Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-05-15
LEG broken by the wheels, his head cut

leg broken by the wheels, his head cut
and bleeding with his heavy fall.
! Meanwhile Lefty, in the cream-col-
ored house. had not been idle.
i Tying on great calico apron in place
of her white one, she had quietly washed
and put away the dinner dishes and re-
duced the dining room to order.
Tea was easily arranged, since it was
to consist of cold dishes, with glasses OF
milk for the men.
She threw clean table cloth over
the whole as soon as it was finished, and
went upstairs into the spare chamber
to pack her trunk.
\ Yes, Lefty had made up her mind ct
last. She was going away.
Life had degenerated into slavery,
unbrightened, as she fancied, by ray
of love.
"And slavery will support one any,
where" though Lefty as with tremb-
ling hands she locked and snapped her
trunk and fastened her few lines to
George upon the lid.
At the porch door she paused for one
last look around the house that might
have been SO happy.
She did not intend to glance toward
the hay field.
Yet in spite of her resolution, her
eyes turned that way to single out the
tall figure that guided the rattling,
blinking moving machine.
Il wonder if he will miss me little
just at frst?" she mused. "He can
get q divorce, [ suppose, if desert
him, and then he will marry again. I
hope he will be kinder to his next wife
than he has been to mel"
With tears that rose at the thought
of her successor binding her eyes,
Lefty failed to see the figure that she
sought.
II am foolish to look at him again.
have never been more than house
keeper to him from the first" she
thought, stumbling blindly on toward
the gate and opening it, to find herself
IN t the center as OF an excited group. :. :,
said Solomon Wyse, who come first and
saw the tears upon her cheeks before
she could wipe them away.
Were you coming out to meet us?
We were in hopes you didn't see any
thing of it. It's bad accident, but
George is SO strong and hearty that he
will be up and around again almost be-
fore you know it. We've sent Ben Hill
off on one Of the colts for the doctor,
and if you will only tell us where to
carry him"
"Carry him?" repeated Lefty.
Solomon stepped aside. She saw
behind him litter roughly made of
hay rakes and covered over with coats,
and on that litter George was lying pale
and bleeding with his eyes closed.
"Oh, Mr.. Wyse. is he dead?" she
asked, turning even paler than George.
mot bit of it! Worth twelve
dozen dead men yet! Only bit of
break in one arm and one leg, and q
little knock on the head when he fell.
The horse didn't kick, and he'll be all
right as soon as the doctor sees him.
Shall we take him up stairs. or
where?"
Bring him in here" said Lefty, re-
covering herself
She led the way to the bedroom on
the ground floor and helped to shift the
manned figure from the litter to the
bed.
Her soul was dying within her for
fear, yet not word passed her lips.
When the doctor came he found a
capable nurse, dressed in dark print,
who listened intelligently to his direc-
tions and promised to carry them out
fully.
And SO it happened that as George
Brewster returned to life the first
words that fell upon his ear we're ut
tered by the doctor outside the win
dow, as he mounted his gig:
Eyes, he will do, MIR. Wyse; he will
pull through nice if his wife nurses
him. And she can do so nicely if some
Of you will send some one to take
charge of the house. She is woman
in thousand I hope he knows how
to value her."
Lefty, bending over the bed alb
sorbed in the invalid, had lot heard
him.
"What is it. dear?"
The doctor is right. You are wo-
mar in thousand! I always knew it,
Lefty, if never said it. So tell you
of it now, before I die" he added going
off into another faint.
1t was all that Letty's sore heart
needed. Beside the bed of suffering
she spent two Of the happiest months
of her life. The first act of George
Brewster on his recovery was to secure
help for his wife, so that she now has
plenty of time to get back her lost color
and plumpness. They are one in heart,
as one in name and home now. And
Solomon Wyse has never occasion to
administer the talking to.
Somehow or other" drawls Solo.
} mon, getting run over by that moving
, maching was the making of George
Brewster"
And Lefty and George thinks so, too.
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