Dyce."

"The doctor gin me a note to the nuss at the hospital, what 'tended the
ward Miss Ellie was in, and I got all her clothes, and packed 'em in a
box and brought 'em home. She told me pretty much what the doctor had
said, only she was shore your ma spoke jest before she died, and called
twice--'Ignace! Ignace!' She said she was beautiful as a angel and her
hair was a wonder to all who saw her, it was so long and so lovely. She
tole me the doctor hissef put a big bunch of white carnations and
tuberoses in her hand, after they put her in the coffin, and she looked
like a queen. The doctor wrote you a letter 'splainin' everything, and
sent it to the postmaster here. He seemed dreadfull grieved and
'stonished when I tole him how I had left you, and said if he could
help you, he would be very glad to do it. I tole him we would pay his
bill, as soon as this here trial bizness was over; and he answered:
'Tut--tut; bill indeed! That poor unfortunate girl need never worry
over any bill of mine. I did all I could for her mother, but the best
of us fail sometimes. Tell that poor child to come and see me, as soon
as she gets out of the clutches of those fire-eating devils down
South.' Honey, I couldn't be satisfied without seeing for myself, where
they had laid my dear young mistiss. I got 'rections from the doctor,
and I spent good part of a day huntin' the cemetery, and at last a man
in a uniform showed me Doctor Grantlin's lot. Oh, my lamb! That was the
first and only comfort I had, when I stood in front of that grand
lovely marble potico--with great angels kneeling on the four corners,
and knew my dear young mistiss was resting in such a beautiful place. I
felt so proud that ole mistiss' chile was among the best people,
sleeping with flowers in her hands, in that white marble house! I
wanted to be shore there warn't no mistake, and the keeper of the
graveyard tole me a lady had been put 'temporary' in the vault, four
days before. I had bought a bunch of violets from a flower shop, but I
could not get nearer than the door, where some brass rods was stretched
like a kind of a net; so I laid my little bunch down on the marble
steps, close as I could push it agin the rod; and though I couldn't see
my dear young mistiss, maybe--up in heaven--she will know her poor ole
mammy did not forgit her, and--"

The old woman cried bitterly, and one thin hand, white as a snowflake,
fell upon her bowed head, and softly stroked her black w