Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-02-14

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isssE t9 Fest dawa Ward reae over
once. STARED all night ard wsns harac
Ia asEsst rage BECAUSE he could not
do thing
There was week Of auetuatiag
hope and a sitas when ths doctor said
tnorafsiie Eaast so 10 hospital Boise,
s&tes she had friends there, And there
was tsrrihse, nerve raesing journey
- She railroad, And when Ward ride
nsxt 10 ths Wolverine raaeh there was
40 Billy Louise tp fannt OF seaspt him.
John friaEts aad Phoebe fela him In
Sgissfs stolfd sentences OF the later de-
yeSopuients and gavs him meal aud
offered him bed. which be declined
When the suspense became madden.
iHg after that he would ride down to
the Wolverine for news And The news
Has tEaonofGnously scant. Phoebe could
read and write after a fashion. and
| Hllfy Louise sent her letter now and
thens saying that nommie was about
tie same and that stfe wanted John
ta do certain things about the ranch.
sna could not leave mommie, she said.
Ward gathered that she would not.
Oaee when he was at the ranch he
| wrote letter to Billy Louise and told
Ter that he would come 10 Boise II
there was anything he could do and
begged her to let him know IL she
needed any money. Beyond that he
worked and worked aud tried to crowd
| the ionesomeness out OF bis days and
l Nf-~ ANtstsNs AiShss MAD aIGHstlS WIFI G0Isl-
psete bone weariness. He did not ex-
pect an answer to his letter-at least
he told himself that he did. nos--but
oae cay Phoebe gave him thin little
letter.
Rilly Louise did not write anuch.
She explained that she could only
sefibhia n line or two while mommie
slept Mommie was about the same.
She did not think there was anything
WARD could do, and she thanked him
Tor Offering to help. There was moth
ms, she said patheticaily, that anybody
could do. Even the doctors did not
seem able to do much except ten her
lies and charge her for them. No; she
did not need any money THANK you
Just the same, Ward That was about
al. 1t did not sound In the least like
Billy Louise.
Ward answered the note then and
| there aud called her Wilhemina- mine.
which was an awkward name to write
aad cost him five minutes of cogitatIon
over the spelling. But he wanted Ii
down On paper where she could see ii
| ana remember how 1t sounded wher, he
SAID IL, even 1t 1t did look queer Far
theT along he started TO call her Bill
Loo, but rubbed 1t out and substituted
LADY Girl with capitals. Altogether
ne dld better than he knew, for he
made Billy Louise cry when she read
u. and he made her say Dear WARD
under her breath and remember how
ms hair waved over his left temple
ana how he looked when that smile hid
Just behind his lips and his eyes. and
ne made her forget that she had lost
NTH IN him. She needed to cry, and
sue needed to remember and also tn
forget some things, for life was hard
dili drah in Boise, with nothing 10
nghten it save vicarious hope that
did not comfort.
Billy Louise was NOT stuuid She
Saw through the vagueness Of the foc. 1
tors, and. besides. she was so hungry
Tor her hills that she felt like beatinp
the doctors with her fists becau use they
a'a nothing to make her mommie we'll
enough to go home. She grew to Iata
tue nurse and her neutral cheeffu,ness
That is how the fall passed for Ri,Ir
ter. = sne "a-
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