West-Jersey pioneer., 1878-04-25

eyes, l am," said Hetty, buttoning on {
capacious water proof cloak, and pulling
the hood over her head.
"And you don't even know where these
| Dakin's live."
eyes, do. It's big red brick house
just beyond the woods by the church. Papa
showed it to me the other day.
"Full two miles away"
81 can't help that" said Hetty.
| "And me all alone!''
| SibyPs voice grew plaintive.
81 can help that either" returned Hetty,
| little impatiently. "But don't fret, Siby
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 forest, where
the dark beughs met over her head, and
ghostly, whispering sounds, went through
the dry leaves, did Hetty's valiant heart
begin to quail.
Even then she would not admit to herself
that she was in the least timid, but reso-
lutely fixed her thoughts upon "Dakin's
boy" suffocating to death with Group, and
quickened her footsteps as she did so.
Darker and darker it grew-lonelier and
lonelier; but Hetty pressed resolutely on, un-
til 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.
els it the doctor?" said she eagerly.
"No," said Hetty; "but it's the doctors
daughter"
'Lord's sake alive!'' said the woman de-
spairingy; ''what good can you do, and
him so mortal bad?"
ga great DEAL" said Hetty. "Let me
come in, if you please. 1 understand my
fathers system of treatment, and 1 have
some medicine here"
At this the woman stood back, motioning
toward the stairway, and Hetty ran up and
entered the ,ickroom with confidence born
of her won anly courage and kindness.
But it was no cradled babe or plump four
year-o old who lay there. "Dakin's boy''
was one-and-twenty at the very least, pale
and handsome, with closed eyes, and face
set as ifin mortal pain, as it lay on it's pillow.
Hetty involuntarily recoiled.
"It-it isn't Group, then ?' said she, clasp
ing one of the little bottles in her hand.
"It's quinsy," said one of the attendants;
''and it is fatal case, Pm thinking"
And little Hetty, all her bravery oozing
out, like Bob Acres courage, at her finger
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 ?''
Hetty rose and came forward.
It's me, the DOCTORS daughter" said she.
"I-thought it was little boy with the
Group, and
''Don't cry" said he, gently, cit will
soon be over.''
And he closed his eyes again, while pool
Hetty cried harder than ever. An incipient
case of Group she thought she could man
age, but "quinsy" was entirely beyond the
range of her capacities. She had never
been in a death chamber before, and thu
solemnity of the scene impressed her with
sense of vague terror.
Just then brisk heavy footstep sprane
up the stairs, two at a time. There was ;
| stir and commotion in the room.
"Oh, thank heaven!'' cried Hettie, ''it's
papa"
DR.. Wallis it was. Released earlier thai
he expected from the other sick bed, he hat
returned home and learned from his eldes
daughter Hetty's errand-and here he wa
flushed and hreathless from the haste b.
had made.
An hour later he came down to wher
Hetty sat on the low est otair pale and anx
ious.
"Papa," said she, chow is he?''
'Better my dear. Doing we'll. But
was an even chance between death and lif
for while. Come, dear, Pm going hom
now. Dobbin is at the door,"
hetty climbed silently into the chaise an
nestled down by her fathers side.
"Papa," said she, presently, ''was YER
silly to come hear?"
mo, my dear, you were very kind-hear
ed. But as you see there is some differenc
between a simple case of Group and malig
nant quinsy."
"Dakin's boy" recovered with marvelou
celebrity, and the first place he visited in hi
convalescence was Doctor Wallis house
thank the DOCTORS black-eyed daughter fe
coming to see him on that stormy night.
81 wish l aoas little chap with the Group,
said he laughing, "to put myself under you
professional care"
"What nonsense!'' said Hetty, turnin
very red.
"But indeed, shall never forget the pit.
ing look in your kind eyes," said Hectic
Dakin, gently. cit seemed somehow t
draw me back to life."
And by the time that "Dakin's boy" We
quite recovered, he had gotten into wa
of spending his time at Doctor Wallis tha
seemed decidedly chronic and no one VIZ
very much surprised when he became Ell
gagged to the doctors daughter.
otis very strange, though" said Siby
fretfully, ''that the only eligible and decer
looking man within ten miles should fall i
love with our brown little Hetty."
81 don't think it strange at ALL" sal
Doctor Wallis dryly.
A correspondent of Western paper d,