The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1900-01-19

ing lace were becomingly arranged
round the tiny throat; but oh! how
delicate she looked. Something a the
pity that Janetta felt must have found
expression in her faoe. for Miss sey-
mour broke the silence with petuiant
laugh.
you are sorry for me, like every
one else-I read 1t in your eyes; but
I'm not going to die. I'm going to get
we'll, or all the doctors lie" /.
II devoutly hope you will, ana
quickly" replied Janetta gently; and
you must tell me what can do to
help you. I'm SURE / could carry You.
you are so light and SMALL
Miss Seymour broke into merry
laughter. Il don't want you for hard
labor. I wonder II you thought 1t was
lunatic VINO put that advertisement
into the paper? Harry declared that
nobody in her senses would answer it,
but many did.
Il had over two hundred answers, %
many that ! would not even open them
all. ! liked your photo. I thought
you were pretty and looked true, so /
told Mrs. Mortimer to take your lsttsr
and answer It, as IL from me, and to
return all the others.
1t was Doctor brakes suggestion
the man you saw at the train tonight.
Harry tells me that he scented the ac-
ctdent from afar, and was on the
scene almost directly 1t happened. He
Is called clever, but he does not cure
me.
Well, he found me crying one day,
and he said l ought to have some one
bright and young and good-tempered
about me. You can't call Mrs. Morti-
mer any one of those things, can you!"
Janetta did not answer; she felt
that the remark was In bad taste.
7 sha'n't like you It you look
shocked every time I'm flippant.
Where was 1! So i advertised. halt
In fun and half In earnest, and OF
course Mrs. Mortimer IL very crosa.
although 1t won't make the smallest
difference in her lot, except that she
Will have to give orders for another
place to be laid at every meal.
She is perfectly invaluable in her
Way-housekeeper, chaperon. compan-
Ion, everything rolled into one: but
she Is occasionally depressing"
You will give me something to do p
said Janetta, when Miss Seymour came
to e pause. Not the things that Mrs.
Mortimer has done for you, it might
hurt her feelings"
oh. you will not have much to do.
You will be cheerful who: I'm sad
and kind when I'm cross; and you
won't offer to read aloud unless ask
you, and you will talk when want
you to talk; and, above all things.
you wont try palpably to amuse me.
Nothing bores me like that: and i
do hope you can arrange flowers nice
~. Mrs Mortimer makes bouquets as
round as pumpkins, and is SO annoyed
whom l criticise.i NJ 8
Il wonder" she said, with q rand
change OF subject, how you liked Cap
tain Merivale! I'm engaged 70 him.
you know, and he has come to stay
here for little bit before he goes out
to India He is ordered to the front. !.
He was very kind, I" replied Janetta
II scarcely know how would have got
here without him. 55
We were engaged before I had, the
fall from my horse which has made
me what you see me- went on Miss
Seymour. twisting her engagement
ring round and round upon her finger,
so that every diamond In 1t caught and
reflected the light in thousand rain
bOw-colored hues.
It's hard luck that / lie here help
less like this. isn't 1t, when there Is
such 9 life Of happiness before me?
I'm going to get well, but its long to
I wait. Now you gan guess how much
shall need cheering when Harry
goes abroad. He's very good to me,
and declares he's never dull when he
comes; but you will try to make il
more cheerful for him. Il you wait I
little while he'll Be up again. al
You will not need an Introduction
after that long drive IL the dark. Hs
was pleased with you. because he saiA
you wets the only woman Ia the anos-
dent who did not scream. Z Z. 81
Janetta laughed. Terror does noe
take that form With me-: Il makss me-
feel incapable sof uttsring ) sound. ]
expect I VS. justsa fright ~ any
body else b * l..ss
,s Well. 1t any rate, you kept .it we'll
under. " said . voice behind her: and,
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