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f&A%I X, GEORGIA,
GEORGIA HOME JOURNAL: GREENESBORO. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 8. I'Mi.-EIGIIT PAGES.
OLIVIA;
THE DOCTOR’S TWO LOVES.
BY THX AUTHOR OF
• The Second Mr. Tillotson.' *.Ver er
forgotten." fie.. Etc.
CHAI iEii XU.
A FBVEIt IliwriTAL.
The fever! What fever? Was i!
anything more than some childish mal
ady brought on by exhaustion ? I stood
silent, iu amazement at his solemr
manner, and looking from him to tli
delirious child. Re was the first tc
speak aga n.
“It will be impossible for yon to gc
to-day,” he said; “the child cannot be
removed. I must tell Jeon to put up
the horse and char-n-l>auc again. 1
shall return in an instant to you,
madame.”
He left me, and I sank down on a
chair, half stupefied by this new
disaster. It would be necessary tc
stay where we were until Minima re
covered ; yet I had no means to pay
these people_for the trouble we should
give them and the expense we should
be to them. Mdhsienr le Cure had all
the appearance of a poor parish priest
with a very small income. I had not
time to decide upon any course, How
ever, before he returned, and brought
with him his sister.
Mademoiselle Tlierese was a tall,
plain, elderly woman, but with the
same pleasant expression of open
friendliness as that of her brother. She
went through precisely the same exam
ination of Minima as he had done.
“The fever!” she ejaculated, in much
the same tone as his. They looked
significantly at each other, and then
held a hurried consultation together
outside the door, after which the cure
returned alone.
“Madamo,” he said, “this child is
not your own, as I supposed last night.
My sister says you are too young to be
her mother. Is she your sister?”
“No, monsieur,” I answered.
“1 called you madame because yon
were traveling alone,” he continued,
smiling“ French demoiselles never
travel alone. You are mademoiselle,
no doubt?”
An awkward question, for he paused
as if it were a question. I looked intc
his kind, keen face and honest eyes.
"No, monsieur,” I said, frankly, “1
am married.”
“Vt here, then, is your husband?” he
inquired.
“Ho is in London,” I answered.
"Monsieur, it is difficult for me to ex
plain it; I cannot speak your language
well enough. I think in English, and
I can’t find the right words. lam very
unhappy, but I am not wicked."
“Good,” l\p said, smiling, “very good,
my child, I believe you. You will
learn my language quickly; then you
sir all tell me all, if you remain with
us. But you said the mignonne is npj
four sister.”
“No, she if| not my relative at all,” 1
replied; “we were both in a school at
-.oireau, the school of Monsieur Emile
Perrier. Perhaps you know it, mon
meur ?”
“Certainly, maritime," lie said.
“He lias failed, and run away,” 1
continued; “all the pupils are dis
perseri. Minima and I were returning
through Granville.”
“liien! I understand, madamo,” he
responded; “but it is villainous, this
affair! Listen, my child. I have much
to say to you. Do I speak gently and
slowly enough for you?”
“Yes,” I answered. “I understand
you perfectly. ”
“We have had the fever in Yille-en
bois for some weeks,” he went on; “il
is now bad, very bad. Yesterday 1
went to Noireau to seek a doctor, but 1
could only hear of one, who is in Pari,
at present, and cannot come immedi
diately. When you prayed me foi
succor last night, I did not know whal
to do. I could not leave you by the
wayside, with the night coming on.
and I could not take you to my owi
houso. At present we have mado mj
house into a hospital for the sick. Mj
people bring their sick to me, and we
do our best and put our trust in God.
I said to myself and to .lean, ‘We can
not receive these children into tli<
presbytery lest they should take the
fever.’ But this little house has beet
kept free from all infection, and you
would be safe here for one night, so 1
hoped. The mignonne must have
caught the fever some days ago. There
is no blame, therefore resting upon
me, you understand. Now I mus<
carry her into my little hospital. Bui
you, madarne, what am I to do witl
you? Do you wish to go on to Gran
ville, and leave the mignonne with me!
We will take care of her as a little
angel oT God. What shall I do witl
you, my child ?”
“Monsieur,” I exclaimed, speaking
so eagerly that 1 could scarcely bring
my sentences into any kind of order,
“take me into your hospital too. Lei
me take care of Minima and your othei
sick people. • I am very strong, and ii
good health; I am never ill—never,
never. 1 will do all you say to me
Let me stay, dear monsieur.
“But your husband, your friends ’
he said.
“I liavo no friends,” I interrupted,
“and my husband does not love me. L
1 have tho fever and die—good, very
good! 1 atu not wicked; lam a Chris
tian, I hope. Only let me stay witl
Minima, and do ull I can in tho hos
pital."
“Bo contcut, my child,* ho said, “you
aliall stuy with us.”
1 felt a sudden sense of contentment
take possession of mo, for hore wu*
w ork lor mo to do, ns well us a rofnge.
Neither should Ibo compelled to leave
Minima, i wrapped her up warmly in
the blankets, and Monsieur I auionli*
lilted her carefully and tenderly from
the low lori. lie told me to uccomiuiUj
him, aud we cross il tho court And ou
li-lt'd the houso by the door 1 hud non.
the night before. A staircase of red
quarries led up to the second story,
ami w>> emtio to a lenif. low room, wilt
a quarried floor, wills!! had town
turned into a baddy lilted up fever
sard for women and cbitdreu. Thera
were already nine beds iu it, ol differ
ent sires, brought with tbs patient*
who now occupied thcia, But oue el
tlia.u wa* empty,
I learned afterward that the girl to
whom Ike bed belonged bad dbo) th
day be tore, during (be euro's absence*
and was Ap.ing to lie buried that moim
took up (n v vok m nurse.
“ Madami- " uiil Monsieur Lauren
tie, one morning, ilia eighth that I
Im.-n in tho fevi*r-ai'tten village, “yon
did not take a promenade yesterday."
“Not yesterday, luouaienr."
“Nor the day before yesterday?" he
continued.
“No, monsieur," I answered; “I dare
not leave Minima. I fear she ia going
to die."
Monsieur Laurentie raised me gently
from my low chair, and seated liimsel!
upon it, with a smile os be looked ur.
at me.
“Voila, madame,” he said, “I prom
se not to quit the chamber till you re
turn. My sister has a little commis
ion for you to do. Confide tho mign
>une to me, and make your prome
aede in peace. It is necessary, mad
•me; you must obey me."
The commission for mademoiselle
was to carry some food and medicine
X) a cottage lower down the valley;
and Jean’s eldest son, Pierre, was ap
pointed to be my guide. Both the cure
nd his sister gave me a strict charge
is to what we were to do: neither of
us was upon any account to go near oi
enter the dwelling; but after the bas
ket was deposited upon a flat stone,
which Pierre was to point out to me,
he was to ring a small hand-bell which
he carried with him for that purpose.
Then we were to turn our hacks and
Mgin our retreat before any person
name out of the infected house.
I set out with Pierre, a solemn-look
.ng boy of about twelve years of age,
who cast upon mo sidelong glances of
silent scrutiny. We passed down the
village street, with its closely packed
louses forming a very nest for fever,
until we reached the road by which I
had first entered Ville-en-bois.
Above the tops of the trees appeared
s tall chimney, and a sudden turn in
die by-road brought us full in sight ol
i small cotton mill, built on the banks
■>f tho noisy stream. A more mourn
fully dilapidated place I had never seen.
In the yard adjoining the deserted
factory stood a miserable cottage with
a mildewed thatched roof. The place
bore the aspect of a pest-house,
shunned by all the inmates of the
neighboring village. Pierre led me to
i largo flat stone, which had once beer
a horse-block, standing at a safe dis
tance from this hovel, and I laid down
my basket upon it. Then he rang his
hand-hell noisily, and the next instant
was scampering back along the road.
But I could not run away. Tho des
olate plague-stricken place had a dis
mal fascination for mo. I wondered
what manner of persons could dwell in
it; and as I lingered I saw the low
door opened, and a thin, spectral figure
standing in the gloom within, hut de
laying to cross tho moldering door-sill
AS long as I remained in sight. In an
other minute Pierre ljad rushed back
for me, and dragged me away with all
his boyish strength and energy.
“Madame,” he said, in augfy remon
strance, “you are disobeying Monsieur
le Cure. If you catch ithe fever and
die while you are a pagan, it will be
impossible for you to go to heaven. It
would boa hundred times better fon
me to die. who have taken my first
communion.-”
“But who lives there ?" I asked.
“They are Very wicked people, ” he
answered, emphatically; “no one goes
near them except Monsieur le Cure.
Tlley became wicked before my time,
and Monsieur le Cure has forbidden us
to speak of them with rancor, so we do
not speak of them at all.”
Who were these pariahs, whose name
even was banished from every tongue ?
I must ask the cure himself.
I went on to look at Minima. She
was lying quiet, too weak and ex
hausted to be violent, hut chattering
all the time in rapid, childish sen
tences. I could do nothing for her,
and I went back to the hearth, where
tho cure was now standing, looking
sadly at a child in his arms. He bade
me sit down on a tabouret that stood
there, and laid his little burden on my
lap.
“The child has no mother, madame,”
he said; “let her die in a woman’s
arms.”
I had never seen any one die, not
even my father, and I shrank from see
ing it. But the small white face rested
helplessly against my arm, and the blue
eyes unclosed for a moment, and gazed
into mine, almost with a smile. Mon
sieur Laurentie called in Jean and
Pierre, and they knelt before us in si
lence, broken only by sobs.
How quickly it was over after that!
CHATTEB Xllt
IS PERIL. •
As soon as Minima hid passed safely
through the most dangerous stages ol
the fever, I was at leisure to listen to
and sympathize with each patient.
Through March, April, and May the
fever had its fling, though we were not
very long without a doctor. Not a
thought crossed my mind of deserting
the little Norman village where I
could be of use. Besides, Minima
gained strength very slowly, too slowly
to be removed from the place or to en
counter any fresh privations.
When Juno come there were no new
cases in the village, though the sum
mer heat kept our convalescents lan
guid. The last person who died of the
lever was Mademoiselle l’ineau, in the
mill-cottage. The old man and his son
had died before her, the former of old
age, the latter of fever.
“My child,” said the cure to mo one
evening when his long day’s work was
over, “your face is triste. What are you
thinking of?”
“I am very triste,” I replied; “I am
thinking that it is time for me to co
away trom you all. 1 cannot stay in
this tran iuil place.”
“But wherefore must yon leave us ?
ho asked, sitting down on the bench
beside me. “I found two littlo Btray
lambs, wandering without fold or shep
herd, and I brought thorn to my own
house. What compels them to go out
into tho wide world again V”
“Monsieur, we are poor,” I answered,
“and you aro not rich. Wo should be
i burden to you, and wo Uavo no claim
upon you.”
“You have a great claim,” lie said;
"there is not a heart iu tho pariah that
bus not love you already. Have not
our children died iu your anus? Ha
nnon with us, madame—you ami my
niignonne, whose face is yet white. Do
you know our language well euougli to
tell me your history now? You ueed
not prove to mo that you are not
wiukori! tell me how von are unfortu
nate, Where were you wandering to
the! mgi.t wheu i found you at the
foot of the ltail ary f*
Thuie m the cool, deepening twilight
I told him my story, little liy little;
.omsiims* at a loss tor word*, and si
way* i<otnplted to |iesk in the *iw
ideal and wuet dn*t phrase*.
daughter,” I Mild. “Mate Id< u* right
ir wrung? Wo rid y><u gi>e me up to
tcr.“ lie answered, leaning ins banns
and its white head aliove them, upon
tlm fop of tho ath-k he was holding,
*nd sitting so for some moments in si
lent thought. “Thy roe* i no; the
voice of passion,” lie continued; “it is
the voice of oonviction, profound and
;onrtrmed. Thou may.st have fled
from him in a paroxysm of wrath, but
thy judgment and tliv conscience ac
quit thee of wrong. Iu my eyes it is a
larrament which thou hast' broken; yet
he had profaned it first Mr daughter,
if thy husband returned to thee, peni
:ent, converted, confessing his offenses
against thee, couldat thou iorgive him ?”
“le;,” I answered; “yes, I could for
give him.”
“Thou wouldst return to him?” he
laid, in calm, penetrating accents.
“Not now,” I cried; “I cannot, I can
uot. I was so young, inonsienr: 1 did
not know what I was promising. I
could never return to him—never!”
“My daughter,” pursued the inex
orable voice beside me, “is it because
there is any one whern thou lovest
more ?”
“Oh!” I cried, almost involuntarily,
ind speaking now in my own language,
I don’t know. I could have loved
Martin dearly—dearly.”
“I do not understand thy words,”
nid Monsieur Laurentie, “but I under
stand thy tears and sighs. Tlion must
stay here, my daughter, with me and
these poor, simple people who love
thee. I will not let theo go into temp
tation. Courage; thou wilt be happy
among us when thou hast conquered
this evil. As for the rest, I must think
ibout it. Let us go in now-. The lamp
has been lit and supper served this
half-hour. There is my sister looking
out at us. Come, madame. You are
in my charge, and I will take care of
you. ”
A few days after this the whole com
munity was thrown into a tumult by
the news that their cure was about to
mdertnke tho perils of a voyage to
England, and would be absent a whole
fortnight. He said it was to obtain
some information as to the English sys
tem of drainage in agricultural dis
tricts, which might make their own
valley more healthy and less liable to
fever. But it struck me that he was
about to make some inquiries concern
ing my husband, and perhaps about
Minima, whose desolate position had
touched him deeply. I ventured to
'iell him what danger might arise to
Me if any clew to my hiding-place fell
into Bichard Foster’s hands.
“My poor child,” ho said, “why art
;hou so fearful? Thcro is not a man
hero who would not protect theo. Be
jontent. lam going to consult some
lawyers of my own country and thine.”
He bade us farewell, with as many
Erections and injunctions as a fatlief
might leave to a large family of sons
and daughters.
The afternoon of that day was un
usually sultry and oppressive. The
blue of tho sky was almost livid. I
was weary with a long_ walk in the
morning, and after our midday meal I
stole away from mademoiselle and
Minima in the salon, and betook my
self to tho cool shelter of tlio church.
I sat down a l en?L just within
tie uoor, and the transept was not in
sight, hut I could hoar Pit rrc bus}- at
bis task of polishing the o ken floor,
lean was hustling m and out of the
jacristy, ana aooin tuo mgu anar in
the chanced There was a faint scent
vet of the incense which had been
burned at the mass celebrated before
the cure’s departure, enough to make
the ail- heavy and to deepen the drowsi
ness and languor which were stealing
aver me. I leaned my head against
:he wall and closed my eves, with a
pleasant sense of sleep coming softly
;oward me, when suddenly a hand was
laid, upon my arm, with a firm, silent
grip.
|TO HE CONTINUKO.I
Nothing Strange.
“Humph! Nawthin 1 strange about
that. Can’t see his innards, anyway.
Now if he had it on the outside I
wouldn’t mind payin’ a dime to see ’im.”
— Rnmhlr.
It Will Come.
“How does this natural gas come,” he
jsked of the bald-headed man in the seat
in front of hitn.
“It collo ts in cavities in the earth,”
was the reply.
“How long will it last?”
“ L ntil the supply in the pocket or cav
ity is used up. Then all pressure will
cease.”
“And the well won’t bo good for
nuthin’ ?”
“That'sabout it.”
“Thanks. A nay bur o’ mine has got a
gas well, and has ordered plug hats, silk
dresses and Waterbury watches by the
dozen, and he's so stuck up that he
won t even borrow my hoo any more.
I'ni going to wait for that cavity to
pump out and his well to peter, and then
mv hull fum’ly will sit on the fence sad
g rin as he goes by.”— street News.
An Accident.
“What's the matter, Johnnie?” asked
a small boy, as Johnnie emerged from
thi house crying.
* frightful accident l” replied Johnnie,
briefly.
“No! What was it?”
“Well, you sec, I was talking
mot her, mid I got inad aud sawed h
“Yes.”
“Aud then she started me.”
“Ye-,”
“And I ran nil over tue house, and
down into the yard an I round that; aud
th> n into th i wood *hud, yon know—”
“Yes, go ou! •
“Weill was r.iuuiu’ under full steam,
ye i sea,”
“Y'e*, yes; of course.”
“Audi in lute so open switch, iue
eld g*utlluuu wis in the wood-shed
with one Tnnldo accident on that
rad, 1 raa tall yog. Trick* ain't
eh*r.4 >**."—• Him lf,
A t’ITUSM of lloi)ok. Mom., ess
il rt ii |k iii if tit n I MU’ tftio uilit'i tiny fcitJl
in, Mi* 1 ibu titiukiM* in i
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