Straight along the road to the North Precinct she kept. It would have
been an awful journey that night for a strong man. It seemed
incredible that a little girl could have the strength or courage to
accomplish it. There were four miles to traverse in a black, howling
storm, over a pathless road, through forests, with hardly a house by
the way.
When she reached Captain Isaac Lovejoy's house, next to the Meeting
House in the North Precinct of Braintree, stumbling blindly into the
warm, lighted kitchen, the captain and the doctor could hardly
believe their senses. She told the doctor about Thirsey; then she
almost fainted from cold and exhaustion.
Good wife Lovejoy laid her on the settee, and brewed her some hot
herb tea. She almost forgot her own sick little girl, for a few
minutes, in trying to restore this brave child who had come from the
South Precinct in this dreadful storm to save little Thirsey Wales'
life.
When Ann came to herself a little, her first question was, if the
doctor were ready to go.
"He's gone," said Mrs. Lovejoy, cheeringly.
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