The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-10-12

4sfeESly Tor q few minutes Then he
said he had some nasty experiments to
make, ana maybe she would not want
to stay. although he rather looked az
though he would have liked to have
| had her.
Bit she left and then sat at her win
COW watching his shadow move to and
fro az it fell against the trees Of the
garden. Suddenly she heard a splutter-
ing explosion and strange cultural
cry For q CHASTITY second she watched
the iitful leap Of lights Oh the trees. but
hia shadow did not come back. Then
she grabbed her water pitcher full
happily, and the heavy rug on the floor
. and ran into his room She flung the
door open upon thin blur Of flame and
lAickering Tongues reaching like dane
Ing imps here and there in midair, and
through it All something like huddled
figure on the floor. Up went the water
ahead Of herself and over herself and
then The rug over the figure, and with a
strength she hardly dared to think
could be IN her tense muscles She
dragged 1t out toward the hall Then,
wrapping her skirts around herself
with q quick turn, she tore down the
burning portieres that screened the
laboratory from the den, and, finding
the hose attached to the hydrant, she
set the spray over herself and over the
room.
BY this time the others had come.
But 1t WINS really all over She stag
gered out TO look az Hugh. His eyes
We're closed. his face blackened
SIS be deadf Oh, Is he dead?' She
said weakly
Then, covering her face with her
burned hands as If fearing the an
swer, she sank down IN n white heap
beside him.
The next day Hugh, who, though
singed and stunned, had been little
hurt sat beside her and held her band
aged hands.
lie watched the play of her features
as he talked to her, and 1t seemed to
him Ike watching an unfolding flower
He caught himself wondering again
and again Mt some newly discovered
charm. What deep, fine eyes What a
slngularly sweet and unaffected smilel
What an intimate gentleness in her
yoice!
Mrs. HetherIngton said one morning.
How charming you are in that pale
yellow wrapperl You are quite trans
formed" And she passed her hand ten
derby over the girl who had saved her
last child TO her
Hugh said, "She is Cinderella, and
the fairy godmother has shaken the
magic tree over her"
And he did not know just yet that
the magic which was touching her and
him, too, was older even than fairy
godmothers.
He spent his spare moments now try
ing 10 please her, even as she had once
tried to please him lie told her over
aud over again that 1t was her wit and
her speed and her dear burned hands
That saved his life after his stupidity
with the ether and the collodion.
"Ah. no" she would say. at was an
inspiration. | am not bit brave OF
myself"
"Do you remember he said one day.
"your lest Of lover"
She blushed little this time You
never told me" he went on, whether
you ever loved any one that way or
not"
Sine did not answer.
DO you think that you could?
He thought he saw n smile Git over
the face, bent away from him though
II was, ana he took her hands that
We're now healed, though still Scared
little.
She raised her head and looked at
him, and IIetherington suddenly knelt
down before her and kissed her hands,
and then he drew her head down to
him and kissed her OH the lips