The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-08-21
HUGH WILSON AND W. G. BENET.

in the 500 train, P. NJ, and signed your
name"
"An old friend" repeated Amy, re-
aectingly.
"Do you object to the term"
"Object I dote on it." laughed
Amy.
"'You re my friend:
What a thing friendship is, world without
end 7"
he quoted Was ever a Journey down
the Rhine or up the Nile more enchant-
ing than this trip along the Hudson ?
We're not the Palisades as grand and
fantastic in their way as Phil@ and its
temples? Did not the Highlands wrap
themselves in an atmosphere es anne
thystine as that Of the Bernese Ober-
landP Could a night in June upon the
Danube river surpass this afternoon in
a palace-car?
To Amy's dismay, on arriving at Nj
agara, she found Aunt Kitty at the hotel,
sitting up in bed, bostered by pillows,
gasping and wheeling with an attack of
asthma.
ga whole ticket as good as thrown
away" she groaned. Il shall be ruined
if we don't begin to economic some
where"
I'm afraid this tip is a bad begin
ning," said Amy.
"And who was TIE friend you met in
New York, eh?'
"Only Dorset Travis"
"Dorset Travis ! old Martins grand
SON Who next? I do hope, Amy,
that you held yourself a little distant
that you didn't conlescend too much"
ooh, I had such a splendid time,
auntyl"
"A splendid TIM, with q Travis for
company You aredegenerating, Amy.
What would your g1sat-grandfather have
thought of you?"
elm sure I.dontknow; but we dined
al Delmonico's, wedrove in the park,
We looked at pictures"
with the brandon of Martin Travis
and I lying here trying to catch my
breath /"
"You must have a doctor, Aunt
Kitty"
"Indeed no; docbrs cost a fortune in
such a place as this they're not like DR..
Grub, at home, with his seventy-6ve
cents a visit. You must remember that
this is an expensive trip, and We must
save where we can But by the fol-
lowing day Aunt Hity found that her
usual remedies failed of alienation,
that, in fact, she was only growing
worse. eff then wore only some
young doctor just sttled, glad OF a pa
tient ct any price, she gasped. Ring
the bell, Amy"
"Do you know my young DOCTOR"
she asked Of the clamber-meid=-"a any
one who is reasonable in his charges,
who hasn't gotten into much practice2"
"That I dc" replsd the girl; "there's
one in the house tbs blessed minute.
Shall I be sending him up to you?"
"You're sure b doesn't charge
high%
"Charge, is it? Is himself who car
ried a whole family through with the
measles without charging a cent. Oh,
he's the man for YOU money, marm."
"Well, you may SIX him to step up;
one visit won't kill ne, OF any rate"
"Not unless hei 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 flat Amy was put at
the druggists when he made his first
visit, and had met Dorset Travis on her
way home.
1.-THE doctors been here" said Aunt
Kitty; "and such a pleasant : spoken
gentleman as he is! Handsome, too;
he reminds me of some, one-I cant tell
whom. He says he took up the 1rofes-
sion for love, not for money, which
argues we'll. Shows he didn't spring
from common. stock. You can se, in
deed, at a glance, that he's a hor1 aris-
tocrat."
"Isn't your eyesight imppving,
aunty ?" laughed Amy.
CT was never so nesr-sighted that I
couldn't tell a man of gentle blod and
long descent from a plebeian. Ie has
only had his degree within the asst six
months. though he has practicedin the
hospitals, you know"
But in spite of her doctors irtues,
Miss Kitty grew worse rather tim bet
ter. Amy might a swell have oeen a
nurse in q hospital ward, only ne was
never off duty. All day she was'hut in
with the invalid, all night sheTas up
and down, arranging pillows, measuring
doses; she had forgotten the neghbor-
hood of the Falls, so to speaker the
object of the journey; the doctr came
twice a day, since the attack VS. stub
born; she herself was growing pie and
hollow.eyed, and n day she Gopped
at the bedside in the act Of administer
ing q dose.
"This will never do" said theloctor.
You must have a nurse, MissVane."
ga nurse p cried Aunt Kitty.
"What next? I never had sch an
article in my life. DON'T own 4olcon-
da, and I haven't a CHIN in Ell Dorado.
A nurse, indeed I tell yor what,
| Amy" she added as roc al thg we're
alone again, 81 mus pick up enough
to jog home by the weeks end; I've just
money enough left tc pay my bills and
buy our tickets"
"And we haven't STEM the Falls yeti"
ct wish the Falls had been n the
Red sea! 1t they hadn't existed, it
would have been mon'y in my purse and
health in my bones"
miss Amy must sic the lions first"
said the doctor, next day, whel Aunt
Kitty had announced her intention of
leaving Niagara. ely carriag' is at
the door; I shall esteem it a privilege if
I may introduce her tcthem."
"I'm sure you're as good al gold,
DOCTOR"
But when Amy returned, Their was a
rosy glow in her face. and an ecsasy in
her glance.
II hope" she said, between smile
and q tear-"I hope, Aunt Hity, that
you won't be disple.sed, though his
ancestors didn't come over in TIL May
Notwithstanding happepd at
the Falls, Aunt Kitty"
Goodness 4! you lidn't los any
thing" ,
eyes, I did. I lost my heart Aunt
Kitty. I hope ~you'veyrown to Ike him
we'll enough not to mind his want OF a
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