Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-04-24

both hard and large. These hands
were small and softand smooth. There |
was kind of magnetism, too, in their
touch which could never belong TO the
boys.
Curiosity overcame languor. The
brown eyes opened and looked up into |
a pair of gray ones, belonging, as Guy |
thought, to the sweetest face God
ever made. The fair nurse shook her
head reproachfully, and one little
palm was gently laid over the inya-
fid's eyes. Then all was darkness
again.
Three weeks passed, weeks in which
Guy lay white and unconscious. and
mis- friends nursed him with tender
ness that was touching to see. The
poor boy had no kind mother OF sister
to come to him. and his father, who
almost idolized his only son, was in
Europe, attending to some business.
Gushington Seminary closed for the
summer. The girls all left for their
respective homes, and only the teach
ers remained iii the large building.
Bitterly, then, did the boys regret all
the dispara9ing remarks they had
made about these worthy maiden la
dies. Miss Gushington, the principal,
uurSed Guy as tenderly as il he had
been her own son, and all agreed in
pronouncing pretty Miss Dexter, who
had been the cause OF the accident,
"brick."
One morning the doctor looked I'M
usually grave as he came out of the
sick room.
sHas this young man any near
friends or relatives!" he asked of Hal.
''If SO, they had better be sent for, and
at once"
at isn't so bad, as that, doctor, is
it?' said Hal, lluskily,
Pm afraid it is" was the reply.
Hal walked to the window at the
end of the hal! to fight it out by HIM
self. Was Guy going to die? Then
he thought what the world would
seem without the friend who was like
brother to him, and tried to imagine
life without his presence. No, no, he
should not die! They could not live
without him-and then the poor fell
low dropped his face in his hands with
groan at his Inability to help the
friend he loved best i'll the world. A
gentle hand was laid on his arm, and
sweet voice said,-
Il am very sorry, MI. Dayton, but
let lis hope for the best. All may YET
be right"
''lt must, it shall be rightw cxclaim
ed Hal, ychcmeutly. God would not
be SO cruel rs to take Guy away from
US! Still, don't suppose he much
cares. lie takes the good people and
/ those we love away, and leaves us to
get along as best we can without
theni." And unable to restrain his
grief, he bowed his head and wGpt.
Bonnie Dexter, in all her life, had
never seen man weep like that, and
the sight touched her heart. Her
gray eyes filled with tears OF pity as
She advanced all sorts of hopes as to
GUYS recovery. Under her soothing
influence, Hal grew caImer, and, think
ing he WoulG rather be alone, now the
sharp edge was taken from his sorrow
abe left him.
For the next few days, the boy
were perfectly unmanaseablc in theil
grief. On the evening OF the fourth
day, old DR.. Cooper, Guys family
physician, reached Cedartown-- HI
West, but forsook the pleasure OF
hunting to come to the bedside of hi;
Young favorite. An hour had no
elapsed since his arrival before the
spirits Of all had risen.
He heartily pooled the treat.
ment which the country Galcn haG
advocated, and male complete
change. Just as he came out Of TIL,
room, he caught sight of Bonnie com.
ing upstairs. A glad cry broke from
her lips rs she ran to him, holding on
both hands.
Don't you know me, doctor?" she
said
"Bless my heart, it's Bonniew AND
the little white hands were ciasped il
his big brown ones. "HVhy, child,
forgot all about your being here. Sc
this is the reason you have disappoint
ell my wife these three weeks"
''Oh, never fear, FL be with yot
yet she said, laughinyiy, as she pass.
ed into the sick-room.
Under the new regime, Guy recoy
cred his wontCd yiyOr. When his con
sciousness fully returned, one of hi
} first inquiries was after his fair youns
nurse.
"Oh, she's gone," said Hal. "Sh'
went the day You recovered you
wits. l don't know to what region
she's departed, either. DIR. CoopeI
} was here, too, but he left as soon q
you ceased to be idiotic, to look afte
, patient i'll New York. He and Mis-
Dexter went the same day" Ans
} with this Guy was obliged to be con
, tent.
| Once on the road to recovery h
progressed rspily, and, by the first oil
August, was almost as well as ever
BY this time his father had returned
, and the entire crowd left the noun
> tains and Miss Gushington, who's
kind heart was almost broken at los
ing her patient, for Mr. Fleming's cit,
| residence. But New York in Angus
is, to say the least, not fascinating. Il
3 week the quintette had disbandcd
. and scattered itself to cooler quarters
= Hal joined his mother and sister a
Newport, Sol inflicted another camp
ing party with his presence, and Ton
, and Fred went Yachting with som
9 friends along the coast OF Maine. LEI
! thus alone, Guy meditated a trip t.
. Greenland, as the Thermometer grey
more and more ambitious, he ever
; thought of attempting the Northwes
!; passage.
One morning, however, he receive,
A letter from Or. Cooper, which de
cidel him to change Ills plans. Til
, letter ran as follows:
4 ..DEIp (,;-y EnaSti1r