Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-12-12

turbed lace on the pillow. While thu
Il doctor was standing looking down a
him, Dunstan Kirke opened his eye
and called out:
Hazel, Hazel, Tam going TO aveng'
you, lassl I'll kill the blackshearted
scoundrelp
The infuriated man jumped out d
bed, and taking a chair in his hands
raised it over Thorne's head, whom he
would have injured, if Dan, the miller
had not. entered the apartment at this
moment and run to the doctors aid.
But the sick man could not be per.
suaded to lie still; he sprung up in
bed again, shaking his fist at an imagi-
nary enemy, while his eyes cleaned
with the fire of delirium. He cried
out
7. "i'll 60 myself to her rescue. Don't
you hear her reproducing me? Tn
hand me, l say, unhand me" and he
struggled to get out Of bed once more,
s0h, man, don't hold me- / must go to
my child. Dontyou hear Hazel calling
me? Poor lass, poor lass"
There, lie back on your pillow;
there is no one calling YOU" said Dan.
Gradually the delusion faded from
the mind of the invalid. His eyes as
sumed their natural expression. Look
ing up at Doctor Thorne he said:
"My head feels rs if it were on fire. =
"We'd do something to relieve your
head. Mrs. Kirke, we will apply ice
bandages.n
"rll send one OF the men TO the ice
house at once"
"Please do so, l will watch him until
your return"
While Mrs. Kirke was absent from
the sick-chamber, her husband fell
into an easy slumber. Doctor Tborne
watched the effect OF the powerful
opiate which he had administered, and
as soon as Mrs. Kirke came back with
the ice he applied a napkin soaked in
ice-water to the heated brain, saying;
IL can leave him for two or three
hours with safety. He will probably
not awaken for some time; if he does,
give him another tablespoonful of the
medicine. Get one OF the millers to
remain IN the next room in case he
becomes unmanageableag must
go now and see two patients who live
about mile from here. 1 will return,
however, and remain all night"
"0h, thank you, doctor; but do you
think that my husband is dangerously
i'll ?"
.@Very," replied Doctor Thorne,
gravely; "but please God, with good
nursing we'll pull him through"
"Ihope so,' said Mrs. Kirke, anx-
.iouislys d
Dolly Dutton saw Doctor Thorne as
he was about TO go out OF the front
door, and said:
"Come back, doctor, and have a
mouthful OF supper
"Thank you, Miss Dolly, believe ]
will" f..tt..,s
While Dolly waited upon Doctor
.Thorne she learned all about her un-
cle's illness. The good-hearted girl
really pitied the stern old miller in
spite Of our outspoken speech to the
contrary.
y AS soon as the doctor left she brought
up her aunt tea on a tray, and hearing
a knock atathe hall door she opened it
to admit Squire Rodney.
7 @How is syour uncle, Miss DollyY +
e"Very ill, squire. lie has brain fe-
ver, Doctor Thorne says"
"Can / go up and see him 2"
"You had better not; he's asleep"
an that case | will not disturb him."
al dread his awakening. He was de-
llrious this afternoon, raving of Hazel.
Uncle. .Dunstan is notrso hard hearted
as we suppose him to be.
II never thought he was SO. lie
pretended TO be fur more stern than he
really was. He loved Hazel dearly,
and when he heard of her sad fate |
suppose 1T proved too much Tor his
already overwrought brain"
"What sad fate ? What do you
mean, squire? Please tell me-"
"You know that your cousin was
married secretly in Scotland? 2
"Well, what of that? p
"Her husband has never yet ac-
knowledged her to the world as his
wife"
"That was on account of his proud
old mother whom he fears. She is an
invalid or some sort of acrank, have
heard"
lady Travers has heart disease, |
believe. Her son is naturally afraid
To shock her by the announcement OF
his marriage with Hazel
"If that shocks her she ought to be
shocked My Cousin Hazel is "A lady.
and no man ought to feel ashamed OF
her"
"You are right / should have been
pround to have called her my wife,
but she preferred him to me. Oh, my
blood boils when think of that inuo-
cent girl how she has been betrayed
by that villain!"
Betrayed ?"
ayes, betrayed, Dolly-I am afraid
her marriage is not legal"
cob, squirep cried Dolly, as she
sank on chair overcome by emotion,
the indignant blood rising to her very
brow
"No, lass, things look queer. That
valet of CIrringford's confessed TO
me that the marriage was not as 1t
ought to be-"
"What does that impudent Irishman
know about it?" asked Dolly, spring
ing to her feet
"He witnessed the ceremony"
"Oh, why did Arthur Carringford
have that thick head for witness ?
He's enough to spoil any marriage
ceremony = cried, Dolly, angrily.
al told your uncle all knew.
deemed it my duty to do so. At first
he would not listen to me; but, when
| informed him how terribly Hazel
had been wronged, he became excited,
and then fell in fainting fit at my
feet. As your uncle is so i'll, I'll take
his place and go to London"
"What for, squire y
"To demand justice for Hazel. Lady
Travers shall know the truth at once.
Her son shall right that innocent girls
wrongs, or, by Heaven, I'll have his
lfe!"
Squire Rodney, you arc true
friend"
4Yea, girl, unto death"
you are right. Go and find Arthur
Carringford's mother. and see that she
knows the truth"
Its about time she did, when the
daily papers report that Lord Travers
is about to lead Lady Maud Weather
by to the altar.
"Oh, SQUIRE" exclaimed Dolly; "ls
it possible that Arthur Carringford is
such man? 2
IL fear so, Miss Dolly" and he took
out of his notebook slip OF paper,
which he handed To the young girl
at is Il cutting from the Morning
Post;' read it,"