Beadle's Dime Novels No. 35: East and West — page 32: what you’re looking at

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32 THE BEAUTY OF WILLARD’S MILL. her temples which kept the water going, or whether it was the pour, pour, pour of the water to which her pulse was keep- ing time. Before she had the dizzy question settled, she was asleep. There was no sawing at the mill next day. Minnie was still very feverish, and occasionally delirious. Fletcher Harris had recovered consciousness, but was still in a critical situa- tion. . As it had now become rather necessary for Constance to remain at her uncle’s, it was also necessary to send word to Charles Lord of what had happened to his friend, and for Constance’s luggage to be brought down. Accordingly Nat Arncld was dispatched to Kanesville with the hired horses, accompanied by one of the men with a wa- gon, to bring back the trunks, and a commission from Mrs. Willard for housekeeping articles. “* Misfortunes never come singly,” neither do other impor- tant events, for one brings on another. Mr. Willard was in great perplexity about his affairs. The men had come who were to put up the new house, but there was no possibility of lodging them, or of having the work go on under present cir- cumstances. Yet never was there so much nced of a conve- nient dwelling; and the need seemed increasing, for Charles Lord would undoubtedly come down immediately on hearing of his friend’s accident. Constance, who sat beside the bed attending to the comfort of Harris, observed that her uncle fidgeted in and out, sitting a moment musing absently, then hurrying out again to confer with the carpenters who were hanging sullenly about, disap- pointed of their job. “ My arrival has put your affairs all out of joint, hasn’t it, uncle?” she asked, with rather a troubled smile. “No, it has only mixed them up a little. There! I'm glad you spoke. It has cracked the shell of an idea, I do believe, just hearing your voice.” Out of the house he went again, and remained some time, apparently giving directions to the carpenters, “ That was a good idea you helped out of its shell,” he said, half an hour afterward, as he met Constance going to the mill. “‘ The plan of phous wasn’t quite the thing to comcbdooks.com