The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-03

I geuuOusuess of their ways and speech.
| with their uufinching devotion to their
{ humble duties, fascinated him by their
/ wOndrOus contrast TO the gay and trifiiug
I lives about him. And the depths of
their sweet and loyal natures filled him
with an awe he had never before known.
The strangest revelation to the city
bred youth was their extraordinary
| knowledge Of tine great outside world and
( its tremendous activities and affairs.
How on earth 40 you learn anything
IN these mountain wilds:2 he inquired
eagerly one day. as Sister had finished
/ lively discourse upon life in the Orient
The sisters led him into the little low
uariOr of the old hostel and there, ranged
I against its Oaken walls, he saw hundreds
( of books; hooks which had been brought
| and left, for a century past, by hunters
| trappers, anglers ana adventurous sum
mer wanderers from the great Babel by
/ the sea- books enough for fine gentle
/ mans library; books which the TWO lone
! lives had absorbed again and again, until
/ the very essence of the printed sentences
! had been transfused into their hearts and
/ minds.
! Besides" said Sis, the younger as
! they returned to the Office, "see here"
She dexterously doubled over newspa-
! pers, magazines, scientific and art peri
odicals, removed them from their wrap
/ pers in a twinkling and spead before their
/ aston shed que stiouer score OF opened
/ publications; when the two ratified on
| and on, naming the strong work. the most
/ exquisite fractions and the salient rOin 5
! Of each, with the profundity, precision
! and celebrity Of an exchange editor upon a
metropolitan Journal.
After oil Peter has gone TO bed. we
sometimes sit up until midnight said
! Sister, with a tone OfmischicvOus triumph
in her voice. Then we read and read
. opArnad ~ faaet II Nod
Yes, we Kuuw all that's in them. -
added Sis roguishly, before any of the
fine folks over at the lake have seen them
at all. But Sister, there, pores over the
/ horrid medical magazines. ] couldn't do
that
Pores over the medical magazines :"
responded the astouuded listener whose
dillydallyiug studies had been decided for
him in the direction of medicine. "Merci-
/ ful heavens, What for"
"Oh. Sister is eoing'to be doctor!'
"A doctor3' gasped Ned Watson.
/ He looked wonderiuElY at their simple
rament, then involuntarily at the
| pinched and common surroundings and
finally at the girls bare feet
Not so very soon, perhaps. But some
time, sure, sure.' returned the elder girl
quietly, recognizing his doubts by his
silence.
And I'm going to be paiutern added
/ the younger girl radiantly, running to her
! room and returning with an armful of
sketches and oil studies for Ned Watson's
/ Inspection.
well, wellI Did you do all these,
Sis inquired the young man more and
/ more bewildered
''Oh, yes. Ned There are more in the
garrett, unfinished.
! And without a teacher"
'Of course. Why not! If one knows
] Ia. d. al,T~ Q
! by themselves, why have a teaCherI'
| II was a new view of things TO the
4 young man from the city although he
! was already senior at college
II sup .ose Sister will be doctor with
! out l. acher, too!n he at last said with a
! tinge of bitterness.
If | could, yes" she answered turn
| ing her dark eyes upon their companion
! with tremulOusness which limited of
/ many a hearJache and aspiration behind
| Il don't know now it is to be; but surely
| ii is to be som show Is that fatalism,
| Ned.'
Whatever it is it is absurd. Did you
| ever realize the years of labor, prepare
| ton, EXPENSE
1 Labor and preparation are nothing: :"
1 she replied quickly The cost is every
/ thing. But that will be provided;" she
] concluded, with a simplicity of faith
/ which startled him.
| II certainly hope it will not :" answered
/ Ned Watson almost petulantly
| why do you hope Ihat?'
/ Because am going TO be doctor my
self p"
! "And what has that to do with my
1 being one or not2'
Well, if must tell you; l have been
thinking l would like TO be a great one
! and rich one; and ever, summer of my
/ life come up here and"
| visit with the postmstress of Sohonk
! Just as you are doing now"
Here the two little barefooted women
/ laughed so loudly, so tauntlngly and so
merrily that odd Peter upon the porch
started from his doze and dropped his
/ pipe upon his pudgy knees.
/ NOS ister, | would like to make YOU
4 that great doctors wife,"
! Ned Watson was as scared as the elder
/ postmistress of Sohonk who was vet
scarcely sixteen, at the holiness of his
/ speech. He colored deeply and fdgeted
! III the old rawhide- bottOmed chair where
he sat, while, trying to think just how the
/ brave words had escaped him. He won
/ dered. too, what the strange creature be-
/ fore him would do. Something pretty
/ and Coyish, no DOUBT. he thought But
i here he was to be bewildered again.
/ NSne sprang upon the little bench among
the date Stamps behind the row Of boxes
/ held one knee in her hands with Il judicial
( air, while the toes OF her disengaged foot
| entered upon sort of lonely race back
! and forth upon the old brick noor Then
/ Sis clamhered up beside her. gathered
| both OF her knees in her arms and looked
| curiously from one to the other.
IL was the oldest wOoing Sohonk had
f. ever known, though it might not be the
strangeSt nor the last.
81 have never thought of that" she at
last answered, looking far away into the
ceiling above Ned Watson and not at him.
Couldn't doctor have doctor for a
wife, NcdH'
''Never!-no more than lawyer, a
novelist or a poet!'
"Why?"
You have read pretty nearly every.
thing" he said with an impatient ges.
ture of his head toward the hostel parlor
and the books Didn't you ever run
across anything OF the sort in them -
My, yes! Always quarreling,0 inter
rupted Sis in a matter of fact way, as
though the lessons of the books should
have been better learned.
And we would quarrel like them ?"
She said this without changing hei
position and more as if thinking aloud
than in the nature of a question
No doubt about it, replied Ned, with
the air of a sage
| She sat little longer beside her sister