Beadle's Dime Novels No. 35: East and West — page 29: what you’re looking at

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- hurse. ANOTHER MISFORTUNE. 29 A fainting-fit followed, and after that, stupor, fever, and delirium. | “ Minnie! Minnie! what ails you, poor little fawn ?” ques- tioned Nat, softly ; but she took no notice of him. “ What does this mean, Nat ?’ asked Mr. Willard, confounded by this accumulation of misfortune. “She’s out of her head,” answered Nat, sorrowfully ; “ but I’m sure J don’t know how she came so.” The father, failing to get any reply to repeated tender ques- tions about her illness, which he from moment to moment addressed to her, finally sent Nat back to the housg for her mother.. Mrs. Willard came in haste, and was as much con- founded as her husband. Besides, she had the question to set- tle of what should be done with two sick people and a guest, in the cabin. She knew enough of fevers not to be serjously alarmed by the symptoms of this patient. But she knew, too, that the critical condition of the other one demanded care and quiet, which it was impossible to give him under such disad- vantages. A council was called, to which Constance, and even Nat, Were admitted; it was decided that, as Constance totally re- fused to be sent down to Frank’s, as was first proposed, all the hands should go down there to sleep aud to eat, for the pres- ent, and that the mill-room should be converted to the use of the family. By this arrangement Constance could assist in the nursing, which she would be permitted to do, because, as she said, she had brought the disaster upon Fletcher Harris. Minnie was to remain where she was, because she was used to the roar of the mill-dam, which Mr. Harris was not. Mrs. Gleason, who was skilled in nursing, was sent for to attend on chiefly, and to be Useful generally in her capacity of Frank and Olive tendered their services, but were told they could be most useful taking care of the well men. Frank, however, came up with his mother-in-law to pay his respects to Constance, and to look in upon Minnie. He found his cousin at the mill, where she had proposed to sit while her aunt prepared the family supper. He had not taken any pains to make himself tidy, for Frank was a rabid democrat; but his fine, manly figure, and dark, handsome comicbooks.conm ~