Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-11-27
WHITE HEATHER.
BY WILLIAM BLACK,
AUTHOR or JUDITH SHAKESPEARE" "A
PRINCESS or THULE" MACLEOD
or DARE" ETC.

he DutteO npI HOb ndll''
She looked at him wonderlngly,
"Wbv, don't you know ?" Did you
never hear The miserable creature that
was allowed to speak i'll Of our Ronald.
All. do YOU think | have forgotten ?
Does Jack Iluysen hink have forEotten2
No, | will not forget-you can tell him
will not forget will not forget will
not forget"
she was growing more and more We
hement, and to pacify her he had to as
sure her that lie himself would see this
matter put straight and that 1t was all
right, and that ample amends would lie
made.
OF course he paid no great attentions to
these delirious wandrrings; but that
same evening, when he had gone INTO inc
smoking room to report to Jack liuysen
how things were going, this complaint
of Miss carry's happened to recur to his
mind. ,,
she's always talking about-Seems to
worry her "A good deal-some newspaper
article aud you're mixed MP in 1t. too
something you appear TO nave SAM or done
about that fellow her father took such
fancy for-I mean, when they were in
"Oh, i know" said the editor, and he
blushed to the. very roots of his long,
flowing hair. :" know. But it's an old
story It's all forgotten now"
well it is not" the young doctor said,
"and that's the fact. She worries about it
continually. Very strange now, how her
mind lust happened to take that bent |
don { remember that we were talking much
about the scottish Highlands. But they
must have been in her head when she
fell i'll: and now it's nothing else. Well,
what is it about the newspaper article,
anyhow
'iWhy, nothing to make fuss about"
Jack Huysen said but rather uneasily.
81 thought it was all forgotten. She said
as much. Wonder you don't remember
the article.-,suppose you missed it-but it
was about this same Highland fellow and
some verses of hist was young Regan
wrote it-Confound him, Ia have kicked
him into Lake Michigan before I'd let him
write line in the paper, if Id have known
there was going to be this trouble about
1t. And don't think now there was much
to find fault With only glanced over it
before sending it to her, and it seemed to
me favorable enough-of course there was
alittle of the dc hdut en- bds business-you
know how young fellows like to write
but it was tavura ble-very favorable, |
should say however, she chose to work
upa pretty high old row on the strength
of it when she came home, and had my
work cut out for me before | could pnclfy
her Why. you don't say she's at that
again. Women are such curious crea-
lures; they hold on to things SO; wonder,
now, why it is she takes such an interest
in that fellow-after all this time|
&C Just as likely rs not the m"rest coin
brain when she first became delirious,"
the young doctor said " | suppose the
boating and the lake and all that brought
back recollect;ons of the highlands ; and
she seems to have been fascinated by the
life cover there-the wilderness of it
caught her IMAGINATION ] suppose, She
must have been in considerable danger
once or twice, should guess or perhaps
she is mixing that up with the mishnp OF
the other day We'll, | know | wish her
father were here. We can't do more than
what is being done still, | wish he were
here. II She can get through to len
Falls to night, you may depend on it ~all
come along somehow
BY tins time lack Huysen was nervous
ly pacing M nnd dowl-there was no one
but themselves in the room.
Now look here, Tom" he said. pres
emily. ! wish you would tell me. honor
bright was it n squat that caught the
boat, or was it downright carelessness on
my part ! may as well know. | can't
take more shame 10 myself anyhow and
to let You jump i'll after her, too, when
Pm better swimmer than you are-l
must ha~, lost my head altogether"
And much good you'd have done if
you had jumped in," the doctor said
and left the two women to manage the
boat How should we have got picked
= But abont that jiblng, now-was 1t
my t No. t was mine the doctor said,
CURLY. g. shouldn't have given up the
tiller. Fact is. the girls We're just mad
about that Dancing IN the Barn ;, and |
was fool enough to yield to them | tell
you, Jack it isn't half as easy as 1t looks
steering Il boat that's running fair before
the wind ! don't blame you at all |
dare say there was Il nasty pun that
caught YOU when You weren't looking
anyhow, it's n blessing no one was hit 10y
the boom-that was what feared at
first for Miss Iiodson when found her
SIhlp-I 81 GruiI cha had baap IN il
about the head"
"And YOU don't think it was absolute
carelessness?' the o;her said, quickly.
Mind, was steering straight for the
pier as You said
Oh, we'll" said the young doctor,
evasveiy. "if you had noticed in time
you knuw-or when called to you-but
perhaps II was too Int then. It's no use
going back on that now what we have
to do now is a. fight this fever as well AS
we can
~ would take it over from her if
could, Jack tluyseu said, and willingly
enough"
1t was notuntil early the next morning
that Mr.. Hodson arrived He looked
dreadfuily pale and harassed and ia
tgued for the fact was he was not in
Chicago when they telegraphed for him
some business affairs had called him
away to the South and the news Of his
daughters illness followed him from
place to place until it found him in a re-
mote corner OF louisiana whence he had
travelled uIght and day without giving
himself an hours rest. And now he
would not stay to dip his hands and face
in cold water after his long and nnx ious
journey he merely asked a few hurried
questions OF the doctor; and then, stealth
lily and on tiptoe, and determined tc
sho VINO sign of alarm or perturbation, he
went into Carry's room.
She had been very delirous during the
night-talking wildly and frantically in
spite Of all their efforts to soothe her. but
now she lay exhausted, with the flushed
face and blush lips and eager. restles:
eyes so strangely unlike the Garry of othel
days She recognized him at once-bu
not as n new conner; she appeared to think
he had been there all the time.
''Have You seen him, pappaS' she said
in that eatr way. Did yon see hin
whoa yuu v, out
-, ho. dst,..s?" he said, ~ ne sat dowr
beside her and took her wasted hand il
his.