Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1900-06-30
CHAPTER v1lI.-(Continued.)

no I thought I Rad better lie dOwn-but,
oh, 1 shall be all right again presently
And then he tried to rouse himself.
"Have You seen the newspaper? think,
II I had 1t here
"Tet me read 1t TO you." Margaret
said: and she got the paper. and sat 10y
his side and read.
She was happy TO be doing something
for him, to lind 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 a stream
of sunshine came suddenly into the room.
and. looking toward him, meaning to ask
IL the lyht hurt his eyes. she all at once
found her own eyes arrested by some
thing she saw in his face.
"Whnt are you looking atT' he asked
her, after u moment or two. rather blunt
IL, for it is not pleasant to he stared at,
and, conscious that she had turned to-
ward him. he had glanced up and discov-
cred her staring ut him with all her
might.
"Oh, I beg your pardon" she answered,
hurriedly; ut Is ONLY hadn't noticed II
before-but surely there is a rash on your
faceY'
"a rash. he repeated. lie raised his
head hastily from the pillow. He was
very giddy. but nc brought himself with
rapidity into a sitting posture. What
sort " a rashy'
"Thpre IRE little red spots" said Mar
garet. anxiously. "and. look, they are Oh
your hands. too
And then he looked at his hands and
found that 1t was so.
"What do you think II Is? What Is 1t
likely TO beT' he asked. rather cxcitedly,
after he had gazed at these symptoms for
q moment or two.
81 don't know. I'll ask aunt to come
and see. Perhaps it's ncttle-rash.' said
Margaret.
"That isn't a very bad thing. Is it,
"No. I don't think IL II very bad she
said. "Oh. no; I believe II Is of very lit
tie consequence. only 1t makes people
feel ill.,"
"l'vc no doubt, then, that 1t is net,le.
RASH" exclaimed Godfrey. In a tone OF
satisfaction. "And II II well that 1t has
come ont. isn't III Ono gets the turn,
believe, after anything Of this kind comes
to the surface. Yes: | suppose You had
better. IL you will, ask my mother to
come aud look at me"
And then he sank back again, for the
room was going round with him. There
was 10 doubt that nettle.rash. II this
was II, made people feel very III indeed.
Mrs. Helstone came and looked at him,
and said, after 4 moment: eve will send
for DR.. Carson. I dare say It Will prove
10 be what we think, but ! should like
10 he sure" SO she sent Margaret out
Of the room and sat with her son till the
doctor came.
And then, when DR.. Carson arrived he
gave one glance at his patient and said
instantly: "Humph! Why are you not
In bedY'
"You think. then. that he ought to he
In bedI" asked Mrs. Hclstonc.
On which the doctor took Godfrey by
the collar Of his coat and turned his face
full to the light.
"Why. don't you sec the state he's In Z?
It's scarlatina,' he said.
"Scarlatina" they both calculated to-.
gether, and Godfrey especially In such a
tone 81 axaxement that DIR. Carson
laughed.
"Why, what did you think you had
yOtY" he said. 1T seems to me you
might have guessed. Haven't you sore
throat, and this rash all over your
can't think. for my own 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 WELL" Aud 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 a troubled face. when she fol-
lowed DR.. Carson ont into the hall.
"Ah. that's pity" he answered, quick
". However" he added next moment,
"yOu can'Ph help It. All you can do Is to
keep her away from him now. ] think
II will be mild case" he said cheerfully.
"In fact. he IL nearly half through 1t al.
ready. II all goes straight you will be
beginning to have him get better again
In a day or two more"
'And l can do nothing for Margaret -
she said.
''No, you can do nothing" he answered.
But don't Brighten yourself. Very
lkely--mOst likely--she won't take it."
''How soon do you suppose ! shall ,H
about again." Godfrey asked his mother
at the end Of week.
1t 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 "a
Margaret In the garden below. II shall
soon be quite WELL" he had called down
to her. II am SO glad you are keeping
well. too" For though he had 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, and had troubled him not q
little. Are you quite sure you are al
rightl" he had asked her.
Eyes, l think so; oh, yes" Margaret
answered cheerfully, but a little quickly
and then Immediately fastened TO add
something else about him, and not her
self For on this morning for the frs,
time the girl had felt afraid that thing'
with her were not oil right.
But Godfrey had no suspicion Of Thu
as she spoke to him. He was happy ant
In good spirits, as man may well b.
who rises from a sick bed, and feels tn,
first touch Of returning health. His mine
was already going back with eagernes'
to Its temporarily checked hopes an'
plans.
II dare say You may be feeling quit
well at the end of another week." sal,
Mrs. Helstone "but unfortunately, 20,
know, you won't be safe. Scarlatina y
one OF those troublesome illnesses that ne
cessitates ones remaining SO long In quar-
antine."
How lonsf" he asked quickly. prick
ing up bis ears.
"WQll I an, afraid wa must coint nj