Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-14

hour later, you surely are not going out
in this broiling sun p
"Only for walk in the village"
| But YOU can send Tom for ANYTHING
you want"
a. will not walk far"
The sun was hot and Craig was not
| strong, in spite of his tall figure and broad
| chest. Very soon he felt that he must
either sit down or tall down, and, very
pale he entered a little porch and sank
upon a seat there. When the first dizzy
sensation was over he heard familiar
voice on the other side of the window, be-
side which he sat
Remember" the voice said-and Craig
| wondered at its low, sweet tone-"you are
to make no exertion for the present. |
have engaged Mrs Ridley to come here
and do all the work and care for YOU.
| When you are quite strong again | will see
that You have sewing to do"
God bless you, miss Your father and
| yourself are the true Christians r'
| A rustic at the door and Craig saw Nellie
| looking at him with such utter astonish-
ment that her face was actually ludicrous.
! Il came here TO escolt you home" he
said, and the heat was too rsuch for me"
He was still deadly pale; but Nellie
stepping back to the house, returned with
her handkerchief dripping with cold wa
| Ter, 10 ldV II upon MS mead.
| You had better postpone your next
| walk till after sunset" she said dryly ::
meantime, wait here and l will go for the
buggy"
| No! will walk back p
Nelhe's ample sun umbrella was help
on the return walk; but Craig fully iusti-
| fed his aunt's fears by the condition in
which he entered the house Nell pelted
him with sarcastic inquiries, all the time
keeping cold water on his head and other
wise taking such precautions as seemed best
| against injurious effects.
| You see what useless animal | am 4"
he said to her
| see that you choose a wrong time to
walk after living in this cell all summer"
was the reply. " This room is like vault
/ should die here"
But you are strong"
Very true. And | keep strong by &C
tivity and plenty of fresh air. If took H
drug shop every day | am not sure should
live a week. Three times a day" she
read, taking up one bottle After each
meal" was on another; " at bed time" a
| third directed. :. Do YOU know, Craig my
whole ward in the children's hospital
would not puzzle me so much as keeping
track of that table of bottles
But l cannot eat or sleep without med
icine"
Poor fellow ~
Craig WINGED. Nell had an infection on
on those two words that cut him to the
quick.
He saw very little of her during the next
week. DR.. Warrenton, rightly judging
that work was the best cure for loneliness
had hunted up q few cases during his
weeks stay in the village, where Nell could
| minister to the sufferings caused by over
work and poverty, and Nell, missing her
daily iabors in the hospital, entered heart
and soul into the field of duty The first
cases led to others, and home hours were
taken up with sewing for some of the poor
est children.
But in the intervals of work Nell took a
mischievous delight in upsetting Craig's
nervous system. She sang only her most
dashing bravuras at the hours of MONDAY
repose. She stole bottles Of tonic and filled
them with molasses and water She made
| bread pills and put them upon the tray of
dainty food, especially prepared for the pa
TENTS delicate appetite. She put red pep
per in the eau de cologne pins in the lounge
pillows and paste on the afghan. She reused
Craig to energy, if only to protest that she
was the plague of his life.
lie tried TO save his conscience by offer
ing Nell money for her proteges, and she
told him brusquely that she had all she
wanted.
Letters from Nice informed Nellie that
her aunt was too i'll to return home, and.
after two months. death released her, and
DR.. Warenton, being in the city once
more, sent for his daughter.
| A sudden dismay seized Craig For the
| first time he realized how much of sun
shine Nell would carry with her. He
studied it well, and, to his cousins I'M
bounded astonishments made her an offer
| of marriage
Thank you" she said shortly, 81 do
not fancy home hospitals Then, seeing
the panied face, she added, more gently,
when | marry, Craig, my husband win be
man doing mans work. Not misera-
bic hypCchondriac, whining out his life
upon a sofa"
| 1t was caustic medicine, and Craig re-
jected it at first. But as the days wore on
the sting, ranking deeper, touched cords of
conscience, and Craig Warrenton reused
himself to q Self-cOmmuning that was bit
ter but wholesome. 1t was not easy to cast
off habits that were lifelong fostered by
| his aunt, and most assuredly not discour-
| aged by the village physician drawing a
| yearly income therefrom.
| Nells establishment reached a climax at
the New Year, when Craig Warrenton
walked into the room where her father
was giving her lesson in practical chem
istry.
Uncle Rolf" Craig said, Nell objects
to home hospitals, but have come to you
| professionally"
My dear boy, what can do for you?
Look out, Nell. If you mix those acids we
twill have an explosion"
"To avert which calamity T will retire
while Craig tells you all his new ailments
| Poor fellow :"
She flashed away, and Craig, looking
after her, said
Uncle Rolf, love Nelliew
Dear me. | thought she tormented YOU
to the verge of insanity"
| SO she does. Nevertheless | want her
! for my wife. She objects to nerves, so |
have come to get rid of mine Seriously,
| Uncle Rolf, want you to take me for your
patient and see if there is stuff in me for
man, useful and honorable. A man, in
short, that you will not reject for a son-in-
law, If Nell will have me-
With all my heart ~
Nell was sauCy and sarcastic when Dr.
Narrenton told her Craig was TO be their
guest, and yet the invalid knew that she
gave him sweetest encouragement in a
thousand ways. 1t was hard task to fol-
low Dr. Warreuton's rules, and Craig
might have often tainted by the way only
Nellie was there to see, to rouse him by
her Wit or by her gentleness to help him
on.
With physical strength came mental
health, desire to be up and doing in the
worlds work. Wealth, seen through this
healthier medicine, was ennobIed as a
means of usefulness, and even labor be-
came honorable where there was good to
be wrought out.
It aroused Nell's respect first to see how
seIhshneSs was trodden down, how actual
physical pain and weakness were con-
quered by resolution. And where Neli's
respect was given, her heart followed till
she bent her proud, saucy head and owned
her master.
But if | marry YOU" she said, half
laughing, " / may be the death of you, as
you feared"
" Not now. 1t will kill or cure, and
think | am c,1red -