The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-09-12

AT once?' corrected the American
weakly.
AT once; oui. yes. You must go at
once. The sisters viii give you better
care than your black domestic. 1t is
than quinfne The fever. she In all
gone. 1t is magnihque, the arseniate de
soude, for the fevers. i am much
pleased with him. Well, see you to-
morrow I'm the Especial. 1 myself Will
spik TO Soeur Marie. the mother of the
sisters You will be well attended by
them; therefore you will be cured In
few days. Au revor." And with that
the little Frenchman took his leave.
He was member OF heaven knows
how many learned bodies, and had been
sent TO the esthmus by his government
TO study yellow fever but he was
prouder OF his little English than OF
his great science. He had grown
fond of Russell, on whom he
had tried a few entirely new
febrfuges and a great many entirely
new English words. IL he did not SUI
perintend his friends removal in per-
son IL was because he had To visit near
ly two-score OF other fever-strcken en-
gineers in the employ OF the Panama
Canal company.
When the carriage came I'm the even
hospital at the foot OF Ancon hill. IL
carried merely an emaciated, yellow
faced semi-corpse.
When he awoke from his stupor the
next day IL was near.y noon.
Bon jour- monsieur" sad a voice.
softly.
Little by little his senses returned
to him. First. the vague consciousness
OF life. then. the realization Of his ply
sical weakness; then. the remembrance
that he had stood upon the very thres-
hold OF deaths house and that the pale
one had beckoncd him to enter. then
thai he was Russell. formerly Of New
York but now an engineer In the EN-
ploy OF the campagnie Universelle du
Canal HETEROGENEOUS de Panama: then
that. az he had not died. he was surely
going To get we'll. And then, that he
was In the hospital and that Sister OF
Charity stood before him.
"Ah. sister," he murmured weakly.
in English.
"Plait-il?' she said. approaching the
bed.
II have been very ill?" he asked Ter.
in French
oh no." she smiled. you merely !
have been very weak from the fevers. |
All khe dreadful things the fevers OF the I
Line" She meant the line OF the canal |
where the surveying and the excavat- 1
ing and the dredging and the diving |,
were going on. night and day But /
now, you feel?" she added. solicltous-
ly.
Weak and dizzy"
II YOU gentlemen would only come to
us. she said. sa dly. "as soon as Won
felt the first chill approaching iustead
nf waiting until-untii SO of'ep II Is Woo
nate!" She finished in an unr rrtone and
her ewes filed with tears. They came
readily. her tears because she was
Young and French and there were hun
dreds or her country people. equally
Young, who had come to ciif I'm two the
isthmus and had succeeded only in
ovsrcrpwding the unkempt grass grown
ce"'eteries If Panama aud Colon Rus
sol felt lump come to his throat II
staved there until Il paired him. that
was because Tho fever had left him
rsrv weak and the. .quinne made him
nervous To the verg of hvsferia. He |
svnpathized with the fever's victims
and he pitied himself. acutely.
And you think T." he began husk-
ilv :
"Ch vou?" she said cheerfuliv. "You
viii leave us verv soon indeed and go
- France--no for YOU are an Ameri-
can vou VIII therefore go to the United
states. N'est-ce-pas?"
Yes, sister. We call II Gods c0un- ..
try"
"Al countries are His. monsieur And
now J must take your tsrlpera ture"
'ha said Withdrawing her tharmnmeter }
FROM it's case. She placed her soft. cool
hand on his forehead mo fever now
" is cool ard moist like an infants $
ronr brow. That is good nrprsieur. 7 !
'eicitate vou. And the gaDd Dr Des-
'h@ ~1ns' Ha viii he charmed" /" $
He is a great phvsician. And better {
han that: he is a faithful friend. sis |
err" (
He ss indeed She gave him the }
thermometer ord won't on cheerfuIIv, 8
Three times tcdsv he asted me: And Q
'ow GOES nv American Won must at a
end N'r' we'll. very ~e'l-as ~ no were | 7
'ernile~s. o. vou urap~sta-d'' For no
'Hve 'hat be has observeI ,hat a.
-~d thon'. the rappars 'he besl. Nf all
Pvt. rnons'eur. =. 10 ,t,et they have no {
~'ends. hnd--ah, ~ DEGREES. Nor-nal {
ractlv. oh vou are We'll INDEED I n
W SO plad. Once the terroerature goes '
own. W. know II is nc' 4he yellow, An
avoir. nlonsieur. I shan cc~ne everv \
'onr. - you need anything. be pleased n
o ring"
Russell looked At the door for many n
ipht &
"Tf sounds could he changed into sub
tan"es-' he thought WITH the whinsi-
al'tv Of fever invaiid "the sisfer's
oice would chan~" into sort of deli ~
ate liou'd--srn noth a-d ~vrupv and "
weet. with = favor " sor. wood -vio-
ats. I should like 10 drink he~ voica
larSe spoonfui every minute" Z
And so thinking, he feu nslcep-a
reanless slaep for The first time ir a
'onth: which showed that he was in
cod improving rapidly. "
We felt 50 strong the next morning
hat when she came to take his~ tenn n,
erature he was able to study har ~
Fcr features we've regular AMI nIacd iN
nd her complexion was like thai NJ a 90
weller in sunless cloisters--asIeen With ~
ose1 eyes. she would have bean a To-
rrra In alabastrr Her ewes hovsver w
Tset the IMPRESSION or rfelessness con
ayed by her pallor. Thev wero Iarvs ~. =.
zen. humid prd lustrors. ike the 18TH ~
tan skv AZ midnight iust after y rain ~
"'rr. Neck. nure rves thew were. tn
llirent but with the INGENIOUS irtsi-
H.. Tss ,,,.ul(h II