

Rolling Stones

A Strange Story
[From The Rolling Stone.]
hurried down town to get some medicine.
He never came back.
The little girl recovered and in time grew up to womanhood.
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.
little girl five years of age.
grandfather if he had been alive and had a steady job.
"I will go downtown and get some medicine for her," said John Smith (for it was none
other than he whom she had married).
"No, no, dear John," cried his wife. "You, too, might disappear forever, and then forget to
come back."
was Pansy's name).
medicine, but his wife would not let him.
entered the room.