Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1904-06-02

s. you marry me!'
- X "AttOrney Bernard |
1oS Holme, answer you for
the last time, no!'
There was a slamming Of doors and
a scurry of feet on the stairs. There
was also a gleam of wrath in a pair
of fine black eyes and a smile of amuse-
ment in a pair Of tranquil blue ones.~
The question and answer had been re-
peated SO often that they had lost
much of their significance and all of
their romance.
Before the young attorney had gone
half a block he halted abruptly, turned
and retraced his steps. Louise had
meanwhile taken up a ponderous tome
on nervous diseases and was intent
on the study of perplexing case when
a series of vociferous sneezes greeted
her from the outer Office.
Il didn't come here to make fool
OF myself" Mr.. Holme began, as he
thrust his head in at the door. 81
came to get you to dose me up. have
taken wretched cold-sneezed seventy
times by the clock this afternoon, and
l'ache all over in spots as if I had been
sleeping on a rock pile. Now don't
you dare tell me that it is the grip"
Poke out your tongue, little boy.
here, you may smoke up while count
your pulse" and she placed the bulb
OF a tiny thermometer beneath his
I0nO1p "C01} If hot -
Is influenza, just the same, with danger
OF pneumonia, heart disease and other
complications. Go straight home this
minute and have your mother make
you barrel of hot lemonade with a
Dig stick in it. Boil your feet for an
nour and then turn into bed and stay
mere until you sweat it out. Yes. and
you must take one of these every two
nours,' and the woman counted out
Twelve huge tablets.
All right, doctor. I'd as soon die
oy your hand as by that of any other
member of your murderous profession.
Dy TIE way, you must have me we'll
oelore Trix comes. So you were in
earnest when you said I must fall in
love with her?''
certainly, and marry her-if she'll
nave you. She looks exactly as I did
"hen you proposed to me a dozen years
yaso. 1rlx is eighteen and ought to
nave no difficulty in curing you of your
lioNulous infatuation for an old maid
y, thlfty. l neglected to tell YOU that
sue VIII arrive tomorrow instead of
next week.
And l neglected to tell you that ]
As'e already met your niece" her
.ohlpanlon returned in g. tone that
seenied TO her as unnecessarily fiio
p'nt. She was in the same sleeper
" nitn me When I went from ALBANY tc
boston last week. While tha nor+o,
was making up her berth she came an6
81 s"' with me, and of course we chatted
iecosnlzed her by her resemblance te
Sou' ana had no difficulty in verifying
hS suspicion. I'm afraid I should
a"N FALLEN in love with her on til,
spot II it had not been for the con
SnpuDle n,[ disloyalty to you"
\ nonsense" Louise calculated. &C,
ne ana take your medicine or yo,
o "oht be able to see her tomorrow
'eiing," and she resumed her stud,
&c., - sue were quite alone. For al
oui AFTER the door closed behind he
~, SO persistent lover, she tried to read
w. some unaccountable reason th.
,4ou oius conveyed no meaning. A sen
.hnae that any ether time would hay,
.see. en perfectly da1cid had to be rea(
it's Ni. ana again before she could gras,
wiz sishlhcance. At length, dfsgustee
o.a .,n herself, she threw aside the book
ma, .leo her carriage and went cut t
sho ssfne prsfessionai calls. Whe1
to,olt fol- returned it was quite dark and til
waa pnohe =. was ringing furiously.
w. a: Airs. Holme, and in a voice full O.
nara 'e'nent she announced that Ber
h. o'u was i'll. in raging fever. and tha
was going on like a crazy man.