Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1915-01-15
A. FIERY
DOSE
BY JOHN Y. LARNED


spend a week with his friend Tom Rob
erts he was delighted He had met
Toms sister. Fanny. and had fallen be-
fore pair of liquid brown eyes. u pair
OF coral lips and pair Of dimples
one in each cheek Since that meeting
ne had thought of her by day and
dreamed of her by night. He received
the invitation on Monday for the fol
lowing Friday. Then followed the
four longest days of Billys life. He
counted the hours till at last the day
Of his departure arrived, and an hour
before dinner he was under the same
roof with the girl who had enthralled
him. Now for the wooing.
Toms brother. Jim, was i'll in bed
and did not make his appearance. On
the second night of Billy's visit he
went to bed ut II o'clock and was soon
asleep. He was awakened by hearing
some one moving about the room.
Whoever 1t was tried to light a
match. 1t sputtered moment and
went out, but not before Billy saw by
Its light the face of Fanny Roberts.
There" she grumbled, 1.-The last
match gone, and don't know where
to find another. However, know ex-
actly where | left your medicine-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 I'll risk it this time"
Billy heard her cropping and fun
bling, and finally she came to his bed
side. put glass half full of some
liquid to his lips and poured it down
his throat. Then she left him with n
good night.
Olcott was one of the most modest.
sensitive young men In the world, and
he considered young girls to be even
more sensitive than himself. If Fanny
knew that she had come into his room
at midnight by mistake to give him a
dose Of medicine she would never get
over the shock. This is the reason
why he had not made her mistake
known to her and why he had permit
ted her to pour down his throat Il
medicine he did not need.
He lay congratulating himself on the
delicacy with which he had handled
the matter and how. If she came TO
know Of her mistake. it would set him
up In her opinion. Girls were some
times caught by trifles, and he wouldn't
wonder II this bit of sacrifice would
cause her to fall in love with him.
Then he felt something down in his
stomach where the dose had gone that
felt as If II red hot poker had been ap-
piled to his Intervals He started A
dose In the dark had been given him.
and might it not have been the wrong
Another application of the
hot poker He sat up in bed. his hair
stood on end and a cold sweat broke
out all over him. Fanny had been
looking for bottle in the closet in her
brothers room. not Billy's. She GER
tainly had given him the wrong dose.
Great heavens! Could she have poi.
soned him?
third application of the poker
This time it seemed to Billy that some
one had gripped him with redhot pin
GERS. He sprang out of bed, ran to
Tom Roberts door and hammered on
it. Tom came out In his pajamas and
asked what was the matter.
Bring me an emetic as soon as you
CAM cried Billy. I'm afraid I've
swallowed poison"
Tom ran to his sisters door, called
her up and told her to so downstairs
and bring up some mustard and warm
water She tried to find out who had
been poisoned. but Tom told her to "go
on and be quick about it." When she
brought up the emetic she found Billy's
door open. the room lighted and her
brother bending over the grooming in,
valid.
Then for the first time she under,
stood the cause of the trouble. She
few to the closet, opened the door,
took out vial and read the label.
Then she put the vial back again and
gave Billy look, but said nothing.
II took dose of that" said Billy
between groans. "'Nili II kill meT'
NO" replied Fanny.
What Is lt?"
"a preparation Of ginger and red
pepper"
as that all?"
Yes; 1t won't hurt you"
That's past praying for. It's eating
my vitals."
THANK heaven It's no worse"
Its bad enough as it is"
"How came you to take it?" queried
Tom.
This was poser. Billy took advan-
tage of another internal firebrand to
invent n story. When the paroxysm
had passed he said:
Just before came up here | felt
sick and went to a doctor. He said l
had neutrality-suspicious. and gave me
some medicine for it. | forgot to take
t before going to bed; got up and hunt
I'd for 1t In the dark. | must have got