Miss Caprice

t his face is no whiter than before, although it must be a terrible shock

orst that could come about!

and he knows full well

o be done. Excuse me for a

th surprise, she sees him dart into the smithy

ow him!" say

boy!" remark

will go mad?" gasps the young

cases that happened like thi

d t

in the face,

t matter?" de

him a look

she says, as if continuin

The fabric very probably absorbed the poison. A rattlesnake's fangs are a different thing;

O

, and, standing in the door-

ules might envy. He has just taken from the fire a slend

who has laid his arm, bared almost to

the flesh, and a little g

lonel Lionel, unable to restrain his

n of inflicting such pain, the b

t near enough,"

mith shake

" he says,

man. This is no time for he

rity, and the brawny smith surr

ressing his lips firmly together, the Chic

draw his shirt over the raw red scar an inch square, w

countenances of the others near-by, the doctor, who h

et us go to the hotel!" he says, slipping a coin in the

irection of the hotel, where they sto

my room? I want to put a small bandage with iodoform

ld make? I have had experience-you may smile if you like. Tell the colon

my dea

it an honor; and what I lack in scie

illingly enough, for although he knows this affair has brightened up the chances of his rival, still, as an Englishman, he has a deep, inborn admiration for bravery, no matter whet

speedily returns with the little traveling case in which the young physician keeps many important medicin

he case and started to arrange the small

at times been forced to mentally term Lady R

do you

uncle was a surgeon,

s the student, with the deep respect a

him in some simple case at the house. He

ed that brute yourself, if I hadn't gone," he says, enthusiastically, the others being mome

Doctor Chicago, was that what sen

hat the intense blush remains unseen

n I saw that dear little child apparently doomed to a terrible death, I could see th

et without an apparent desire to arou

xceedingly gentle as she binds up the ugly red mark which he has infli

t is done

says Aunt Gwen, with a

u sincerely

letta who would not feel it an honor to bind up the wound of the

houts

rican to show himself. They do not know much of Americ

ade for the balcony, b

weak after the exciting

e clamor without-for he is human, this yo

ilty blush, for it chances that at the very moment he is thinking of her,

go; I was w

sting stud

now whether you secretly fear

he matter calmly, I am disposed to believe there is now no danger-

lad to hear

e a litt

y she is o

see a brave boy nee

as a boy. I am

gives me the right to f

w s

t twenty-three than a man. T

ur. Why, a year ago I looked like a

ick flash of

s left a lady love in

kes you

ference to the spur that sent you to face that dog. Ah! my frien

ng air, such as a young woman somet

ht of whom sent me to save that child, bears w

s a quic

me. I w

tted of just such a meanin

r in Chicago

s at her

emories of my mother are all confined to the far past, to a period when

uzzled, as

mean she

e a sacred mission to perform-to find my mother-to seek the solution of a mystery which has embittered my li

ies, with deep feeling in her voice, a

sight of you, and I am really afraid they'll tear the house down soon

how their appreciation of your services, and I

land

John, my boy, allow

s made a comfortable sling of a long white s

on securing ove

ong experience as the reliable assistant of my

ests, feebly, though it may be noticed that he makes no effort

living who would go through with what you have to-day for a cool, hundre

en bringing up the rear, he passes out upon the balcony, where the colone

heer. They are mostly natives, but men and women feel very strongly drawn toward this youn

uninjured hand upon his hea

e crowd d

s. He watches the capricious maiden with a quizzical light in his eye, which shows th

act that he has ever been ready to watch his chanc

here this little company of tourists have been temporarily marooned, and where Doctor Chicago, aided b