Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1880 — Nine Yeas Waiting for a “Thank You.” [ARTICLE]

Nine Yeas Waiting for a “Thank You.”

While in Detroit he noticed the gentleman at whose house he was a guest looking wistfully out of a window which commanded a view of the road for a long distance. The side of the gentleman’s face was disfigured by great scars, which told of his having received serious wounds. Mr. Hammond asked, him what he waa thinkin* about, which

he answered by 6 touching narrative. "About nine yenn ago,” he anfcL “I was looking out of this window When 1 saw a horse galloping up the rand. There was no one in the carriage bat a little girl I ran down stairs and out on the road hut in time to stop the bone, but in doing so I was knocked down and almost killed. The father of the jriri, coining up. Jumped into the carriage and drove off For three day* I Remained unconscious between life and death. On fegaining consciousness the first question 1 asked was, ‘Where is the little girl?' bat they ooald only say that she waa unhurt. For these nine years 1' have been confined, to the house with chronic neuralgia. My physicians say I will not recover. I would have dlea for that little girl, and yet she never came to thank me. I often look oat over the road to see4f she isn’t coming, for you ean't imagine what satisfaction it would be to me to have that little girl come and thank me.”— Bev. E. P. Hammond.