The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-08-14

save Wnero we can. buJ Dy bno lOl-
lowing day Aunt Hitty found that her
usual remedies failed of alienation,
that, in fact, she was only growing
worse. eff there we're only some
young doctor just settled, glad OF pa
tient at any price," she gasped. Ring
the bell, Amy"
"Do you know any young doctor, {"
she asked of the mber-maid-" any
one who is reasonable in his charges,
who hasn't gotten into much practice9 2"
"That do, replied the girl; 'there's
one in the house this blessed minute.
Shall 1 be sending him up to you 2"
"You're sure he doesn't charge
highP"
"Charge, is itP It's himself who car
ried a whole family through with the
measles without charging cent. Oh,
he's the man for your money, marm."
"Well, you may ask him to step up;
one visit won't kill me, at any rate"
"Not unless he's the kill or cure
kind" said Amy.
He had gone out to a patient, how
ever, when the maid went to seek him;
and it so happened that Amy was out at
the druggists when he made his first
visit, and had met Dorset Travis on her
way home.
"The doctors been here" said Aunt
Hitty; "and such a pleasant spoken
gentleman as he is Handsome, too;
he reminds me of some one-I can't tell
whom. He says he took up the profess
sion for love, not for money, which
argues well. Shows he didn't spring
from common stock. You can see, in
deed, at glance, that he's born aris-
tocrat."
"Isn't your eyesight improving,
aunty 2" laughed Amy.
"I was never so near-sighted that 1
couldn't tell man of gentle blood and
long descent from plebeian. He has
only had his degree within the last six
months, though he has practiced in the
hospitals, you know"
But in spite of her doctors virtues,
Miss Hitty grew worse rather than bet
ter. Amy might as we'll have been a
nurse in hospital ward, only she was
never off duty. All day she was shut in
with the invalid, all night she was up
and down, arranging pillows, measuring
doses; she had forgotten the neighbor-
hood of the Falls, so to speak, or the
object of the journey; the doctor came
twice a day, since the attack was stub
born; she herself was growing pale and
hollow-eyed, and one day she dropped
at the bedside in the act of administer
ing dose.
"This will never do" said the doctor.
You must have a nurse, Miss Vane."
GA nurse p cried Aunt Hitty.
"What nextp never had such an
article in my life. 1 don't own Golcon-
da, and haven't claim in Ell Dorado.
A nurse, indeed 1 tell you what,
Amy" she added as soon as they were
alone again, 81 must pick up enough
to jog home by the weeks end; I've just
money enough left to pay my bills and
buy our tickets"
"And we haven't seen the Falls yetp
"I wish the Falls had been in the
Red sea 1t they hadn't existed, it
would have been money in my purse and
health in my bones"
Miss Amy must see the lions first, +"
said the doctor, next day, when Aunt
Hitty had announced her intention of
leaving Niagara. "My carriage is at
the door; shall esteem it privilege if
may introduce her to them"
"I'm sure you're as good as gold,
DOCTOR"
But when Amy returned, there was
rosy glow in her face, and an ecstasy in
her glance.
"I hope" she said, between smile
and tear-"I hope, Aunt Hitty, that
you won't be displeased, though his
ancestors didn't come over in the May
Notwithstanding happened at
I,n TNo1l
Goodness you didn't lose any
thing ?"
"Yes, I did. I lost my heart, Aunt
Hitty. 1 hope you've grown to like him
we'll enough not to mind his want of q
family tree, because I've promised to
marry him, Aunt Hitty."
Whom? the doctor Well, f.I
ever If it hadn't been for my asthma,
now Well, you may thank me for a
good husband. How do you know about
his ancestors, pray2 By-the-way, child,
I don't think 1 ever asked his name.
I'm sure don't know it any more than
if he were the pre-Adamite man, if there
ever was such being. When you're
choking and painting with the asthma, a
rose would smell as sweet with any
other name. 1 hope it's a pleasant.
sounding one, at any rate"
"Yes, it is very pleasant it is Dorset
Travis. Oh, aunty, couldn't help it;
but you know you said he was born
aristocrat 1 didn't mean to deceive you
but you never asked, and-and-it was
80 nice to have him coming, if you must
be ill, and you would have sent him
away if you had known, and then per-
haps you would have died; and 1 didn't
know he was a doctor myself till 1 met
him in the street the day he first came
to you, and he told me he had studied
at first for occupation, never meaning to
practice-as he had plenty of money
without, sunty, you know-but he had
grown to love it, and meant to devote his
life to it-and me"