If 'I 0, 3' 'a,I 'I I 'f ,I I ...... I kiln: 'I as WI' , :T I II AlAI I - III .N II II QLIII . Aj? 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J if ' 'I plan. . You re crazy, proteste IC I s , - . h- mes, ,, Q dui, , What do you care about a hobo down in the slums? If you must be charitable, send 1m a nu H559 I can't pay a nu1'se's salaryf' m I 'g HI meant a district nursefi 2' I 'J 'li 6' ' 0 - . . . aa 5 ,I Il AU- i'The doctor said he couldnit get one 'until mormnggf so then I said I would come. f 1 - VI J Qi And hes going to let you?,'q y V . 5:..,,U! I Nobody, said lVIarian, ucan stop mef' H li Q35 l This brought another tirade from Esther, answered only with latmxgllitgei. grill nrlihi, S323 T Esther, angry only because of her care for the other, l2lL1gh'l3Ugh3 311311 fem, ll Y H it lx Hg. more likely weep when you find that you've lost your Job, to say nothing of your reputation. e ,Q ,5 that laughs last, you know-. . 'iHas just seen the joke, returned Marian, sweetly, and vanished down the stairs. I -iN ' ' . . . . ' ,V eel ,Af up , More and sterner opposition awaited her from ,lohn Acton, but she overruled him. At ten lt! o'clock that, night the doctor left.. I5 -A -. , . a 'ug' I f Ti 'fI've done all I,can do, he said as he put on his coat, abut I wouldn't say he hasn t a chance. .KL-T, lhlbghl If he pulls through, tonight he'll probably recover. yt .R if I-Ie smiled at uMaria,n, patted the father cheerfully on the shoulder, and went down the stairs. Marian turned back to her place by the bedside, but John stood at the door, watching the doctors I, depal-ture with the expression of one who looks into ancpen grave. Algffggji 'l Presently he came and sat down across from her, and together they watched and listened, Ui Gif 9 listened to the heavy breathing, and unconsciously measured the length of every breath, listening lit, 'fag 4-sl' to the little clock on the stand, that ticked away relentlessly the moments of a childs life, worst Q fs- ll of all, listened to the hoarse voice that cried out every now and then in some childish babbling, or delirious imagining. - So the hours wore away. There was no embarrassment between these two. The greatness ffl' of the moment's need had banished all lesser consideration, where there is real greatness in any Er! - 5 :D phase of life there is no room for pettiness. Before the brilliance of the sun, the brightest stars UQ must fade, and mighty rivers are but streams before the ocean's vastness. m 5 'I fl Twelve oiclock found them tense. Marian had been repeating the doctor's treatment periodi- I ,. t, t cally, but now she only watched and waited, a sudden coldness around her heart, her hands un- rg steadyu The breathing was louder now, and slower. And as if its dull hammering had broken u fl ' the lock upon his emotions, the man across from Marian suddenly began to speak. Instinctively Fl A . themg1rl.kept her. eyes down, watching the patient, but he would not have known had she looked ' Qt, up at him, for his nerve had given way at last, and his forehead was bent upon a shaking hand. H Jw It was the story of his. life he told, as much of it as would explain the 'present circumstances. , ,I xx It was in part as Marian had already surmised it, but with a difference. While his wife had mr .. - lived, .Iohn Acton had worked steafhly and well, and had been wildly happy. At her death, the I. ., ,1 devoted husbands heart had fc-llowed her even into the grave. He grew absent and unreliable Y -kt and his work suffered. He was dropped from one position after another, had drifted into lneaner I ., lx I land poorer'sect1ons of the city, until at last he reached the river's edge. Here he and the boy Lgflilllr ad Seen l1V1Hg haphazafdly, but he had again lost his position the preceding Saturday. That .'lff5 NQS CW the had COIIIC tovbe at home to miss John the day he had been kept at school. wllhat Vx ' gil brings things up to date, he finished, and now-. fQJ:BfIi, Q-E59 b. .hiheatoneless voice 'drifted into silence, the Cl0Cli.1'6Sllll1SCl its ticking, the sufferers labored if gi- I rea ilng-lgwas it easier. She glanced across to' see if he had noticed, but his head was bowed lfbri-ijt' 'iP031t eihot hand lying on the coverlet. There was an appeal in the attitude that stirred the :I -1 lil lrqgr H512-iho t T1 Womans Sifgnpaihy, and as suddenly as he had .begun his story. lvfklldllll' took up the Qtr? 'nf b y uh Ska 8,35 li S -ou be in the future. All 'that she said she could never afterwards recall, EQ li 433g Bug she new tlmathwith her closing words .her .listener's head was once more lifted. and in his f.',g Q if by O0LI9iGI:12t3lEg 1ySh6'hHrhspolien.of his wife.: '4You worked for her gladly while she lived: Kfgfl her grain Y er Oflei if iii YOU Siflll -l1VC.f01' it? 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