The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1884-04-10
* NEWBERRY, S. G, THURSDAY APRIL 10, 1884.

her and allghted from his chalse.
He raised her to sitting posture,
and the pain of being removed re-
called her senses. She shrank
from his touch for an instant, but
soon recovered from her monen-
tary embarrassment, and gratefully
expressed her thanks.
"Whither shall 1 carry you, my
dear young lady?' he asked, kindly.
This is my home, SIR" she an.
swered, producing the house key.
The gentleman unlocked the door,
and Kate strove to rise, but again
tainted with the pain. The stran-
ger carried her in and deposited
her gently upon the wide, comfor-
table couch which had served as q
bed ever since she removed. He
readily found some water, which
he sprinkled upon her face, and
she revived.
4 am surgeon" said he, smil-
ing; Ian old, gray-haired surgeon.
Will you permit me to examine
your injuries?
There was such a fatherly man
ner about him that Kate could but
submit to holding out her arm and
foot for his inspection.
'You have hurt yourself more
than l thought, young lady," he
said, in a tone so cheerful that Kate
felt as if she had found a friend.
But it will be all right soon, if
only you will have little courage
for q short time.''
"Oh, I have plenty of that an
swered Kate; "but lack the forti.
tude to endure long-continued pain.
Will it be long, sir?' she asked,
anxiously.
Not if you have good nursing"
"Ah, that is out of the question.
sir
why SO? Have you no mother
or sister,"
Kate's eyes filed with tears.
81 have neither" she said, after
q pause in which she was weeping
bitterly.
No friend who can be with you
now while I mend this broken
limb?" he asked, while looking at
the small white arm barred for his
inspection.
Il have no friend" she murmur-
ed.
1t was a short sentence, but it
went to Cr. Broderick's heart.
mo friends! Poor young lady !"
But before he could say a word
more Kate had hushed her emotions
awakened by his questions and was
her own calm, collected self again.
She bore the setting of her ankle
like hero, and submitted to have
her arm violently pulled without
fiinching. Then she sat upright
and looked this new helper in the
face. He was a man of apparently
forty years of age; tall, and not
slender; with large, benevolent
brown eyes, and q few white streaks
in his dark, abundant hair; a gentle
man in the broadest sense Of the
word, as scholar, and a good sur
geon. Kate's simple, straighfor-
ward mind had OWNED what he
was, and her eyes took in the details,
as we'll as the meaning of his face;
q face so entirely good that little
child might read it. Her heart in
stinctively told her that here, at
any rate, was q man who would
never deceive.
She had heard of him-heard how
beloved and trusted he had been in
his native city-a neighboring one
where he had always practiced-
had heard of more than one noble
and grand deed he had performed.
She had learned, also, that in his
younger years he had been sorely
smitten with disappointment-had
laid all his hopes ofa happy domestic
life upon broken shrine, and had
beheld them waste away into utter
decay.
All these things rushed to her
memory when he told her his name.
She remembered, too, that her ia
ther had desired to call him in
when her mother was i'll, but that
she had opposed it. Her mother
was always so afraid of expenses
which she knew would not avail to
save her life, and she wanted 80
much to leave something for Kate
when she should have passed away.
Poor woman !! could she have known
Of Kate's present situation, there
would have been one pang more in
her dying hour.
Il shall ride over to see how you
are tomorrow be said, kindly, as
he went out. "You must be as
quiet as possible, but l will lend
you my cane, SO if you want to
come and lock me out, you can do
So
And Kate did rise and go to the
door with him, despite the grotesque-
ness of hopping on one foot.
Now 60 back to your sofa, and
YOU may read little; but remember,
no work till l see YOU"
She obeyed him willingly, for she
was weary, and was, moreover, jar
red by her fall. Toward night she
fell asleep and did not wake until
morning. She was unable to go
about much. even with the doctors