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

c4othesi anu was ready 10 take them to
lectures and concerts whenever their
father bought the tickets.
Doctor Brooke thought he had sue
cessfully solved the problem OF how to
bring up his motherless girls. Beside,
there was so much intimacy between
them and their handsome young father,
and the girls themselves had such sweet
natures and SO much native good sense,
that they grew in the right direction
as naturally as hardy young saplings
grow into tall, straight trees.
The doctor paid his visit and came
home and spent the evening with his
daughters in the cosy drawing room.
Dolly and Jane sang duets to him, while
Jack sprawled over the back of his
chair to describe the details of ''love
of a fight" as Sir Lucius OTrigger
says, in which friend of his had lately
been engaged. The doctor thought
as he toasted his toes before an open
fire, that it would take very fascinat-
ing woman to charm him into ,matri-
mony.
Dolly's eyes were unusually bright
that night, and suddenly she began to
cough. The cough disturbed the doc
tors pleasant conditions. There was
a great deal of scarlet fever abroad,
and in week Dolly was raving ard
tossing in ner pretty white bed with the
fever.
Mrs. Chepston, Doctor Brooke's mar
ried sister, could not come to the girl
because of her own household of little
ones. The doctor hired a professional
nurse, who, with Bridget Ryan, the
duenna, were TO take care of Dolly;
but Dolly took dislike to the nurse,
and Bridget was seized with rheumatic
fever AS for Jack and Jane, no
power could have kept them out of
their dear Dolly's room. All these
things came upon the doctor in two or
three days just as he was driven with
half dozen very i'll patients. He went
upon his rounds with white and anx-
ious face, and fear and anguish sliced
upon his soul. His little Dolly His
best beloved, so he thought.
It was the second evening after Bird
gets collapse, when Mrs. Enderby, sit
ting reading by her evening lamp, heard
fearful pull at her door bell. 1t star
tied her so that she jumped up and ran
to the door. As she opened it she saw
Jack Brooke's pale, boyish face staring
at her. The two families had a speak
ing acquaintance.
"For Gods sake, Mrs. Enderby," he
cried, come over to Janet She has
fallen down and hurt herself, and Bird
gets Ill. l must go and find father, he's
gone down to the hospital"
without waiting for any other head
covering than her widows cap, which
was vastly becoming, although she
never suspected it, Mrs. Enderby fol-
lowed Jack across her lawn to Doctor
Brooke's house, and upstairs, where, in
Dolly's room, lying across the bed. was
Janet in a dead faint, with Dolly
screaming with excitement and sort
of delirium. The nurse was vainly try
ing to bring Janet to. Her right knee
had been badly hurt, and she had faint
ed with the pain.
Mrs. Enderby's first thought was
Dolly. She went up to her, and laying
her cool hand on Dolly's throbbing tenn
Piles, spoke to her. The young widow
had' a winning voice, and poor Dolly
stopped her hysterical cries at the
sound of it.
Dolly" said she ''what is the matter
with you9 This is no way to do. You
are too DID,"
Dolly did not half comprehend the
words, but she answered:
"How cool and sweet your hands are.
Give me some water. Is Janet i'll, too?"
Mrs. Enderby did not answer the
question. She soothed her into quiet
ness, and then turned her attention to
Janet. When Doctor Brooke rushed up
stairs he found Janet lying with her
head on Mrs. Enderby's shoulder and
struggling bravely to bear the pain.
The instincts of the doctor and the
father made Doctor Brooke almost OBJ
livious to who it was who supported his
child. Only when the knee was attend
ed to and Janet chung piteously to her
did he realize that Mrs. Enderby had