Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-11-19
THE SISTERS SECRET.
Please don't, Harry, you hunt me. ="

Please don't, Harry, you hunt lne.
The dark, handsome face softened sudden
ly, and Harry bent and kissed the soft little
fingers, crimson from his angery pressure.
''Fergive me, Nettie. l did not know
How fierce l mus. seem to YOU. The truth
S, was beside myself. And you see that
| have reason. Think of H. An arm that
was mine encircling that slender waist 1t
was enough 10 drive one frantic. l must
have an explanation, or our engage
Inent is at an end"
- cannot say more than have. Harry.
/ tell you again that your suspicious are
cruel and unjus'-further than that l can
not. If you do not trust me, it is bes; that
We should part"
1T is as thought. You are only too
glad to be rid OF the old love before you re-
oeive the new"
he caught her face between lis two hands
and held it while he studied it. half angrily,
half teuderly.
The girl bore his scrutiny for moment
bravely.
Then the red lips began to quiver, and
the eyes 10 ill with tears.
He suddenly kissed her.
THAT is my farewell to love and faith.
Good by TO both"
Then with long strides he hastened away,
as though afraid to trust himself to look
back.
Nettie watched him until out of sight
and then, with long, sobbing sigh, she
said:
1T is better thus. could not keep my
secret safe with that distrustful, passionate
nature ever on the watch. Oh, Charlie,
Charlie, what am suffering for you'll"
Harry, as he said went away from the
place, not intending TO return until he had
covercolne his great love. But nature
proved too strong for his resolution. He
was drawn back as though by in 'isible
cords.
He was young physician, and had been
taken into partnership with the Oldest and
most skillful practitioner in the town.
When he reached his house, after few
davs absence, DR.. Liddell met him al the
d.or.
"You are just intime Harry. lhaye been
called in haste to old Mrs. Steirburg's dying
bed, and that poor girl at the hall is in too
critical a state to be neglected. | will trust
her to you
Hary's lips turned ashen pale.
Whom did You sayl'
..Poor little Nettie Webster. 1t seems
weeks instead of days that I've been attend
ing her. She wac stricken down suddenly
with such a fearful type Of brain fever thai
I've been there three or four times day
trying to keep her from dying It's neHl
the crisis now.
Harry waited to her no more. lie tooS
his case of medicines, and FASTENED to the
hall.
Au old servant met him at the doo-. She
had evidently been watching for the doc
A., tors arrival.
sHow isMiss Webster to-day p was Har
ro-s whispered question.
s4Quiei, She's still sleeping like for thu
first time since she's been took. She's a
WAYS been a sayin' TO herself, 'innocent-
innocent! On, Harry, trust me! 1hei
she'll ramble off about Charlie. can't 70
the life Of me tell who they is she means
It's most likely some of them stories sh
reads has got into her head, and III her feve
she thinks she's acting in EN-
Poor Harry. Well he knew what i
meant. As he went to her bedside he fel
as though he had killed her.
There she lay, quietly. But it was tn
lcaIu of exhaustion.
One short week only since he had see
Iber-but the rounded outlines had grow
lstrangelv sharp, and the laxuriant hal
which mad clustered about her temples i
Itndril like curls, had been cut close to he
lhead.
/ lie DENT ONcI lict oiNa AA7eNA-~N
breathing, critically. Then he turned to II
nurse:
DO not LET her be disturbed on any az
jcount. will be in again II the morning
lIf she awakens give her this"
The nurse took the powder from hin
and he left the ROOM
At the gate he met young man. AT u
first glance he recognized him to be the OF
whom he had seen walking under tho tre'
with Nettie-his arm about her valsl an
her eyes looking up with an expression
, intense interest into his face.
1t was in secluded nook in the rear
tho Webster estate where few ever went.
Harry not finding Ne;tie al the house hi
Thought to find her there. and had gone
search of her only to be torn by jealous ra!
at her supposed duplicity.
He said now:
"Perhaps it will be well for you TO del
your visit, Miss Webster Is now at U
point of DEATH
Agzrisysd a. Harry felt himself, he soo