Telegram-herald., 1890-02-15


e American Press Association.
l.vervthtng Indicated tnat Perry nad got
~ the scene Just IL time 10 prevent =
bloody and desperate fracas, for the few
ranch people ~ho appeared were stiil
auirsring with excitement and dread
Fyven vas almost TOO much agirated 70
speak:
Go % Mr Maitland a. soon as YOU
can. doctor; this has given him fearful
sha6inz up Mrs. COwan IS having a
room made ready for Mr. Perry All
here's young Cowan now. Ready" he
asked
"All ready Mother SAYS carry the
gentleman right ia. She wants YOU 70
come too. no added, II lower tone, 20
Sergt. Gwynne. but the latter made no
reply.
And SO, borne ia the arms OF several
of his men. Lieut.. Perry was carried
across the Intervening space and into the
main building When he recovered con-
sciousness, as the morning light came
through the eastern windows, he found
himself lying IN white curtained bed IN
a strange room, with strange vet kind
and motherly face bending over hun.
and his captain smiling down into his
wondering eyes.
you are coming round all right. old
fellow" he heard Stryker say. IN call
the doctor now; he wanted 10 see you Us
soon as you walked"
I And then Quin came in and said few
| CHEEKY words, and bade him lie still and
worry about nothing. The row was over.
thanks to him, and he and poor Nolan
were the only victims; but it had been a
great shock 70 Mr. Maitland and rem
! dered his condition critical
Perry listened in silence, asking no
! questions For the time being he could
: think Of nothing but Nolan's loss. 1t was
such a cruel fate 10 be killed by those he
came 10 save.
All that day he lay there. doing and
] thinking alternately. He wondered at
/ the tenderness and devotion with which
the kind old Englishwoman nursed him
and seemed 70 anticipate his every want.
Quin came in towards evening and
I
BE- feverish and painful. He heard his
colonels voice in the hallway. too, and
heard him say 10 the doctor that some
body at RosSiter was eager to come down
| and take care Of him. "BOshl' said the
blunt surgeon; 1--WE far better nurse
here-and a reserve to fall back upon
that will be worth n new life 10 nim.
L I -. 81. D.
! Perry's heart thrilled within him; he
wondered if it could mean Gladys. Two
! DAYS more ne lay there, the fever skill
fully controlled by the doctors ministra
! tions, and the pain Of his wound sub
/ dued by Mrs. Cowan's cooling bandages
and applications But there was a burn
ing fever in his heart that utterly re-
fused to go down. He strained his ear:
listening for the sound Of her voice ol
the pit-a-pat Of her foot fall in the cOrri
dor At last he mustered courage and
asked for her, and Mrs. Cowan smiled:
Miss Maitland has been here three
times TO inquire how you were; but il
was whilo you were sleeping, Mr. Perry
and she rarely leaves her fathers bed
side. lie is very i'll, and seems to b.
growing weaker every day. dom
know what we would have done il w'
had not found DR.. Quin here, he ha!
pulled him through two or three baC
seizures during the past year.
Where had you known the doctor be
forey" asked Perry, with an eager light
in his eyes.
Nowhere; but IL was az though on,
of his own kith and kin had suddenly
made his appearance here to welcOm'
Mr. Maitland. The doctor Is a first cOusir
If Mrs Naitland's. she was from Ire
land. and il was from her family ths
the ranch was named. Lord Dunraver
il Of the pcerage Of Ireland. you know.
added Mrs. Cowan. with the cheerful
confidence Of the Englshwoman tina
every person Of any education or stand
irc must DO familiar with the pages O
Dcbrctt.
"How should know anything abOu
it," laughed Perry lie ten m merry
mood; another page in his volume of sus
piCion and dread was being torn away
and Quin's relations with the houschol,
we're turning out 70 be such as made
him an object Of lively interest. not o
jealous doubt
Then came the callers from the garTi
son. It seemed as though all Of suddeT
the blockade had been raised and that u'
people were 50 warmly welcomed a
Dunraven as the very ones who had beer
especially proscribeI Mr.. Maitland