The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-12-25

tonishing how unbridgeabie, by dint OF
brooding over and cherishing. this
trifling matter had become. But loi
the elements had arbitraIed. Mr.. Cook
announced his finale at the breakfast
table: Thank the gods and graces,
odds are even at last; faithful Bools
and warm-hearted Cathy can conscien-
tiously we'd"
After this outbreak the weather re-
sumed the even tenor OF It's way; charm
ing days rolled by, one so much like
the other that few called them singly
TO account. Locust Nest stood in the
midst OF a dreamy old garden and the
hum Of bee and the drone OF insect
sounded by the hour. The doctors
child, when she was not haunting the
stairway and window lodges OF the de-
lightsome old nest itself, haunted this
garden. She started ont Of nook or by
path, taking Mrs. Winters often un-
awares, and always with n book in
hand
Mrs. Winters, liking TO pull beans
herself and 20 fuss" among her yege-
tables, stood one day under an apple
tree surveying her store. when a some
thing dropped from the gnarled
branches above. "Mercy, child, where
were you? Why do YOU always have
that book2"
ut IS not that book. II IS another.
Father and Ithinl, schools are disagree
able, so | study by myself learn all
over just what wish to. and every Fri
day evening father and visit together
and tell him what do not know. You
see when people have not got much
but each other they think a good deal
Of each other. Folks say / have lost
my mother, but father said that ! am
not real we'll acquainted with anybody
but old nurse. who looks like your
Cnthy, and father; we cannot stay here
much longer now; / thought / would
tell you. We Ike corners; you always
find something nice around a corner;
the city is fun Of corners. so ] think
we will go away SOON" and blue eyes
met blue eyes. At that instant the thud
cf hoofs was heard, and away down the
drive and out into the road ran the
child Mrs. Winters hastened into her
/ kitchen. That evening closed In early
| full OF darkness and storm. Heaven
and earth seemed to shake beneath the
mighty tread OF It's approach. Light.
ming cut the air, thunder rolled; the
creek a quarter mile above the Nest
rose defantly SO that fording was made
! impossible, and the bridge mighteasily
be missed in such a night Grille who
had been studying up thunderstorms
Of late, desired her father 10 neither
stand nor TO run If ever caught by one,
| TALL pointed objects being fine marks"
| Several persons watched from windows
The increasing gloom and fury without
when dinner was called, but scarcely
were they seated at table when the
waitress appeared at her mistress ell
bow. The sehool-teacher nt the pro-
fcssor's was very ill; no doctor to be
found. Would Dr. Flint accompany the
messenger?
Grille uttered an involuntary "Ohl"
| Mrs. Winters not n word nor even raised
her eyes Cyrus Flint rose and strobe
from the room. lie reappeared be-
capped and becloakcd and opened the
! outer door Bools was there with two
hcrses and lantern. under whose red
glover glistcned the conts OF rider
and horse. 4 fierce gust OF wind met
him, bUt he made his way out.
"Fatler," the doctor bent. from his
saddle; hold this high and sit low
and the little figure stood on its tip.
! toes and reached up small sunshadc-
! that precious blue silk parasol-sacri-
feed by warm little heart 10 cleo
/ IN
| that beloved head il would be quite
tall" enough and pointed" enough
to avertattack. BLESS you, sweetheart
Take her in" he cried; but Cathy's
arms were already about her and she
was carried In while her father rode
away into the wild night.
The chimc-like stroke Of the great
clocl, was telling II when violent
! knock came on the kitchen door and
Bools' voice was heard. Cathy set the
door aiar when Bools pushed il open
and entered, followed by neighboring
farmhands bearing a rude litter upon
/ which was stretched form whose gar
ments, as did those OF the other men,
dripped water which trickled right
and lett over the polished floor The
cook wrung her hands.
"Oh, my! Oh, myl Is he killed or
drowned that you fetch him on a raft,
and his fatherless babe above stairs.
Oh, myl Oh, my!"
"IIlstl Where's the LADY," But Mrs
Winters, her eyes wide and fun OF
alarm. already stood on Il threshold
reckoning. Bring him this way into
the bedroom, and do YOU, Boo.s, watch
All the trains and catch the first doc
tor who comes" Then She and Cathy
worked over the injured man until day
break. with which came Bools and DR..
/ Hale.
Late in the afternoon Or. Flint wax
encd, conscious and observaut. AnanN-
ious face was bending over him, and
| before its owner could withdraw the