The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1865-11-02
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side of month instead of a week, 1
shall be surprised" DR.. Grayson said. re-
Stunning his saddle-bags and hat. after a
critical examination of Il very trouble
some patient.
The patient, young man of almost
womanish beauty of complexion and fea-
ture, gave utterance to an exclamation of
| impotence and almost execration.
" If it had only happened while was
in Peoria, 'fhesaid, "but in this confound-
ed out-of-the way place, forty thousand
miles from nowhere say, Doctor,
hold onv as Grayson, a curt, abrupt
man, with no particular sympathy for
his patient, was making his way out
without further ado. What's a fellow
to do with himself four mortal weeks in
a Western farm house? Doctor, you
may expect to find me delirious the next
time you come. It's out of the question
to stand it,
the whimsical distress of the young man.
81 know young men that would be
wiling to have every bone in their bodies
broken, for the chance of spending four
weeks under this roof" he said dryly,
yet with a twinkling eye.
81 wish to Heaven they were in my
place, then" groaned the young man.
81 don't see anything particularly at
tractive in the prospect.
"You'll change your mind this. time
Tomorrow DR.. GraysOn said ,oracularly
and vanished through the open door.
sI've brought you your dinner, sir.
The voice was sweet, silvery, and en-
phatie-0lice, as the patient expressed it
to himself; and he turned on his discon-
solate elbow with astart, that came near
wrenching his broken limb out of place,
He understood the grabbed old doctors
dry allusion at once. If this were not
Iebe who stood there, Aurora herself,
coming oyer the morning hills, could not
have looked more radiantly. He was ia
ment to spring up and relieve her of the
tray she bore, which tray held his din
ner. But he fell back with smotI1ered
groan, and the sweat starting.
"I'ln afraid ! startled you,' Aurora
said, depositing the tray on a stand, and
bringing it to his bedside with / very
business air.
ssIsn't hat-that-stand too heavy for
you to lift-alone ?" he groaned, wiping
his damp brow.
mo, indeed,' and Aurora vanished
kitchenWard.
"Delirions, ell 2" DIR, Grayson ques-
toned, standing by his patient the next
day; - .,....z,. nv,.4,. .....
ed pretty girl they've got here, Pm death
on everything of that sort, did youknow
it.:" stroking q silky brown moustache
complacently.
DR.. Grayson gave him sharp look.
"Carr Wilson III be the death of you if
you don't mind" he said, and went
away.
Montgomery LaWrence-fOr by this
Understanding appellation our hero was
called--Was an exquisite Of the first wa
ter, as handsome man as you'd find in
all New York, and as great Il dandy as it
was possible for slman of his brains to be.
How he came castaWay with a broken
limb in a Western farm house, does not
materially concern the present history.
Perhaps his honored papa was a whole
sale merchant with lots of Western GUS
toners, and preferred that his heir should
sow his wild oats on q collecting tour;
and perhaps he wasn't but, to our GER
tain knowledge, the young gentleman in
question, had never been so far from
home before, and had only the vaguest
ideas concerning the region he had come
Mr.. Montgomery Lawrence was an I'M
educated gentleman-by no means-but
there were several things he did not
know-we don't, any of us, know every
thing-and the object of this chronicler,
is to narrate how he became possessed of
some knowledge additional to that with
which he quilted home-or, as he him.
self phrased 1.-THE haunts of civiliza-
ton.
He looked after the doctor with re-
Elective smile, and a thought something
like this: "Talk about any girl being the
death of me! much less Western farm
er's daughter! humphv'
If Mr.. Montgomery Lawrence could
only have known that while he was talk
ing with the doctor, somebody flashed in
to the room no selessly, for fear OF dis
turbing them, and then flashed noiseless-
ly out again, with wonderfully height
ened color, and eyes sparkling ominous-
ly.s But he didn't, and "Whcrc igno-
rance is bliss"
The succeeding four weeks passed like
a dream to Montgomery Lawrence, also
another four weeks. It was astonishing
how long that limb of his was in gaining
strength, with such a thoughtful attend
ant near him, too, as Carr Wilson.
The truth was Montgomery Lawrence