The Newtown bee., 1896-07-24

a clerk. Sylvia knew, however, under l what unbeatable pressure her poor father had been brought to yield; and her in- dignation and pity for him made her feel at fi,sr as if she never wanted to go into the hou@e again. Succeeding l5tter8 were very .iubilant and happy; it gave his mother q much pleasure to see John taking his place as became him, man among m"u. She thought the business must be fi0urishing, for John had little naphtha launch on the river, in which he went to town now, instead of travel ing with all the dust and jar of athe rail way. Of course, of course there had been opposition, the letter said, for his father was one of those men who never liked innovation but probably he would soon be going into town on it himself. fife was aIwaYa prOgnOsticating evil any one would think John was committing an unpardonable extravaganza in having devised healthier way Of going to 0ueinoes -han they had ever known be- fore. Mir Dexter did uot approve Of T l,hn'~ new horse, either; and y"t any onn could sec tbat the horse was as gentle :,@ w0Ouy lamb, and he ate apples and sugar frum the chudren'a band7, and when hr sraveled he simply fl ",
 When Sylvia made a0 erfand to her fathers Dice, she fou0d him as anxious 4s she had expected. But it would do no good for her to go home with him just now she would show her disapprobaGi0n of the stat. of aiIlir5 too plainly; and s1r vnuldo'r if sle would, for Aunt Jean u"tto WIS ill with typhoid fever, aud, Of ,o'I3 3", i. y:2a aut of the question to leave her. 1here wa5 really & ppatience of typhoid in rhe town. All the drinking water was drawn *rpn > river that pass, ..d large polIutin2 towns and tau0cIiaa, aud every day aow c&so appearvd till here wa* &Ino@t a ponir i' the place.
 Tcrtunualy for Sylvia >ho ~4. one of cjs ,-s. lroururcs sn full of vifq1 strength 4a.! ft,o th4t f@ac MAS unknown to her; aud 70 well had she tnursod Aunt ,Ir40- 0ntf- that, Whau 9h" H15 licjle rested, rnn nar3pre2sod physician b ggod her to hn'p hin "n another case. And su it e.EtunucH t13&l she went from one sick bed to another. aud pre-cLcjy came to be "t1':rd l4r:c I,armcnts fir her scrvlco- a..5 Ii. vj>" If her aypGehcnsj4us con e-nJag 1u,H md her fathers unsecured loan to tim. r .nt4ra best for Icr to cou-lnu' h'ta "l"AjAg n nev and etrry- l # cs*.nt. H4rl"Y pro,o-trd tfat she would wear h"r-elf ous; but >ho pro. tested in ~ato~0 u'Ye =he w4~ well md young and strong. an3 lj}lnt if; and that .yan if tbr fu.g hrd ant been set % muiuly b*fcr, har in relation to thv sick and her ability f. help them. jt would be wanfou wgetn for her 53 refuse 10 earn shv m0uey thu, offered her. "Oa liar, lry," ehr crind. II u.u7t do all can fur rhou. toG when l think of the poor creature 53 ing f1r svaYo of good water, murdered br hnd autrr. and rema5nber our prloS in .l.e pasture bubh}ng up frps1 a. Ii pU;p every scroH3. feel like cril0ia>i: as if }llH he,Ish and strength Ill to 'ny.tI*: us if i, and not he spring, were wasting what ou!d he life to them"
 '.5ucA a morbid fo2litg shows that you are tired and in UO c0ntui0u C1 ho nurs~ ing chc z.ck.' '' said Harley But sudden lr, as th~5 went along rogeth~r--for he ap{2uHcd tO meet hcT Alnn-t every day w iD the hours walk 4lluWt q the nurse by custom his face flushed with q sud- den thought like the passing of 3 sun beam. "#iI you give ue permission to do what poasc, to take all I want ot che spr,ng aater, and in th2 V ag think G.-3 - h. said.
 inc idys,'' cried Sylvia, "l'ermis- sion, lndr,d' Unit w:sa1 j+ uiuo yours, I ~hould like Co &nvw:" And they pass od to more purely personal matters.
 II don't know if you are aware, wrote her mother, some weeks afterWard, "that
 Harley Melton $ meddImg with .the spring js your piece of pasture, as you call 1t, ,meddjjng most unwarrant- ably. lie haa had men there scoopjng it out and cu1bnS ii; and he has rigged an rugajghtIy derrick there, and men are fiil- ing great glass demtjohns by the wagon full. And at this rate there'u be no spring there at all presently. I suppose 1t i5 to save himself the trouble of di8tiIl- 1 ing water for his prescriptions-that is so pure. I'm sure if he has money enough to hire men and rig derricks and all that and cares as much as he pretends about yuu, hc he'd better lend it to John, who can't sleep nights for worry ing about his notes"
 Sylvia was too busy with her sick and dying people to wonder much about the burden of her mothers letter. She knew that V harever Harley did was likely to be right, Sue could not spare the time Jo go and see her father again; she could not get the time; but she felt oppressed with fear for him, and she laughed 8 lit tle bitterly at herself to think she had supposed she could help him with her earnings, when a whole year of them would not amount to q thousand dollars. But at any rate she was glad that she was lifting any portion of expense from him, be it ever so small.
 It was some weeks arterward that when she went out for her morning walk in 8 new direction, and saw great posters on all the fences and telegraph poles, Drink water from the Sylvan Spring and pre- vent typh0id," she understood with 8 double thrill of joy, joy for themselves, and joy for the sick, what Harley was doing. And when she met him driving iu with load Of the glass carboys filled with Sylvan Spring water, which he left from house to house, before going to his headquarters for fresh orders, she felt as