The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-04-11

help?" she asked, feverishly
You must kiss him three times in
the morning and every time you must
say i love YOU
And then will he be just the same?"
she asked, las he used to be when
he wasn't hiding anything from me?"
He will be just the same"
In little while she was asleep and
| there was the faintest shadow OF a
| smile on her lips.
Then | went to look for her hus-
band and found him sitting in front
Of dying fire in the library.
| | sat down opposite him and asked
abruptly: What are you keeping from
| herr"
For a moment be stared at me, and
| then he said, somewhat .haughtily,
why should | tell your
Because i am here to help cure
your wife, and cannot cure her Until
know the truth"
He gripped the arms of his chair
with tense fingers. Il haven't told
SOUL" he said, but every one will
know, presently. | am ruined man.
You mean that you have lost your
money!"
Yes"
go to her tomorrow morning. and
tell her., said.
And kill her? She has never
| known what it was to live without
| luxury. And when the truth comes
| out, shant have cent"
You have youth and strength
said
| He drew long breath, as If he
squared his shoulders to meet the
| future.
And you have love- continued.
But you won't have love long unless
| you tell your wife the truth
! The next morning my patient was
awake early. do you think 1t will
really break the charm If | kiss him
! three times?" was the first question
she asked as bent over the bed.
Surely And now while | am comb
| ing your hair will tell you stay"
She had wonderful hair, fair and
ripping, like ripe wheat in field
when the wind blows over it. put
1t up for her in soft puffs and tied
ribbon around 1t of palest pinR, and
! while ! worked talked.
Once upon a time" | said, there
was prince who married lovely
princess. Now the princess had al
| ways lived in a beautiful castle and
the prince took her to another castle
! just as beautiful. And the princess
had everything that heart could
wish"
"Oh, you mean me- she breathed,
| and her eyes were shining; tall me
some more, nurse"
And one day the prince learned
that wicked wizard had put charm
on him. and that he would have to
leave the beautiful castle and go and
! live In little, little hut, way hack in
the woods. and that he would have to
| work until his hands were hard and
his back was bent. And SO he didn't
| dare tell the princess, because he
| knew If he told her she would want
| to go, too, and she would have to
wear shabby clothes, and sweep the
little hut, and prepare the plaip food,
and perhaps her lovely hands would
| get hard and her slender shoulders
| would also bend with the burdeas. So
| the prince kept silent about the spell
! that was to come upon him, and the
princess grew jealous, and said to her.
| self. He doesn't love me any more
She clapped her hands. 'Just as |
said it."
III tF Ehn
prince loved any one else, and she
wondered and wondered until she fell
sick, and-and the prince, looking at
her, thought his heart would break,
but still he didn't dare to tell her
about the hut in the forest"
| had finished tying the pibk rib
bons and she reached up and caught
my hands in hers. Nurse, Nurse.
she gasped, was that all-oh, was
that ail-that he had just lost mis- old
money!"
And when / told her the truth she
cried in my arms Then she sat up
and made me put on her prettiest
pink komono, and she walked yeakly |
from the bed to big chair in the
window. And when he came In she
hell out her hand to him.
"Oh," she cried, I'm going TO get
strong right away-and then we'll go
and live in the hut in the foress."
He looked at her with plzzlea eyes,
until l said: Il told her a fairy tale
about the prince who had to take the /
princess away from the beautiful
castle"
His arms were about her and
heard her say as l went out of the
room, You must kiss me three /
times"
And that night, DR.. Hearn said in a
satisfied way, I'VE shan't neel you
much longer here, nurse. | told you
it needed a woman with imagination
to take this case"