Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-09-19
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"'oh! oh! he cried out, how you
have changed! How you have
changed! Oh! oh! I am afraid, 7
am afraid! Margot! Mareot!'
You need not call upon Margot. ,
said the Sister. Are you going to
keep your promise or not?'
oh, yes! yes!' he said. oh, yes!
yes! They are here in this room. I
will tell you tomorrow
Indeed, they were not" sobbed
Miss Elizabeth through her tears.
Poor David, poor, poor David! But
go on, Sophronia."
In this room? said she-.you
swear it?'
eyes. yes. So soon as L am able
To-
And then Margot heard steps COM
ing towards the door, and she fled
down the stairs.
That was a dreadful night. She
heard the doctor and the priest talk
Ing together in the parlor in low
tones, and when she tried to listen.
they closed the door and moved
across the room. She heard a great
deal of movement in the sick-cham-
Der, much walking across the floor
and opening of drawers, but towards
morning all was quiet and she fell
asleep. When she awoke it was
broad daylight. The kitchen clock
had stopped at twenty minutes to
five. There was not sound in the
house. At last the stiffness fright
ened her. She crept up to the back
door; it was bolted on the inside.
She listened; there was no sound.
Then patient and nurse must both
be asleep. She ran down the stairs.
and, coming out into the front hall.
she walked haltingly, feeling her
way, as it We're, for she had been so
often turned back, poor thing! But
no one turned her back that day.
She saw not SOUL She looked into
the parlor; NO one was there. She
glanced in at the dining-room; no
one was there-only Julia laying the
cloth for. Father Darby's and the
doctors breakfast. She then bepan
to mount the stairs, listening, listen
ing. She stopped moment and
leaned over the balustrade.
julia she called, Julia, where
are they alp
"'Ain't up yet said Julia. and went
on setting her table.
ut must be late said Marpot.
My clock has stopped
rr,ase ;+,.
liza, and yawned. just at that mo.
ment Margot heard wheels and she
ran down the stairs again and to the
front door, She found it unbolted
and unlocked. She opened the great
hall-door, and found that it was the
butcher driving up the avenue. He
came slowly along the drive, and
turned off to go round to the kitchen.
Margot waved her hand to him and
stopped him. He looked surprised.
She ran down the front steps and
up to the cart. All at once, when she
got to where Allibone stood, she
burst out crying.
What's the matter with the wo-
man" exclaimed Allibone.
~ don't know said Margot, but
I'm that glad to see you. There's
queer. Will you come in
tn the house?'
"'Why, I'm Just going round to-
NO said Margot. Please come
In with me. There's something
wrong. l smell it in the air.
What! In at the front door?'
asked Allibone-'me'
eyes, YOU said Margot. 4 darn't
go back alone
"Just then the village clock struck
ten.
"Margot listened as the strokes
pealed out upon the air. AS the eighth
note sounded, she looked up at the
butcher with a hope in her face that
it would be the last stroke, but no! |
nine came booming over from Gal
tersville, and then, oh horrors! one
more.
'Ten!' she cried. Is that right?'
1T be- said Allibone.
"fCome at once said Margot, and
ran towards the house. She raced
up the great, broad steps, Allibone
after her, and through the hall, and
up into the Squirrels bedroom. Every-
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