Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1888-03-10


doctor, and to make what always considered
was too much Of fuss over me. Lily Brian
told me q week afterward, when was able
to sit up for the first time in my room, that
had been in critical state, and there had
been one night when everybody was anxious
and excited, and even Capt Choppers walked
continuously up and down the stairs for two
hours and half, and said, "Poor girl, poor
girl" and had a secret conference with Mr.
Goode as to the advisability of having ply
sician in the morning at their mutual ex-
pense, land say nothing about it, sir, to any
one" But was better the next morning; 1
changed for the better with the summer
| weather which came in, bright and fine and
| hot, and suggested holidays out of town and
| by the great green sea for the lucky folk who
| could afford to spend their money.
| Lily Brian and her mother and father and
two gawky brothers whom / did not like very
much, and thirteen small members of the
| family, were all going out of town, and
''Why not come with us?" Lily had said,
kindly
My answer was a very old one, and very
natural and very truthful, too.
Because l cannot afford it, Lily"
"Oh, bother the money" said Lily.
"That's what often say myself"
SIT shall cost you next to nothing-hardly
anything" Lily suggested. Papa says you
will only have to pay for q room somewhere,
and you can board with US, and, oh, dear, it
will be awfully jollyl"
ats very kind of your papa, and--and I'll
| think of it, Lily, at any rate"
sand mako up your mind and say yes, "
cried Lily-''won't you, janet"
II don't know"
THAT fright Of a captains going some
where, I know" Lily said, '>and Mr.. Goode
has got free pass down the line, you tell me,
and he's sure to go into the country with so
little to pay for it.; it's just like him. And do
think of it, Jane, there's Lowell"
did think of it. Thought Of Mr.. Brian's
large family, eighteen of them altogether,
| and whether it was possible could intrude
gracefully upon them Mr. Brian had retired
from a cocoanut fiber and street door mat
business in the Tottenham Court road, and
was pretty well of, with only slight neces-
sity of letting his drawing room floor. He
was evidently not o rich man, and there
were few struggles to "keep up an appear
ance," although he went out of town with his
family for a month every summer, by ex-
press desire of Mrs. Brian, who required
change every August, and regularly sailed
forth, en- famille, from her large establish
ment in Prossiter street to a house down q
back slum in High street, Margate, where the
rooms were small, and the children were
heaped together sardine fashion, and now
and then came back with something catch
ing" as wind up to the seasons enjoyment.
And this particular August was asked to
join them. There was the sea, and ''You
must take little change" said the doctor,
and Lily Brian was very pressing, and Capt.
Choppers had talked ot going away for a
week or two, and the boys Goode were COM
! ing home for the holidays, and 1, Jane Neild,
was able to pay-and would insist upon pay
ing-my fair share for board with the Bri-
ans, having my little room out Of the house,
too, for that peace anG ouletness which is not
always found in large 'amilies. Yes, would
go down to Margate when l was strong
when was well enour i to bear the fatigue
of the journey.
This was promise the day the Brians,
with much fornality =. departure, left town
for the season, and l made up my mind to get
well and strong as sooa as possible, and join
them. When was down stairs again in my
little back room there was a great surprise
awaiting me- Nailed against the wall, under
my fathers cabinet sized photograph, was a
brand new ornament--a little carving in oak
Of q dead bird hanging by its claws down
ward, and with every feather wonderfully
delineated 1 stared at it with intense as
Constituent, and Bridget stood in the back
ground with grin on her face from ear to
ear.
"Where did this come FRONT Good
gracious, how beautiful! how-well I never
did"
My thoughts flashed to Mr. Goode for he
was liberal at times, and grateful for any lit
tie attentions in his widowerhood's estate in
the shape of darning stockings or re-estab-
fishing the security Of buttons; but the truth
soon came out and then ! was more aston
ished than ever.
"If you please, MN, it's the young mar
who lost his umbereller," explained Bridget,
with a loud guffaw at last and violent
stamping of both her big Irish feet, like an
excitable person with bone in her throat.
''Whatr'
"Yss. m'm." continued Bridget; land
was 70 say nothing about it to anybody but
you-and not till you were down stairs again
because he wouldn't have you worried
about anything, he said, not for worlds"
"He said all thatl'
YES, NM.
"But, bless the man. exclaimed, "what
has he left this here fori'
"It's-its q prisent, MN, Pm thinking"
"A present to me, and from that imperti
nent being" said; am see about his pres
ant presently. When did he comer'
"Hss been here every day, nm"
every dayF'
"Twice . day." Bridget replied. "And
the day you were 30 ill he came three times,
to make sure the doctors weren't killing
you"
''It's very extraordinary"
"He is 'stronary, MIN" asserted Bridget,
"shure, and there's not much doubt of it.
The way he axed me and badgered me about
that umbereller, MN, every day after you
were took ill, you'd have thought he was a
judge and jury rolled into one-and Sarah,
too, poor critter."
~ never heard of such behavior in my
lfe.n
Fright ye are, Miss Neild, as far as that
goes; but when Sarah bust out crying at last
he was very sorry and gave her 'arf crown /;
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