The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-29

| 10 Mrs. MarlDOrO's power mat way.
Your brother Mark has the scarlet
fever" she announced, when Emilia
came into the breakfast room, rather
late, the next morning, announced as
if it did her good to say it.
Mako
"Yes, Mark; he has scarla,ina."
"Obl where is hep must see him.
My poor Markp
"Your poor Mark, indeed To
bring that infection here among all
these childrenl'
"As if he could help it'll" cried Emilia,
Indignantly.
He could have stayed away from
where it was, as you will have to do"
said Mrs. Marlboro, vigorously.
81? OF course. l never so to such
places. Are you sure it is the fever? l
must 90 10 him. Have you had the
doctor?"
$50 to him hardly think you will
go to him! He is in room at the top
of the house, and the carpet has
taken up and the draperies have
been taken down, and there are two
trained nurses with him, and things are
lifted aud lowered in baskets from out
side, and there are curtains wet with
disinfectants at the head of the stair
case; and he is absolutely shut off from
the rest of the house -
"Shut OFF,
"And no member of the family is to
approach him."
"Shut off from all of us7 My poor,
sick Mark shall go to him this min.
utel"
"Really, Emilia, 1 shall think you
are simpleton -
81 don't care what you think | am, "
cried Emilia. shall help take care
of my brotherw
"You will do nothing of the kind.
| appeal to your father if l am to be
obeyed or not" as that gentleman
came in.
Emilia! my dearl Why, Emilial"
he began rubbing his hands as if he
wanted to kndle some nervous energy.
what is this violent exclamation?
And with sickness in the house Take
care of your brother -
"Care of her brother She couldn't
take care of Fido And, by the way,
Fido must be kept out of the room -
mot even his dog with himl" said
Emilia.
care of her broth er-what does che
know of sickness?"
Every true. The nurses are the
best in the directory. He will have
better care than you could give, my
child"
They ought to be the best-three
dollars day, each of them, and fort
nights extra pay for quarantinel No
one but millionaires can afford to be H.
nowadays"
And he is to be left alone with
those strange people and no one he
loves near him, just when he needs ia
miliar faces most And what if he
should die!" exclaimed Emilia.
"Theu he will die |" said Mrs. MARI
boro.
ooh, how heartless; how cruel"
"There is not the sligh test danger OF
his dying, my love. He has the dis
temper in its mildest form, the doctor
says. He suffers but little"
"Then what is all this preparation
fol?"
"Mrs. Marlboro thinks it best. And
| rely wholly on her judgment implic-
itly-implicitly, Emilia"
YES" said that lady, "the worst
case can be taken from the highest.
And although Mark has little more that
sore throat and general malaise D.
Cant see him?"
Emphatically, you cannot"
"Papal Am to endure this2'
My dear, what did just say2 And
how often have l told you that Mrs.
Marlboro is now the mistress of thi.
house?"
"Too often!"
"My childW
You are SO very unpleasant, Emilia
over this necessity of keeping Mark
from the other Children" then said
Mrs. Marlboro, that l don't know
how you are going to meet the fact that
you and The other children are to be
isolated from the rest of the world
You were all sitting with Mark yester-
day afternoon, and you yourself were
reading, with your arm round his shout
der, from the same book"
"Welll What of that!' demanded
Emilia, imperiously.
Only that it is not certain that you
may not have the fever yourself in
spite of all my precautions, and that
you must come in contact with no one
TO whom you would impart the conta-
gion for ten days"
"Stay shut up in this prisonl"
eff you choose to consider it a
prison."
And not see Theodore
Not see Theodore" said Mrs. Mari
boro, pursuing her lips.
"But, papa ~
My dear Emilia, Mrs. Marlboro
knows all about these things, and you
know nothing. She telegraphed Thee
dore early this morning to stay away
And Emilia burst into tears and ran
out of the room.
And Emilia threw on her sable cape,
and ran downstairs, sticking the pin
into her hat as she went, and called q
cab from the corner, and told the man
to drive off as she slammed the door
and let down the window, to drive
anywhere-well, up to the Fens-no
out Chestnut Hill wayl And she lei
the air curl round her and cool hel
blazing cheeks and soothe her and calm
her; and after three quarters Of an hour
Of this license, che told the man TO turn
| Oh IL, H.