The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1878-01-03
TURNING THE TABLES,

II really don't know what is to be done
with this perverse girl" said DR.. Ham,
mond, running his fingers through his
hair, until it stood on end, and impaired
to him much of the appearance of a par
ticularly fretful porcupine.
His wife looked up from her sewing and
said, quietly.
"Let her have her own way"
"What! and marry Doctor Gray9 Why,
he's as poor as church mouse-not even
q practice to depend upon"
=" He is young and clever. He will get
practice and make money,as you did after
| married you.''
This hint had an opposite effect from
what she had intended.
HELL not get a practice here. My pa
tients know better than to trust themselves
to an inexperienced boy, with head full
of new-fangled, unorthodox, professional
theories. Humbug."
At that moment a pretty young girl en-
tered. She paused only to drop rose
bud on her aunt's lap, and another on
the table where her uncle sat with his
paper, and passed quietly out of the
opposite door. Her aunt's eyes followed
her:
"Richard, don't you think Ellie looks
badly9 She is quite thin, and has lost her
color and appetite. Wouldn't some
change benefit her?''
eoThe Doctor looked up with a sudden
light cleaning through his gold-rimmed
spectacles.
"a good idea. She will be the better
for being sent away for few weeks-or
months, if necessary. 1t may cure her Of
other complaints than dyspepsia"
"But who is to accompany here
You know it is impossible for me to
leave home this summer; and at Scar
borough"
>"She won't go to Scarborough, or to
any other place where this young GRAY
can follow her. I will send her to some
quiet farmhouse. There is Mrs. Frasers
"a nice, secluded place, where she will
he we'll taken care of. know that the
old lady sometimes takes summer board
ers. As for companion, her cousin will
be glad of some country recreation after
,year's governessing in town. I will paw
her board, And while we are on the sub
ject, I'll step over at once to Mrs. Mad
dox's and make inquiries"
The doctor had reason for thus hur-
rying this suddenly conceievd plan. On
Thnrsday there was to be a picnic in
Fefnwood, where Gabriella-or Ellie. as
her uncle and aunt called her-would be
sure to meet DR.. Gray.
He doubted whether the pair had vet
come to an understanding" but he
knew that few dreamy summer hours
amid those lonely glades would "work
more mischief" as he inwardly expressed
1t, than; two months, ordinary intercourse;
therefore, he was anxious to prevent the
meeting.
Tie resultof the doctors planning was
that he, next day, wrote to Mrs. Fraser,
at hillside Farm, near Frassy Junction,
to expect his niece, Miss Gabrielle Ham
mdnd, on Thursday; and also mentioned
that another niece Of his, Miss Ham
mond, would join her there in q day or
tw6.-..,~s
Now, it happened that this last-men-
toned lady, the elder Miss Hammond.
whose name was also Gabrielle, exerted
heSself to meet Ellie on Thursday, at "the
Junction." and did arrive there punctual
to the time, only to find that the train
had not brought her expected cousin.
Spying, at one Of the carriage windows,
an ,, acquaintance from Fernwood, she
hastily imputed, and learned that Ellie
had been detained by an accident, but
that she would be down next day.
At the same moment she was accosted
by aspare and sunburnt lad, who inquired
If she were not Miss Gabrielle Hammond.
and informed her that he was Mrs.
Fraser's nephew, and that the trap was
for her"
While Miss Hammond busted herself
in collecting her numerous parcels, aud
gazing disparagingly at tho little village,
consisting Of q few houses and a black
smiths shop, several hencoops and a little
grocery, she was herself an object of in
terest TO the natives thereof.
Say, MI. Bunce,' remarked the youth
who had addressed her, as he stood before
the counter of the grocer's receiving divers
PARCELS Of goods, ''don't you want squint
at the heiress2"
The person addressed peercd cautious.
~ homt between two glass jars on the
window, containing: severally soap and
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