Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-04-12
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/ You can hear everything that goes on
in the room"
''I'll do it." said Clarence with deci-
sion. II will come after dark. Fortu-
nately there is no moon to tell on me-"
Nor any dog" Miss Malvina added
reassuringly. MY dear Mr.. Westover,
what a load you have lifted off my
hearth
And as she trotted briskly home
ward, with that much lightened organ
warming toward Ollie's lover. she said
to herself that she guessed they had
all been unjust to this young man be-
cause they had dedicated Ollie to Tom
Broxton and maybe because he wore
patent leather shoes in the daytime.
Vaudeville had it's own standards,
and Miss Malyina stood by them.
Patent leather stood for holidays and
holy days. Her loving heart was very
full just then. What with plying ten
derness for Ollie, somber anticipations
for Lawyer Matthews and growing
anxiety for her mother it could not
well be fuller. She had to admit to
herself that her mother was growing
queerer every day.
And the queerer she grew the more
frenzied became her dislike for Hor-
ace Matthews. In her efforts to ac-
count for it Miss Malvina recalled the
psychological fact that mentally unbal-
anced people frequently selected some
one individual as the object of their
especial detestation. Sometimes it was
those they had most reason to love
and admire. Her mother was certain
ly monomaniac where the lawyer
was concerned. When she had heard
of the sale of BroXton Hall. for in
stance, she had laughed maliciously
and said that Tom could send that
business higher than a kite. She had
all she could do to keep her mother
from breaking out into her dreadful
TRADES of abuse before others.
So Miss Malvina in her little three
roomed cottage and Olivia Matthews
in her mansion Of many rooms were
each winning their way through the
shadows with heavy hearts amid fore
boding fears.
AS ordered by DR. Govan, Reuben
was night nurse and Olivia tended the
sick man during the day. Said the
gentle old doctor:
Reuben can stand loss of sleep bet
ter than you can, my dear, and it
would distress your father to see YOU
about him when you should be getting
your proper rest"
But Ollie had her doubts about Reu-
ben's superior powers Of endurance,
and after stealing into the dimly light
ed sickroom twice in one night to find
patient and nurse both in a profound
slumber she aroused Reuben and drew
him cautiously out into the hall.
ut is nearly midnight, Reuben, and
! have been sleeping nicely ever since
s o'clock. You go now and rest until
daybreak. You say he does not get
restless before then. Come back at
first peep of day, and he will never
have missed you"
This suggestion fell in. so comfort
ably with Reuben's own desires that
she did not have to urge it very strenu-
ously. With yawning thanks he shut
fled out of,sight.
Olivia stole noiselessly into the sick
room to take his place. The sick man
was in q profound sleep. She lowered
the lamp on the hearth a trifle and
moved the screen SO that the shadows
cast by it on the ceiling above the bed
should take on fewer fantastic shapes.
She shook the water pitcher softly to
make sure of the presence of ice in it.
She examined the tumblers of physic
to be quite sure of the next dose in
case she had to administer it before
Reuben's return.
Gratifed to find the patient remain
unconscious of all this subdued activ-
ity, she curled herself up in the great
armchair on the side of the bed next