Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1877-08-23


on her interest, what right had he to be
searching her out as If she were appurten.
ance or even friend of his.
To his credit, he went on with his plans.
and found himself settled in couple of
months. His starving" experience was
shorter than he could have hoped, for
memorable sickly season came on ss the
summer waned. Baleful fever floated on
every breath and II the number of phys
clans had been doubled and their quality
improved tehfold, they could scarcely have
kept the gaunt foe atsbay. Now was DR..
10 iu his element. Now were body and
brain busy day and night, scarcely stopping
to take needed rest. Now did his hand
and voice grow gentler than woman's rs
hc bent over his stricken patients, and by
the very Intensity of his will almost COM
manded the disease TO depart out of them.
His father should have seen him justify
himself then.
Well, the fight was over at last. and life
was more monOtonous. But he had fair
start now and kept to his business when
there was business to be done. And yet
sometimes as he sat alone in his office a
dreary cloud would fold him in its gloom,
aud sense of loneliness would, for the
moment wiring the bravery all ont Of his
heart. On such occasions he was apt to
drop his chin into the collar of his coat and
fix his eyes on some distant point in space,
the walls Of his room apparently offering
no obstruction to his vision. And once he
was heard bv some second party to ex-
claim, As as he rose from his chair and
shoot himself. But what's the use? |
can't 20 and canvass all Illinois,:
He wondered wEy the azure eyes of
Jennie West. 80 potent with other men,
took 30 permanent hold on his fancy. He
had unwittugly surprised them into ten
drrucss once; had felt the temptation of
vanity rise u hiS lips thercat, and had
suddenly checked an impulse which in for
mer days would have urged him on into
the fpliics of Irritation. Whence the in
ilucncc! Under what benign spell was he
coming 70 be a better man? Was it prin-
cjple, or was Il prepos>cssion: he hardly
knew. He only knew that he remembered
Mary Beck. sometime, he called himself
a fool for thus treaSuriuG up brief glimpse
uI "a -... "hn. after au, might not have
enough III common with hlm on which
i, base even a friendship. But months
came aui went, ana the vivid fectiug pict-
urr was st.l with him. He felt bound to
call himself tool ottcucr than ever.
one summer came A letter boricred
with black. aud Ju', father was dead.
Next morning found him N. rout. for Penn
syyauil. Prrhap, h.- fellow travellers
may have noticed the mlu who sat with
bowed head manifc-tly abs Drbcd in gloomy
reflections but no one veuturrd To speak
tn him. lie was wrestling with rcmOrsc-
iul thoughts those hard bcque>tS OF the
dead 10 the living. Now and then he
wcar,IV iooAcl out over the spinning cX-
piu-e ct pralIIe or the Waiting trees a he
>pcd past them. hut thAf va, az. Ana
nnw hr han crossed The Mississippi aud
was IS whlrul- through limos. Oh, Dr.
10, IA = J. sacred ground why 90 Nou
torget: There - but one chance II a
Thousand. and why not watch tor that
I You "cln not canvass Limos, that ; true
Bui E1a ctn scan the oIthIct o"lt 81 X oV'
cT which yoL are traNri'iu- aAd pcrhap'
T perhaps no. let MN alone WIN hlH Grirt
Z 81" j. nowhere near. Among all the eyes
which glance up from the platforms at the
stations, "r zoos out oi windows aN the
\ trans speeds past none aie b'Ack enough
Tor h~is
Indianapolis The light OF a sunrise un.
wontdly red an glowing streams in at one
end Of tie great depot, and throws it, WV
ia halo over the bustliug crowd OF work
men and passengers until they are trans,
figured. .Ju stops a moment in tie midst
Z OF his coffee and sandwiches 10 survey the
>ccue. and finds that / newly arrived train
( i diSrorying its contents in the immediate
vicinity oc III, rcfre,hmcnt stand The
I crowd OF -leepv-lookng passengers come
tumb.ing over the rails toward him, head.
ing Tor the waitmg-rooms. \ rumplecl.
grimv. uukempt set they are, and 10 is
about to return to his breakfast, a a mat
ter Of greater interest. when suddenly the
arm which /, rai>iu. the coffee 10 hs lips
is arrested midway, and its over >tarys
out upnu the crowd, The next minute he
i, f,rciu. himself through il vainlv irving
10 rrt.ltch a ot,tnp.e OF what he mad soon
before Meantime the brIl Of the train ~
giu. To riuy furious.y, and more frantic
grows h> search. There i not moment
len HE train his moving. He iump, ON
behind and strains his eyes to catch one
more Glance at the Interior Of the great
buIIiiu,. I'M he i whirled ont Of ,iuht.
u near, His one brief rlinp,e Lnd mol