Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-05-20
my Pretty Jane"

KNOW they are good, for i mad
them myself" and Jane Elvertol
handed her betrothed plate of tn
hot, flaky balls with the serene com
posure of one who knew of what sh,
spoke.
"Why, certainly he replied gal
lantly. son such a recommendation
know l may venture" Then he
laughed. There's unvarnished con.
ceitl' he said gaily.
land pray, why shouldn't Jane
praise her own work !? cried his moth
er, coming to the young girls rescue.
"Her biscuits are excellent, as every
one who has ever tasted them will
testify. OF course, so they should
be, for it was who taught her how
to make them"
Then both ladies joined in the
burst of merriment that followed this
candid acknowledgement.
swell, for outspoken, undisguised
self-esteem, commend me to the ac-
complished housekeeper % said Ed
gar, as his brother, DR.. Norman
Gray, entered the room, late for
breakfast. He sat down tired and
worried.
''I'm almost at my wits end," he
said, as he took his cup of coffee
from his mothers hand. "Both the
Miss Stevens have been taken very
i'll, and i can't find a nurse in the
place that will take care of them for
love or money!"
''Why, what is the difficulty"
asked his mother. "There is usually
no lack of women only too eager for
such work"
Eyes, but just now the whole vii
lage is afflicted with the smallpox
scare, which is certainly epidemic, if
the disease is not. These two ladies
have contracted the dreaded illness
from an unhappy vagrant that they
took into their kitchen, out of the
kindness of their hearts and befriend-
ed. Their own servants have desert
ed Them
sob, that is the reward of the hui
name ~ said Edgar GRAY, the doc
tors younger brother.
sit is nature, following her I'M
changeable law. But you would not
advocate inhumanity on that account,
would you?"
"Don't moralize, Norman, please -
said the younger man, struggling his
shoulders.
The doctor laughed. "Well, it's
hardly necessary on such a self-evi-
dent point" he said. ''But can any
one suggest some help for me? My
patients must not leave home, be.
cause they are SO nervous and sensi-
tive that they could not stand the
shock of removal. OF course, it's
not needful that they should be, for
their house on the hillside is entirely
isolated; but it is essential that L
should find a nurse more capable
than Aunt Becky, who is in charge
now"
Norman, L will go if you do not
succeed very soon in finding some
person to suit. 1t is dreadful to
think of those two dear old ladies in
want of care"
Three pairs of eyes were turned
upon the speaker with different ex-
preston in each pair.
Impossible" said Mrs. Gray, in
astonished disapproval, yet not Sc
verely, for she was a woman with
kind, generous soul, not apt to put
her own interests first.
Norman looked at his cousin Jane
gravely, as though to see if she real
lied fully the danger that such a
course might entail upon herself. Her
betrothed husband gave short,
amused laugh. He stood behind her
chair, with both hands resting on its
back.
"Why, Jennie, you really spoke as
if you meant what you said? Remem-
Der it is pretty wife want, not
''I did mean what / said, Ed
gar. If no one else can be found to
attend those two dear, kind, old wo-
men, shall go myself
''Do not speak of it any more !"
he said angrily. 81 forbid you to
discuss the subject as a possibility
AS if you could dream of such an in
sane action, or as if would allow it
if you did! =
And he went out of the room, leav-
ing silence behind him only broken
DIV Tie GcuOeS Ol GIlc OduSlHS OiOOIo
'sWell, that is settled - said Mrs.
Gray, smiling.
SIT is not at all settled,' said Jane
Elverton, with slightly heightened
color on her beautiful face, and a
sparkle in the soft brown eyes; cor,
rather, il is not settled differently
from what it was before
''Why, my dear, surely you will
acknowledge Edgar's right to object p
Certainly. He has a perfect
right to object. 1 have an equal right
to gainsay that objection, however,
and 1 do! The matter in question
can only be determined by my own
sense of what is right, and that out
weighs Edgar's opinion. I'm sorry
he does not agree with me. l have
Welded to him on several other oc-
z:o. b,+ mill ODDoSo him on thiS