White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-09-22
Eyes, SIR"
"Are you willing to lose four of your

paid well for them, you would say
''No, sir" cried Caroline, earnestly ;
81 care not for that so much as" Here
she hesitated, and then added, abruptly,
81 am in great need of a certain sum of
money, sir. and will do it for that
Name the sum %
Twenty dollars"
Let me see your teeth, if you please, -
said the doctor, with feelings painfully
touched by the emotion she in vain tried
to suppress.
She removed her veil and showed q
face so very lovely, that he started back
with an exclamation of surprise. He then
asked in the most delicate and respectful
manner to examine her mouth. Parting
with an ivory slip the lips of the half
fainting, yet resolute girl, as she sat in
his patients chair" he beheld the viii
test and most symmetrically arranged
teeth, each one perfect in itself, he had
ever met with. not even excepting Mrs.
Wharton's.
care you in earnest in wishing to part
with these fine teeth ?" he demanded,
with establishment, after admiring them
for few moments. with delighted sur
prise.
Eyes, SIR"
81 beg of you do not part with them.
1t were sacrilege to mar so fair an instru-
ment-to destroy the ivory columns of so
beautiful temple Are you sincere ?"
Indeed, sir, | am
81 fear me great virtue or great avarice
hath driven you to this, child"
IL beg of you. sir. tell me if my teeth
are snch as you require"
They are perfect" he said. taking
those which he had set upon the gold
plate, and comparing them.
"And you will give me twenty dollars
for the four front ones, sir ?" she asked,
with trembling doubt.
81 will. Will you consent to have
them drawn ?"
"At once"
The sound of carriage driving to the
door was now heard, and the doctor, de-
string Caroline TO retire to his ante-room
from observation, the next moment re-
ceived Mrs. Wharton. She was pale, but
no less lovely.
"You received my note, doctor 90 she
asked, after being seated.
81 dill, madam. But | have, as you
here see, fitted your teeth on plates SO ac-
curately, that they can be replaced
without difficulty, and will look nearly as
well as before. Besides, you need not
wait for the gums to heal, as l have
composition for filling the cavities, so
that 1 can place them on at once. Look
at them Are they not beautiful ?"
my poor teeth p she said, signing as
she glanced at them. Gould you find
no person, doctor %
Il should prefer replacing these, mad
am"
"No. The idea Of false teeth, gold
plates in my MOUTH could not endure
the thought 1 should feel as if l were
made of wire and plated. Is there no
alternative ?"
There is young woman who is will
ing to lose her teeth" said the doctor,
dropping his voice "but really they are
so perfect-nature has made such pretty
piece of work of it-that / should regret
to mar it."
"Are they 60 beautiful %
Gas beautiful as your own Were."
"Were it is indeed sUere. Doctor, l
must have these teeth of hers. But is she
young?
Young and lovely. She is now in the
next ROOM"
"Let me see her-no, had rather not,
on second thought should feel so awk-
ward in meeting her afterwards. Does
she know who wants her to make the sac
riice ?"
"No."
"Do not let her. Yet 1 would like to
see her. She may be a-but you would
not deceive me-"
"She is fair as the snow. Come hither.
Do you see the wellturned point of that
shoe'an iDstep, just visible within the
room 90
81 do. She is young lady p
"Such a foot can belong to none other. }"
The dentist having placed his patient
and her victim in arm chairs in their re-
spective rooms, now prepared to go thro'
his painful duty. Having carefully mea-
sured the depth of each of the cavities in
Mrs. Wharton's mouth. he irritated the
inner surface and made a slight incision
on the sides, so as to draw blood. Then,
going into the room where Caroline was
patiently and resolutely seated. he drew
one of her teeth with such skill and ease
as scarcely to give her pain. and returned
with it into the room he had left. Here
he measured it by the previously ascer-
tanned measure of the depth of the cores
ponding bed, when finding it little too
long, he clipped off the end aad quickly
and most skillfully placed it in the cavity
he had prepared for it. In this manner
he extracted four teeth from Caroline's
head, and inserted them in Mrs. Whar-
tons, who, under the operation, suffered
far more pain than she who had made the
greater sacrifice. The whole operation
occupied about twenty minutes. The teeth
were beautifully reset, and when Mrs.
Wharton looked in . small mirror ne
placed before her, she uttered. notwith-
standing the inflammation and pain she
still suffered, an involuntary scream Of
delight.
doctor, bless youl The poor girl
She did not even cry out! Take this