Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-03
CHAPTER YIII.-tContinued.l

so I thought / had better lie down--but
oh, [ shall be all right again presently.
And then he tried to rouse himself
Have you seen the newspaper? think,
Il had it here"
"Let me read it to you" Margaret
said; and she got the paper, and sat by
his side and read.
She vas happy to be doing something
for him. to find herself waiting on him,
and allowed to stay with him. Sometimes
reading and sometimes in silence, she sat
with him for an hour, and then stream
of sunshine came suddenly into the room,
and, looking toward him, meaning TO ask
If the light hurt his eyes, she all at once
found her own eyes arrested by some
thing she saw in his face.
WHAT are you looking at?' he asked
h,r. after moment or two, rather blunt
", for it is not pleasant to be stared at,
and. conscious that she had turned to-
ward him, he had glanced up and discov-
cred her staring at him with all her
might.
"Oh, 1 beg your pardon" she answered,
hurriedly; ''it is ONLY hadn't noticed 1t
before--but surely there is rash on your
faceT'
"a rashr' he repeated He raised his
head hastily from the pillow. He was
very giddy, but he brought himself with
rapidity inGo a sitting posture. What
sort OF a rash?'
There are little red spots said Mar
garet, anxiously, land, look, they are on
Your hands, too"
And then he looked at his hands and
found that it was SO.
10 iuty ic iS
likely to be-" he asked, rather exeitedly,
after he had gazed at these symptoms for
a moment or two.
I'll don't know. I'll ask aunt to come
and see Perhaps it's nettle-rash," said
Margaret.
"That isn't very bad thing, is it?'
''No, | don't think it is very bad she
said. "Oh. no; believe it is of very lit
tie consequence, only it makes people
feel ILL.,"
Eve no doubt, then, that it is nettle-
rash," exclaimed Godfrey, in a tone of
satisfaction And it is well that it has
come out, isn't It? One gets the turn, l
believe, after anything of this kind comes
TO the surface. Yes; l suppose you had
better if you will, ask my mother to
come aGd look at me"
And theu he sank back again, for the
room was going round with him. There
was no doubt that nettle-rash, If this
was it, made people feel very i'll indeed.
Mrs. Hestone came and looked at him,
and said. after a moment: 1--WE viii send
for Dr. Carson. l dare say it will prove
TO be what we think, but | should like
20 be sure" SO she sent Margaret out
OF the room and sat with her son till the
doctor came.
AID tisel, when DR.. Carson arrived he
gave one glance at his patient and said
instantly "Humph! Why are you not
in bedg'
"You think, then, that he ought to be
in bedY' asked Mrs. Helstone.
On which the doctor took Godfrey by
the collar of his coat and turned his face
full to the light
"Why don't you see the state he's in?
It's scarlatina." he said.
'Scarlatina." they both calculated to-
.gether, and Godfrey especially in such a
tone Of amazement that DIR. Carson
laughed.
N,S",Why, what did you think you had
2otT' he said. 1T seems to me you
might have guessed. Haven't you sore
a 4
can't think, for my c VI part, how you
have managed to keep about so long. You
would have been wiser to have given In
sooner However, go to bed now, and
you'll do very we'll" And then he wrote
his prescription.
''My niece has not had scarlatina, and
she has been sitting with him for good
part of the morning, Mrs Helstone
said, with troubled face, when she fol-
lowed DR. Carson out into the hall.
"Ah, that's pity" he answered, quick
Iy. However" he added next moment,
''you cant help it. All you can do is to
keep her away from him now. think
it will be mild case" he said cheerfully.
EN- fact he is nearly half through it al
ready. If all goes straight you will be
beginning to have him get better again
in day or two more.
"And l can do nothing for Margaret|'
she said.
'sNo, you can do nothing" he answered.
But don't brighten yourself, Very
Hkely-most likely-she won't take it"
How soon do you suppose | shall be
about AGAIN. Godfrey asked his mother
az the end Of a week.
II was the first morning on which he
had left his bed. They had wrapped him
in his dressing gown and set him on a
sofa drawn to the window from whence
for a moment or two he had spoken to
Margaret in the garden below. II shall
soon be quite we'll" he had called down
10 her. Il am so glad you are keeping
we'll, too" For though he hEd not al
first remembered the risk she had in
Cured by being with him at the begin
ming of his illness, that fact had struck
him later on, ard had troubled him not q
LITTLE. Are you quite sure you are al
right" he had asked her.
Yes. / think so; oh. yes" sMargare
answered cheerfully. hut a little quickly
and then immediately fastened TO add
something else about him, and not her
sell. For OH this morning for the frs
time the g.rl had felt afraid that things
with her were not all right.
But Godfrey had no suspicion Of this
rs she smoke to him. He was happy anC
in good syirits. as a man may well b
who rises from sick bed, and feels th'
first touch OF returning health. His minis
was already going back with eagerneS
TO its temporarily checked hopes ant
plans,
Il dare say you NAV be feeling quit
we'll at the end of another week" sai'
Mrs. HelStoae, "but unfortunately, yol
know. YOU won't be safe. Scarlatina
one OF these troublesome Illnesses that ne
cesSitates ones remaining so long IN quar-
aatine"
How long?" he asked quickly, prick
Ing ap his ears.
sWell. / am afraid we must count o
another month.
a mehthr' he calculated, in diSmay
sYou don't mean thatT'
Something like it, l fesr.' she saiC
eve viii see, of course. what Or. Car
son sayS. II wouldn't be right TO ru
any. risk. You will Be quite WELL 70
win only need TO keep out OF other pes
pies way"
yes; but thar is just It. he muttere'
"What did you say, my aearG' asSe
Mrs. Helstone.
But Godfrey did not repeat his Il
mark. Not TO see jeanne still for
whole month. He lay back on his plllo