Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1915 — AFTERWORD. [ARTICLE]

AFTERWORD.

AND now the moment has come to take leave of the pedple I have L lived with for so long. Yet, though I say “Adieu!” I feel it is only a temporary leave taking. Their lives are so linked with mine that some day in the future I may be tempted to draw back the curtain and show the passage of years in their various lives.

Some day with O’Connell we will visit Peg in her English home and see the marvels time and love have wrought upon her. But to those who knew her in the old days she is still the same Peg o’ My Heart—resolute, loyal, unflinching, mingling the laugh with the tear, truth and honesty her bedrock. We will also visit Mrs. Chichester and hear of her little grandchild, born in Berlin, where her daughter, Ethel, met and married an attache at the embassy and has formed a salon. It will be a grateful task to revive old memories of those who formed the foreground of the life story of one whose radiant presence shall always live in my memory, whose steadfastness and courage endeared her to all, whose influence on those who met her and watched her and listened to her was farreachlng, since she epitomized in her small body all that makes woman lovable and man supreme—honor, faith and love! Adieu, Peg o’ My Heart! THE EMD.