Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1902-05-21


For which Lady Caroline blessed
him secretly, and sent for Mildred
forthwith.
She came without a moments delay,
and, even as her foot crossed the
threshold of the door, sudden silence
fell on Denzil. He turned-the fever
for time sank conquered-wh his
beautiful eyes lit up with passionate
expectation and fond hope.
Slowly and with hesitation Mildred
advanced to the side of the bed. and
then Lady Caroline went over to the
window, followed hurriedly by the
doctor.
What happened after that nobody
ever knew, for Lady Caroline and
Stubber standing with their backs TO
the bed and their faces turned to the
chilly outer world, could tell nothing
When at length they returned to the
bed they found Mildred pale and trem-
bling the heavy tears coursing each
other down her cheeks in rapid sue
cession, which she hastily brushed
away as they drew nearer her, her
hand tightly clasped in Denzils He
had even made an effort to hold her
with the poor injured fingers. and had
brought them so far that the tips
touched hers.
He was quite sane now. His face.
slightly flushed, was looking upward:
his eyes, glad and happy, were fixed
on hers, while she answered back the
gaze forgetful of all else but that he
lay before her sick, 1t might be, unto
death.
"Denzil, you are exciting yourself"
said Lady Caroline, nervously.
NO, am not" answered Denzil. his
voice clear and distinct, but without
removing his eyes from NIildreds;
"leave me for moment"
He waved them back impatiently to
the window, and neither Lady Caroline
nor the doctor could bring themselves
to disobey the command.
But Stubber. who was becoming serI-
ously uneasy about his patient, glanc-
ing round at him cautiously and sur
reptitiously. saw what followed. He
said that when he and Lady Caroline
he'd again withdrawn. Denzil looked
at Miss Trevanion, and that then Miss
j Trevaniop stoopsspapd- Kissed hii--- y or
: once. but tWice.#fN
t This was what Stubber said, but h
4 also added that it was his firm belle
that she did it out of pure humanit,
/ and nothing more. When two minute
/ later he again approached Younge, h
found that Mildred had disappeared
/ and that Denzil was lying perfect,
9 composed, his face turned toward tn
E half-open door. He sighed heavily bu
contentedly, and then came back to tn
/ realities of life
Doctor Stubber," said he, do 20,
| know that am better?"
1 Time will tell" answered the littl
5 doctor, sententiously "and now yo,
1 must go to sleep If you wish to keet
Y in that muchto- be-desred condition
1 Lady Caroline. | trust to you to lie
= no more young ladies into the room
this evening"
A Denzil laughed quite nationally, and
. changing over to the other side, in
;. few minutes, fell into a sound, refresh
[ ing slumber.
2 Not once again during all the re
I mainder of his illness did Miss Trev
A anton enter Denzil's room; neither di
|. he ask for nor allude to her in an
s way, although Lady Caroline notice
the intense look OF interest that cam
into his face whenever her name wa
n casually mentioned.
I After a week or two, the remem
brance of her visit faded. or came t
. him only as shadow from the fevere
g past he had gone through, and not un
til the doctor had given him permits
sion to quit his bed for an hour or 8
v every day, to lie on a lounge In tn
adjoining apartment, did he ventur
: to speak of 1t and try to discover tn
4 truth.
q 1t was one morning, when he wa
4 feeling considerably stronger, and ha
. Mabel beside his couch, reading to hin
r scraps of poetry that every now an
! then struck her fancy as she glance
. through the volume In her hand, tina
2 he approached the subject
is your sister away from home?
k he asked, in the middle of most pa
a thetic passage,
a And Mabel answered mo" redden
! ing little.
Then think she might have com
q to see me before this he said, wit
all the fretfulness OF an invalid
well, You see, she has all the house
keeping to attend to, now mamma /
Z so much your slave" returned Mabe
smiling; that Keeps her away. Sh
: always asks for you, though, and is s
!, glad to hear of your getting on so rap