The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1873-04-12

anu IL He CnOse W l6aNe mo Bta muir,
that was his own business. Thesfact is,
the brat was always a cure to him, aud
he will be to me, unless l can get him
out of the way. Let me see.' 3,
While he was pondering thus the boy
was thinking of the same subject but in
very different strain. Young rs he
was he became satisfied at the death of
his father that he had not beot fairly
dealt with, but could prove nothing.
Doctor Monroe Skinner was the only
physician OF any more in that part of the
country. His word was Law in all
questions of medicine, and it would
have been bold mau indeed, who
would have dared to accuse him of NAL.
pructice. But, had such charge been
made, how could it have been proven +?
There was no chemist to anaiyze the
contents of the stomach of tie dead
man-no one sufficiently skilled in
poison to apply the proper tests, ,Spd the
standing Of the doctor would have out
weighed n score Of witnesses before tho
uneducatcd juries common upon the
frontier ut that time.
But the poor orphan boy had his own
opinion of the matter. He remem bored
the last and fatal sickness of his father
his last kind words-the tenderu ess
with which he had always b, en- treated
and he could not understand why he
should have been lett boggar.
Perhaps others thought the same, but
they were wise in not expressing it, and
making an enemy OF the nabob of the
lntirr village. They knew little of
the final sickness Of John Manuing. He
had died suddenly, with no Que save his
only son aud the physician and the
account the latter had given of it could
not we'll be questioned. But he was a
rich mun-that ia, he was the owner cf
many acres of wild laud that would
'apidly increase in price, nS.whea it
was found that he had ,willSd Ei;1s,all, to
alonrUe s Hlnncr, they sGSSk theiF 2 aads
douh'inily. However, there were noue
to lock after the interests of or take the
part of the boy, AID he driited from
place to place, though often visiting the
doctor nnd cIdvAy.ring to obtain what
he firmly believed was his right.
But ngain and again he had cen re.
pulsed. even though the phy.ic made
Il great show Of tcndcrmc- $ 10 h:u. in
pubic, talking loudly Of what he in
tcndcI to do. and never doing it pro
iess.ns TO pity a..d at Ii. same tine
cursins-l laying the saint and living
the sinncr-vaunting his liberaity and
keeping his pockets closed, and at last
resolving to remove the boy from his
path, though shuddering at even the
name murder like one who had already
tasted Of the bloody cup.
If he had done 60 it could mover be
proved upon earth-no, not until his
troubling soul awaited judgment before
a higher tribunal
Rising from his chair-takinc
another draught of his favoritc pre-
Scriptiun (f"r himself f!)-Monroe Skin
ner walked to the window and grew still
more angry, as his eyes rested upon the
pa'lId face OF the boy, who was still
lying at little distance, with his head
resting against the trunk of tree.
Repeating his favorte expression, he
rctreated beyond the eyes Of the boy,
that even ,ppcar,l to him to be reading
his guilty soul, communci with himself
Tor long time, aud then finding tn It
j ohm Manning Che bore the same name
as his dead father) had disappe, ed, he
started forth, mounted his horse, and
rode out OF town, with his customary
digniticd bearing aud not to bs read
lace, when ho choose to conceal his
But it was no patient that had called
him from his comfortable office, as soon
became apparent; for, turning aside
from the vicinity of the sparse settle
ments, he struck into wooded path,
and went on until he reached little
group Of wigwams of the Indians one OF
whom-a suchen, by the eagle plumes
twined with his scalp lock he familarly
addressed aud motoued aside, so that he
could converse with him uuheard.
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