El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-09
N0nnie's BOEy

Nannie,s Bogy.
Mamie was a ~ten-year-old girl who
had the good luck to be travelling
abroad with her aunt They had been
in Paris and in Italy, and then went
to Switzerland to spend the summer
at a big hotel among b mountains.
Mamie enjoyed the life perhaps
more than most children would. She
was imaginative, and the beauty OF
the scenery around her gave her great
pleasure. Still, sometimes h felt
lonely and homesick, for her aunt and
nearly all the people she met were
grown-up, and not very lively compan-
ions for her; and she often longed for
her brothers and sisters to play with.
These homesick feelings came on worst
at bedtime, and Mamie hated bedtime
for other reasons besides. Her bed
room was away up on b third floor,
at the very end of a long corridor.
She was sent to bed early. as all we'll
brought-up children are, and at that
time her aunt's room next door and all
the rooms were empty, for the grown
up people were downstairs enjoying
themselves.
When her aunts maid had seen her
into bed, and said good night, and
shut the door behind her, and Mamie
heard Parkers footsteps echoing away
in the distance down b long, bare
corridor Of the summer hotel, she felt
dreadfully alone, and made haste TO
get to sleep so that she might forget it
She felt afraid. too, although h
did not know exactly Of what; but she
would have been ashamed to confess
her fears even to her kind aunt for
she knew tina it was silly for a young
lady who was gown-up enough to be
travelling about Europe to have any;
still, she couldn't help having them all
the same Every night she kept won
dering. supposing anything should
happen to her, how she could make
the people downstairs hear
One night she hadn't been IN bed
very long when something made her
want to open her ayes AS she did
so, she was startled to see a e
blazing eye gazing at her through the
darkness at the foot of her bed.
Nannie's heart went pitapat, and she
felt terribly frightened. What could
it be? She had heard stories about all
sorts of strange ~apparitions, but she
knew that these stories were not true,
and she knew that ghosts and bogies
did not exist But it vas all very we'll
to know that; she couldn't help feeling
frightened as long as this
mystery was unexplained Of b big,
burning eye looking at her.
Mamie, %shivertng all over. n with
her head buried under the bedclothes,
tried to reason with herself what 1T
could be, for she was a reasonable
little girl She came to the conclu-
sion that she must have dreamt It
She did have nightmares sometimes.
So she cautiously peeped out to see
whether the eye were still there
1t was staring at her as fercefy as
ever!
It was dreadful! Mamie fe& more
than before, for she knew
that she wasn't dreaming; she
was only too plainly wideawake! She
took refuge again beneath the
and racked her brains TO
ALI WhoI SdS SdOofu NV IL WoS ~
use screaming out, for everybody was
90 far away to hear her, and the
might only come nearer and SUI
her, or something. But the sus- |
,ense was too agonfzfng to bear! She
almost rather be killed than suf-
'er it any longer. Then an inspiration
.ame to her. She said a little prayer |
o God, please send that eye away, or
It least make me brave enough to get |
I'D and see what it isl"
After that she felt better, and 1t |
lidn't seem to require % very much |
,ourage after all to sit up in bed ready |
o lump out-when, behold, the eve
vanished!
Here was an immediate answer TO |
ler prayer. Mamie felt delighted. and |
vas glad she had been brave, and Law |
again c~ontentedly, feeling that |
weight had zee taken off her heart.
10! there was the eye again fixed ON !
Ter! This was too awful! Mamie |
cit desperate. But surely, surely God /