Smyrna times., 1871-11-22
MISce IIun e OuS.
Kill or Cure.

One evening, late in November, fifty mile.
from London an elderly man, with beetlnp
brows, piercing gray eyes, thin comm. ssed
lips, and long bOny hands, sat in shabIilv.
furnished room in splendid old house. casting
up accounts by the light of single candle.
| The door of the room which opencd into the
hne oak panelled hall was ajar, and presently a
servant girl, bearing light, fitted by from the
staircase. Her master called her. "Hi. Jenny I
come here. What makes you look SO scared ?
| Is your mistress worse?'
m afeard So Sir Timothy" "
Eli what?-really bad?''
Going to die?"
She says so, Sir Timothy, and oh ! she
looks 1t, too o sir, cried the girl, earnestly,
blurtlng out what was on her soul, IF she were
to die without )ctorl''
-, 1hls abnormal possibility shocked Sir
Timothy Grabham also, the invalid being in a
manner dear to him. 1t was very general
notion amongst his neighbors and tenants that
the man was incapable of caring for ANYBODY ::
put this was prejudice he did care for his
wife, after his own fashion. 1t was not, per-
maps, an enthusiastic attachment or a deem
onei ! don't suppose he loved her as well as
good bargain, for example; but comparisons
are Odious
He remained silent for awhile looking down.
and then muttered: q declared that would
never send for that fellow Radford again |"
winch was an error on his part; he had never
made that rash ObServation-it was Mr.. Rad.
ford who had vowed he would not come.
9. S Shall Charles gs for Dr. Radford, please,
There's no one else: 50 7 sunnoco be
must" pO'0
Jenny vanished in search of that footmau-
rda "
tried to get back into his sum, bu: made a
mistake OF twOpence- -farthing, and lapsed into
reverie.
Sir Timothy Grabham was not a nice man.
but If he had remained Indifferent to his wife's
condition he would have been monster. She
mad now, ter thirty years, devoted herself to
the difficult task of pleasing him she had
brought him money and saved him money;
born economical, she had developed the faculty
into extreme meanness, to gain his approba.
uon: Passion would have been out of place
at his age and hers, but he esteemed her.
After hard days work Mr.. Radford had
turned into bed with the snug conviction that
ne was going to remain undisturbed up to eight
O'Clock on the following morning, for his last
iaGy case was going on az fayOrably as if
clVlllsatlon had been unknown and no fellow
creature looked to him for introduction into the
world tor the next fortnight to come. But at
half past eleven his sleep was broken by the
nlght-bell, and he had to wrench himself from
bis warm nook in the feathers, feel for his
dressing gown and slippers, bluEder into his |
dressing room, which looked out on the front
OF the house, and open the window. "What
is itF' he shouted, shivering as the frosty
night air blew in upon his face and played |
about his unpI otected legs"
PLEASE, sir, it's me. -
Idiot your name"
Charles, from the Hall. "
"Then, Charles from the Hall, you may go
back again, for I'm not coming"
My lady is very i'll, sir -
Cant hel it. Tell your master that won't
attend him or his family, and he need send me
no more messages, as shall muffle the night
bell"
And with these words the doctor banged
down the window.
wv hat are you doing, John ?" said voice
from the bed presently.
Tying stocking round the clapper of this
bel"
"What for p
!, TO get good sleep, in spite of Sir limo
thy Grabham."
why, he has never sent for you?"
He has though, the isolated screw; his
wifes i'll.
"Oh, well, don't tie up the bell, John; she
nay be really bad-dying,. you know"
What is that to me?'
81 know they have treated us very badly-a
'ich man like that to refuse to pay for your at
endance; it is unheard off But other people
might want you"
Not likely"
No, but it is just possible. Don't muffle 9
The bell."
| need not tell the married reader that the {
ioctor got growing into bed, with the bell-clap-
per free to rouse him out again. In an hours {
lime the provoking bit of iron availed itself of
hat liberty, but for some minutes Mr.. Radford j
leclinad 70 stir nsidaration for his xifa, a =