Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-11-24

that l am not to worry. whatever / do.
as 1t will only retard my recovery. Easy
to say, but how difficult to perform
The nurse comes in to see me when she
arrives. She is a pleasant, capable look
ing woman, and fancy she will do her
utmost. Besides, feel too i'll to trouble
about anything
The days come and go. but | take no
count of them. l doze, and dream. and
wake-sometimes it is night, some times
it is day.
My dreams are all troubled ones. in
Whlch Guy has prominent place. He is
lmplorlng me TO marry him in the face
OF all obstacles, or l am telling Stanley
the whole story, or Guy is being mar
RED to some one else, and ! am vainly
trying to prevent it.
AT last day comes when l awake
from sweet, mtrouhled sleep, TO find
Dr. Gordon and the nurse standing at the
side OF my bed, and to hear the doctor
say
"She will do now"
| catch sight of two dark figures near
the door, but they disappear before l can
recognize them, and l try to turn nv
head that | may see who they are. only
to find that / am so weak thai cannot
even move by myself
Never mind" says the nurse, you'll
soon be all right now; you've had such
lovely sleep!'
Almost before she has finished speak
ing doze off again, and when next l
awake the morning sun is shining in at
my window.
What day is it, nurse?" l say in an
absurdly piping little voice. Have been
i'll long?"
1T is Thursday" she says, "the 3Oth
of August"
August" repeat. July, you meant"
the times gone But you'll soon be all
right now Why, we shall have YOU up
in day or two!"
1t is another week, however, before l
am able to get up, and fortnight before
go downstairs; and then Mr. Leigh
carries me down and props me up ON the
sofa in the dining room.
For the last fortnight l have asked
continually after Mrs. Leigh, and they
have told me that she was quite well. /
wonder that she has not been in to see
me, but perhaps they have forbidden her
doing so.
The house seems so deserted and quiet
on this first day of my coming down
stairs, and l feel so wretchedly weak
that, as soon as Mr.. Leigh has gone out
of the room-which he does, think. very
quickly turn my face to the wall and
have good cry. I think Mrs. Leigh
might come in to see me, she cannot be
afraid of the infection now; besides, /
Halo, old LADY," says Stanley, com
ing in and sitting down beside me. "I
thought the pater wasn't going to tell
you. and left it to me?"
ITO tell me-" 1 sob, "tell me what I?
What do you meant"
And then it suddenly occurs to me that
Mr.. Leigh had on black clothes.
Stanley" I cry, looking up at him as
well as l can through my tears, "your
mother is not dead? That's not why she
hasn't been TO see me?"
Stanley leans over and draws me to
him very tenderly.
"She died two days after you were
taken i'll, DEAR" he says, "and was buried
month ago"
"And l have been blaming her for not
coming to see mel" / sob ooh, why
didn't you tell met"
''The pater wouldn't have you told I'M
til you were wen enough to come down;
he was afraid you might have a relapse"
"Peor dear old man." 1 say, ''to bear.
it all MY himself!"
HE had me-" says Stanley reproach-
fully.
slip nay hand into his.
BE good to him, Stanley" l say, "he
has only us now"
And Stanley gives my fingers an an
swerng pfessurs as be says
with heaveh's help 1ill!"
Slowly-very SLOWLY creep back to
life. l believe | should get better much
more quickly if / had any desire to live;
but have not.
look forward to my marriage with
feelings OF the utmost repugnance, al
though Stanley, poor fellow, is very
different person from the selfish young
man who went so reluctantly for the doc
tor on that eventful night!
am walking up and down the paths
in the fruit garden, having what DR.. Cor
don ,alls "sun bath" Stanley joins me
here and walks up and down at my side. |
His manner is distract, and he has the air |
of man who feels it his duty to make |
an unpleasant statement and does not |
know how to begin.
"When do you issve, Stanley 2" l ask, |
by way of breaking the silence
II must go tomorrow" he says. "They |
have been awfnllg good to manage with |
out me ali this time; and the hard work |
Of the winter will be beginning now. 1t |
was that which made me come out to |
you, Helen" he continued with an evident |
Effort, 81 wanted to speak to you before
| left Shall we sit down here on this |
Did bench? You're not quite yourself yet,
you know, and you mustn't overtask |
your strength"
'How good you all are to met" 1 ex-
claim, my eyes filling with tears at his
kind tone.
"Not better than Won deserve he an.