Hollowmell / or, A Schoolgirl's Mission

t she was unconscious each time, and remained so all that night, and most of the

t she hastened to her friend's side. She was allowed to see her only for a few moments

with her friend, Mr. Kimberly called Minnie into his stud

easure on hearing of her improvement, opened the subject o

er father's manner of putting it, but she gave a clear and concise account of her fri

s for a very short time," was h

w weeks, papa,

e the date of your friendship her former

of it notwithstanding," confess

e of my friend Mrs. Cameron-Mr. Cameron's sister it turns ou

Minnie with an amused expression f

n old woman of fifty. I need scarcely have told you of this so soon-especially as you will hear of it soon enough from lips

than of being yours," she returne

ip of the Hollowmell Mission

uding again as the thought flashed across her

and their employers," he suggested, anxious to divert her th

le. "Besides, all the girls have a share in that-but

you could

inued, growing suddenly serious again; "that isn't as altogether an improbable think as it looks-I remember coming to the conclus

enious theory. It appears they had some misunderstanding, or quarrel or something of that nature, before Miss C

exclaimed Minnie, clapping

neteen, and in my opinion too young. B

then," remarked Minnie, "I met h

ling. "He seems to have fully

t po

in comparison with his daughter, and in that convi

e lau

arly as decided in his opinions o

not quite,"

Mr. Cameron, and consequently ough

too much-I wonder if Miss

rouse it," was Minnie's r

g the day, cheering her in her intervals of consciousness, and watching and soothing her at other times-thereby not on

, as in a sharp attack of brain fever, which had followed upon her la

re was scarcely so much need for apprehension, and eve

when she heard a step outside the door. The handle was turned noiseles

you were here," she said, her

e so bad-she hasn't been wand

to move, although for some moments no sound issued from them. Then she beg

em that she was repeating something which sounded like poetry. Still they could make nothing out of it, for sometimes sev

ords were which went before she could not tell,

, Echoless,-'My Go

emphasis which struck both the girls, and then the feeble voice went on mo

eated the

aid. "I am sure I have read it of

"I know it perfectly well though. If we could only get hol

nking about," returned Minni

last, with a suppressed shriek o

is, he said, would probably take place that night; he promised to come again before the

r about half-an-hour of wild, disconnected raving, she became a little quieter, and at last settled down to the old

ea which had occurred to her in connection with Mabel's constant repetitio

d effect, and she is only wearing herself out more quickly as it is."-"Yes," he continued more kindly, noticing for the first ti

er eyes, and they both went bac

egan to read in a low, soft tone, with slow and measured accents, well-sui

rs rose. She did not attempt to follow it at all till the line Minnie had caught so distinctly was reached, and then she

along with Minnie, her voice growing gra

the holy lips ami

one should use those

s, marring hope, might m

y, and she lay back wit

the book, "and the fever's gone. You said she would be safe-"

" replied the doctor, "a

r took her away altogether for a while, and when she returned, though her grief was in no way lessened, it was so much softened that

made for herself many friends there, and her quiet goodness made more impression th

knew how much good she had accomplished until it was too late to give her credit for it. Many of them, too, were astonished to find wh