The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-03-06

wrat..a.... III will have all the doctors
in tht s.,ss! don't believe the injury
Viii resale in lameness; won't believe
an! thing of the kind"
My dear cousin" said Mrs. Henry,
1--WE must hope for the best. Let me
give you some coffee after your long
night rider Or glass of wine2'
The colonel refused; he wanted moth
ing, lie said; but be would see the child
naw.
He stood by the bedside and looked
long at Missy. The doctor had given an
anodync, and she lay asleep, with her
hands crossed on her breast; and her
father, overpowered by the sight, turned
away and left the room.
In the morning he came again. Missy
had not stirred. "When will she wake
AGAIN. he asked, despairingly. But
when Missy awoke his distress increased.
She had been 80 little caressed by him,
so seldom noticed except to be repri-
manded for some childish fault, that he
was the last person she wished now to
see.
Take him awayr' she entreated.
DON'T let him touch mel 1t hurts me
to touch me; and it won't do a mite Of
good tpscold me-"
"NV ini red, will not touch you; I will
not scold you" the colonel assured her.
For answer Missy covered her face
with her hands and screamed and sob
led, so that it became necessary to take
the colonel away
Rnt ran, IN, .,x,oxy tla colo,~.,I oo,,lI
and would not. When she was quieted
he came az, in and sat down with his
hands behind him, in order to show that
he di'l not mean 10 touch her. If she
would only smile! But the troubled look
he wore was not calculated to win smiles.
"Where hurts you, Winifred?" he asked
Don't you feel better?"
"Nowhere hurts" answered Missy.
'And don't feel better"
The colonel sighed. us there anything
you would Ike to have?' He struggled
for some term of endearment. but his
lips, long unused to affectionate utter
ance,. refused to frame the words he
sought. "You shall have anything you
ask, Winifred, he declared, pathetically.
Missy closed her eyes and did not an
swer. She was silent so long that her
father thought her asleep, and he was
growing uneasy at what he fancied might
he fatal symptom, when she suddenly
opened her eyes, and looked at him with
great earnestuess. No, you WON'T" she
said, mo, you won't"
Mrs. Henry had just come into the
room to say that the doctors were down.
stairs, but the colonel signed to her not
to speak.
"You said it once before continued
Missy. You don't stick up your word"
To hear such charge brought against
him, even by child. was an indignity
the colonel could not brook. 81 am at a
loss to understandable began swiftly;
but HIissy's interruption made him un-
derstand.
81 don't want anything but just Brcr
Nicholas" she asserted, defiantly. "And
set out to find him because Daddy Gil
bert said Miss Roxy White brought word
Brer Nicholas was most a. starvin'; and
that was what you told him TO do. And
] amt a bit sorry for anything I've done. "
The colonel covered his face with his
hands and stified n groan. In his judg-
ment, it was Nicholas alone who was re-
sponsible for Missy's hurt; but he was
ready now to make any concession Missy
might demand.
''Do you know where Nicholas ISL" he
asked, desperately. of Mrs. Henry, to the
utter establishment Of that lady and of
Missy. 1t was the first time he had named
his son since the night he had repudiated
him.
Mrs. Henry shook her head. "Unhap-
PLY, do not know" she answered, sadly.
The colonel was wholly unprepared for
such an answer. Knowing that Mrs.
Henry had always taken Nicholas part,
he had felt sure that she was in CORE
spondence with hieo; and angry as he
had been in this belief, he was even
more angry now to find himself mis-.
taken.
Il never received reply to any of
my letters Mrs. Henry explained; land
at last l wrote to the postmaster at
Tampa; from him learned that Nicholas
was gone, no one knew where
She forgot Missy, and Missy forgot
herself. If you don't find him, shall
dier" cried the child. In her vehemence
she had raised herself in the bed, but in.
stantly fell back with a scIeam.