The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1882-04-11
Saved, Saved.
lchicaso Tribune.
"Can you save him doc,or?"
"Damtino." .gi- @tuu

"Can you save him doctor?"
/ "Damfino." @nu
Winsome Lillian Mcclure looked
up with her rare blue eyes, dewy
with tears, into the face OF the young
physician who hal been summoned
in hot haste from the restful quiet oI
a poker game to the palatiaI rcsidenc,
OF Stuyyesant Mcclure In order tina,
his skill and knowlcslge-the fruit oI
years of study and toil-night II pos
sible bring back to health tho gray.
haired old man who now lay tossing
in mortal agony. 5ga rat
Lillian McGuire had known Aris
tides w. lIcnnessey siuce the days
when they were both little children,
and not six months agone she had
stood before him in all her regal
beauty, her velyety eyes draped with
II mist OF tears, aud while the soft,
pearly flesh OF her beautiful arms
touched his neck with a. pulsing
warmth that would inake your head
swim had said that she could never
loye him except as brother.
! AS Aristides had three sisters, and
had passed the greater part of his
life in sparfing with them, this state.
inent did not strike him fayorably,
and lie weiit away with a dull, dead
feeling in his young blithesome heart
and IL large chunk Of plug tobacco in
his merry spring pants. lf
Aud now he was back again In the
house--that house frorii which he hal
erstwhile SO often stolen silently and
sadly away when the proprietor was
unexpectedly founa at home, and
which he had lett, us he supposctj; Tor
good, in the baliny days OF June,
when the swect-s scented breath OF
early summer was kissing into lite
The myriad forms OF floral beauty that
lie with such silent sweetness upon
the yerdure-clad bosuin Of the earth
These thoughts had surged through
his mi Id as hc mounted the front
steps Ia obedience to the hasty sum
mons of liveried servant. lie saw
the old familiar door.inat with tho
word "Welcome" worked IN its GEN.
ter-tllat fateful word that had CLEAN.
ed up ut him in all It's lurid distinct
ness and mockery, one night when
old Mr.. McG uire opened tho door in
response to Arisiiics' timiL yank At
the bell, and said, in the cold County
Antrim toucS he knew so well how
to use, that Miss Lillian was not nj
home and probably wouldn't be for
seven or eight years. In the hall
stood the hat-rack, besides whose
gaunt frame with its spectre-likc ariIs
lie had so often fingered in the mel
low half-light OF the turned-dow gas
with Lillian's head resting irusttli,ly
above his livcr.pad and her coralinc
corset pushing gcutly against his aus
pendcr. All these scenes camc back
10 him with vivid disiinctness as ho
stood by the bedside of the sick man
aud looked tenderly down al Lillian.
who, with pale face aiil rumpled
bang, had knet by her fathers side
and buried her nose IN the pillow
which supported his head.
presently she looked up nt Aris.
,ides WIN a weary, yearhing' et;
Louis iook' 'hat woulu nave mci'eu
Onstles ,,., rramc.s a' Aaa"ns' ua,,. ,,,.,
ine youmg hi'' oen' q.,ch'Y 'or-
can II be possible that -"
hneel ny my sue, sa,u .he g'ri IN
lehuer, porlerllouse'scak ZONES tha'
'hr,iieu ms very oloou.
onihinuiul VI 'io oassiness III ,ne
knees OF ms pants lhal such al ac,ion
would certainty produce, nhminniu'
OF everything 9ut the iact mat ne
loyeu LILLIAN Mcuuire WIN WIN,
PASSIONATE, DEARBORN avenue iove tllal
recKed no. OF ha,ince ucke,s OF ICE
cream, Afis'iaes skao't ov the girls
sue, anu Placing nss.rohg r'gh,atm
around her TAPER wals.' ne Kissed her
'enuer'y JUST ai' her s'aroV"ru eur.
IL WASH very easy loo 10 rattle
'his young nia"' 49,, a,
Do you s'n' 'ose n,e, n's'ues
sa'a Llllinn, n'aA'Is y oiun ~ oius''
assne SPOKE. ,, 49,,
Il on know 40, was tne reply,
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