Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-04-15

needs husband anu-anu cnilufen. 4
don't believe in single women at all. But
it's no use talking with you, suppose.
Some folks don't know what's good for
them," with which she gave a ball of but
ter finishing slap, as II 10 give emphasis
Carrie quietly raised the green's In the
water and smiled placidly, her temper not
at all disturbed by her mothet's imputation
Concerning her perceptibnsi but the widow
would have had an aboplectic ft IL she had
known all that was in her daughters mind.
LUIS school began Monday of the second
week after the conversation in the summer
kitchen, and Mrs. Durrell was never so
proud in her life as when she saw her
favorite daughter ride away with Squire
Raynor in his elegant eanbpied phaeton.
MARK my Word, she'll ride in that as her
own before the years out" she said to Car
rie, "unless she's lost her faculty"
Mrs. Durrell was one of those who
thought that faculty had quite as much to
do in getting folks married as sentiment.
Faculty ruled the world to her mind.
Some three weeks passed. when one
night Lu came home with q flushed face
and anxious eyes.
swell, it's my last day of school," she
| said, as she sat down with sigh in the
large rocker by the window and famed her.
self.
"Why, what is the matter, Lu?" asked
her sister.
Esquire Raynor's two boys are sick, and
| several others have left on account of sick
/ ness, and he told me this noon that he did
not deem it advisable to continue the term
any longer. 1t is smallpox, so DIR. Jones
says, and there's terrible panic"
"Dear me, the smallpox! Why, that's
perfectly awful" explained Mrs. Durrell.
| "Like enough we shall all have IL, now You
have been exposed There's nothing like
using every precaution," and the widow
caught up the camphor bottle, and sprinkled
them generously with its contents.
81 do hope it won't spread" murmured
Lu. Il don't want to be pock- k-marked for
| life"
Goodness knows, we don't want to be
down with it, and haying coming on, and
all the hired help to take care of, ejacu-
lated her mother. II can stand some
things, but couldn't that. wonder how
it happened to break out in the 'Squire's
family"
"He and little frankie were in Boston
two weeks ago, and suppose the boy took
| the contagion some way. 1t seems real
hard for the Squire All his servants have
left him aud he cannot get anyene to act as
nurse for love or money. Not even Paulina
Heath, the Poor Farm Hospital nurse, will
risk her life at any price. He offered me
five dollars a week 10 go up and do what l
could"
| cried the widow. you'd been sure to have
caught the disease and perhaps have died
with it. You showed your good sense in
refusing to CO."
Mother, said Carrie, very abruptly, II
don't think it's Christian to let those chill
| dren lie and suffer and not stir hand or foot
to save them. think 1 shall go to Raynor
Hail."
Mrs. Durrell gave gasp of incredulous
amazement.
"You go out to nursing Squire Raynors
children? You must be crazy, Cad Dur
aI never was more sane in my life, re-
piled Cad. IF he succeeds in getting no
one else / shall go Tomorrow. L am sure
it is my duty"
"Fiddlesticks It's duty to take proper
care of ones self, and if you go up there ]
shall know you are not in your right mind:
And Mrs. Durrell leaned back with a hol.
low groan, looking as If she really hao
doubts of her daughters sanity.
But Carrie was in earnest, and the mex
morning she went up to the great house
which seemed very still and deserted.
"Dont ever come back till you have hat
il and got we'll, for 1 won't have you in thu
house. It's running plump in the face o
! Providence, and that don't believe one ha
, a right to-" said Mrs. Durrell, as Carrie
rode away.
They were cold cruel words, but tn
widow considered them eminently generou
j and practical. :, :.
, "Of course, she'll have 1t and die with it
, it will be Just her luck. I'd just as soon g
7 and take dose of strychnine."
y Carrie had but little time 10 think o
n herself or anything else, save her two littl
! patients. II was new work for her, but sh
had a kind heart and she was strong, an
= those qualities went great ways. Sh
Z made no mistakes, and she had certai
reserve power that made her services doubl
valuable.
~ Frank and Harry Raynor were very, ver
4 i'll. and for days there was small hope
q their recovery. Squire Raynor hardly LEI
= the darkened chamber, and only to tn
nurses and the old physician did he spea
4 a word. At the end Of three weeks, howeve
the disease turned and the doctor pre-
y nounced the children out of danger
ar at is owing more to your care than u
10 doctors skill, Miss Durrell, said Il
L Squire. "How shall / ever repay you?"
@You have paid me for my work; as Il
N the rest, il was my duy," said Carrie.
~ "The others did not think it was the
10 duty to risk their lives to save an old man
l1y two motherless boys" returned 'Squi
, Raynor, sternly; "why should you have dol
nj sof You are an angel and"
n "Oh, no, Squire Raynor, only We
= common piece of clay" answered CARR
Fastening away with scarlet cheeks.
ii But two or three weeks afterward, VIII
Frank and Harry were out at play for {
a first time on the sunny lawn, and Carrie
q in the porch doing crochet work, the 'Squl
=. came out and gaZed thoughtfully at {
picture.
od aBoys," said he, at length, show wou
vr Won like mother, real nice, new mother
wv "Oh, ever so much, papaw cried Har
,er athat is, il we could have Miss Durrell."
ne "Oh, you silly boy" began Carrie, !
no she was interrupted by the Squire. ~
have heard their verdict, Miss Durrel
be Carrie. You can make them happy, ano
ON and love you. Will you not stay, Carr
,re mn Carrie, and be mistress of Raynor Hal
,or And before she had spoken he knew
the look in her eyes that she would not
let fuse him.
,rv Mrs. Durrell was thunderstruck when
we learned the news. To think that after
orr Carrie. who had no tact, no faculty at
re should have won rich Squire Raynor,
nd great man of the village. why" as
IN expressed it, cit beat all"
But the surprises were hot all over,
q " Lu plucked up courage the same NIGH
Ilv. tell her mother that young Stapleton
ri. proposed, and that, with her consent, q
'ily were to be married at Christmas'
ber "Go along and marry him If you W
- A. o-;a5 har mother "CirlR are