News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-10-01

"Bruce, Bruce; Huron, Desoronto
Chatham, Cayuga; Guelph-not Guelph
oh, what comes after Cayuga?'
Then feeble hands battered against
the door, Teacher! Teacher!"
But when l opened the door, the
girl stepped back afraid.
you're not the teacher" she said;
ooh, tell me before she comes. Sixty
six counties and the towns have all
got mixed"
"Come in and let me tell you"
'I daren't! I daren't! You're not
the teacher. This is not the school
You'll take me back"
She turned, trying to run away, but
her legs seemed wooden, and she slid
about as though she were wearing
clogs.
'I won't" she screamed, IT won't go
back" Then she fell.
Dear child, you shan't go back"
But still she shrank from me. ooh,
leave me alone!" she pleaded.
"Mayn't l give you some tea?"
you won't take me back to Spite
House?"
mot to that dreadful place."
"Do you keep girls, too?"
There's only nurse, and a poor
dying man."
"And you'll hear me the counties
of Ontario?"
why, yes, dear"
"Tll come them but as she tried
TO get up, cts cramp," she moaned.
Dear child, you're freezing"
TIN not cold, it's cramp."
She must have fallen through the
snow which covered our water-hole,
for she was literally incased in ice
up to the breasts.
Finding I had not strength to carry
her, I shouted for the nurse, who
reused Billy, and then the Chinaman,
Together we carried her indoors, gave
her brandy, and laid her, dressed as
she was, in Captain Taylor's bath.
Then while Billy rode hard for q doc
tor, nurse and filled the bath with
freezing water, which for eight hours
we kept renewed with ice. Drawn
gently from her body, the frost form
ed a film of ice upon the surface, but
she assured me that she felt quite
warm, without the slightest pain. To
sustain her ] gave liquid food at in
tervals, and quite clear now in her
mind, even cheerfully she trusted me
with her story.
: She told me of village among vine
yards, overlooking Lake Ontario, just
where a creek comes tumbling down
from the Niagara heights. Her IA
ther a retired minister wasted his
narrow means in trying to raise the
proper grapes for sacramento wine.
Mother was dead, and nine small chill
dren had to be fed and clothed, to ap'
pear with decency at church and
school, so that they would not be
ashamed among the neighbors.
Then Uncle John found an adver-
easement in the paper. A governess
was wanted for four children some
where in British Columbia. The
wages were so generous that there
would be enough to spare for helping
Gather. 1t meant so much of proper
food and good warm clothing for the
younger children. So references were
exchanged with Mr.. Brooke, who
wrote most charming letters, and Un-
Gle John lent money for the journey.
My little schoolma'am pursed her lips
severely over that loan, which must
be repaid by instruments.
Mr.. Brooke met Jenny at Ashcroft,
and took her by sleigh nearly hundred
miles. getting more and more familiar
and horrid until, in a state of wild
fear of him, she ran for safety into
drunken riot at Spite House. The
mattresses were rude and cruel, Polly
lay drunk on the floor. There were
no children.
After learned from Mr.. Eure that
Z was a prejudiced witness, without a
shred of evidence, that no court
would listen to hearsay, and that the
dying girls confession would not be
allowed in court except it were made
under oath before magistrate. Poor
Benny would never have told any man
what happened at Spite House; she
would not have given the last sane
moments of her life to vengeance;
and so there was no case against elLn-
er Brooke or Polly in a crime which
had earned them penal servitude.
VENGEANCE? / think our prayers to-
eetf.er did more good, and when the
dine came for Jenny's removal to a
bed of lint soaked in carbolic oil, she
was prepared to face the coming pain.
"SGall die?" she asked. 1 could
pnly kiss her.
"Theu," she said, "even if it isn't
trur. tell papa I died game"
SIC was Canadian, and there is
~alqr IN that blood.
/ ore she was moved, Doctor
g. erson. of Clinton. had taken
CHI e, and since we lacked petroleum
enough for bath, approved what we
haa uoAe. He used opiates, but the
pain, after a frostbite is thawed, is
that which follows burning On the
&hird day came exhaustion re-