Notice: Undefined offset: 40 in /home/admin/web//public_html/system/controllers/multilang/hooks/menu_before_list.php on line 23 "I was a little late," said John Smothers, "as I waited for a street car." The old man drew a bottle of medicine from his pocket and gave Pansy a spoonful. She had recognized him before any of the others. Suddenly the door opened, and an old man, stooped and bent, with long white hair, (10)_the room. After a little Pansy seemed to grow worse, and John Smith again (9) _to go for medicine, but his wife would not let him. "You, too, might disappear forever, and then forget to come back." So John Smith did not go, and together they sat by the bedside of little Pansy (for that was Pansy's name). "I will go downtown and get some medicine for her," said John Smith (for it was none other than he whom she had married). One night by a remarkable (7) _her little girl was taken with cramp colic on the (8) _of the disappearance of John Smothers, who would now have been her grandfather if he had been alive and had a steady job. She still lived in the same house where they dwelt when her father had left and never returned. The little girl also married in time, and after a few years had rolled around, she also had a little girl five years of age. The mother (5) _very much over her husband's disappearance, and it was (6) _three months before she married again, and moved to San Antonio.
The little girl recovered and in time (4) _up to womanhood. One night after supper the little girl was (3)_with a severe colic, and John Smothers hurried downtown to get some medicine. The family (1) _ of John Smothers, his wife, himself, their little daughter, five years of age, and her parents, (2) _six people toward the population of the city when counted for a special write-up, but only three by actual count. In the northern part of Austin there once dwelt an honest family by the name of Smothers.