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After the fever had once broken, his return to strength was rapid

Although acco its full course of

weeks, the "mountain fever" is not as intense as typhoid The

exhaustion of the vital forces is not as great, and recuperation is

easier In two days Bennington was sitting up in bed, possessed of an

appetite that threatened to depopulate entirely the little log chicken

coop He found that the tenancy of the caed

Mrs Lawton and Miss Fay had e--but without the

inquisitive Maude, Bennington was glad to observe

Mrs Lawton, in the presence of an eency, turned out to be helpful

in every way She knew all about , and as

the country was not yet blessed with a doctor, this was not an

unimportant item Then, too, she was a most capable housekeeper--she

cooked, marketed, swept, dusted, and tyrannized over the land dame Fay and the Leslies had

also taken up their quarters in the caone The old "bunk house" now accoed by Fay to do the necessary assessether the caton learned of everything that had happened

during the three weeks of his sickness It all ca conversations, when, in the evening twilight, they gathered in

the rooton still liked to

na men