The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-03-07

graph boy toiling up the steps with a
colossal package.
"What's this, mammal" she said.
"The folks is much Obliged" said
the boy, hurriedly inventing a substi-
tute for the note which-not without
previously acquainting himself with
its contents-he had contrived to lose
while running after fire engine;
'but they've gone where they amt no
need o. such things no more "
"What r' cried Mrs. Mainwaring;
"dead?"
That's the message, " said the boy,
making good his escape with no un-
necessary delay.
"Addie, dear, you must go and sec
about this" said Mrs. Mainwaring
Poor, dear Henry's widow! And
there was q girl, too, wasn't there?
Thomas, Thomas don't put the horses
riage again Stay minute I'll go,
too ~
But when the claret-colorcd landau
reached the shabby brick house in st.
Aloysius Square, it was locked, barred
and shuttered.
MY goodness me!" said good
natured Mrs. Mainwaring, What n
pity ~
Miss Adela shrugged her sealskin
shoulders.
"Well, after ALL, said abe, "per-
haps things happen for the best The
woman was always begging and bor-
rowing. I'm sure | got out of all
patience with her long ago.
Meanwhile Mrs. Trafford, looking
listlessly out of the window of an
economical lodging over bakers
shop, was quite certain that nothing
short of starvation awaited herself and
Dora.
Now, mother, that's all nonsense, "
said the latter. 'We are Independent
now, and that is what we need most of
all. Mrs. Totten '-Totten was the
name inscribed in gilt letters over the
store door-'knows of some fancy
knitting you can get to do, and l have
already secured place in st. Fran
citas Hospital. DIR. Hope always told
me | was born nurse, and it was so
nice that he happened to recognize
me when L went to enter my applica-
tion as helper there"
'But the sight of blood ~ said Mrs.
Trafford. 'And the smell of ether
and all those horrid things! Dear,
dear am sure it would kill me !"
Somebody has got to care for the
poor sufferers" said brave Dora.
And why shouldn't it be me?"
"And to think that the Reverend
Henry Trafford's daughter should
write her name in the hospital books -
groaned poor Mrs Trsfford, who, like
the proverbial ostrich, hiding its head
in the sand, all along maintained the
pitiful fiction of exceeding gentility.
"Oh, that's all provided for !" said
Dora. 81 wrote my name 'Dorcas
Travers. l don't see why I'm not as
we'll entitled to a nomme de plume as
the pen-and-ink women"
cts no laughing matter' ~ sighed
the mother.
'Isn't it always better to laugh than
to cry?" cheerily demanded Dora.
Dorcas Travers had scarcely been a
week in attendance at the hospital,
when it's bustling, imperious, little
head surgeon sent an imperative sum
mons for her.
You're not afraid of scarlet fever,
are you?" said he, curtlv.
81 am afraid of nothing ~ said Miss
Travers.
"Good !" said Doctor Hope. ether
shall detail you for instant duty il
Madison avenue. Your bag"
'It's here in my arm, all packed,
said Dorcas. 81 thought it would b,
we'll to be prepared, so left wore
with my mother not to expect to SCI
me at present.
"Good again !" said the doctor
drawing on his gloves. Jump into
the carriage! I'll take you there al
once"
SIS the-the young person quite ex
perienced?' gasped Mrs. Mainwaring
her pink cheeks bleached white, hel
point lace cap pinned on awry. BE
cause Richard is so very i'll"
"She'll do very well," said Docto
Hope, gruffiy. ''Be SO good as to turn
all these people out of the room
madam. Quiet and fresh air, abov
all things, must be maintained.
And this was the first Dora kney
: that she was in the house of her ricl
relations. Her first impulse was t.
} run after Doctor Hope and tell hin
that she could not remain there; he
next to accede quietly to the dictate
2 of fate.
4 "After ALL" said she to herself
: ''it's simply in the way of business
To think that l am to be installed a
nurse to that Grand Mogul of Rich
ard Mainwaringl"
D She went quietly about her avoca
tions, a sort of crowned queen in tn
a sick room, to whom everybody dc
ferred as second only to Doctor Hop
< himself.
swell, really" she thought, as tim
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