Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-06-22

more than once before, so he hat
crunched away with cheerful resigna
tion on these.
"Jiminy!" muttered Sam, hastily put
ting the uneaten cakes on the nearby
stand. 81 feel as If I'd been eating
soap and meal; favored with beer!
What in time made ma bake cookies
like those? Ah-h-! I'm feeling awful
queer-sort of sick and puffed up and
funny all over! Jimmy I'd give dol
! lar If ] dared sneak down to mas
room and ask her for something to
take. That girl sleeps right across
the hall from ma, though. Shed see
me sure as fate. Ah-h! I'm sicker-er
every minute!"
By this time Sam was rolling about
in his bed, groaning with pain and
nausea. His head was hot and his
feet and hands were cold. He could
not get up for the swimming sensa-
tion In his head, and all he could do
to help himself was to groan and toss
from one side to the other
In the intervals of his groaning
spells he thought he heard some one
moving quickly about In his parents
room just beneath his. He wondered
If his mother had heard him and was
coming to his relief. In anguish o.
body and mind he strained his ears Il
catch the sound of approaching steps
IN bO lyl lu w hnn
the longed-for knock sounded on the
door. do hurry, for mercy's sake!
The door swung slowly open, as II
the knocker was strangely reluctant
to enter. A figure, rather hastily ar
rayed In blue kimono sprigged with
roses, her hair hanging in two thick
yellow braids down her back and her |
feet encased In small blue velvet slip
pers, stood on the threshold, a candle
in one white hand and a bottle and
spoon in the other
"Oh," she exclaimed, the color rush
ing over her small, fiower-like face
as she met Sans Mortified stare.
Your mother was called to sit up !
with sick neighbor an hour ago, and
your father called me a minute ago
to see what was the trouble with you.
He said he had heard you groaning
and tumbling around for some time,
and he feared you were ILL., Yyou
know your father is confined to his
bed, so he could not come up here
himself. Oh, you are Ill, I'm sure!"
she cried, quick change coming over
her as she noticed for the first time
since her arrival the glassiness OF
his eyes and the scarlet flush in his
ACE. Let me feel your pulse!"
In a few swift steps she reached the /
bed and placed her cool fingers for y
orief space on his brawny wrist Next 5
she felt the cleanliness of his hands ?
md the heat of his head, her manner $
growing more and more concerned. T
What have you been eating?" she Il
asked, taking up the paper u
ack and examining the contents. o.
Mercy on us" she gasped looking Il
vonderingly toward the patient. ,'
Surely you knew better than to eat fc
east cakes!"
Yeast cakes!" thickly muttered
am, In astonishment Il thought they
'ere funny. Sure to rise, guess" he
dded, with a forlorn attempt at
ike. Il
The girl said no more. Her energies V
ere occupied in dosing the patient Il
ith mustard and warm water, ap- j.
ying hot water bottles to his feet
I'D an ice water bag to his head. a,
At the end of a strenuous hour Sam ps
as resting much better and his nurse ne
1t safe in leaving him for the re- Fl
ainder of the night.
What Sans experience taught him,
lring the time he lay there, tor 4.
ented with pain, watching the sym g
athletic face of the jealous little =
lrse as she few in and out of the =
ON with hot water mustard, and =
e thing and another for his better
ent was evinced by his conduct to-
ird the young visitor during the re- 70
aimed of her stay. an
Looks mighty like Sam was spruc- Sr
3 up like other fellows, ma" re- Se
lrked Sans father, after his son oo
d spent Is minutes before the hall on s
rror in a vain endeavor to get his
to suit him. Il don't know but
lat he'll be plenty able to do his
n courting by the dRe Virginia
mes again"
And Sam, with tingling ears, stoutly nh
imafed his nnlninn that ha would