Bonny Jean, and A Severe Threat — page 163: what you’re looking at

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156 | A SEVERE THREAT. — sake of the small salary which kept her above dependence and want; for she was a lonely orphan girl, and there was no one in all the wide world upon whom she had any legal claim. | Frank, kind-hearted Dora, or Dot, as she was generally called, was a favorite in the company which had secured her valuable services for another season. Her health had not been strong, and when she had propused going to Waltham for a briet season of rest, leave of absence had been readily granted her, the company agreeing to ‘‘ pick her up” as they passed that town on their provincial tour. “* How sweet the hawthorn is!” she exclaimed, aloud. ‘‘It is just too utterly lovely out here. But I must make haste, if I expect to get home in time for breakfast. Why!” and she paused abruptly, glancing about her with a startled ex- pression, ‘‘this road looks strange to me. Good gracious! I believe I am lost !” She turned as she spoke, and her eyes fell upon some- thing white right at the foot of a large tree, and a second glance revealed to her a very white face. She darted forward; half expecting to find a ghastly corpse lying there. But as she drew near, the white face was uplifted, and a weak voice cried piteously : | ‘‘For God’s sake, help me! I have fallen, and I fear I have broken a limb !” | With a-stifled whistle, which was her characteristic mode of expressing astonishment, Dot hastened forward, and found her- self in the presence of a beautiful dark-eyed girl. ‘You poor child!” she exclaimed, in a kindly tone, ‘‘ how came you here? Looks as if you had been out here all night. Can’t you stand ?” And the kind-hearted actress put her arm about the slender form of the girl, and managed to assist her to her feet. But a fearful pain shot, through the injured limb, and the poor -_ St comicbooks (e(@)