The Delaware ledger., 1883-08-04
are enough more who would be glad to

are enough mere who would be glad to v
take Vt. u
He kept well up with his classes, too, q
he was 30 ambitious. Miss Cary de-
cared that she was proud of him TO
Katie, and Katie's heart swelled with J
Joy to hear 1t.
One day, early in March, something
happened. Mrs. Payson was taken sud-
denly and violently ill. Katie, terrified
beyond measure, could do nothing but
rouse Phil from his sleep and when
the boy, startled by his sisters white
scared face, had brought the doctor, he
felt as though he could never sleep
again.
There was no great cause for alarm,
however.
eIt's bad attack of cramp," said
DR.. Daley, with reassuring smile in
Katie's direction. "You're doing just |
right. Apply hot cloths, and keep them
, hot. The spssm will ease away in a
5 little time.n
II 1t was not until nearly night-fall,
nevertheless, that Mrs. Payson became
perfectly free from pain and quite her
g self again. Then Phil, light-hearted
q enough, and whistling merry air, took
|. up his luneh-basket and his books and
r, trudged off to his work. Katie,
troubled, followed him to the door.
5. HI'd get some one else tonight,
ID Phil,r she said. "You have always
h. been used to sleeping all day. What il
d. -
But Phil laughed, and opened his
1T dark eyes to their utmost. "l'm as
wide awake as an OWL" said he. 81
I'D couldn't go to sleep if / wanted to.
ist Seel''
ZIP Katie laughed too at the comical
iss strange expression on Phil's face
sry But she couldn't help feeling littl'
red anxious as she went solwly back int
IRE the house. Suppose Phil should go t.
sleep, and Mr.. Medway have a notioi
wn to visit him, as he often did. Kati
'w' knew what sad thing that would b
ht- for them all, and how dreadfully Phi
vas would feel
full SIT would Just break his heart,
know, " said she, to herself. but
led, course he won't"
Dill Katie's prayer for her brothers. we
faIe was much longer that night ths
,:, usual and, once in bed, she tossed al
nn' tumbled, only to fall at last into ;
~" . uneasy slumber. More than once befe
the little clock on the sitting roo
'0' mantel struck ten she sprang to t
window and gazed down across t
n ~. wide white river bend, only to see Phi
-. | lamp beaming cheerily in the engi
M M. room. How Phil would laugh at h'
'a uoD she thought, feeling really out of /
tience with herself.
II won't look out again." she sa
w SITS nonsense, just as Phil said. 1 "
not look out again tonight"
A of- But she did-once more. The lal
The in the engine-room still burned bright
ho,,t 1t would have been relief to see
"a do light flashing from window to window
she had seen it so often, Katie thoug
thar She could feel then that all was rig
oniro Now
NJ tho Was that the lamp2 1t nicke
a all strangely. One instant it died into
su,a ghost of a light, and the next it tii
cnred brilliantly. Katie rubbed her eye'
wondering terror. 1t was no illus
oil ,, the light shining from the engineer
,ld do was not clear, steady lamp light. 1t
red--like fire
sister Katie was already hurrying on
clothes. There was dreadful lun
,, said her throat, and her breath cam
Katy short, quick gasps. She did not p
much or her boots with their endless ROY
buttons she pulled on her stock
aid his and rushed swiftly out of her room
e were down stairs, catching a shawl from
hall stand as she ran. Behind
ron re. kitchen stove hung pair of |
thick wooden stockings, and these
hastily pulled on over her own. 4
:, t.T was no question in her mind as to
49,. course she would take. 1t was
-. :. ' 80" than half mile by the road to the
~ ~ across the bend it was less than
go to
cara of The late rains had swelled the
awake anu oNerho"eu lVs pahhS, puV
peedn,t bridge was still there, even til
many of the country people had |
-, to think it unsafe. Katie did not
for moment but what it would
No ;nto her light weight ,pHd vayeG-it+c itishIti sht
Ratie she thought Mat it cresked and s
700 tho under her< and she faDcied
hrseaking through once or twice,
she sped, her large dark eyes st
however, and fixed on that flaring red lig
saiu II seemed hours to her before she T
'ie were the mill. She had been there bel
" "ouiu take Phil his lunch once when
u"eiiing' forgotten it, and she knew the W
river as fectly well. In at the dark va
aiouiu door she darted, and up two ol
S'iuo narrow steps. There was SIN kt
~ Pi"ln air--surely.
e's little She oroned +he door Of tho
rd faith room and c,osed II bastiIv hohir
'ry night with a nuick sbrill crv Of d;omo,
oroas &C. tho w "Phil Oh, Phil p'
ways, she FOR the room was full OF
put of the through II the lamp-llght Shove
she would and dim. Little tongues of fan
Iindow as running over the 1oor before t