The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-03-30

He isn't weather-beaten like sailor
his hands are soft and white and we'll
kept, like a gentleman's. / don't be-
lieve he ever tarred the ropes before this
voyage. Perhaps he is reduced in cir
cumstances, and went whaling to seek
his fortune. | wonder if he will die"
But the disease left her little time for
idle reflections and surmises, the SER
vices of the doctor, and the occasional
assistance of the other nurses whose pa
tients were convalescing, being all the
relief afforded her. One night as she
moved about the room, coaxing the fire
into glow, stirring the Cruel in the por-
ringer, pouring the wine, dischargins the
ninety-and-nine little duties of the sick
room, it seemed to her that the patient
followed her with his ewes curiously-
those great hollow, darkling eyes, full of
sad questioning.
DO you want to ask me anything?"
she said, pausing beside his pillow, and
meeting the goze.
Perhaps" he faltered-" perhaps
you could tell me-where | am-and
how came here? Am | awake or dream
ing?"
"You are in the town of Great Her
rington, at the Harrington Arms" she
answered him. "You have been i'll with
ship-fever. You came in the whaler
Abby Jane, DIR. March tells me,
which had picked you off the wreck of
the Atlas, bound for New York-you
and others. You have been very i'll
and you must not talk"
"And you have saved my life. | heard
the doctor say so this morning"
Hush, hush; that's only the DOCTOR
palaver"
"Miss Bertha, Pm afraid you've won
that poor fellows heart that you've been
taking care of at the Harrington Arms .
said DIR. March, dropping in a week or
SO after he had ordered her home to take
care of herself, lest he should have an
other patient on his hands "He's been
pumping me dry about you; wants to
know why you never married. I told
him because nobody ever asked you but
Parson Chapel, and he was too big a
pill"
"That's because you didn't prescribe
him." said Miss Bertha.
Just then Sue Blair put her rosy head
in at the door.
"Have you smoked out, Miss Ber-
THAI" said she. ais it quite safe for me
to come in? I've such lovely valen-
tine-from Sam, of course-that must
show you, even if | cotch the fever. It's
st. Valentines Day, you know. Did
you ever have a valentine, Miss Ber-
thai"
Once-ages nearer the beginning
ooh, by the way" put in DIR. March
"here's something for you that | took
from the mail as came along. 1t is &
wonder l remembered it. Perhaps it j.
valentine, too; it has blue stamp
Who knows%
Perhaps So" laughed Miss Bertha
opening and reading:
Though he seek till he be gray,
Love will find out the way.
"ANGus AIKEN.
"HERRINGToN ARMS"
"Why, what does it mean?' said she
rising and flushing strangely. "Wht
could have been so cruel? Who could
know? Who"
"My dear child" said DR.. March
"who could know what? Angus Aiker
is the name of our patient at the Her
rington Arms. Didn't / tell you thai
| you had won his heart? It's valentin,
| indeed"
Just to think" said the second Mrs
Chapel" of Miss Bertha marrying al
her time of lifel Who is going to do
our sewing now? Wonders never viii
cease. And to think that it was an ole
affair, of twenty years standing Ant
they say he has been from Dan to Beer
sheba to find her, and has more money
than he knows what to do with"