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Show THE LIGHT fg By Mildred white. (C IIII, Wt.tttD Nwpf Unlo.) Jnnet Parcy stopped from Uie train t Willow bj Junction, and atood peer? In through the hair-darkae-is. The small alaUon uaa dosed and locled for the night, and tho great train milling mill-ing again tm Its nay left Janet a solitary arrival. Tumbled. she walked Hie length of the platform, ihen at , down on the crude atepi to think the Hltnitlon oTtr. She had left lierhMutl-fill lierhMutl-fill city home that afternoon hnnllly, hikI In an unenviable frame of uilnd. Mother, father and Die governor vrere all InMstcnt In their demands for an i CAtly niurrlKe. while Janet waa not sure Unit the named to be married at all ' In her haMy departure Janet had i neuT conshleiod the pos8lblllly of her piL'Sctit position. Tails, be aupposed, Hwnltcd train arrhals In een Willow-liy Willow-liy tonn. ' Aunt Clurabelle's cottiige, Janet ( knew, nctled nt the foot of the trns- f t'lln Illume hticvt, two.mlh'8 nwrty. It wuh. not the wttlk of the two tnlh'H (lint t-lf f i'ii led to attempt, but tho. tin-iicctnt(itiiO(l tin-iicctnt(itiiO(l dnikinxa of the llec bon dered roml. As alio snt on the station oti'l. th- fdiellercd Rlrl beciitne uerv-oiily uerv-oiily iilnrtnodt the i-pot was exceed-iiik exceed-iiik ilvolnto iiml tlfu puit-e In her ii;iL'Imi' chmK iiockel wns filled lth lilllsv noopeintcly, nt Intt xho uro'-e nnil lioxmi her xhiinlillui; wny. Hutu mill lulled linuiililos mciiumI set like n trap for the ilnuiirj. Then, nlinoit dlucll) before ln-r, he 'llddeul hiv. a llf.'bt. Snuicotic, had ci ii i it- f i inn unions the trees to the rondsldi, mid tho konu'iine carried a llh-hted liinteru. .timet ilrew buck fearfully, fear-fully, but iin the light went twinkling on, nols('ltsl) he followed. It would bo tielexB tii trj to locate Aunt Clara-lii'llc's Clara-lii'llc's abode In tjie onifn-iliiv' twist of Wll.lfl. Tlili lltilil must lean to some .m-lunloushlp, .m-lunloushlp, peihup to the xllluje, wheiv iilic niljjht be nccouiumdnted for the ultlit t Janet strHilll.v iind with now comtiKc preesed onward, 'Hie priding tigtne before ber luriln alnuptly down a blilden lane; at Iih end Junct aw jbe outlines of a mall Iioum. The man, as thf drew near, put down hi lantern to open the Imuxe door. Janet xllentl) waited, as iinunuouni.sJ be entered and ftliirU a Debt. Sht saw at a fide or the room a tick woman wom-an Ijiiix upon bed, vrlth a child fiet-llnir fiet-llnir at her side. The tall man adxauiliiK lifted the child gently In h! Minis and with a lauh'hliif word sent It afler an orange losed on the lloor. Tbvn, tbrowlliK aside Ids cloak, he bent mi auxloiifi face er tlie alck woipnn, Janet, 'tudlouly reKardlnx btx fine, was nil at once reassured. "Ve, doctor," Mip lieanl the woman j.'njiliiK- i Ij answer a iiu'tbu; then, Impulshe-l, Impulshe-l, Janet slepHd paxt the lantern Into the mom, Tho -iluvtor t;lnied up I shniply "Take off jour wraps," he tdnrtllmdy enuiuiiiudt'd, "nnil come bete." Half llii nn-ilniis of ber own iiLttou I Janet Piuej obeyed. "We will lme to work fiid," Ibe Iiiimii told Iter. "Klnill follou dliec- I tlnns wlibnur (uestbiu. lint wattr at ' I nine." rtiiemptoill) be Usiied Ills or-ivi". or-ivi". I Janet, the shers of her wblte wnlat Tolled lilpli, Willi to lilt C.'lil kitchen atoe. 'I'beiu wtis wood piled iicai"-, and tmitihes. I)esiernttl). as tbr woiiihu'm labnred breatbliiK renilied ber, she beut i ber task, A tire waa ciacklint: at lilM licneatb the kettle. Janet'a ofl flnpenr were suimlKed ami bllitered, but her eiex shone lc(orIuuly. She saw the per-.pliatlixi mi the -rouut; doctor's forehead an she re-K)ioilded re-K)ioilded ea-cerl-i to Ills demaiid. "It's pneumonia," It lolil ber aa they tested. "1'ietlj had, but I think' we wll he able lo break It. Ittiial postman inroimed ino of the ease, rj-tuiultiir rj-tuiultiir f i oin his rout Ihln etetilu. Immediately 1 (elephuiied to lire Oty for you. That Is, I tbpbimeii Mr n)' uKual iiurae, but ) atippoo )on b)t-penud b)t-penud to he the only iie RTallabte a;. t)e lime. Yu made gtwd time fdt" tint out. Now, rre will leave our patient. I.Ortk to tH -.iHUfort of ,11m child." Janet turned with a awlle la her wnar- lueis this language of eouiiuaitd sb-s bad neer known Iniji-e0 ber pleasurabl.v. It waa aa if betw-ien Ota ' !krir nible man and hertett er- JsltO dome bond -of ttmlerttandliii; ami aj mpltfhy. , 4 ,lnUl washed and fed and inaxed Ibe I nib J u sleep. Then, dlsbeteled nnil Miined. she sought the watch full) alert phslcluu. "Atij fuilher ortleral" she asked ' 'llletl.. It was ten days later when Janet Darej "loud In the small Iioiim. dour waj, while Sukey W-lls san- luilde, with thr- patient mm welt on her wn) 'to recovery. Alan llient, looklnjrilown en the volunteer nurse, smiled a tery, er.r tnnlir smile. To him, she had Just ininli' full confestslon ; to him she Inm told her storj. "Vjiii uie woiideiful," he suld softlj. . ' I think," lilil-ed Ainu llient, (be dix-tiir, "that I will send Utile tiukoy Wtlli, our t:eiieral helper. In the uioiii-Ins. uioiii-Ins. Vou will both be kept busy." "lint, oh J Janet, you who luie been fO sheltered, ale jou certain that you will never regie t -.our refui-nl to marry mar-ry thq jtreat i,oernor?" Janet Oare' au&vtering auille' waa confident, "Tour light." -the ali3, "abowod bw my Hue way." |