Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-04-12

She went to her fathers drug closet,
opened it, and took out several little walls.
"'Syrup ipecac.'" said Hetty, with a
little nod of her head to each. "'Asafeti-
da, hive syrup Simple remedies, but
very effectual if taken in time"
"But, Hetty," pleaded Sibyl. YOU'RE
never going to walk, nobody knows how
far, in all the rain ?"
eyes, am," said Hetty, buttonlng on
capacious water proof cloak, and pulling
the hood over her head.
land you don't even know where these
Dakins live."
Eyes, 1 do. It's big red-brick house.
just beyond the woods by the church. Pa.
pa showed it to me the other day."
"Full two miles away"
l-res.I can't help that" said Hetty. t~
"And me all alone!"
Sibyl's voice grew plaintive.
81 can't help that, either,' returned
Hetty, little impatiently. ''But don't
fret, Sib-I1l not be long,"
And out the brave little girl walked in
to 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 forest, where
the dark boughs met over her head, and
ghostly whispering sounds went through
the wet leaves, did Hetty's valiant heart
begin to Qulai.
| Even then she would not 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.
Darker and darker it grew-lonelier and
loneler; but Hetty pressed resolutely on,
until drenched with rain and ready to drop
with the fatigue of making her way
through muddy roads against the wind,
she knocked at the door Of Squire Dakin's
red-brick house.
An elderly woman opened it.
SIS it the doctor?" said she, eagerly.
'No,'' said Hetty; outfits the Doctors
daughter
"Lord's sake alive!" said the woman,
despailingly; "What good can you do,
and him so mortal bad p
"a great DEAL" said Hetty. "Let me
come in, if you please. understand my
fathers system of treatment, and have
some medicine here"
| At this the woman stood back, motion
ing toward the stairway, and Hetty ran
idence born of her womanly courage and
kindness.
But it was no Graded babe or plump
four year-old who lay there. "Dakin's
boy" was one-and-twenty at the very least
pale and handsome, with closed eyes, and
a face set as il in mortal pain, as it lay on
its pillow
! Hetty lnvoluntarily recoiled.
Cit isn't Group, then ?'' said she,
clasping one of the little bottles in her
| hand.
Its quinsy.' said one Of the atten-
dants; ''and it is fatal case. Pm think
| ing"
| And little Hetty, all her bravery oozing
out. like Bob Acres courage, at her fng-
er ends, sat down behind the door, and
began to cry.
The sick man opened his eyes-large,
and soft, and dark they were, with long
lashes-and asked family.
| "Who is that %
Retty rose and came forward.
cts me, the doctors daughter" said
she. ''I-thought it was a little boy with
the Group, and"
Don't cry" said he, gently, ''it will
soon be over"
And he closed his eyes again, while poor
Hetty cried harder than ever. An inclp-
lent case of Group she thought she could
manage, but 'quinsy'' was entirely be-
yond the range of her capacities. She had
| lever been in death chamber before, and
the hour and solemnity of the scene i'm
pressed her with sense of vague terror.
| Just then brisk, heavy footstep sprang
| up the stairs, two at time. There was
stir and commotion in the room.
ooh, thank heaven!" cried Hetty, ''it's
papa"
| Doctor Wallis it was. Released earlier
| than he expected from the other sick bed,
| he had returned home and learned from
his eldest daughter Hetty's errand-and
| here he was flushed and breathless from
| the haste he had made.
I, Il n
Hetty sat on the lowest stair, pale and
anxious.
Papa" said she, chow is he ?''
BE ter, my dear. Doing we'll. But it
! was an even chance between death and
life for one while. Come, dear, I'm going
home now Dobbin is at the door,"
! Hetty climbed silently into the chaise
ana nestled down by her fathers side.
Papa" said she, presently, WAS very
silly to come here 20
mo, my dear, you were very kindheart-
ed. But as you see there is some differ
ence between simple case Of Group and
malignant quinsey."
'Dakin's boy recovered with marvel
GUS celebrity, and the first place he visited
| in his convalescence was Doctor Wallis
house to thank the doctors black-eyed
daughter for coming to see him on that
stormy night.
81 wish eoas little chap with the
Group said he, laughing, ''to put myself
under your professional care"
"Vhat nonsense!" said Hetty, turning
very red.
''But indeed, 1 shall never forget the
pitty;ng look in your kind eyes," said