The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-09-17

f"Oh, I say, miss, " said the dripping
visitant, where's the doctorp"
" He isn't IN" said Hetty.
\" Where's Doctor Wallis,' reiterated
the man. H hJ
He's out !" answered Hetty, speak
ing loud and distinctly, under the i'm
preston that the inquirer was deaf.
ITS Dakin's boy" said the man,
"he's chokin' to death"
ooh ~ said Hetty. Group, sup
pose 2"
Don't know what 1t is," said the
messenger. " Amt no doctor myself.
All know is that L must bring back
DIR. Wallis" with nod at his lumber
wagon at the gate.
But you can not, If he is out,'' said
Hetty. .,.
The man stood moment, shifting
from one foot to the other, evidently in
aquandary.
"I'm blamed If know what to do"
said he. well I'll tell we what, Miss.
You just send the doctor on to Dakin's
just as quick as he comes back. If
Dakin's boy chokes to death, it amt no
fault of mine |"
And away rumbled the wagon into
mist and twilight.
1t had hardly disappeared when lit
tie lad arrived with note for
Hetty.
" It's from papa" said Hetty, hur-
riedly opening it and reading aloud the
following brief message:
DEAR GIRLS: Old Eldwood is very
bad, and L shall probably be detained all
night. Lock up the house as usual, and
don't expect me until l come. Affec-
tionately, H. w.
ooh, dear" said Hetty, blankly
sand what is to become of Dakin's
child?"
Il never saw such a girl as you, Het-
ty," said lovely Sibyl, with a pettish
contraction of the brows. You are
always shouldering other peoples
troubles. What is Dakin's child to us,
I'd like to know ?''
But only think of it, Sibyl,'' said
Hetty, clasping her hands, ga dear lit
tie baby sufiocating to death all for the
want of the simplest rem edies.n
"We can not help it, said Sibyl set
Ting back composedly among her cush-
ions.
But I'm not so sure of that" said
Hetty, briskly. "I know the remedies
papa uses for a case of Group, and how
to use them. "I'll go MYSELF
" Hetty !" cried the elder sister, :" are
you crazy ?''
Crazy ?" said Hetty. "No, I'm
only ordinarily human. The child
shan't die if can help it,
She went to her fathers drug closet,
opened it, and took out several small
walls.
"Syrup ipecac, ," said Hetty, with
little nod of her head to each. CASA
fetida,' hive syrup Simple RENE
dies, but very effectual if taken in
time"
=" But, Hetty," pleaded Sibyl, " you're
never going to walk, nobody knows
aOW AoA AZ oli tliO lulh
eyes, am" said Hetty, buttoning
on capacious water proof cloak, and
pulling the hood over her head.
"And you don't even know where
these Dakins live."
Yes, do. It's big brick house
just beyond the woods by the church.
Papa showed it to me the other day."
" Full two miles away"
" I can't help that,' said Hetty.
"And me all alone ~
Sibyl's voice grew plaintive.
" L can't help that either" returned
Hetty, little impatiently. But don't
fret, Sib-I'll not be long"
And out the brave little girl walked
into the tempestuous twilight, with her
pockets full of medicine and the water
proof cloak buttoned snug around
her.
Not until she had left the friendly
lights of home far behind and was lost
in the black, rustling depths of the for
est, where the dark boughs met over
head, and ghostly, whispering sounds
went through the dry leaves, did Het-
ty's valiant heart begin to quail.
Even then she would IT admit TO her.
self that she was in the least timid, but
resolutely fixed her thoughts upon " Da-
kin's boy" suffocating to death with
Group, and quickened her footsteps as
she did so.