Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-08-13

Soon, however, castf = this thought aside
DIR. Clarion; she q better. She may
live. So r. and lifting the damp hair
from her brow, he pointed to the dewy
drops which stood thickly upon It,
Thank heaveni" was DIR. Clayton's
sxclam ton, and bending down, he said,
Rosa, my precious Rosal She will live,
and you have saved her." he continued,
advancing toward the dark statue, whose
hand he pressed to his lips. "To you
the credit Is due, for you worked when
despair had rendered me powerless TO
do II; but now am strong. | am my
self again, and IL have any skill 1t
shall be exerted In her behalf"
An that day and night they stood over
her, applying the remedies said to he
most efficient in cases of the kind, and
when the next morning came she was
unquostionsbly better, though still In
great danger from q tendency Of the
disease to the lungs, which, however, was
less to be feared than Its return to the
brain. Very carefully and tsnderly they
watched her, and had not Mr.. Delaheld
been blinded by her supposed love for
another, he must have seen how much
more readily she took things from him
than from DIR. Clayton. following him
with her eyes whenever he moved away,
and seeming much more quiet when he
was at her side. BY the close of the
third day she was nearly free from the
brain fever, but much fear WAS felt by
DR.. Clayton lest 1t should assume the
typhoid form, which 1t did ere long, and
then for three weeks she raved In wild
delirum, driving Richa ard Delafeld from
her presence, shuddering when he came
near, and begging Of Dr. Clayton, whom
she called her brother Charlie, Ito send
the black man with his ugly face away"
This state Of affairs was amost intol-
cradle to Richard, who, If he had loved
Rosa before, felt that she was tenfold
dearer to him now, and 80, though he
dared not come in her sight when awake,
he watched by her when she slept, stand
ing over her hour after hour, and endyr-
ing with almost superhuman strength
the care which DR.. Clayton could hardly
he said to share, so absorbed was he In
grief at the thought Of losing her at last.
Thus the days wore on until her frenzy
abated, and she sunk into a state Of ap-
athy from which nothing could rouse,
not even the sight of Richard DelaHeld.
from whom she no longer shrank, but for
whom she seemed to have conceived
kind Of pity, asking him sometimes IF
he hated her because she did not love
him, and telling him how hard she had
tried to do SO, but could not, and that
he must go away and leave her alone"
And all this while 1t never occurred to
him that she fancied he was DR.. Clay
ton, though he did marvel at her never
mentioning her affianced husband, In
whose arms she would fall asleep. and
whose hands she would kiss, calling him
Charlie, snd asking II he had come to
carry her home. ... l4:
Matters were in this state when one
day, toward the dusk of evening, he was
surprised by the appearance of Halbert,
who said that the cholera had broken
out at The Pines, and he must come i'm
mediately, adding further, that his moth
er and Ada had both had it; that several
of the blacks were dead; and that the
man who two days before had been sent
to Cedar Grove, had died upon the road.
Greatly alarmed for the safety Of his
people, Mr.. Deaield started at once for
The Pines. r.t ,s