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Show DR. VANCE'S DAILY ARTICLE k . . . , It was not a little child, but a young' wile, who Bald It It Siaa t lie moan of la broken heart, released In the seml-locllrium seml-locllrium of an opiate that hud i. elicited el-icited physical pain, but ww not strong. enough to stuplfj lurtured spirit. j I Vie train was on a nisht run be-jtveen be-jtveen two southern cities. Half an Ihour out. the young woman whose i Iberth was just across from mine be- gan to hae convulsions. Sh had been' found on ths raai platform m high-j l hysterical condition. Fortunately j th-re was an angel in the form of a tialned nurse on board, and she h tireless In her efforts to give relief. We telegraphed ahe.-.l for a doctor,1 who came an hour later, but all that he could do was to administer an plate During thr Intervals when she wav herself, matt hes of her story c.une out Married three years before, with u little son waiting for her at th end ot the night's ride, with a husband 'who had grown tired of his young wife I and desertdl her. tt was tr.r old story' of a lost Edi n. She had prooabl) tried to end her ;llfe ther on the rear platform. tut I had not succeeded In getting enough j of the drug Into her sj stem to acj compllsh her purpose. At three o'clock in the morning the j opiates hushed the poor girl into a troohlrd sleep, but for the tlirce hours' that followed. oer and over again that ir of a broken heart moaned Itself out into the car I'adU. I'm so liuoet: Daddy, I'm so loaaXyt" Literally hundreds of limes she said It. Across tho car aisle, through the curtains. Into my berth, came this I plaint of a stricken eoul. I m nrr forget that seren..1e of 1ep.ir. 1 becan to wish tbut a man who hid broker) his marriage now might hr . It. If It could reach him. would h care ? How could he resist such a sob from the brulae1 heart he had once sworn to cherish" I began to wish that other men might hear a young motbeJT uncover the trsged of a wrecked home, as she thus reached out blind arms for the father of her child. H" can a man pla falsa to a woman when they have taken this aac- roment of Itf together" Mabe there are men who would come back. If Ihey could hear what I hear. I that night, moaning Its way out through the curtains of a I'ullman. Ifi Bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb i.'i have deseiteil the girl you swore on God's altar to love "till deth ahall l .ft. " that cry Is coming after you. It will hunt you down. It will follow you to the ends of the earth. It will not lei you forget. It will meet you at God's bar at last; but there if will change from a minor chord. It will become your accusation. As the judge lUtana, He will say. "With what measure meas-ure meet it shall be measured to you again." oo |