That's Maggie's big trunk!" Then, noticing the glow which his announcement called up to Carrie's cheek, he said, "She'll make you well, Carrie, Maggie will.

Oh, I'm so glad, and so is Leno." Nearer and nearer came the omnibus, brighter and deeper grew the flush on Carrie's face, while little Willie danced up and down with joy.
"It isn't coming here," said Mrs.Hamilton; "it has gone by," and Carrie's feverish heat was succeeded by an icy chill.
"Haven't they come, Lenora ?" she said.
Lenora shook her head, and Willie, running to his sister, wound his arms around her neck, and for several minutes the two lone, motherless children wept.
"If Maggie knew how my head ached she'd come," said Willie; but Carrie thought not of _her_ aching head, nor of the faintness of death which was fast coming on.

One idea alone engrossed her.

Her brother--how would he be saved from the threatened evil, and her father's name from dishonor?
At last Mrs.Hamilton left the room, and Carrie, speaking to Lenora and one of the villagers who was present, asked if they, too, would not leave her alone for a time with Willie.

They complied with her request, and then asking her brother to bring her pencil and paper, she hurriedly wrote a few lines to her father telling him of what she had heard, and entreating him, for her sake, and the sake of the mother with whom she would be when those words met his eye, not to do Walter so great a wrong.