Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-11-11

I cannot die without speaking; but
will not speak till I am on the point
of death.
DO not speak, father, at all now.
He obeyed and remained quiet. with
his eyes looking up at the Sky. Thus
he lay till Jasper arrived breathless
he had heard the bell, and had run,
suspecting some disaster.
Let me carry him with one of the
maids, said Jasper.
No, answered Barbara. You
shall take his shoulders, | his feet.
We will carry him on mattress.
Cook and Jane have brought one. Help
me to raise him on to it.
Jasper was the man she wanted. He
ask questions, how the accident had
happened; he did not waste words in
useless lamentation. He sent maid
at once to the stable to saddle the
horse. A girl, in the country, can
saddle and bride as well as boy.
L am off for the DOCTOR he said
shortly as soon as he had seen Mr..
Jordan removed to the same down
stairs room in which he had SO recent
" lain himself.
Send for the lawyer said Mr. Jor-
dan, who had lain with his eyes shut.
The lawyer, papa'
/ must make my will. | might die,
and then what would become of Eve?
Ride on to Tavistock after you
have summoned Mr.. Coyshe, said
Barbara
When Jasper was gone, Eve, who
had been huttering about the door,
came in, and threw herself sobbing
on her knees by her fathers bed. He
put out his hand, stroked her brow,
and called her tender names.
She was in great distress, re
preaching herself for having asked
him to NOV the grass for her; she
charged herself with having wounded
him.
Mono, Eve!' said her father II
was not your fault. Barbara would
not let me alone. She lnterIefeu,
and lost my balance
T am SO glad it was not l. sobbed
Eve.
Let me look at you. Stand up,
he said.
She rose. but averted her face some
what, so as not to see the blood on
the sheet. He had been caresslng
her. Now, as he looked at her, he saw
red streak across her forehead
My child what is that? You are
hurt! Barbara. help! She is bleed
ing
1t is nothing, she said; your hand
papa, has left some of its stains on
her brow. Come with me, Eve. and
| will wash it clean
The color died completely
out Of Ewes face, and she
seemed again about to faint. Bar
bara hastily bathed napkin IN fresh
water, and removed all traces OF
blood from her forehead, and then
kissed it.
rs it gomez whispered Eve.
Entirely.
1 feel it still l cannot remain
here Then the young girl crept cut
of the room, hardly able to sustain
herself on her feet.
l. When Barbara was alone with her
father, she said to him, in her quiet,
composed tones, Papa though | do
not in the least think this wound Will
prove fatal, / am glad you have sent
for Lawyer Knighton, because you
ought to make your will, and provide
for Eve. 4 made up my mind TO
speak to you when / was on my way
home from Ashburton.'
Well, what have you to say
/ Papa. I've been thinking that as
the money laid by for Eve is gone for
/ ever. and as my aunt has left me a
little more than sixteen hundred
pounds, you ought to give MorweI TO
Eve--that is, for the rest of your term
of it, some sixty-three years, | think
Eff YOU like to make little charge on
it for me, do 50, but do not let 1t be
much. | shall not require much to
make me happy. | shall never marry
/ If | had a good deal of money 1t Is
possible some man would be base
enough to want to marry me for 1t;
but if have only little, no one viii
think of asking me. There is nc
one whom l care for whom
would dream of taking under no cir
cumstances -nothing would move me
to it-nothing. And as an old maid
what could l do with this property
Eve must marry. Indeed, she cal
have almost anyone she likes | d.
not think she cares for the doctor
but there must be some young squir'
about here who would suit her.
To be continued.
A. A..$,,koS C~apa