The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-08-26

just at first?" she unused. "ae can get a
divorce, if I desert him, and then he can
marry again. I hope he will be kind
er to his next wife than he has been to
me!'
With tears that rose at the thought Of
her successor binding her eyes, Lefty
failed to see the figure that she sought.
Il am foolish to look at him again. I
have never been more than o house.
keeper to him from the first" she
thought, stumbling blindly on toward
the gate, and opening it, to find herself
IN the center of an excited group.
There, don't you take on like that!''
said Solomon Wyse, who came first and
saw the tears upon her cheeks before she
could wipe them away.
Were you coming out to meet us?
We were in hopes you didn't see any
thing of it. It's bad accident, but
George is SO strong and hearty that he
will be up and around again almost be-
| fore you know it. We've sent Bill Hill
Off on one of the colts for the doctor
and if you'll only tell US where to carry
| him"
Garry him?" repeated Lefty.
Solomon stepped aside. She saw be-
hind him litter roughly made of hay
rakes and covered with coats, and on that
litter George was lying, pale and bleed
! ing. with his eyes closed.
"Oh, Mr.. Wyse, is he dead?" she
| asked, turning even paler than George.
Not bit of it! Worth twelve dozen
| dead men yet. Only bit of break in
one arm and one leg, and little knock
on the head where he fell. The horses
didn't kick, and he'll be all right as soon
| as the doctor sees him. Shall We take
him mp stairs, or where?"
Bring him in here" Grid Lefty, re-
covering herself.
She led the way into the bedroom on
the ground floor, and helped to shift
| the manned figure from the litter to the
bed.
Her soul was dying within her for fear,
| yet not word passed her lips.
When the doctor came he found a ca
pable nurse, dressed in dark PRINT,
who listened inteIligently to his direc-
| tions and promised to carry them out
| faithfully.
And so it happened that as George
Brewster returned to life the first words
that fell upon his ears were uttered by
| the doctor outside the window, as he
| mounted into his gig.
eyes, he will do, Mr.. Wyse; he will
pull through nicely if his wife nurses
him. And she can do so nicely if some
of you will send some one to take charge
of the house. She is a woman in a
thousand. hope he knows how to value
her."
The doctor drove away.
Lefty, bending over the bed absorbed
in the invalid, had not heard him.
But she plainly heard the faint voice OF
George calling her by name.
! What is it, dear?'
'fkile doctor is right You are O
woman in thousand always knew il
Lefty, if never said it. So tell you
of it now, before die,' he added, going
off into another faint.
It was all that Letty's sore heart
needed. Beside the bed of suffering she
spent two of the happiest months of her
life. The first act of George Brewster on
his recovery was to secure help for his
wife, SO that she now has plenty of time
to get back her lost color and plumpness
They are one in heart, as one in name
and home now And Solomon Wyse has
never seen occasion to administer the
talking to-
"Some how or other, "drawls Solomon
''gettiDg run over by that moving
machine was the making of Georgt
Brewster"
And Lefty and George think so. too,