Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-09-13
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By 6. s. WILLIAMSON.
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"You know how much. He Is very
fond OF you, Mary
This summer he has seemed so
Last summer 1t was you he found SO
attractive"
"a boys fancy nothing else indeed.
Then how can hope 10 be anything
more? If you were forgotten. how
could hope to be rememberedT
1T is so different indeed! You he
loves sincerely, with a mans deep UNI
changing passion. Won't you believe
In himw
Mary looked up, light-balfdawn-
Ing love, half merry mockery-in her
eyes.
Are you so anxious TO lie my
mother-in-lawT she said, audacicusly,
then almost In the same breath re-
pented, as gradually over Elaine's
pale panied face crimson flush spread
and deepened In intensity when the
full meaning of the words came horle
to her.
''Forgiye me! ] ought not to have
said 1t. You are not very angry'--are
your
Elaine shook her head and tried to
smile, but without success. 1t was a
subject about which she never dared to
think, much less speak, and she could
not bring herself to deny the charge
laughingly, as another girl might have
done.
IatIc 10 tn IAn n Ia "a N
pier than | can ever be-" she said at
last; and so much was implied In her
tones, more To be felt than compre-
hended, that Mary was sobered Mt
once
''You won't see Mr.. Severn for some
time am afraid. If you are going to
put yourself In quarantine, unless he
declines to regard anything Of the
sort" she observed, thoughtfully.
Instantly all Mary's real liking for
the young fellow who aspired to be
her lover was apparent; the tears
came into her pretty eyes and she
looked pleadingly into her friends
face.
"Oh, Elaine, don't let him come near
us on any account Te.l him 1t won't
be for long. and that | AM 1ot afraid
people who are not afraid never take
infection. Don't don't let him come"
Leave some nice message to keep
him good and amerdaDlc 10 reason.
That Is the very least that You can
do"-speakirg quietly, but with in.
sistence.
Then" desperately tell him |
will listen to all he has to say when
this IL over"
Elaine stopped and kissed her.
after ALL" Mary went on as
though excuslng herself for having at
last relenting, II can't blame him for
loving YOU first Who could help low
ing your" with wisthL. almost wor-
Shipping look Mt the sweet face At her
side.
Elaine attempted no reply-none
seemed Ia her necessary; and she was
a woman who could remain silent with
out appearing awkward or ungrocious,
A moment later they said goodbye,
and she went on alone 10 the house,
thinking how much lonelier II would
seem without friend. now that she
had once INDUCED in the luxury Of hay
Ing one.
IL was quite dark rs she reached the
house in November night comes SO
suddenly sometimes, and it had been q
cloudy. stormy day.
just as she was going In a football
behind her caused her to turn round.
and she saw short figure hurrylng
to the kitchen door A thick shawl
enyeloped head and shoulders: but
Elaine guessed at once who 1t was.
1t was Jane the little housemaid.
Her mother lived in the village; and
Elaine felt convinced that, impelled by
real anxiety or perhaps from some
more trivial reason, the girl had been
TO visit her
CHATTER XVII,
BY a strange unhappy chance the
unfortunate woman who was the
means Of bringing typhoid fever to
Iittlehayen had been taken in by
James mother, and, though she her
self did not catch the disease, her
daughter was not TO escape the almost
inevitable consequences OF her stolen
visit home In less than a fortnight
unmiStakahle symptoms declared
themselves: but. before the doctor had
seen her, Elaine always prompt 70
help when help was needed. had been
to the sick room, and afterward would
not be sent away. No one else was
willing 10 nurse the poor girl, and the
doctor was at last fain to consent,
The two sides of the house were kept
entirely separate as MIR Bowyer was
terribly nervous, and the houSekeeper
encouraged rather than sought TO calm
his fears; So Elaine performed her self
imposed task alone and unaided.
IT was no want Of care or skill that
caused her non-success. The disease
was Of most yirulcnt type, and the
absence Of hope which Is character.
istic Of the lower classes had from the
first initiated against the girls recov.
cry, The doctor once declared, with
somewhat natural Indignation. that she
WAS dying because she had not suf-
fipipnt I1lurk "a live