A Kansas Incident.
An invalid wife in Leavenworth heard her
husband make proposals of marriage to the nurse.
The dying woman arose in bed, fixed her large black
eyes for a moment upon the face of her heartless
spouse with a reproachful intensity that must haunt
him through life, and then fell back a corpse. The
remorse of that widower, as he led the blushing
nurse to the altar the next week, can be more
easily imagined than described. Such reparation as
was in his power he made. He buried the first wife
decently and very deep down, laying a handsome
and exceedingly heavy stone upon the sepulchre.
He chiselled upon the stone the following simple
and touching line: “She can't get back.”
