The Opelousas courier., 1892-04-23

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Eyes" said she, 9TH take the note
We've had to ask so many fayors of Mrs
Serge" she added, in q whisper t.
Josey, ssthat it seems selfish to refus
this little thing. It's bitterly cold, bu
perhaps the fresh air will do me good
Pm lady of leisure just at present" SD
added, bitterly.
She came back in half an hour, cage
and smiling.
aWhat do you think, Josey?" sale
she. ssI.ve got a situation!'
IA situation p repeated the lame Girl
who was patiently darning the Ahil,
stockings.
"To act as nurse to the young lady a
No.-Fifth avenue, in Agatha Atlee'i
place-at fifteen dollars a week! Regu
lar trained-nurse price"
"It can't be possible, Aiieel" breatheo
Josey.
eff only you can manage with the boys
and Paula!" said Alice. ''For you see,
I can't come home nights"
ooh, I'm sure they'll be good!" said
Josey.
"And I've pawred mothers wed,
ding ring-yes, I have, Joscy- Don't
look so shocked. There was nothing
else to be done. I shan't get my first
weeks wages until Monday, and You aud
the children can't starve. Here's three
dollars, and if you need more, I'm sure
Mrs. Surge will lend you a little. The
rent, you know, is a fortnight off. Now
don't so to questioning and reprnaching
me, Josey. I've got to put up my things
as quick as possible, i'll the most fespec-
table bundle I can compass. And only
think Of Fifteen dollars a week."
Louise Leverhall had never had an at
tendant who suited her so well as the
pretty darlS-eyed girl, in the frilled cap
and apron, who now moved about her
sick-room with such gentle and noiseless
grace.
81 thought all trained nurses wero
such d~ragonesses, {" said she. "Bat Miss
Atlee is quite, quite different from all
my ideas. Oh, mauana, I wish l could
keep her always!"
For Alice had not told Josey the little
stratagem by which she had obtained
this pearl Of situations.
ttOf course no one would take in an
inexperienced girl like Alice Austin"
she kad reasoned. t.But Agatha Atlee,
the trained nurse, could command her
own price. And it can do no harm,
since the real Miss Atlee has gone to
Maryland, to tear up the note she wrote
and present myself IN her stead. / need
the place SO dreadfuily, and | an sure,
by careful watching and strictly follow
ing the doctors instructions, | could do
everything that Miss Atlee could have
done.o
And thus trusting III her own efficiency,
Alice Austin dared everything and won
the day. The doctor took her for
granted-the relatives were delighted
that their capriciousodariing deisned to
be pleased-and the first weeks wages
purchased a new calico shirt waist, pat
termed in whips and horseshoes, for
Billy, a roast beef dinner for Karl, a
new doll for Pauia, and q cashmere gown
for poor, patient Josev.
But all the time AIice's conscience
stung her.
"Wouid Miss Leverhall love rae so
dearly" she asked herself, again and
again, s'if she knew that | was only an
.Impostor? Would Doctor Seton look
at me with those pleasant eyes if he
knew that bwas acting a lie?"
One evening in early February Doctor
Seton came in to the Leverhall mansion,
and found his conyalescent in tears and
decidedly feverish.
"She has gonel" cried Louise, tragi-
cally. "They'ye turned her out of
doors-my poor, sweet little Miss At!ee!
No, that isn't her name at all. But
they've turned her out, all the same"
Doctor Seton looked curiously around.
"eThere is she?' said he. "What do
you mean, Miss Louise?"
tine girl was an imposter, doctor, =
said Mrs. LeyerhalI, trailing her garnet
satin draperies over the floor. aNot the
real Miss Atlee that the Jessingtons
recommended, at all. Fancy Mrs. Jess
ington coming in to-day and meeting
her face to face as a ~strangerl OF course
the girl had to confess that she was per-
sonating somebody else all the while
that she wasn't a trained nurse at all.
She began to cry-naturally enough
and said she though she had better go.
I said I thought so, too, and she
wouldn't even wait for her last weeks
salary. And here's Louise fretting her
self to death about it,
aI-loyed her!n sobbed the eonva-
~lescent. 81 don't care whether her name
was Atlee or not. Iloyed her. won't
have the new nurse come near me.n
1--WE must get her back again." said
DR.. Seton. ssThe patient must not be
made feyerish. I should advise yoa to
send for her at once"
ssBut don't know where to send =
complained Mrs. Leverhall. "And how
can I be sure what sort Of a character she
isl "A girl who would deceive you in
one particular-o
ttBut, mamma walled Louise, tsshe
told you why she assumed the name
that her brothers and sisters were starv-
ing-and she was out of work; that she
heard that Miss Alice had declined to
accept che place here; and that, all Of a
sudden, the idea of coming in Miss At
lees stead flashed into her mind. II was
50 brave, SO noble Of her! And you let
her go, just as you would dismiss a
chanberlnaid and after saving my life,
too! Oh, if I had known-if you aud
Aunt Imagone hadn't settled it all while
I was asleepi Find her, DE-. seftonl
Tell her she must come backin
And the new nlffse-a pertly female