The Lamar register., 1913-01-08
Shedding With
Nan
by BRYANT c. ROGERS

. steep hill descending for three
blocks and then crossing double rail-
road tracks further. It is a good place
70 slide down hill when the snow IL
packed. For couple Of years the rail-
road company maintained gates and .
Waterman at the foot Of tho hill. and
then they found 1t cheaper to fight
the death claims for the boys who
were killed by the passing trains. II
was always contributory negligence on
the part Of the killed and crippled. and
the courts were lenient with tho oor.
poration.
tors had settled in the town because
Of the many accidents at the Castle
Hin crossing, but 1t is only fair to say
Of young DR.. Rush that he was IL.
norant Of localities when he hung out
his sign. He had secured his diploma
- an N. D.. and he had to settle down
somewhere to establish a practice. He
selected Greenleaf in June, and there
he was when the snow came. and he
hadn't earned his salt He was for
tunate enough to have a rich mother,
however. and he wasn't worrying
great deal.
Three blocks from Castle Hill lived
the Warrens. and the Warrens were
known through little Nan. their only
child. ~ much as from any other
source. AS a girl of IL she was called
handsome. cute. cunning, and lots OF
other things. She was a young lady
when she wished to be. and romp
and tomboy on other occasions. She
knew Of the hill; she knew Of the
trains: she knew Of the danger. And
yet she had been found one winters
night when she was IL years old lead.
ing the procession of 80 sleds down
the hill and over the tracks.
When Doctor Rush had been in
Greenleaf three months he was called
to the Warren house to bind up cut
finger for Miss Nan. She had been
practicing throwing the tomahawk In
the back yard. AS a doctor attending
his first patient. the young man should
have looked and acted very digniied
md demanded that Miss Nan stand In
awe Of him. But the contrary was
Ne case. It was q case of mutual
like. and when he left the house and
the out finger behind the girl said to
her mother:
Aunt Irene il coming to visit US
this winter. and I'm going to have her
marry DR.. Rush
What"
"She ought to have married that
rich fellow in Fall River. and / heard
you tell pa so.'
I'll don't think you ever heard
Of the kind. Even II you
did it's not for you to talk about such
things.
But Aunt Irene has got to marry
somebody. hasn't she?"
mo. She may marry. but she hasn't
got to-"
But It will be nice II have q man
picked out for her. 1t will save time.
and then he's a doctor besides. He'll
doctor US all and not charge a cent
There are lots Of things going to all
me, and l don't want pa to have to pay
big doctors gill"
Aunt Irene wasn't an old maid. as
the title would seem to imply. On
tho contrary. she wasn't 20 years
old yet She could have been aunt
and not been ten. She arrived on her
visit at Thanksgiving time. and 1. was
to ind Miss Nan looking very impor-
tant and mysterious. There had been
no further conversation between the
child and mother on the subject of
marriage, but one party had cultivated
Dr.. Rush for the last two months One
dressing was sufficient to insure q
cure for the cut finger. but Miss Nan
had hunted up the doctors office to
have the wound looked after three or
four times Then she had dropped In
to see II there was bug In her left
car, and to see If her heart was all
right, and to ask If riding down hill
on q sled at a gee-whiz gait thinned
out tho blood and brought on con.
sumption. DR.. Rush understood her
fairly well up to a certain point. and
they became good fsiends.
The point he overlooked in Miss
Nan was her Interior motive. Young
- she was. she had set out to make
. lovo-match, and she wanted things
ready against the arrival of her aunt.
She studied the doctor as deeply an
be did her, and the conclusion arrived
1t was:
Aunt Irene may get scalded tax
Ing the tsa-kettle. OF tho stove-she
may tall from q tree she may go