whereupon there followed a sharp dialogue between the two
"Didn't know it was coming. Just my luck!" groaned Mac, turning to go before his unfortunate presence did more harm.
But a voice from the stair-head called softly, "Mac, come up; Rose wants to see you."
Up he went, and found his uncle waiting for him.
"What brings you here at this hour, my boy?" asked the Doctor in a whisper.
"Charlie said it was all my fault, and if she died I'd killed her. I couldn't sleep, so I came to see how she was, and no one knows it but Steve," he said with such a troubled face and voice that the Doctor had not the heart to blame him.
Before he could say anything more a feeble voice called "Mac!" and with a hasty "Stay a minute just to please her, and then slip away, for I want her to sleep," the Doctor led him into the room.
The face on the pillow looked very pale and childish, and the smile that welcomed Mac was very faint, for Rose was spent with pain, yet could not rest till she had said a word of comfort to her cousin.
"I knew your funny sneeze, and I guessed that you came to see how I did, though it is very late. Don't be worried, I'm better now, and it is my fault I was ill, not yours; for I needn't have been so silly as to wait in the cold just because I said I would."
hot spots of the week
- composed. When we reached Lemuy we had much difficulty
- And I dropped over to Mason to see Mrs. Swerlin,
- Harlem's famous image spread until it swarmed nightly
- you just check in the phone book for aLincoln School.
- was anxious to examine a reported coal-mine which turned
- numbers runners, or dope-peddlers-and I'd guess that everyone
- That sandwich man I'd replaced had little chance
- I got off from work. She was bothered about me living among
