Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1888-07-14

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/ Halt an hour later she looked in
the door again, saying: "Come TO
lunch, Uncle Robert. Yes Gas he
stared at her in amazement). Il
know cook always brought you just
what she liked up here because she
did not want you down stairs. There
has been a skirmish, but it's all right
now. Come for my sake, please.
Mr.. Doran drew his dressing-gown
more closely around him and follow
ed Jack down into the small J reak-
fast room, which she had chosen be
cause it was so much pleasanter than
the great wainscoted dining
room.
A most tempting lunch was spread
upon the round table and flowers were
intermingled with the dishes in pro-
fusion. 1t was pretty to see the air
with which she led her uncle to his
place, then took her own opposite
him, almost forge: ng--in her eager
ness to serve him--vC satisfy the de-
mands of her own healthy appetite.
did cook do all this 2" Mr.. Dor
an asked, with some curiosity.
mo" replied Jack, blushing. "she
wanted to take you up some smoky
soup, and because | said no, she
wouldn't do anything else, so | did
it myself. Don't you like it all y
and she looked anxiously at him.
"You are not like your sisters"
he said, not replying to her question
"Oh, mol" and Jack shook her
head somewhat dejeotedly. "They
are very accomplished--real young
ladies you know. But, then, can
cook and sweep, and 10 things that
they can't.
"But / do not want coob and a
housemaid," said Mr. porau
81 think you do" laughed Jack
''If you had Only tasted the soup"
"Child ~ cried Mr.. Doran, sudden
ly catching at her hand. 'I'm dis
appointed heart broken old man.
IF You could love mo q little
81 do, Uncle Robert ] do, true
ly" said Jack.
And she meant it for her warm
heart had gone ont at once to the
lonely old man, so unhappy in the
midst of his wealth and so she COM
forted him now, in the best way she
knew, with loving words that, skep-
tic as he was, he felt were honest and
true.
81 fear master be a goin' to die;
he was never so gentle afore,' said
cook, week later.
| That very night Mr. Doran was
taken suddenly and violently i'll.
Jack heard his groans, and hasten
| ing to his assistance, found him saf
fering intensely
| "You must 80 Cor the doctor, cook;
there's no one else to 90, said Jack.
Indeed TN not, replied the cook
decidedly "He's been nore so good
a master to me that / should riss my
self in the dark for him"
"Then watch him while l 60, " i'm
plored Jack. 'Do not leave him or
he Wilde"
she had been down 10 Chs village
once on an errand Cor her uncle. ana
she knew she could End her way but
| it was so different now, at night
Brave Jack for goingl But her
heart futtered and her limbs culver
ed with fear as she FASTENED on
through the starlight.
The way seemed interminable, but
at last the few lights that yet burn
ed in the village shone out close at
hand, and one part of her journey
was over
Chesney was one of the most IN
fortunate villages, with houses SO
painfully similar that stranger
might we'll wonder how each inhabi-
tant knew his own house. Little won
der, then, that Jack, after much un-
certain pausing before various doors,