Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-12-19
Widou and Maid.

way down TO breakfast.
The doctor just went out, didn't
hey queried the young man. as he
reached the landing on which she was
standing. Il thought ! heard him.
nav is Tom this morning? Any bet
teri
she sat down In a big armchair
standing BY the window. laid her bead
4 The window sill and burst into tears.
q, isn't as had as that, Is it, he
,nslly asked. ''Ihe doctor hasn't given
him ~ altogether, has hes"
Sbe raised herself up and wiped
.way the tears from her eyes.
.sThere il little hope. Bob. lie didn't
~ Il ia 50 many words. He meant 10
IS ho,eful, bur be failed"
i suppose he is stili delirionsE'
ayes lie is M bad as ever lie
ain Eee,,s up that monot0nons cry OF
MARI. Mary II is curious, when no
one except himself knows who Mary
4 OH. Bob, ii be should die without
recognizing ne; That il the hardest
uaYt Of all He eaii.lol last much long
n unless Il change comes for the bet.
ter
Rail turned towards the window aud
licked out upon the square. With its
ry,at trees almost stripped Of their au-
tnmnal srlendor.
sSonelhing Inns got 10 he done" he
san. half.excitesii,, "Iis cant die. He
Z too good fellow, too bright fell
bW. the Kind u man the world needs
nasta
agut What:" Mrs Thomas asked.
boUeiegsly .sirlie doctor has done ey.
systhlus that hc could Do, aud he
couldn't have dome more.
nob walked down the hall 10 The
Aesr ~ Tie room III WhscA the sick tsnu
IN. and paI his hand ON the knob.
Then IL turned quickly aud came back
10 the window. and ,ile little figure Ia
Alaek er0uchtss Ia the big armchair.
.sfom II dcistl0tis. We don't want
bin dellrlous Tint Is the point, Mrs,
Thomas isn't III said Bob.
Mrs Thomas nodded her head.
-lf tho drilrium passed away hs
would slrcpf
sfeA
awell. that's a. lie has got 20 slecI
soundly
-Dld you ever hear Of eases wher
,hc presence ~ 0nr particular in.rs0t
pnes over Il ,irilrions person
Il might have. Bab. bui never knew
any on. who did IL.
TON wants Mary" the young maj
utut %. aud i1'Fliaps u shs came =
him she might save bis life. think
i worth trying; at any ratc. u cntino
d unt harm.
aHuJ Who IL Mary You told m
thai yBti siisi NOT know /"
yes: know I dld: d0u't knnw, "a
4 certainty. but ! think ] eomhi pic
hes nuJ III crowd Tom never iol
me- har nnmc, bug hr iald me n guo
sieal as,ams lsrr. eIstinE une thing M
a9tIrr together think l nt1y veal
up q say uilu Mary ~
-And who i Rhr. Bobg
@Sbe II the nnattnlnalie. m To
called her Shr ~ wealthy. SHE
lsantlfni and sine IL said 10 hc aons
Sls j. i leader III her set. and has .
mary young men running after her =
abe probably finds convenient liz
father II the chairman Of the Grct
southern Railway company, IN wlns
employ Tom and arc forinna'
enough 70 br.
i MARY summefiia,ts. Why. II
upnld never come here, II u nino
Ridiculous 70 suggest such thin
lou dnut know her. de- you
Il am sorry 10 sny that ! don't. "
Ssv ntu hardly IN her set Tom ~
mei her, though He was sent up
The chaitlnans hatiSe one day WI
sMe lairFs requiring Mr.. Snmme
hayes signature. He Ind 70 wa
about half an hour. nd during ~
Interval Miss SunmuFhayrS. who h.
49,. n ftt5
nr ia tide drawing room. showed hi
her fathers collection. v hen To
came home that night be told y
about IL lie sin ted 10 tell mo aho
the pictures. hut when be had finish
found that had heard a great de
about Mary Suinmrfhaycs and We
little alput the pictures"
And il that the extent of his
qHaintatcc with herr"
y believe shc bowed 10 him in I
STREET one dag nftt rwnIdE."
She never would ccine here. Bt
The idea uf asking her IN absolute
Ridiculous"
II does seem that" assenied 10
reluctantly. "Bnt rIicre does not :
pear ~ lie amy other way out of u.
"ion don't understand 1t. Bob. :
Ra young woman. Not one whose n
would allow her 10 visit the bedside
strange young man. You don't ir'
izr The position Il would place her I
Perhaps not When her fathe
Office boy WIS sick. she visited hi
and carried him fruit and fiowe
though"
Yes: out he was only hoy. II
= young man, and that makes
great deal Of difference
dare say IL does. still. this Is
ease Of life and death. aud she mil
come II You put II 10 her in that ligl
l.nt can't ask her. Bob"
inu must. He In your only =
anu he IL dying
The little woman burst into tc
ngnin
Come. don't cry" he said. tendel
didn't mean to put II so brutal,
only wanted you TO see 1t plainly"
Hut ! can't ask her. haven't
courage"
~ she comes Mt oil II viii be 9
mcausc YOU. MS his mother. asked
cue viii do Il out Of sympathy v
you u she does II nt all II will he
th.. ~