The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-09-23

gown. The doctors heart smote him
They were standing in Dolly's room,
and the girl suddenly cried out from her
bed:
Mrs. Enderby, Mrs. Enderby, don't
leave me hate that nurse, and 1 want
you to sit on the bed by me and hold
my hand"
II am not afraid myself said Mrs.
Enderby, "but I'm afraid to return to
Archie. Yes, I will telegraph for my
my sister to come for my boy"
There was no question about Mrs. En-
derby's remaining that night, and the
next day little Archie was taken away.
Then the return of Mrs. Enderby to her
own house was mooted. Dolly chung to
her piteously, and begged so that she
would not leave her that nothing but
promise that Mrs. Enderby would re-
turn within an hour would pacify her.
For the next six weeks Mrs. Enderby
might also have been called an inmate
of Doctor Brooke's house, as she spent
more of her waking hours there than in
her own. Dolly, after a short but VIC
lent attack, began to mend, and Janet,
too, was soon walking around on
crutch; but with their commissioners
their demands on Mrs. Enderby in
creased. Early in the morning Jack
would slip over and ask that she would
come. Dolly had good night and felt
cheerful, but wanted Mrs. Enderby to
come over. Then Jack and Janet got
fond of her with the exacting affection
of the young, and sent for her on the
slightest provocation. Janet was apt
to feel nervous at night and to want
Mrs. Enderby for half an hour before
she went to bed, and Jack would escort
her back and forth fifty times a day if
necessary.
OF course the outcome of all this was
an offer on the doctors part. He could
but notice her grace, her gentleness,
the strange sympathy between his chill
dren and herself. One night when he
came into DollY's room and saw Mrs.
Euderby sitting in an arm chair by
Dollys sofa, with Dolly's hand in hers,
and Janet on the other side of her,
while Jack lay on the rug at her feet,
gazing at the fire, with his fingers cross
ing corner of Mrs. Enderby's drapery,
1t came over him with rush that Mrs.
Enderby was the sweetest woman in
the world
Wiaowers are proverbially awkward
in their courtships. Perhaps a knowl-
edge of the immensely of the act makes
them less glib. Anyhow, when hand
some, sensible, gentlemanly Doctor
Brooke made an offer soon after to Mrs.
Enderby, in her own drawing room, he
worded it SO clumsily that he seemed to
be proposing a cooperative society, of
which Dolly, Janet, Jack and Archie
were to be the beneficiaries, and was
met with point-blank refusal.
Don't speak of it again" she had
said.
Il will mott will not" answered the
doctor in low voice. "Only you must
understand that it is at the cost of a
perpetual struggle. will not try to
forget you, because know it is impos-
sible, but I respect too much the pro-
found affection, even if I did not wish
to spare you annoyance"
He was gone. Mrs. Enderby felt that
the way he spoke these last few words
almost atoned for the happiness of his
first words. She walked up and down
once or twice.
"They can not say that 1 want to
marry him" she said triumphantly, and
felt flushed with victory. Yet there
was something like the GOODNESS of dis
appointment upon her.
Of course this put an end to Mrs. En-
derby's going to Doctor Brooke's house,
even at Dolly's and Janet's most urgent
request.
But they were now almost well again,
and on fine days Jack would bring the
two girls-Janet still limping a little,
and Dolly rather pale and wan-over to
Mrs. Enderby's. Doctor Brooke did not
put any bar upon the continual pres.
ence of his children in Mrs. Enderby's
house. He wisely left that thing alone.
But Doctor Brooke was suffering
from bitter disappointment. His CHEEKY,
handsome face took on a stern and
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