The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-18
The aaeta nailu Eagle SUNDAY 7ornno neeeubr 1s 1882

if one was to be had. But, great Scott!
there isn't doctor within fifty miles,
for Doc Murray went east last week,
and he's the only one at Smith burg"
We all sat silent for moment Their
Teddy, with much con Germ, for he had
become quite well acq TAINTED with the
professor, and liked him, remarked:
Poor old chap! I don't see what
can be done for him"
Has he," asked Potter, slowly, no
one at all, MIR. Sutley?'
Not q soul"
Then / will go over and take care
of him. I have studied medicine"
/ am sure Miss Carnahan had not
spoken to HIM for two days or more,
and I had feared it was all over be
tween them; bat when she started up
! and CALCULATED. wallace Potter, you
shall do nothing Of the sort" I knew
and was glad that there was still hope
for him and that Massachusetts, girl.
Then, while we all knew that Prot.
! Loring would die unless some one cared
| for him-anyhow, perhaps-we inter
! posed ali sorts OF objections. 1t was
| Quixotic, wild. utterly foolish, said the
| major. Why, the man was total
stranger, and the idea was not to be
| thought of for an instant. Added to
the majors objections and those of the
rest, were his daughters efforts to as
sert her auth GRITTY, but it was no use.
Potter was firm. at is my duty" he
said, simply, land that's all there is to
it"
Then, Wallace Potter, if you will do
it, 1 shall stay and take care of you"
And Miss Carnahan said it as if she
meant it, and everyone knew that stay
she would.
l don't know what Miss Canadian
and Mr.. Potter said to each other dur
ing the half-hour they were alone to-
gether, right after the above converse
ton, but l know that when he went
away after dinner, with his basket of
medicines and things, she kissed him
before US all, and then went to her
room, where she remained over an
hour. joining US, later on, with sus-
piciousiy red eyes. l know also that
Teddy that evening. overcome by the
moonlight or something, proposed to
Miss Carnahan, and was kindly, but
firmly, refused, and informed that the
heart he asked for belonged to MIR.
Potter-much to Teddys after katisfac-
ton, as he informed Sut and myself.
Because" said the young man, sit
would have put me in a deuce of
pickle, and, besides, l didn't really
mean it. 1t was because she looked so
sweet at that moment that l couldn't
think of anything else to say, guess.
She's a lovely girl, and no mistake,
but"
And in that simple "but" was con-
veyed world of assurance that the
little girl in Massachusetts still held
the larger portion of Master Teddy's
eccentric heart.
1t went hard with the unfortunate
sick man, and for time we feared he
could not live; but Potter was fighting
good battle, and fighting to win, and
one morning, when Miss Canadian
and the scribe rode over as some of US
did every day, with food and other nee
essaries, the glad look on the worn, |
thin face of the brave nurse told Ms
that the victory was his
Then Miss Carnahan cried, and called |
him a hero, and her dear, darling, |
brave boy, quite regardless of the
presence of the scribe. And now" she |
concluded, Il suppose I'll have to take |
care of you, just as L knew l should"
And SO she did. / suppose that, &C
cording to accepted traditions, ought |
to kill off poor Potter at this point, or,
at least, bring him to deaths door; but /
I'll do nothing of the kind, for it didn't |
happen that way. Potter was i'll, it !
must be acknowledged, but the story
doesn't end with his untimely demise
lie didn't even have the smallpox, but
was just laid up few days from nerv-
Gus exhaustion. Then came the end of
the story-at least, of Miss Carnahan's
part. For Potter was pretty weak to
travel, and would need good care, so,
one day, the minister came over from
Smith burg, and performed, in the big
room of the ranch house. a marriage
ceremony as binding as the most fash
ionable kind that obtain in New York
and when our guests went away
there wasn't any Miss Carnahan.
Il wasn't so very long after that that
Teddy returned to Massachusetts, and
found that girl still waiting for him
Cards.
1t isn't necessary to kill man off in
order to make hero of him; besides,
1t is so much more satisfactory to be
live benedict than a dead hero.-R. L.
in Romance.