The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-10-22

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..Oh, dear, no; it is much too swollen.
sha'r.'t be able to set it for some days.
How long are you staying here?'
@Oh. we have another six weeks to
stay yet said Sophy, despondently.
We'll / will endcavor to cure your
sister by then; but / fear she won't be
able to walk for some weeks, though
you need not tell her SO" said DR.. May.
No sooner was DR.. May gone than
Enid, Who had not seen him, dashed in
to Grace's room, all curiosity.
'.What is he like, girls?" she de-
manded, eagerly.
5''iie is young, said Sophy.
THAT is bad said Enid.
And very handsome, said Grace.
That is worse. l wonder if he Is
married?' said Enid.
THAT can't matter to us, said Grace.
Not in the very least" said Sophy.
sOf course not, dears; only won
dared, said Enid.
Now. it is a strange thing, but life
became much more interesting to these
three young ladies after this accident;
and yet it ought to have cast gloom
over them, for it must have been rather
"a bad case, since Grace required DR..
Mays attendance twice day for the
first week, and three times on the day
he set the tibia and put it into splints.
But before he did this he asked for a
second opinion. He was a ply sician-
the case was surgical; he would not
undertake to set the broken bone I'M
less surgeon were present. So GER
tain Mr.. Ford, an army surgeon, was
called in, not without some scruples;
but DIR. May represented it was a neces-
sity, and necessity absolved them from
keeping their vow.
Men are necessary evil" said
Enid.
''1hey are certainly useful" said
Sophy. ~
And undoubtedly NICE" said Grace,
soto voce. She dared not utter this
sentiment aloud.
.'We have only three more weeks to
be here" said Enid one day.
GLOW dreadfulr' said Sophy.
ut is too sad" said Grace.
IL am truly thankful" said Enid. 81
am sick of it. p
ssEnid!" exclaimed Grace, in amaze
ment.
''Enidp echoed Sophy in horror.
Enid, whose temper was supposed to
be angelic, stamped her little foot. and,
crying like naughty child, rushed out
of the room to Rachel.
II won't stand it any longer, Rachel,
hate picking gooseberries.
"Why, my dear Miss Enid, there are
no goosebcrries to pick, they were all
finished before we came"
Don't be an idiot. Rachel! A woman
of your age must know what picking
gooseberries means l am worn out
with it. ] have shrunk nearly an inch
since we have been here. and no won
der, it is such dreadful hard work.
First have to chaperon Grace and DIR.
May in the morning, then ] have to
chaperon Sophy and Mr.. Ford in the
afternoon. and now they have both
taken to coming together in the after
noon; and how canI be in two rooms
Mt once, l should like to know? A
dragon could not do it, and | won't
Why can't they ask their brother over
here to help me? Nasty, selfish things!
And you are a stupid old thing, Rachel.
not to have thought of it; and hate
you, and hate those girls, and horrid
DIR. May and nasty little Mr.. Ford. And
oh, dear! what drcadfully bad tenn
per Lam in"
Enid did not join her friends till the
gentlemen were gone.
II am sos sorry you are not happy
here, Enid, darling" said Grace, gently.
81 was only dreadfully cross, and
now am dreadfully sorry, 50 please
don't talk any more about it"
1--WE won't; we have something to
tell you; we have had letter from
Max, and he wants to come over here
for few days; he says he must have
our signatures to some documents, so
we want to know if you will consent to
his coming; it will be breaking our
rule that no man is TO cross the thresh-
old, but as he is our brother, it won't
matter to us
And so the lawyer came, and there
was no more temper.
The evening he arrived, DIR. May and
Mr.. Ford stayed to supper.
May, how long do you intend to
keep this game up?r asked the lawyer,
as they smoked pipe after the girls
were gone to bed.
What game?" asked Mr.. Ford.
The simple fracture of the tibia,
believe it isI called" said the lawyer,
going into peals of laughter, in which
both his companions joined.
''Poor old May, she'll never forgive
YOU, my dear boy" said Mr.. Ford as
soon as he could speak. -l--.--z..-.-.
"And Sophy will never forgive you,
Ford, said Max. ~
The doctors both looked very down
cast at this.
Need they ever know the truth?''
asked DIR. May.
2 Mot unless you like to tell them; at
rthe same time, if you could manage TO
take those splints off Grace's leg to-
morrow, we might have some picnies
while / am here; can only stay a
week. IL you can undertake to man
age that, I'll undertake not to- reveal
the truth with regard to Grace's
sprained anlsle--I beg Sophy's pardon
fractured tibia
At last the day of reckoning came.
''Soply," said Grace one night truth
is stranger than fiction"
eyes, dear, know that"
80 l have given up fiction, l mean
literature"
They are not always Synonymous,