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MY OLD DUTCH
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"IT WILL BE A LONG AND DANGEROUS ILLNESS/ ' HE ANNOUNCED
old couple watched him with pitying eves, Suddenly the woman cried out : " "Catch him, Bill; he's falling !"
They both sprang forward, but an instant too late. The artist lay fainting upon the floor.
"A little of the brandy, old girl, quick !" and the man's rough hands lifted the white face tenderly, forcing the liquor between the bloodless lips.
"There, he's revived a bit. I'll help him to his bed and get a doctor. Poor fellow! he's completelv worn out."
"Completely starved, I believe," replied Mrs. Hawkins, half-crying. ' ' Right here in our own house, too ! Oh, dear!"
The doctor looked very grave as he examined the artist, asking short, crisp questions meanwhile of the anxious pair who watched him.
"It will be a long and dangerous illness," he announced, finally; "you
had better have him taken to the hospital at once. He needs expensive medicines and good nursing. He has no money; let the city care for him."
The artist's brown eyes opened as the doctor was speaking, and their look of anguished hopelessness went straight to the woman 's heart.
"Cant we keep him here, Bill?" she begged, turning to her husband. "Let's treat him like we would our own boy. Little Bill would have been as old as him if he had lived, and his eyes were brown, too. I cant bear to send this poor fellow off to die among strangers!"
"It will be very expensive," began the doctor, but Hawkins interrupted.
"The old girl always has her own way," he said, cheerfully; "we can do it all right. The cottage in the country can wait another year, if it's necessary. ' '
For weeks the artist lay in a burn