she tried to do so. More devoted even than before, did she now become
in her ministrations to the sick and suffering people of Shreveport.




AGNES SAVES A CHILD, BUT DIES HERSELF.


The last family which Agnes nursed lived in the northern portion of
the city, and consisted of a mother and three children; the youngest a
baby twelve months old.

Ordinarily they had been in middling circumstances, but having lost
her husband by a railroad accident six months previously, the widow
was reduced to quite a straightened condition. And when the fever
seized her, she was in utter despair at the thought of being taken
away from her dear ones.

But when they brought Agnes to nurse her, and told her of the
wonderful good fortune that always attended the heroic girl, she
seemed to take fresh spirit and gain strength.

As yet the baby was unscathed by the dreadful plague, And it would
have been sent away, could they have got any person to take it. That,
however, was impossible.

"Never mind, Mrs. Green, do not let that subject worry you any more. I
will take good care of the baby. They shall not take it away from
you," said Agnes, hugging the infant to her.