Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1908-05-14
HrRMONT FREDERICK COUNTY Md THURSDAY NAY IA, 1908
and silent and PROSTATE as you have

seen her now"
A fortnight had worn away since the
hour of her parting from Clifford, and
Jane was slowly passing through the
first stage Of moral recovery-or dis
case, whichever way you like to put it
and Miss Lynch, true to the common
superstition, was inviting the village
doctor, by means of lowering medi-
cines, or Alternative medicines, or tonic
medicines, or something, at all events,
in the shape of medicine, to assist ma
ture at her work.
"Is her pulse good, Mr.. Huntley"
she inquired, looking up with all the
eagerness of perfect faith into the doc
tors face.
1T is far from good, ma'am," said
Mr.. Huntley; sit is as thready and
wretched pulse as ever felt in my
life. Miss Grand is in very weak
state-a very precarious state, l may
almost say, Miss Lynch" (Mr. Hunt
ley invariably exaggerated the danger
at first, as heightening the merits of
the ultimate cure.) "The low fever
peculiar to the season is hanging about
her, and she has no strength 10
strength whatever, of constitution to
shake it Off. But we will bring ner
round-never fear, but we will bring
her round. Keep her from this damp
autumn air, and ut the end of the week
we shall have Miss Grand another per-
son.
And at the end of the week Miss
Grand under the influence Of close air
and quinine, had not improved; and
she told Miss Lynch decisivcly that
she declined seeing Mr.. Huntley, or
taking any more of his medicines.
LET the windows stand open, auntie.
and let me be quiet and undisturbed
as | was before. You need be under
no fear for me. I shouldn't feel as
do now if I was going TO die. Give
me time and let me alone, and l shall
recover It's not my body that is ILL.,"
In great dudgeon Mr.. Huntley took
his leave, and in fear and trembling
poor Miss Lynch found herself in the
awful position Of nursing patient
with intermittent fever who would
take no medicine.
AS time wore on, however. and
though the autumn days grew dampcr.
and Jane more and more exposed her
self to their influence, the fever by
slow degrees gradually went from her.
till one night she slept over the hour
at which it had been used, every twcn-
ty-four hours, to seize her; and then
had only two slight attacks in the
course of whole week: and then, as
far as this particular symptom went,
was well.
"But she is weak and wasted to the
last degree" said Miss Lynch to the
vicar: for Mr.. Huntley passed her now
with only dignificd bow in the street.
and she was forced to look to ghOsty
rather than to scientific knowledge for
advice about Jane. "And she takes no
interest in anything, and seems hardly
to have energy enough to follow me
when | read to her. Dear, dear, Mr..
Follott! how is she to be strengthened,
while she remains in the state she is?"
"Not by reading aloud" said the
vicar, much to the overthrow of Miss
Lynch, who had at that moment not
been alluding to the restoration of the
bodily woman: "listenine to reading is
an irritation to the temper, and an i'll
tolcrablc strain on the whole nervous
system of weak person. Try to get
Jane to use her needle, If she will, and
let her have all the air you can, and
cook her nourishing food. and don't
give her any advice as to what tits her
duty to do or not to do. Above all,
Miss Lynch, if you would not drive
her back to her fever again, don't
forcbly put the contents of any book
whatever into the poor child's ears.
When Jane wants to read again, she
will read"
"But if you would come yourself, Mr..
Follett, and offer her little spiritual
support? If you would only bring her
to see the absolute necessity of making
an effort?'
"When Jane wants me to see her
wears answer ''In her present state
my consultations, and Huntley's tonics,
and your readings, my dear Miss
Lynch, will all be about the same SER
vice to her. Nature will work for the
poor child in time, and we shall not
of ours"
AS nothing from the lips of bcne-
feed clergyman could sound like her.
terodoxy in Miss Lynchs ears, she
mutely bowed before the Wears skept;-
cisms, and Jane was spared being put
through any more cures, bodily or
mental.
Mr.. Follett had judged rightly that
she would not wish to SEQ him. She
shrunk morbidly from the thought of
seeing any strange face, from hearing
any voice but Miss Lynch's; and very
little even of that was sufficient to jar
every nerve in her body with exquisite
pain.
The moral part of her nature was
strong, but the mental one was not at
all above mediocrity; and she had no
intellectual pleasure or pursuit of any
kind whatever to fall back upon now
and fill up the vacuity of the dull. drag
ging day. She could not return to the
simple girlish joys that had filled her
heart till she knew Clifford; and bercft
of the prospect of happiness in mar
rage, all life seemed to her dull, hope
less, stagnant.
She thought scarcely at all of the
shame of her own birth during these
first weeks; and when she did think of
IT., it was but as the cause of her
| greater grief--the grief that swallowed
up all others-her severance from Mo-
! hun.