The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-01-09
A FIERY
DOSE
By John Y LARNED

w men bIIl oi'plI was Al '''' ~
spend Il week with his friend Tom Rob
i erts he was delighted He had met
Toms sister. Fanny. ana had fallen be
fore pair Of liquid crown eyes. palf
Of coral lips and a pair Of dl'Hi'Irs
! ore IN each check. since that Iueetln"
he had thought Of her ny day ana
dreamed Of her by night He r"crIV"d
the invitatlnn on Monday for TIE fol
lowing Friday. Then followed III"
four longest days of Hi"y'S life He
counted the hours till at last IT." DAY
Of his departure arrived. md al h"u'
before dinner he was Hni"r the salnr
roof with the girl VITO had enthraIIed
him. Now for the WOoin@.
Toms brother. lin. WAS III in ted
ana did not make his appearance On
the second night uf lii!H'> visit hr
went to bed ut II O'Clock and vas SooII
asleep. He was awakened Iy hearing
some one moving about the rpDm
Whoever it was tried To light
match 1t sputterrd 4 m0m"ht ana
went out. tut not before Billy saw by
its light the face Of Fanny Roberts,
"Tucrr." she gruuN.rd. THE last
match gone. and don't know where
to find another. However. | know cX
actly where left your m"d.cine-in
the closet on the third shelf from the
bottom in the right hand corner
don't believe in giving medicine in the
dark. but IN risk it this time"
Billy heard her cropping and fun
bling. and finally she came to his bed
side, put a glass half full OF some
liquid to his lips and poured II down
his throat. Then she left him with
good night.
Olcott was one OF the most modest.
sensitive young men in the world, and
be considered young girls to be even
more sensitive than himself. II Fanny
knew that she had come into his room
at midnight by mistake to give him n
dose of medicine she would never get
over the shock This is the reason
why he had not made her mistake
known 10 her and WHY he had permit
ted her to pour down his throat "A
medicine he did not need
lie lay CONCENTRATING himself on the
delicacy with which he had handled
the matter and how If she came 10
know Of her miStake, II would set him
mn In nor oninion Girls were som.
times raupht nv trires and ha wouIdn't
wonder if his biz of sacrifice would
couse her IN fail i, I,ve with him
Than no felt sometime dawn in his
stomach where the dose had gone that
felt as II n red hot poker had been nm.
pIied n his internals He stortnd A
dose in the dark hod been given him
md might II nor have been the wrong
mediciney Another annIicotion Of tho
nor pokor He snt m in he'd b,s hair
stood on end md cold sweat hroke
out all ovor him Fanny bo5 hoo,
making for n hottlo in IN. cIosst IN h.r
brothers room not RiIv,s She cor
tainIy had given him rho WRONG a,so
Greot heavens, ConId she h,ve no,
soned him;
A third onnIicot,on op rho notor
This rim. n soemod n pilp ,bot soma
one had rrirueb him with radbnt min.
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,srod uho, ro. ,ha r,o,.ar
.pr;r ,n,, 40, o,r,,i,, -, $780,. -. $500.
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