The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1873-01-23

avenue aHd The long village street ter a
doctor. Or. Gilmore was thc name ou
the first door thaa had light behind Il.
At the trst pu0I 81 The BEN the handle
came on in ms band, and | opened the
door aud found ms self in the office. The
doctor lay on lounge, sleeping heavily,
81 II be had just thrown himself down
after hard days work called TO him
IN vain, aud finally laid violent hands
on him. lie must have been dreaming
some fearful thing for be seized my wrists
as in q wise aud roared, Now have YOU!
before he opened bis eyes
You are mistaken, doctor It Is / who
have you, l said laughing. He released
my wrists and sat up witheyes very wide
open.
Aud what arc YOU going 10 DO with me ;
he asked
Oh, you must come TO my aunt al
Doyecotes this very moment, and began
to cry more heartily than had laughed,
He took me up as msily as il | had
been a baby aud laid me on the lounge.
Now He there until my carriage is ready,
he said, as one having authority. In a
few moments he brough me some inno-
cent-looking stuff 10 . glass, which !
drank without word, aud my nerves
grew steady again. | climbed into the
little old fashioned sulky, in which there
was but spare room for It's owner--a car.
riage that must have been invented by
some misanthropic doctor who did not
mean to drive his own patients. ! con.
tracted myself into about the substance
of paper of pins and held my breath
but that snlky was a very tight fit in.
deed
wore thin summer dress, with only q
straw hat on my head, aud, as my excite.
ment lessened, the cool, sharp air o.
the September night piereed me like q
knife.
You are shiyering, said the doctor
wrapping one side Of bis cloak about me
and holding me close to bis breast will
one arm while he drove his horse Al
furious speed with the other.
1 give you great deal Of trouble,
answered into his beard.
Not at all. II is all my days work
he said, gruiiiy, This was not very gal
liant but it made me more comfortable il
mind as it possibly was meant to do.
ile did all that doctor could do fol
my aunt, which was litue enough. Tim,
and patience were all the prescription
that he gave to her or me; but he cam,
every day, sometimes twice, as he per
ceived that time was growing short ant
patience wond soon have its perfec
work.
/ The ald sinry--eil as WHOM Cain won
courting into the land of Mods coming
as my reader can see with an eye.
did not fall in love with DR.. Gilmore
nor he with me, all at once; but Their
grew to be an inexpressibe comfort il
the rough sincerity, and the warm hand
clasp with which at every visit he me
and stilled my shrinking nerves.
In the fils week Of our acquaintance
confded to him my unwilling listening il
the avenue to the love.quauel of strang
ers. With his advice and assistance
sent carelully-worded advertisement f
the village paper. TO judge by the Pill
of answers which | received descrbin,
every kind of ring that ever was worn
one would think the earth 81 ould b
sown as thick with them as was the fiell
of Canna after the great slaughter O
Carthagenian knights. But not one O
the answers so much as hinted at a viole
of sapphires With a diamond centre.
In these lonely days | saw a great dea
of my neighbor Miss Purdy; she wa
one of those rare blessed souls who inter
pref liberally the command to love one
neighbor rs ones self She and he
niece Kate Purdy lived together, as
lived with Aunt Esther, and q sort Of fe
w-feoling, from our similar condition,
made us wondrous kind from the first.
Kate was a sparkling brunette, VIII
made love to everybody; male OF female
jew or Gentle, bond Or free, it was a
one to her. am very meek lookin
person myself light-haired 'blue.eyet
. faded out-you almost need backgroun
10 see me at all.
Kate and / looked well together, an
stayed together chiefly Tor that reason {
= first, afterward for strong and carnel
, liking that lasted our life time.
told her all about the ring, and show
. ed her the answers to my advertisement
r and when our talk reached low water O
other matters, we always fell back O
} speculation about those two lovers an
: the sapphire ring. Kate was disposed
. treat il more lightly than / could find
! in my heart 10 do. She thought it far tc
} pretty to hide its LIGHT in bureau draw
, cr, and after a time | wore Il, thinkir
j that IN that way il might be possibly sec
= and claimed by ils owner.
, We had become very intimate in gi
t fashion before introduced Kate to m
, doctor, as called him 10 ms heart. tn,
! took kindly TO each other but she did n
at once begin to vile the heart out
+ him, as had seen her do with all 9TH
r men.
. Why don't you make love to Doctl
{ Gilmore, asked her at last. You a
! naturally q fisher Of men, aud the prey
! very scarce st Dovecoies.
D Firstly. said Kate, because You alrcat
! have him in your own net, and unIe