![]() ![]() For the first time, experience a Strange Story between our Protagonist, his ambitions and. "I was a little late," said John Smothers, "as I waited for a street car. This story is not a love story, neither a horror/ comedy story. The old man drew a bottle of medicine from his pocket and gave Pansy a spoonful. She had recognized him before any of the others. Suddenly the door opened, and an old man, stooped and bent, with long white hair, entered the room. So John Smith did not go, and together they sat by the bedside of little Pansy (for that was Pansy's name).Īfter a little Pansy seemed to grow worse, and John Smith again attempted to go for medicine, but his wife would not let him. "You, too, might disappear forever, and then forget to come back." "I will go downtown and get some medicine for her," said John Smith (for it was none other than he whom she had married). One night by a remarkable coincidence her little girl was taken with cramp colic on the anniversary of the disappearance of John Smothers, who would now have been her grandfather if he had been alive and had a steady job. She still lived in the same house where they dwelt when her father had left and never returned. ![]() The little girl also married in time, and after a few years had rolled around, she also had a little girl five years of age. ![]() The mother grieved very much over her husband's disappearance, and it was nearly three months before she married again, and moved to San Antonio. The little girl recovered and in time grew up to womanhood. One night after supper the little girl was seized with a severe colic, and John Smothers hurried down town to get some medicine. The family consisted of John Smothers, his wife, himself, their little daughter, five years of age, and her parents, making six people toward the population of the city when counted for a special write-up, but only three by actual count. In the northern part of Austin there once dwelt an honest family by the name of Smothers.
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