Show 0 I I The Rich the Angel AngelI 1 I B BY THOMAS TrIER V J. J I 5 W WE E to rca s i in Iii with men Every school schoolboy Iv bo boy and girl remembers Abou AloU h Ben and what what the thc the angel did I f for fr him Wc Well lVell hero is g another talc different oie OI C tint ti I I. I with an in hI It it I. I ir f 1 V VA A rich man lay y p R RIl u h his JJ do ill that at e crone he thought he woul surely lie die lle Ho Ito was not nut xe really a bad had lf l lne had lad ma made le n many 11 suffer that tuat he might become r rich rh Consequently n very few tev Pl f ts illness C cared U cl h he died on OL not J If f l t 1 of t. t t I n i i Ont One night nig-ht so h he told me me I ds a alg J i appeared to nUn fun I said fald AVo A yon rO ou r ready to to lir r jV t w. w I t. t Being a s man man vho 1 ced wor words s with an any one one- he replied very sJ- sJ shortly I J I 1 1 t r Certainly not notI 1 have o much much worl yet et to do and I cannot annot afford to die just now j i iVery j Very well said the angel you shall live on certain conditions Well snapped slapped man inan what ne e the they First answered th tho ang angel J I you ou of oC some thin things 8 you have forgotten The spirit Sn mun is and in III it its its' nature it is pure pure- and fu full of light Your wife who is hc only human being that loves loves' you with understanding understanding under under- understanding standing has such Mich a sp spirit ri You X shall shaH get et w well JI again Y Your ambitions will increase Your heart will Ill desire many things s an and you shall have them nil all And one da day you ou and your our wife shall die In the slime same moment The man trembled T r J Do not fear said the an angel el it wI will lie le e a long time hence But in the meanwhile remember remember- this Whenever henc von ei J are TP j nul r- r nr win enroll tI o i 1 th i-i i i cn In n IM n nn i I tout out Whenever r c you U are r afraid ir rd yd r p w ii ll C curl up like the lips i of a o wolf Whenever Vh- Vh you tell a f falsehood your eyes will u be clouded And whenever you ou I cause finy one to suffer the Ji light will leave your countenance While the angel th the sick man had Kept hia hili c eyes cs closed but when the voice ceased he opened ned them cautiously The angel was gone fone gone and the man laughed aloud Well he lie exclaimed that angel has no idea how modern business methods hl a man mail to conceal his em emotions If TI In n a few fe days darR the man mana a was better bitter and and In a a few more he was at his business business busi busl- ne ness again He had many manS ambitions his heart was filled with desire and everything everything- he wanted he received as the angel had said Now ow In the course of ot his hia business the man man Was li often angry r but his neck did not swe swell 1 and the veins Ins met did not t s-t stand out ut fH H He was as as often afraid when he tried to set the 9 r other men men mn but his lips did not curl up like the lips of ofa a wolf 0 ill lie told many falsehoods but when he so o he looked the tho other man straight In the face and his eyes ces were not Clouded And with all the money h he o made mide the there theio came camo suffering t tp others other but th the light did not leave his co countenance As the years went by br f and fd d success came the man and his wife grew apart Neither acknowledged it and their friends did not notice It It But the thc thuy knew the man and the woman that their paths paths' were not the bho same same Then the da day can came I Both etC J killed In a n. railway raily accident Ill h Now this is whore where m my knowledge of the matter ends Cads r But Butone one day I told this story to 10 a holy huly man one oTic who reads all an things as c siJ l as s you ou read thc these e W th A And il I said to him I L Let t u us suppose it was yas an h angel th that t spoke to the man how comes it that the all angel said ald was made untrue b by the trick a man learns as business the trick of concealing his emotions s1 And the holy hoh man JUan said in reply It is fg v very ry 6 simple When hen the spirit left the womans woman's body It was pure puro and find fu full o of lI light ht as ns the angel s said But when whon the Spirit irit left tho the mans man's boa body the neck was swollen an and the veins stood put out The lips jp were those of a snarl snarl- Ing wolf The eyes were dim Jane and the countenance Instead of Heing full fun of light was az th the color of ashes v And is such a spirit as that eternal I asked him And the hOI holy man manI said I 1 do not know |