Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-01-24

tnOuga at SchOOl-
Bruce Bruce; Huron, Desoronto;
Chatham. Cayuga; Guelph-not Guelph
oh. what comes after Cayuga?"
Then feeble hands battered against
the door, .'Teacheri Teacher"
But when 1 opened the door. the
girl stepped back afraid.
You're not the teacher she said:
"oh, tell me before she comes. Sixty
six counties and the towns have all
got mixed
Come in and let me tell you
Il daren'ti 1 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.
q won't" she screamed. .'I won't go
back!" Then she fell.
Dear child, you shan't go back"
But still she shrank from me. "Oh,
leave me alonet" she pleaded.
''Mayn't I give you some tea?"
You won't take me back to Spite
House?"
Not to that dreadful place"
DO you keep girls, too?"
There's only a nurse. and a poor
dying man"
And you'll hear me the counties
of Ontario?"
why, yes, dear"
III come Them but as she tried
to get up, its cramp.'' she moaned!
Dear child, you're freezing"
I'm not cold, it's cramp."
She must have fallen through the
snow which covered our ater-hole.
for she was literally incased in ice
up to the breasts
Finding 1 had not strength to carry
her, 1 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 a doc
tor, nurse and 1 filled the bath with
/ freezing water, which for eight hours
we kept renewed with ice.
She told me of village among vine
| yards, overlooking Lake Ontario, just
where a creek comes tumbling down
from the Niagara heights. Her IA
| Their, 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-
tisement 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
| father. 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 I'm
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 a
| drunken riot at Spite House. The
Mattresses were rude and cruel, Polly
lay drunk on the floor. There were
no children.
After 1 learned from Mr.. Eure that
l 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 a magistrate. Poor
| Jenny 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 eth
er Brooke or Polly in crime which
had earned them penal servitude.
Vengeance2 1 think our prayers to
gether did more good, and when the
time came for Jenny's removal to a
bed of lint soaked in carbolic oil, she
was prepared to face the coming pain
shall I die?" she asked. 1 could
only kiss her.
Then" she said. even If it ISM
true. tell papa I died game
She was Canadian, and there is
valor in that blood.
Before she was moved, Doctor
Saunderson, of Clinton. had taker
charge. and since we lacked petroleum
enough for a bath. approved what we
had done. He used opiates. but the
pain, after a frostbite is thawed is
that which follows burning. On the
third day came exhaustion-and re
lease
1 was obliged to give evidence a
i the inquest, and my profession has
taught me ,Quietness, restraint, sim
plicity- The coroner might talk law
but was dealing with men; it was MI
business to make them cry. There wa.
No case AGAINST RrooEc hrrf from, ri, /,