THE TIMES, NEW BL00MF1EL1),1A., SEPTEMBER 17, 1878.
lshetl old lttdy, Jumping up. 11 Bheshall
marry, and I will fix things to that I
shall have Homebody to depend on.
That Lawton Isn't so bad a fellow after
all, and she ahull have him. Kate, you
shall have Illok Lawton. I will see If
we are to be jeered at and shunned by
this town on account of that fellow's
stupidity."
The guests had begun to retreat from
the melee. Either the old lady's mind
was breaking up, or she had a mono
mania on that one subject ghosts. For
hours Bhe walked the floor, cried and
threatened.
" You hear what I say, Kate V You
shall marry Itlck Lawton and live
here."
" Yes, aunt."
It was nearly daylight. I still linger
ed, fearing some catastrophe from the
excitement, llesldes, Bessie seemed to
have grown com posed, and her blue eyes
shone with something very much like
happiness. 8he looked so deeply fas
cinating, and Kate looked so mirthful
behind her pocket-handkerchief, that I
was bewildered.
Hut I got a whisper of the truth be
fore I left. It was Kick Lawton taking
oft' his wig in the garden that had
frightened Peter, and Kate, taking ad
vantage of the situation, provided her
lover with a sheet, whereby he personi
fied a walking ghost for the benefit of
the poor darkey.
I went home for breakfast and in two
hours was recalled to arrange legal doc
uments concerning a wedding dower.
Kate and Lawton were married then
and there. They made a tour, but set
tled down In the old mansion immedi
ately. Privately, I think that It was
fortunate that the old lady immediately
took her bed, or matrimonial bliss might
have been a myth for the newly wedded
pair.
She was confined to her room for sev
eral years before her death, but made no
trouble. Sometimes when the bell would
peal half a dozen times In a hour, sum
moning the doctor to his numerous pa
tients of the surrounding country, she
would smile shrewdly and say :
" Folks don't seem to be afraid to come
here."
I was sorry to take her little nurse
away, but Bessie attended her a whole
year, after she had promised to be my
wife, and I could do without her no
longer.
A year after Kate's marriage, we heard
from the red-haired young man who
had so befriended us. He had married a
Creole heiress in New Orleans, and he
wished us joy of our haunted old cas
tle. It Is haunted with the laughter of
merry children that's all.
HETTY'S MISTAKE.
lt pvEAR.-deor, how It rains!'
said
U Hetty Wallis.
She had opened the door the least lit
tle bit in the world, to see If there was
any prospect of its clearing up, but the
rush of the wind and rain that swept In
at the crevice compelled her to close it
again almost instantaneously.
It was a little brown house, on the
edge of the lonely Western forest a
brown house, with sloping eaves and a
bay-window, and a dooryard full of
roses, whose crimson clusters gleamed
faintly in the late autumn twilight.
Doctor Wallis lived here Doctor
Wallis, who had come West, with his
two daughters, scarcely six months ago,
and who was the only physician within
a radius of thirty good miles around.
Hetty stood by the Are, one foot on
the fender, her dark, dreamy eyes fixed
on the red glow of the burning logs.
Sibyl, the other sister, lay luxuriously
back In a cushioned chair, waiting for
the lamps to be lighted before she went
on with the bit of Berlin wool-work In
her lap.
Sibyl Wallis was a rose-cheeked, scar-let-llpped
beauty, one of these fair hu
man flowers which, like the lillies of
Solomon, are destined neither to toll
nor to spin.
Doctor Wallis was a poor man, and
kept no servants ; but no one ever ex
pected Sibyl to do any of the rough and
disagreeable offices consequent upon
housekeeping.
Sibyl dusted the parlors, kept the vases
full of flowers, washed the tea china,
and " did up" her own pretty laces and
pocket-handerchief ; and Hetty, the sec
ond daughter a brown little elf, with
jetty hair growing low on her forehead,
and a colorless olive skin cheerfully
undertook the prosaic part of lire, as if
it were her natural Inheritance.
" To think of poor papa out In all
this tempest!" said Hetty mournfully.
" Gentlemen dou'tmind such things,"
said Sibyl, serenely. " And of course,
It's just what a doctor must expect."
"Hush 1" said Hetty, suddenly turn
ing her head in a quick, bird-like fash,
ion. Some one is knocking at the
back door." ' '
" Perhaps you'd better go and see who
it is," remarked Sibyl.
, It was a man all wrapped up in oil
skin, until nothing more; than the tip
of a very red nose was visible.
'! Oh, I say, miss," said the dripping
visitant, " Where's the doctor V"
"He Isn't In," said Hetty.
." Where's Doctor Wallis," reiterated
the man. i ..
"He's out!" answered Hetty, speak
ing loud hnd distinctly, under the Im
pression that the Inquirer was deaf.
"It'sDakln's boy," said the man,
" he's chokln' to death."
"Oh!" said Hetty. "Croup, I sup
poser"' " Don't know what It Is," said the
messenger, "Ain't ho doctor myself.
All I know Is that I must bring back
Dr. Wallis," with a nod at his lumber
wagon at the gate.
" But you can not, If he is out," said
Hetty.
The man stood a moment, shifting
from'one foot to the other, evidently in
a quandary.
"I'm blamed If I know what to do,"
said he. " Well I'll tell ye what, Miss.
You just send the doctor on to Daktn's
just as quick as he comes back. If
Dakln's boy chokes to death, it ain't no
fault of mine!"
And away rumbled the wagon Into
mist and twilight.
It had hardly disappeared when a lit
tle lad arrived with a note for
Hetty.
" It's from papa," said Hetty, hur
riedly opening it and reading aloud the
following brief message:
Deah Girls : Old Eldwood is very
bad, and I shall probably be detained ail
night. liock up the house as usual, and
don't expect me until I come. Affec
tionately, H. W.
"Oh, dear," said Hetty, blnnkly;
" and what is to become of Dakin's
child V"
" I never saw such a girl as you, Het
ty," said lovely Sibyl, with a pettish
contraction of the brows. " You are
always shouldering other people's
troubles. What is Dakln's child to us,
I'd like to know V"
" But only think of it, Sibyl," said
Hetty, clasping her hands, "a dear lit
tle baby suflbcating to death all for the
want of the simplest remedies."
" We can not help it," said Sibyl set
tling back composedly among her cush
ions. "But I'm not so sure of that," said
Hetty, briskly. " I know the remedies
papa uses for a case of croup, and how
to use them. " I'll go myself."
" Hetty !" cried the elder sister, " are
you crazy 5"' v
" Crazy y" said Hetty. ' "No, I'm
only ordinarily human. The child
shan't die if I can help it."
She went to her father's drug closet,
opened it, and took out several small
vials.
" Syrup Ipecac,' " said Hetty, with a
little nod of her head to each. " Asa
foetlda,' ' hive syrup.' Simple reme
dies, but very effectual if taken In
time."
" But, Hetty," pleaded Sibyl, " you're
never going to walk, nobody knows
how far, in all the rain V"
"Yes, lam," said Hetty, buttoning
on a capacious water proof cloak, and
pulling the hood over her head.
"And you don't even know where
these Dakins live."
"Yes, I do. It's a big brick house
just beyond the woods by the church.
Papa showed it to me the other day."
. "Full two miles away."
" I can't help that," said Hetty.
" And me all alone "'
Sibyl's voice grew plaintive.
" I can't help that either." returned
Hetty, a little Impatiently. " But don't
fret, Sib I'll not be long."
And out the brave little girl walked
Into the tempestuous twilight, with her
pockets full of medicine and the water
proof cloak buttoned snug around
her.
Not until she had left the friendly
lights of home far behind and was lost
in the black, rustling depths of the for
est, where the dark boughs met over
head, and ghostly, whispering sounds
went through the dry leaves, did Het
ty's valiant heart begin to quail.
Even then she would n't admit to her
self that she was in the least timid, but
resolutely fixed her thoughts upon" Da
kin's boy," Buflbcatlng to death with
croup, and quickened her footsteps as
she did so.
Darker and darker it grew lonelier
and lonelier; but Hetty pressed reso
lutely until drenched with rain and
ready to drop with fatigue of making
her way through muddy roads against
the winds, she knocked at the door of
'Squire Dakin's red brick house.
An elderly woman opened it.
" It is the doctor !" said she eagerly.
"No," said Hetty, " but it's the doc
tor's daughter." ,
" Lord sakes alive !" said the woman,
despairingly ; " what good can you do,
and him so mortal bad b"
"A great deal," said Hetty. "Let
me come In, if jou please. I under
stand my father's treatment, and I have
some medicine here."
At this the woman stood back, mo
tioning toward the stairway, and Hetty
ran up and entered the sick room with
a confidence born of her womanly cour
age and kindness.
" But It was no cradled babe or plump
four-year-old Who lay there. "Dakin's
boy" was one-and-twenty at the very
least, pale and handsome, with closed
eyes, and a face set as if lu mortal pain,
as it lay on the pillow.
Hetty Involuntarily recoiled.
" It It isn't the croup then," said Bhe
clasping on e of the little bottles in her
hand.
" It's quinsy,' Bald one of the atten-'
dants, " and it Is a fatal case, I'm think
ing." And little Hetty, all her bravery ooz
ing out, like Bob Acre's courage, at her
fingers' ends, sat down behind the door,
and began to cry.
The sick man opened his eyes large
and soft, and dark they were, with long
lashes and asked faintly :
"Who's that?"
Hetty rose and came forward.
" It's ine, the doctor's daughter," said
she. I thought It was a little boy with
the croup, and "
"Don't cry," said he gently, "It will
soon be over."
And he closed his eyes again, whllo
poor Hetty cried harder than ever. An
incipient case of croup she thought she
could manage, but "quinsy" was entire
ly beyond the range of her capacities.
She had never been in a death-chamber
before, and the hour and solemnity of
the scene Impressed her with a sense of
vague terror.
Just then a brisk, heavy footstep
sprang up the stairs, two at a time.
There was a stir and commotion in the
room.
"Oh, thank heaven !" cried Hetty,
" it's papa."
Doctor Wallis It was. Iteleased earlier
than he expected from the other sick
bed, he returned home, and learned from
his eldest daughter Hetty's errand, and
here he was, flushed and breathless from
the haste he had made.
An hour luter he came down to where
Hetty sat on the lowest stair, pale and
anxious.
" Fapa," said she, " how is the young
man V"
" Better, my dear. Doing well. But It
was an even chance between death and
life for one while. Come, dear, I'm go
ing home now. Dobbin Is at the
door."
Hetty climbed silently Into the buggy
and nestled down by her father's Bide.
"Papa," said she, presently, " was I
very silly to come here V
" No, my dear, you were very kind
hearted. But as you see there Is some
difference between a simple case of
croup and malignant quinsy."
" Dakin's boy" recovered with mar
velous celerity, and the first place he
visited In his convalescence was Doctor
Wallis' house, to thank the doctor's
black-eyed daughter for coming to see
him on that stormy night.
" I wish I was a little chap with the
croup," said he laughingly, " to put my
self under your professional care."
" What nonsense !" said Hetty, turn
ing very red.
" But Indeed, I shall never forget the
pitying look In your kind eyes," said
Hector Dakin, gently. "It seemed
somehow to draw me back to life."
And by the time that " Dakin's boy"
was quite recovered, he had gotten into
a way of spending his time at Doctor
Wallis' that seemed decidedly chronic ;
when he became engaged to the doctor's
daughter.
" It's very strange, though," said Sib,
fretfully, " that the only eligible and
decent looking man within ten miles
should fall In love with our brown little
Hetty."
" I don't think it strange at all," said
Dr. Wallis, dryly.
Furious Sharks.
The New Haven Journal of the 31st
ult., Bays : As the large seine of the
East Haven fishing company was being
drawn to shore yesterday afternoon, and
when the catch was close in to the sand
beach and the heads and tails of thou
sands of white fish constantly appeared
and disappeared, thickly filling the sur
face of the water in the net enclosure,
an unusual and violent commotion told
of the presence of more sharks In the
net.
On Wednesday one monster man
eater, eleven feet long, was taken, and
on Thursday, with 25,000 white fish,
brought to shore, there were five of the
rapacious monsters captured, one seven
feet in length, one six feet and the rest
smaller.
The capture of these had whetted ex
pectations of seeing more, although the
company are not at all anxious for their
appearance owing to the danger of their
tearing and thrashing the net to pieces.
When the sharks were seen yesterday
they had not become aware that they
were prisoners and were rushing about
gorging themselves on the white fish at
a great rate.
It wasnt long before they found out
that there was trouble In the catrip, and
they lashed the whlte-flsh-fllled water
with their talis and swam around In cir
cles, lathering the place with foam. Not
to give the sharks too much lee way,
Mr. Meadham stepped out among the
thousands of white fish, axe in hand,
and dealt two of the largest sharks each
a powerful blow, which seemed to stun
them a little. Then, with a large heavy
Iron hook In hand, with a long rope at
tached reaching to shore, he watched
his chances, and at the right moment
struck the hook Into the nearest shark,
and the hook taking a strong hold, the
shark, with ten or a dozen sturdy men
at the rope, soon found himself on the
sand.
The operation was repeated until five
of the ugly, thrashing Intruders were
making the sand fly on the beach and
snapping their saw teeth in the most
savage fushlon. A bean pole Inserted
in the mouth of one of them was held
as If In a vise, and pieces were bitten In
two.
The three largest sharks were meas
ured with a foot rule when lying com
paratively quiet. The largest one was
eight feet long, the next seven and the
third six feet. The other two were three
or four feet long, but were active and
saucy enough.
As soon as some of the sharks found
themselves on land they discharged from
their capacious jaws a shower of White
fish. One of the smaller sharks had his
head bitten clean off in'a trice when in
serted In the open jaws of the eight
footer. A number ot years ago the fishing
company's seines brought sixteen sharks
to shore in one season, and the catch
this season is the largest 'since then.
The unusual number of sharks In the
harbor and along the shore this summer
Is partially accounted for by the hot
weather and the swarms of white fish
In to feed. It might be added that It
behooves the small boy to select his
bathing ground with sOnic show of dis
cretion in view of the shark family
preference this season for the shore.
Lockjaw by a Lightning Stroke.
A Kalamazoo paper says : The case
of Benjamin O. Bush, of this place.who
has been expected to die every day for
the past week with the lockjaw, but
who is now believed to be slowly recov
ing, has been a very singular one. Some
time ago he run a rusty nail into his
foot, but the foot was poulticed and
healed over without any apparent re
sult Some two weeks ago he was wit
nessiug a game of base ball between the
Jackson and Kalamazoo clubs, when
the lightning struck a tree on the track
and Bush Immediately felt a pain be
tween the shoulders as though a knife
had been run into him. He went home
and his symptoms continued to grow
worse in spite of medical assistance, un
til It proved to be a very bad case of
lockjaw. He had to be fed through a
tube for several days, and the cramping
and contortions of the body were fright
ful to behold.
A Fashionable Call and all They Said. .
How do you do, my dear? Purty
"well, thank you. (They kiss.) How
have you been this age? Purty well
how have you been V Very well, thank
you. Pleasant to-day. Yes, very bright
but we had a shower yesterday. Are
all your people well 5 Quite well, thank
you, how are yours? Very well, I'm
obliged to you have you seen Mary B.
lately ? No, but I've seen Susan C.
You don't Bay. Is she well? Do call
again soon. Thank you but you don't
call upon me once In an age. Oh, you
should not say that ; I am sure I am
very good. Good day. Must you go?
Yes, Indeed ; I have seven calls to make.
Good day,
A Lonesome Watch.
William McMurtrie, a Patersou school
teacher, and his son, while walking
through the woods, near Southfield on
Saturday evening, lost their way and
were unable to find their way out in the
darkness. While they were discussing
what to do Mr. McMurtrie fell forward
on his face dead, it is supposed of heart
disease. The son was compelled to sit
by the corpse all night, not knowing
which way to go. In the morning he
found his way out anl summoned as
sistance. At Bombny a lady and geutlema n
who were taking a stroll sauntered into a
church, and finding tbe marriage register
on a table, the gentleman for fun wrote in
it the names of four people (two couples),
well known in their circle of friends. Tbe
names may not be erased, because any ooe
tampering with the signatures in the regis
try is liable to seven years penal servitude.
Tbe offender has absoonded, the gentlemen
are in pursuit, and the ladies in dismay.
Tbe governor has been appealed to, but
no decision has been arrived at as to what
can be done.
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