The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-09-25

she kept herself down by repeating a
fast as she could, "Charity hopeth al
things, endureth all things, is not easil
provoked" Then she went home, pu
ol the brightest dress she had, an
went to nurse sick neighbor who coul.
obtain no assistance for money, an,
therefore must have it for love.
The bright dress he'd almost time {,
fade before Miss Phrygia saw the wa,
clear to go home again. If was Ions
pull, and neither she nor the invalid
knew how they would have got through
had 1T not been for the strength anC
comfort of the doctors daily visits
Six feet in height, two hundred pound:
IN weight, strong as tower, firm as s
rock, cool as a hyglograph, and We
| when pam o. discouragement called foi
1T, quick with a brooding tenderness
more beautiful, Miss Pnrygia thought,
| even than woman's.
Twilight in the sick room seemed
| lonely to Miss Phrygia, and she fell in
to the way o. watching for a light to
gleam through the elms that shaded
the docto g house JUS opposite, but no
made up her mind that he was never at
home in the evening, when she had TO
send for him two or three times after
the stars were out, and there he was.
Oh dear = she said, "I hope he
doesn't sit there without so much as q
candle lighted, thinking about those
children of his that were drowned, and
the wife in the insane asylum that only
died year and half ago. He can't
or he never could come over here on a
moments call, all ready to cheer us up
and be such comfort % This "cheer-
ing them up and being a comfort" con-
sinued until Miss Phrygia began to
wonder what days at home would seem
without it, wnen her season of duty
should be ended. What the doctor
thought about losing his nurse, he did
not say, but he insisted upon seeing her
home, when the time came, although
the moon was as large as a cart-wLeel,
and shining clear.
As they came out, they both invol-
unfairly glanced up at the house under
the shadow o. the elms.
Ozark, said Miss Phrygia :" it al
ways is.
AYES, said the doctor, " it has been
for good many years now. very dark. "
81 know it." said Miss Phrygia, soft
ly, feeling as if she ought to have on
her black gloves again.
"Don'tyou think, said the doctor,
adjusting her hand a trife more closely
to his arm, g don't you think 1 might
bring in a bright, warm light before
long, if / could find il p
Immediately 20 said Miss Phrvgia
"Even, and the doctor stopped to
come as near as he could to look un-
der Miss Phrygia's hat" even if
should leave your house empty and
dark TO do it,"
What Miss Phrygia said, or what
either or both of them said after that,
viii never be revealed /; but certain it is
that when Miss Phrygia ought to have |
been going to sleep that night, she |
wasn't going to sleep at all, but saying |
over and over to herself: "Oh, what |
hqve l done? What have l done? How |
could [ ever do it? What am I going |
to do ?"
The perplexity-thickened and dark
ened, to the peril of Miss Phrygia's |
night, when suddenly a ray of light |
flashed forth upon it.
" Why, of course! !" she said. "He {
isn't exactly a man, after all he's a |
aeeA.-1tba..s. igstzbizsssaQaa ee,s;, e !
ciusion IN her soul, and wonderful /
whirl of new sensations in her heart, |
Miss Phrygia turned on her pillow, and /
went % sleep like a kitten.
The village was so astir with the news |
the next week, that Miss Phrygia was /
her first walk, leaning on an /
arm that wasn't hers, and yet claimed /
10 became in the trlight.
The shadows deepened as she wan
1ered on, listening to a great many |
things the doctor had to say, until at I
last, just as Mss Phrygia spoke for the
first time, glow-worm came in sight.
s. must stop and tie mp my shoe !"
was what Miss Phrygia said, and
whether the doctor herd it or not,
ne stepped forward a few PAGES to see
about the glow-worm, and Miss Phrygia
put up her foot on stone by the way
side. As she stopped, a noiseless step,
accompanied by one trjfie heavier,
,ame behind her; something misty
iouched her cheek, and voice whisper
I'd in her ear:
els that your mortality puff"
"Hush sh ~ said Miss Pnrygia
Yes, for a breath might blow him
away. Bring him round to visit my
yrave, won't you? q? Some evening about
ea-time and we'll have-puffs I"
" Immediately p said Miss Phrygia.