Show 11 ILIE she e cures hor her father of his imaginary a inary disease DIso asoo huh hush nellil said mrs mm bel fin III holding up a warning finger as wr daughter up the steps with agay gay I laugh augh your father i suffering kiy I 1 v much this afternoon af hernoon ter noon and is ir trying sleep lie he is in ia the sitting siu ing room on C e lounge whore where I 1 made him go ua as it much cooler there IN tint s the matter now said nel with her pretty face curiously un angad i by the news of her fathers in is position tion oh just one of his nervous nd I 1 i think lie he said lie he had a head pie che too I 1 broiled him a bird and he kerned eem to relish that and drank somo some buttermilk Jutter milk of the mornings churning 11 J well then if he can cat and enjoy buttermilk remarked the girl with a abort laugh lie he is not so very bad off be honesty honest now nov mother do dodou you believe nuch in fathers ailments no no lont leont you frown but tell me the truth bont ins ills appetite nud and looks too good for r thi re to be much the matter with lim fim I 1 declare I 1 have caught dr lef 4 A lii I 1 smiling bic Adly several times when 4 hn ha wen hore to hee father and it as au all ho could do to keep from laugh ur ug light in his hii hi i face ami I tons kindly face wore a ij half frightened likened lit ened express it ana sh litand to her daughter but iw id demurely I 1 ilov cm cin you talk 0 o nelly of our ourse st your father is ia ill or why should 4 fl fc tn n to im IA so 11 lie c likes potting petting and coddling just ie e a baby and mother mot lier I 1 really be bovo aim n know it is wainly mainly hit hib i rw that i is ut at work but you have got n the habit ot waiting on him and mm iii rn iii ins fancies until you do it as n mat of course now own up do ou olt believe in his hii hi i sickness s today to day thol thi evaded the clear truth hii pitting eyes turned up to her own I 1 1 ui u laug tied and whispered cd back oil cil lie he did oa ca about bix bis biscuits t th h th alit at inid bird ini d and di ink three glasses f loata and dispose of nearly a ird ol oi a gaass of my p ye pe e rv f nelly caught her ber mother in her arms artith ith a kahout of delight branol oravel or avol you yon have owned it and that is alf eilf the iho baittle bs bal ittle tle mother I 1 know in the ahti acott bottom ow af pf f your ducart tender and kind a tt t i is you are arc tired of fathers morbid ocies md of to his hia imi amary I 1 ailments and it is time some ang hin HUB tw done to aruM him shim or begill he will 1100 owe a hypochondriac hyp for ic is nearly that now I 1 believe I 1 could wrea break k win him INO no you child I 1 used to and p gat ut him to shake off his d des ea daucy and not to think so much of little aches and pains but I 1 only called unfeeling for my exertions well I 1 would approach him dif 4 antly aly listen lieten list en mother I 1 have a and the two heads beads one balu brown aud and handsome in spite 0 of the flue fine linos linen of silver over the temples and the other bright abright chestnut drew close together and in tho the golden mm of the beautiful september day a dark plot wu for formed ined and when rob hob harper came Et strolling rolling in with the most purposeless air that ever conceived a purpose sc the sumo same was imparted to him film under seal goal of sebros y then when nelly to biuk as a far as the turn of the road un aa rob hob took his way horne home the doctor driving past was halted and made a partner likewise in the mysterious bus inese the afternoon slipped away and the day had gin place to the purple twilight when hiram belton awoke from hi pleasant nant nap and stretched out liis his irao d for the pitcher ier of ice fee water aly plowed placed right hy by his side on such occa occasions ions by y his devoted wife but this tim tigue lie felt in vain lie ile pressed his hand on his forehead and groaned twice thrice very heavily but there was no ono who came tiptoeing tip toeing nocing into the room to bend over inin hun and be beg r to know hat could be done his groans grew louder and more alarming and still they produced no effect so pre presently icat the invalid raised himself slowly Io vly and tu arcing to the door called faintly barbara returning to his couch at once no lio barlara ali but in a few minutes nelly anelly came nonchalantly hinging into the room thit you father she bhe said carelessly le ay iy have you taken a lazy feell too 1 A groan groa n was the re reply ply which brought forth dranic too much buttermilk eh ch J did myself and I A tell you it gave ino a pain whores Wh res your mother put in the invalid id glaring at his daughter aint to bed she had a headache an I 1 I 1 nude her go for there was really no reason for her keeping up if she felt no reason snorted mr belton anti and me meas as ill as I 1 ami I 1 wonder Iwonder who she thinks is going to nurse me but it is like a woman to give up to the slightest ache or pain and just when they ure arc needed most oh you will be all air right ht in an hour or two father bather if you d dont ont mind ill ge to prayer meeting with 11 rob harper by the way mother said please pet get ahr churn ready for her and heres the key to the dairy she was gone before the irate parent could arime the cutting speech lie he had in mind in which lie mingled a serpent tooth nu in ungrateful child his unaccountable un table and preposterous fa failure to perform lier her wifely duties and tho the heart heartier leb madness of expecting him to rise from a couch of pain and illness to set a churn lie he lay and pondered the thing over they were evidently growing rowing incredulous on the subject of his hig ail ailments menis und and needed a lesson a severe one to ariu bring them back to their alle glance in the meanwhile nelly leaning on her lovers arm confided to him that I ather always fell ill so opportunely and recovered with such sur fein a whenever he found that was inconvenient they both haug haughee hiu hed I 1 but a quick remorse smote the pirl girl when on their return they haw lights glancing about the house bouse heard a manservant man servant on a horse RO go tearing after the doctor and mrs belton met them thein with oh nelly your father Is dying dy ini it lb ii a judgment on oil us for our wicked viel ced doubting of him this afternoon oh I 1 can never never forgive myself but when nelly followed by roh rob entered the darkened room where her father lay tha color came back to her chael cheeky ts und and lier her eyes lost their look of horror for with singular blundering rob picked up tip the shaded lamp arid and turning the wick to its greatest height let the bright of li light lit fall right on the sufferers face so that his daughter saw that the dying mans countenance was still very healthily tinted 1101 oli oh om olit groaned mr air belton turn that lamp down Is that you ne nelly daul daughter ahter well kd inas your poor father and tell him goodby good by oh oi here II ere you are going jo to faint miss nolly nelly go out in tho the fresh air at onoe said rob and as the door clowd closed on the girl he turned to mr belton I 1 with poor girl and she to te be married so soon boon to joe banner your i death will put her wedding off wout wont ita it what yelled mr belton forgetting to groan and sitting up in bed joe bannera not if I 1 have to kill I 1 him the banners and belsons hated each other as only people in small p places laces and over small matters have timo time to lias such a tiling thing been going on an behind hiramy my back ill ill 1 oh dont dearl dear interposed poor mrs belton you will injure yourself lie quiet till the doctor comes I 1 am sure rob is mistaken about joe baner banner why nelly never speaks to him and besides she and rob are heres the doctor exclaimed rob rushing to open the door and cutting mrs airs belton short in her explanation dr lester came in looking suspiciously i grave for there was a very inconsistent S twinkle in his eyes ile he felt mr belsons Belf Bel cons tons pulse and looked graver S till still while the twinkle fairly set his ey to dancing and then with a certain reluctance in his voice said 1 I must not conceal from you my my dear sir that you are suffering from cerebrospinal spinal meningitis combined with ceremia of the medulla oblongata gata grata how is it you never consulted me before suspect it noo ino no o said the patients patient looking scare beaded dand and white doctor will will it it it bo be fatal the doctor turned first and requested mrs belton and bob to leave the room which they did when he addressed himself to the sick man ill 1 I feel it my auty uty to tell you tho the truth you one hour to livel live oh oh oh save me doctor ill give div e you five hundred dollars to do it a thousand dollars my whole place anything only save mel me cant do it said the doctor shak inz his head face it like a man belton dont trouble about your wife and family marys married nelly could be tomorrow to morrow and as for mrs belton marks the widower sandyes said yesterday she was the handsomest woman still in the cou county rity and that if she was only rid of you hed ask aak her the day after the funeral what shrieked the dying man flinging himself himsel out fout of bed and dancing over the floor fl 0 0 r Vs as if it ii were red hot to jericho with my cerebra spitting whatever you call it and my oblong medal diel die no ill not die not for a I 1 hundred yon make tracks dr lester this minute im tired of your bread pills yes they were bread and 1 I knew it oil all along the idea of a mens wife and daughter planning aye building or on his death and proposing I 1 before the breaths out of his 1 body to dance over his gravel here mr air belton grew grav a little mixed in his hia language but lie he knew what lie he meant and that was all that was necessary it was hours before lie could bo be got to quiet lown down and days before lie ho ceased to growl inarticulate and mysterious threats directed against no ono one could quite gather whom but from that time on mr air belton has never complained of an ache or pain and fiercely disclaims feeling even under the weather whenever informed that he looks so philadelphia times |