The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1893-01-06
Observation-Disclosures

sllf tayt3a NtitiA3 ~ -
usa.ll unless something happened %
prevcnt
just dry or two before the visitors
were 10 leave as, Sutley came in one
morning with very grave face.
"Pg0f Lorings got the smallpox"
he announced. What on earth can
we do for him7s
Prof LorinR was naturalist and
botanist from an eastern college, VINO
had, fewA weeks previously. come 70
study the flora and fauna Of the Willow
Ridge region. He Ind, with SUITS per-
mission, built a shanty about two miles
mp the creek, where he lived all alone
among his bugs and snakes and lizards,
and we had seen very little Of him, but
that little inclined as very much IN his
favor.
'fie went over in the hills to the In
dian camp for some snakes continued
SUIT, "and. Of course, caught II there.
When knocked this morning he called
to me and told me he had the smallpox,
ana To keep away, but 70 send doctor
IL one was 10 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 Smithburg.
We all sat silent Tor moment Their
Teddy, with mnch concern, for he had
become quite well acquainted with the
professor, and liked him. remarked.
Poor old chap | don't see what
can be done for him.
HAS he, asked Potter, slowly, IND
one at all. Mr.. Sutley2''
.sNot soul"
Then j will go over and take care
| OF him ] have studied medicine
am sure Miss Carnahan hid mo-
| spoken to him for two days or more
and II bad feared it was all over be-
| tween them; but when she started vi
/ and calculated: Wallace Potter, yot
shall do nothing Of the sortl' knew
and was glad that there was still hops
for him md that Massachusetts girl.
Then, while we all knew that Prof
/ Loring would die unless some one cared
| for him anyhow, perhnps--we inter
pcsedSall sorts Of objections. 1t wa
Quixotic, Wild, utterly foolish, said tn,
major. Why, the man was tota
| strangcr, and the idea was not to b.
/ thought Of for an instant Added u
! the MAJORS objections aud those Of tn,
rest, were his daughters efforts to as
sert her authority, but il was no use
Potter was firm. 1T is my duty" HI
said, simply, ''and that's oil there Is Z
/ TT
i .'Then, Wallace Potter, II you will d.
1t, i shall stay,nnd take care Of you.
i And Miss Carnahans said it as IL sh,
meant 1t, and everyone knew that stal
| she wonld.-
i don't know what Miss CarnahaI
! and Mr.. Potter said to each other dur
ing the half-hour they were alone to
i gether, right after the above converse
ton, but i know that when he wen
i away after dinner, with his basket O
medicines and things, she kissed hin
before as all, and then went to he
room, where she remained over al
i hour joining us, later on, with sus
piciously red eyes, know also tina
Teddy that evening, overcome by tn
moonlight or something, proposed t
Miss Carnahan, and was kindly, bu
firmly, refused, and informed that tn
heart he asked for belonged to Nj
i Potter much to Teddy's after satisfat
tion, as he informed SUIT and myself.
/ Because, said the young man, q
would have put me in q deuce Of
pickle, and, besides, l didn't reall
mean it. 1t was because she looked s
sweet at; that moment that couldn
think Of anything else to say, guess
! She's a lovely girl, and no mistake
but
And in that simple .'but'' was COZ
veyed world Of assurance that tn
little girl in Massachusetts, still hel
the larger portion Of Master Teddy
eccentric heart
1t went hard with the unfortunat
sick man, and for time we feared /
couldnot live; but Potter was flghtin
a good battle, and fighting to win, an
one morning, when Miss Carnaha
and the scribe rode over. as some of |
did every day, with food and other ne
essaries. the glad look on the worl
thin face Of the brave nurse told I
I that the victory was his.
Then Miss Carnahan cried, and calle
him hero, and her dear, darlin
brave boy, quite regardless of Il
|. presence of the scribe. <vAnd now" ST
concluded, Il supposedly have to tai
care of you, just as knew should. ;"
And SO she did. suppose that, a
corlfug to accepted traditions. l ougl
tollstll or poor Potter at this point, o
at least, bring him to deaths door; b
Il I'll do nothing Of the kind, for it didn
happen that way. Potter was i'll,
/ must be acknowledged, but the stor
doesn't end with his untimely dennis
J He didn't even have the smallpox, b,
|, was just laid up few days from ner-
Gus exhaustion. Then came the end
the story at least, of Miss Canadian
! | part. For Potter wassepretty weak
!, travel, audi woald need good care, s,
4 one day, the minister came over fro
!, Smithburg, and performed, in the b
: room az the ranch house. marria1
ceremony as binding as the most fas
4 ionahle kind that obtain in New Yor
I and when our guests went awe
/ there wasn't any Miss Carnahap
r 1t wasn't oyery long after that thi
8 Teddy returned to Massachusetts, an
!, found that girl still waiting Tor hin
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