The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-02-05
HUGH KENRICK'S WILL,
or,
THE STORY OF A P0SY RING.
BY MARGARET HUNT.
Autlor Of "The Leaden CdSkd;" "7HOmi-
erQffs Model" dc. dc


"They have done great harm by their
over-wisdom" said he; "they have fret
ted my life away"
"Umph!" said the doctor, who did not
relish so much frank criticism. "Mad-
am, if you are going to stay here, / must
beg you TO be quiet. | cannot allow any
more conversation. You do not know the
harm you are doing, You can stay if you
like, but you must sit down quietly. The
nurse will do all that is needful in the
way Of giving Mr.. Richmond his medi-
cine. l shall look =, again during the
course of the night, hut, Miss ClaverinG
l beg of you not to stay long here-I as
sure you my patient would be better alone
with his nurse"
The doctor departed. Hugh Richmond
turned to Lucy, and said, "Surely You will
not leave met The doctor says / shall
die tonight"
Lucy said, mo, will not leave you"
His feet were icy cold-the nurse was
applying hot hannels to them-they also
brought hot bottles, but nothing seemed
TO warm them. He fell back and lay as if
exhausted. The few words he had heard
and said seemed to have thoroughly IA
ligued him, and now Lucy saw how terri
5ly i'll he was She sat silently by his bed
side waiting, praying, hoping. She did
not know how long she had been thus sit
ting when he again spoke 81 know we
are both in the cave again, because it il
so bitterly cold, Itwont last long. They
take me up in the middle of the night and
put me into scalding hot bed. My feet
lie on hot Goals and my head is scorched
with fire. This state Of things is better
than that-but nurse, my feet are wet,
and that is what makes them so cold
Don't you know they got wet lhis morning
on the causeway THAT'S what makes
them 80 cold now Miss Clavering, tell
her about it-she does not believe me-
She thinks talk that way because am
ILL.,"
Lucy shuddered. II was terrible to
hear his mind wander He saw that she
did so and said, "You shudder, too and
how pale you are Starlight makes your
face so wan and blue"
"Mr Richmond" said the nurse, "you
must not talk The lady will go away if
you do"
He looked inquiringly in Lucy's face.
"Yes," said she, firmly, "if you talk |
must go.'
~ can't talk" was his reply, 81 am toe
tired" He sank back YEARLY, and pain
fully, and lay quietly for an hour or So as
if in a stupor. His eyelids were not closed
but he seemed unconscious Of all around
him. The nurse came and felt his pulse
When she had done this his hand dropped
as If poweress.
ais he worser Lucy whispered il
alarm. lis he" She could not finish
that question.
mo, he's NOT dying" said the nurse
"He'll last another hour or two, They
mostly go about three in the morning, OF
he may go on til the turn Of the tide
That's great time for them to die"
"aushl Pray do" said Lucy. III,
hears all you say
ale knows nothing about it if he does
He's always in sort Of stupor till mid
night gets over, and then he's in his Clio
ry' lie talks twenty to the dozen then.
"Pease, nurse, don't say such things,
pleaded Lucy.
ats no want Of feeling miss, nonel
could not manage at all if was as too
up with pity for him as you are"
"Are his feet warmerr asked Luck
softly.
"a little, but he does not find ther
warmer Nothing can do TO them ha
much effect on them They get warm {
their own accord about one o'clock. an
then there's no getting them cold again.
The hot fit is worse than the cold TT, an
wears him out more, But It's my bell,
that he will just lie this way, and kno
no other while he lasts. Poor gentlema,
he'll not he obstreperous any more now
Lucy'a heart ached, but she had coui
age when courage was wanted. and co,
trolled herself "Nurse, does he nev,
sleep3' she asked
"Never, TO do him any good. Thatstl
worst thing he has had to contend with.
that what's brought him 10 this"
"I5ut he is perhaps sleeping nowi"
mo, he IL not. He is quiet but there
no refrcshmcnt in IT,"
The nurse took an easy chair by the FL
and soon began 10 doze Aunt Esther hi
long since crept TO sofa In the corner al
cried herself TO sleep; Lucy sat waith
for the end which was now 80 near. lIc
should she meet his motberi What tC
rible words she would hear from he