The Somerset reporter., 1890-05-15
He was saying :


Perhaps you would not have excused
me az readily as you do the nel9hbors?-
for should certainly have carried you
away had 1t been ship fever. Oh. you
need not shrug your shoulders Nobody
rebels successfully against the doctor
As 1t is only malaria, | shall leave you To
treat the case until tomorrow; when IN
be over again
ooh, but 1t Is so far from Bar Iiar.
borf' she said. And II Its only mala-
ria"
1T may be cured, ehr But who told
you | came from Bar Harborl" he asked
looking at her rather fixedy.
She could not command her bushes ;
so she taxed her powers of speech TO re-
trieye her error
"Wa.l-," she drawled slowly, roll
ing her hands In her spron-'Told me Z
dunno, I'm sure, Only the's consd'-
BILE many doctors round Bar Harbor-
plenty AZ huckleberries In a dumping
didn't know but that you'd be there.
like the rest"
"I'll be near at hand, at South Yves,
Harbor until your"
She did not supply him with a word
FOR his pause; SO he wert on:
lis well on the road to recovery.
shall be over TO. morrow. Meantime.
shall try II it is possible, to wake up 8
little humanity in the NJ .ghbors you
must not have all the nur-ing."
haven't. There Is the captain"
There is the captain. chr" said Dr.
Morrison. as just then head and shout
ders, with decidedly nautical air about
them, appeared above the top rung OF the
ladder mounting the schooner's side.
The man Che had good, strong
honest face, one could trust, too. at d
glance, was looking straight at Ellice
shaking his bead dolefuliy.
1T want no manner o good, Miss Ell
lis. They fight shy of US, the hull Doodle
of EN-. There's not one one of em \
bear hand, and Melnthy drifting out to
sea, as | might say"
But Ellice touched him gently on the
sleeve.
"No, no, captain--Ive great news fol-
you The doctor says its no ship-fever.
If every case of malarial fever demand
ed as many visits, the patients would b'
in bad way, and the doctors In a gooo
one.
Ellice laughingy limited az much to DR.
Morrison, one morning when she haC
. gone back to her cottage boarding house
and he had ridden over from Bar Har
Dor.
"On the contrary, 1t is the doctor who
Is i'll very bad one" he said.
The two were standing together on The
. cliff oyerhangiug the STA. Perhaps he
, thought her position a dizzy one; fol-
suddenly he had her hand in his.
at is you have brought me here into
| H. Misc Ellira only Won cap-r
ado tell get you out of 1t again." she
retorted, with short, half angry laugh
little tremulous withal.
He understood her as well as If she had
spoken her whole thought aloud.
He knew she meant to test him, to dis
enchant him, if it might be, with hel
Yankee LONELINESS.
But when he had her In his arms, and
forced her to look up at him;
Dear you cannot tribe with me now
Look up, let me see you love me, If yor
will not tell me. Not as love you-but
yet know that could teach my wife "
Perhaps she did tell him. AT any rate
she added presently, with rather a TIME
air, 81 have a confession to make
Dr."
Tom"
CDR. Tom" she said demurelv.
you needn't make it, Ellice,"
Then, while she stared up at him won
deringly, he laughed at her
81 should be poor fellow at a dag
= g.: g. pa :sc .; ii,
together, and follow the case out. In
termittent Yankee dialect, very inter
mittent paralysis of friendly intercourse
SO that poor Emma Dale is distracted al
failing to draw single letter from you
since you sailed out of Bar Harbor; Miss
Ellis and Ellice, marked symptoms and
most significant of all
He drew out of his pocket her photo
graph, which the irrerresibe match
making Mrs. Dale had given him.
But it was not half so pretty as Ellice
Wood in all her bushes.
"And 50, after ALL" she said, you
have caught a summer butterfly -
G0odey's ladies' Book for September.