The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-12-06
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CHAPTER II. -
HAIRY HUI, MASS Maven 10


must be pardoned 10 me-
am sorry to have misced two mails,
or | know you Ike to hear from me
promptly on Tuesdays, but really could
not help it this time. | have had one OF
ny blind headaches, and Slam has cut
bis foot badly, beades several either char
,CteristIc miahaps; Aunt Mary Ann has
yone 10 q cousins husbaud's funeral
Mrs. Daugherty could not help me
because her Tim has the mumpEi AID
your Aunt Serena has been here on q
Welt and 1t was my week to havgthe AIT
Club; and they have liphtheris at the
narsopsge, which has excited us all e
little, btcsuse Of Slams being at the came
school with Bobby.
OF Course, We are very EorTy IoT mtm-
az the patronage, lmean,-and we ieel anX-
ious for Mrg. BurneY, because she can
never be induCGdto employ homeopathic
treatment. / had also begun to clean
house. before Mary Ann left me- in the
luTCh.
There has been another reaFop, how
ever, why ! did not get my letter of 90
usual. Your father has not been 80 we'll.
We are 90 used to seeing him ailing 10!
many yeays that really did not get It In
.to nv head till Sunday that enythirg
auecial WAS tho matter. He went about
M usual, and saw all his patients, and be-
yord great depression OF spirits, saw
nothirg to trouble me until Sunday mcIn'
inc, when down he.C came with 3 regular
corgeDlive chill.
For few hours he was pretty, SICK
You know ainCe his army life, be Ia liable
10 these acute attacks ut my time, but
they so seldom occur that they seem as
remote aE death to me, until they RTg on
us. IbbCuld, Of couIss, have telegIsphed
ior ven had he not come quickly out Of
IN IIesent 10 Worcester for that little
runrd doctor he hGa such ConldepCe In
oyer there, and was soon relieved, Bat Of
couTss he hos been weak stree, and re-
ouilcd my care pretty closely. He cav
| HE office patients to-day, and will ba out
again in g few days without doubt. You
need not feel tho slightest concern about
| him, Ho sends hia love, and bids me- tell
yon be 10 all right.
slam would rend love, hut eihCe he
tumbled into the riveE-l forget 10 tell
you lie tumbled into the river Saturday
afternoon and was. brought home uncob'
FDious, and your father had to roll him in
tile office for quite long while TO btInR
| him 10, and Wien be came to, hs SAID he
didn't mind II Gs much % no did last
| lime, hut Of CouHEe We had tho scare all
The same, though 1t Is impossible to feel ae
| il Slam could Ipally'do ncTo than Ecare
ps-riuce he tumbled into tho liver and
Crt hia foot onthe Ratchet, aud Loot hiH
football, and sat down on the squash piss
| IN The dark, gud traded oil his stamp
album for n bicycle that won't 60, and
can't be- mended, he has been a coed deal
depreesed, leo, 60, IN fact l shouldn't
tbipk Of sskiug him 20 send love to
any body till the state Of his temper i'm
prove.
About your going to Bcetou; Isec no
objection 10 thU plan, neither does your
father. OF coures you will manage Ia
give M part Of your vacation. but We
shall gladly epsrs you to SO pleasant and
con Portable o visit II it 10 best for you.
We want 10 sec you B0rely; but va do not
mean 10 be selell with our children.
The HOlbruUkea ale truly cultivated
and delightful people, and Fern iB q lady
In every senso OF The word. 1t Is an &C.
Quaintance which shsll be glad TO have
YOU make. Your inther remembers Mr..
Holbrcoke at Harvard. He was in tho
class above him; but they met on come
college review | believe, in acme Ca
pRCity.
You will pleafe lrrnember mo atItc-
tionately to Fern, and tell her We shall de-
pend upon herTeLurnlng your visit.
/ have deferred toihe last the frat point
which will have presented iteell 10 you. Is
your lather's state Of health Euch 40 10 cast
any doubt upon the wisdom OF your &C.
ing to Boston before you come home?
There is, OF course, possibility that
this may be go, but l really DO not geo any
rGRson 10 expect that you will have to
change your plans in the lest. Or. Stout
assures mo there 10 no danger, and your
father himself seems 10 have no anxiety
about his own case. think you bad
better 40 right on, and make your visit,
unleFB | send word TO the contrary.
| will write again soon. II anything
occurs TO make me- change my present
opinion, JouBball know promptly.
With love from all (slsm hos jnst come
In on stills, which 10 declares are easier
10 walk on than q lame foot, and volun.
tCers his shGtO OF the family affection, be-
sides adding that he had most forgotten
yop) l an
Your sGGctlonste mother,
ELLEN L. RoLLINaTALL.
Tho days were rot 20 many as the
hopes and fears, the thoughts and words
that trooped alter tho coming Of tho leLtor
from Happy Hill, though the two girls
heaIts, before 1t was followed by the Gee.
ond ,6rmer in tone, in fac, too explicit as 10
leave Lotto in no doubt whether her duty
and her pleasure lay In the same
direction. This wen the second letter:
My DEAR LbTo:
hanton to tell you that your father Ia
quito himself again. Hc 10 on hiD rounds
as usual, and absorbed in Homo aCute
CaBeg. Except for llttlo weakneEg, ma
tural after such an attack, and perhspH o
more than common HCnBitiveneBB to Coldp.
/ sea no differences whatever In him.
] think, therefore, decidedly, that you
had better spend the week with Fern, SO
you have planned, and do It on your way
10 ua, giving 10 the last, and 90 the sweet
cot lnorsal Of your vacation. l fully up.
prcCiAte all you ray about desiring 10
come II you aiO In tho least needed. II
thCro were really anything whatever to DO
thought Of your fathers condition, Of
course you would want 10 be here. As II
is, l honestly think 1t would worry him II
you altered your arrangements. He Ia
very sensitive about being considered III,
and AverHe 10 any AlluBioHa Of the sort.
have no longer the allghtcst doubt
about your g9ing, TO Boston. Wear your
brown traveling.dresE, and don't get of
your itirs too soon. Boston aches with
cant winds. 10 your dark silk III
good condition. How Rro Jou Off for
! hope You will see that all
your Undertaking 10 in perfect order be.
lore you 70. 1t Is % long alnCO ! have
looked over your inendihR, that / have
InUhia yvhHt ptAtn thfNun IVA In In