The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-01-02

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and finally laid violent hands on him He
must have been dreaming some fearful
thi NC, for he seized my wrists as in wise
an roared: Now have you!" before
he opened his eyes.
! "You are mistaken, doctor; it is I who
have you," I said laughing, He released
my wrists and sat up with eyes very wide
open. aud what are you going TO do
with me?"
ooh, you must come to my aunt at
Dow cetes this very Moment" and I be-
gan to cry more heartily than I had
laughed.
i ) He took me up as easily as if had been
baby, and laid me on the lounge. Nov
lie tn ere perfectly still till my carriage is
ready" he said, as one having authority
In few moments he brought me some
innocent looking stuff in glass which |
drank without word, and my nerves
grew steady again climbed into the
little old fashioned sulky IN which there
was spare room for Its owner-a carriage
that NUT have been invented by som
misarthropic doctor who did MT mean to
drive his male patients. I contrac' ed
myself into about the size of paper-col-
lar box and held my breath, but that sui
ky | found very tight fit, indeed.
had on thin summer dress, with
only a straw hat on nay head, md as my
excitement leesened, the cool shsrp air 81
the September night Pierced me ike
knife.
"You are shivering," said the d ctnr,
wrapping one side of his round cloak
about me, and holding me close TO hi
breast with one arm, while he drove hla
horse at furious speed with the other
Il give you good deal of trouble" |
whispered into his heard.
Not at all. 1t is all my days work
he said gruhy. This was not very gallapr.
but it made me more comfortable Ia mind
as 1t was possibly meant to do.
He did all that doctor could for my
aunt, which was little enough. Time and
patience were all the prescriptions thai
he gave to her or to me, but he came
every day, somermcs twich, as he per
ceived that time WAS growing short aud
patience would have It's perfect work.
The old story--oId as when Gals went
into the land Of Mods coming, and my
readers can see with half an eve.
| DID not fall in lore With DR. Gilmore,
nor he with me all at once; but there
grew to be IN inexpressible comfort in his
rough sincerity ami the warm hand clasp
with which 1T every visit he met me \ nd
, stilled my sinking nerves
In the first week of our acquaintance,
conhded 10 him nay unwilling SEEMING III
he avrnue to- the I've quarrel of strangers,
with his advice and asSis ance, I sent Il
carefully wotded advertisement 10 the
village paper. To Judge by the pile of
answers | received describing every kind
oi a ring ever worn, one would think The
cart h shonld have been sown as thick with
them as was the field Of Canna alter the
great slaughter of Carth4g MAN Knights
But nor one IF tine answers so much ~
b u g at a violet of sal phires and dia-
mund cen,cr
/ In the lonely DAYS I saw a great deal of
NV nc'ghbor, Mss Purdy; she was one of
IT, O9e rare and blessed souls who interpret
, literally t'e cimmsn! to love ones neigh
Dor az ones self She and her niece Kare
Pufdy lived together as lIv d as lived
with Aunt Esther, and n snr: of fellow
freting from our similar conditions MADE
: u" "pndrous kind from he first
Kate was u parking brunette, who
nadr love to Gveryb, dy; "male or female,
Jrw or Gentle, bond or tree" it was all
ne I" her | am very meek looking
'er~On mysef {, light-haired blue-eyed.
tafed-out-you almost need dark back
ground to see me ut all
, Kate aud look d we'll tngethet, and
et"ycd together chief for that reason at
tiret' ai,erward for a str',rg and earnss
nix ing hat lasted our life time.
told her all about he ring, and show
ca her the answers 10 my advertisements;
aud when our talk reached low water Oh
her subjects We always fell back ON
speculaunn about those two lovers snd
The siphIre ring. Kate was disposed TO
treat II more lightly than could fi.d il
| III my heart to do. Sac thought it tar too
l,retty IN hide it's light in bureau dr. W.
! or, aud after time / wore it, thinking
: that IN that way 1t might be possibly seer
aud claimed by ITS owner.
W. had become very intimate in girls
fashion before introduced z ate to "my
' DOCTOR" as called hILh in COY heart.
Thty took kindly" to each other, hut She
dit not Mt once begin TO win the heart of
him as had seen her do with all other
nan
"Why don't You MAXI love to DR.. Gill
mOre?" | ked her vt l04t. "Yuu are
! naturally II fi,her OF men, and the prey Is
yer, sca roe 1T DuvrcOtes."
"Firsll w." Sud Kate "bccauss YOU al
reany Iiave him in your wn net, and un-
1854 al Signs fa'l, you will soon land him.
Secondly, ne is too tearfully old and grave
don't mean that he has lived any CREATE
number of years, but b. is one of those
who are onri, forty years Old and that
'uld make him at this present time
. abnut three score aud ten"
my world was well nigh empty OF
! kiFh and XIII when Aunt Esther died