The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-10-21
SHE INFANT WELL


But What An AvI nI Mistake She Made.
Heart tOo Frndrr.
Chicago News: She was young and
credulous and OF a sympathetic nature
and her zeal for being sister In general
TO humanity has dragged her into trou-
BILE before this. but her friends hope In
time she will become cold and suspicious
and heartless as BELTS dweller in a
great city like Chicago. n
She moved into the new boarding
house overlooking Lincoln Park last
week and was introduced to some dozen
of fifteen miscellaneous individuals. As
every one with experience knows It takes
solid week for a new boarder to get
proper focus on his Surroundings and
gather enough characteristics to resolve
the mass Of humanity into separate In
dfviduals. After two days there had be-
gun to loom through her confused notion
Of the big tableful only the woman with
the funny curls, the fat man who relig-
lousy wore stripped ties at breakfast,
dinner and on Sundays and tho rather
handsome young broker whose brisk step
belied his heroic size and whose kindly
eye had CLEANED polite interest IN her.
One day after this as she boarded a
Clark street car homeward bound FOR
dinner she had shock. Imply leaning
against the side OF the car sat the hand
some young broker, HIS face was pale
and there was crease between his eyes,
which were dull and heavy: his appear
ance betokened acute suffering and there
was no doubt he was man seriously Ill
The conductor shook him In his demand
for fare, but the sick man was too daZed
to understand. Every one looked curl
ously at him. The girl is retiring and
tImId, hut she sat upright and bit her
llp-should she go to him and pilot him
safely home or let him alone-what
would he think-what would the carflil
OF people think? She had never spoken
with him except casually at the table.
Then her common sense returned brave
ly and she felt ashamed of herself for
letting petty conventional considerations
Interfere when mere humanity, to say
nothing Of duty, so plainly pointed the
way.
She arose resolutely went over and eat
down beside the young man and paid the
conductor Shut your eyes and resi-"
she advised the patient I'll tell you
when we get to our street Don't worry. :"
The sick man looked UP at her with
grateful thanks. you are very good"
ne murInuTtu. lU6 BlIl SttIleu DUCK tiilu
looked out the car window over the heads
OF the passengers, who didn't under
stand and were consumed by desire to
know all about It. She felt the spiritual
exaltation OF the martyr thrill her,
When the street was reached she CONT
ly shook the young man and helped him
of the car. with the aid Of the conductor,
He really was very I'll and staggered
weakly. you'll have to take my arm +"
she said, speaking very distinctly to i'm
press MIN through his daEe. And In this
wise she got him home, UP the steps and
rang the bell.
The landlady came to the door in per-
son, Interrogation points in her eyes at
the alarming and INDIGENOUS spectacle Of
her new young lady boarder half-sdp-
porting a very Ill man In her arm.
81 found him on the car" the girl eX-
planned. rather surprised that her land
lady did not seem to understand the stu
alton. HE seems to have been taken
suddenly III. It's Mr.. Bishop. the brok-
er. she added, family irritated at the re-
markahle expression on her landlady's
face.
"Mr. Bishop" the parsonage in black
alpaca exclaimed with indignation. Are
you crazy? Mr.. Bishop came home as
clipper as n spring lamb ten minutes
ago! This Is an utter stranger"
And when the doctor came he pro-
nounced 1t n bad case Of typhoid fever
and said under no constellation could the
patient be moved inside of six weeks.