The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1875-05-14
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at school comparing notes aud exchang-
ing condolences. But Kitty Greene
drew Nelly aside, while they walked up
and down the hall together, their arms
around each other, as girls will:
'I saw Jack get it Nelly"
Nellys pretty cheeks glowed and her
eyes shown like stars, but she asked nc
questions. Indeed they were scarcely
necessary, for Kitty was eager enough
to tell her story.
"He got it, don't you think, along
with half dozen others, and he read
them all before he came TO that one. ]
knew this, you know, by the shape Of
the envelope. When he came to it 1 saw
him read it all through, and then 1 saw
him go back and read it again. 1 heard
him say to himself, That's an honest
letter from some little saint
"Then he came up to me and held it
toward me, while / pretended to be very
busy with my valetines. Then he spoke;
"'Do you know that hand writing
KitY
'I felt like an awful little liar, but 1
had promised you. stretched out my
hand for it and said carelessly,
"'Why, amt il Sue'sl
"Sue is his sister, you know. So he
thought did not know who it came
from and he changed his mind and put
it in his pocket and went of. When 1
teased him afterward to let me see il,
he said:
"No; there are some things a fellow
would be a cod to show
$50 1 saw it hit home, and we'll it
might. 1t was tremedous letter, Mel
Ily."
And Kitty ended with hug and kiss,
and a look of that royal admiration
which girl can give another girl now
and then.
When the spring came, Jack Greene
went away from Chester, and did not
come back there any more. No doubt
Nelly Hunt would have forgotten his
very existence but for that valentine
which she could not forget. She used
to blush as she grew older to think how
"bumptious" it was, as she used to call
it to herself.
Nelly was twenty when Jack Greene
came back to Chester again. And now
he came a physician, just through his
studies and anxious to build up practice
Soon his fame grew. His patients were
the poor at first, and he cured
them. And then richer people heard of
it and sent for him. But, while he took
all the patients that came to him, he
never gave up the practice amonng those
who most needed him. His praise was
in all their mouths. There had never
been any doctor like this one.
Nelly was Miss Hunt now-for Bertha
had gone eway from her into the next
country-and Nelly's grief had made
her gentle heart yet more gentle and her
helpful spirit yet more helpful.
Toward height, one summer day, she
had gone to see an old woman who had
been her nurse once, and had found her
very ill--quite too i'll to be left alone
and certainly in need of physician. So
Nelly tore leaf from her memorandum
book and wrote on it a few lines, beg
ging DIR. Greene to come at once, and
then called to the first passer-by, and
entreated him to take it to the doctor.
1t was scarcely half an hour before
DIR. Greene came In quietly and gavely
He attended to his patient with that
careful consideration which made all
those poor souls whom he visited adore
him. Then he turned to Nelly.
"Who will stay with her tonight"
he asked; ''for indeed she hardly ought
10 be left alone"
81 shall stay, " was the quiet answer.
"Then come to the door with me,
please, and let me give you your direc-
tons" frf5 &.
Nellie followed and stood there in the
soft summer dusk-a pretty creature
with the wild rose flush davning in her
cheeks and new light kindling in her
blue eyes. She listened carefully to al
his iniunctions, and then turned as if to
go. But he put out hand to detain
her.
"How very much owe to you" he
said.
'You, how" and a deep crimson
dyed Nellie's face and throat. In that
moment she thought of her "bump-
Itious" valentine, which had not crossed
her mind before for long time.
He looked at her with a smile in his
eyes, but with a face that preserved all
its respectful gravity. He took his red
leather case out of his pocket, and from
the case he took the very old valentin,
which Nelly remembered so weIl. Ther
he produced the brief notes she hat
! written that afternoon, and still ther,
was light enough left in the day to Sc,
} them by as he held them side by side