The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-19
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"Iie still, dear, and let mother smooth
 your head" she implored helplessly.
 "Oh. Mummie. don't bother so. The
 fellows are waiting for me-, and he | sprang half out of bed.
 A tall figure suddenly appeared before him and strong hands laid hold of him
 You must lie still" a strange voice said,
 and he found himself looking with | amazement into pair of gray eyes, dls-
 "MastY' he asked. No one had ever said must to him.
 Must. was the answer. with tight | ening of the lius. He lay still to puzzle | out the state of affairs. His head was raised and glass held to his lips He had not said he would take anything. In his amazement. he drank the medicine | Miss Stewards best friends could never call her pretty. The Baker family did not care to see what was in her face being merely on the guard against cer- l tain qualities supposed to be irresistible | to the stronger sex. The family was ter | ror-stricken into full appreciation of her l professional qualifcations in the ensuing | or of painful delirium rent their hearts. | they felt the value of her calm, alert strength, and took comfort. When the | nounced, "He will get well. thanks to his nurse" they could find no words for their | gratitude.
 During the days of convalescence she
  | stage. and the family now noticed her | non- professional qualifications-at first | with considerable awe, later with much appreciation.
 One day Ted. bundled up in rugs. had | been taken to the piazza The sound or | voices came to the family. Sne teas- ing him again." said Alice, with satisfac- tion. He had always teased her, and she | founi the situation delightful. We can rest assured he will never 1all in love with any one who manages nm | thankful we should be that I was able i to save him from that dangerous nurse; If the family could have seen Ted's l face at that moment when Miss stewart | was saving ''The man is getting maud | lin; I'll send some of his adoring family | to him." there would have been doubt in their minds. Fortunately. Miss Stew. art had perfect control of herself ana of him | During the next year Ted worked as he | had never worked in his life. and during | the last six months the importance and the irregularity of his engagements com | CT understood She had been the confi- | dant of a frenzied son during the six months Miss Stewart had sternly for bidden him to call or to write so yo4 shan't seem to myself to be taking ad- vantage" When he explained to his
 mother that Miss stewart at nad aohe me must make himself worthy of her. the mother could only mutter bitterly to her I self Worthy of a nurse" When. how ever she watched the spoiled boy come | into his manhood and heard him pro nounced a rising young lawyer. the bit- l terness lessened.
 The announcement of the engagement was a painful occasion to the family Teds remarks when he caught Cousin Lizzies "A nurse to get him after all!' were in no measured terms. ,
 twill she manage you, Ted?' Alice l ynA ha Gfn
 | "I hope so, I.al.'' he answered, as he pulled her curls. You, too, l guess"
 The family discussions thereafter turn ed into "reminiscences of Miss Brooks s | charms and reflections upon the danger of trying to avert anothers fate. | Miss Stewart never understood why her | friend Miss Brooks, greeted the an rouncement of the enga cement with such raptuous delight.