The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-09-21


Francel-she was in France; there
would follow her, and yet be revenged
upon them ell. / started up to seek old
Crammer, and resign my situation as
assistant.
The afternoon was far advanced, and
many patient must have been sorely
neglected by that time. But what cared
1 If the world had burst like bombshell
beneath my feet : l sought the house
in Bedford Street, with the red bottle in
the fanlight to find that its crimson
| glow paled beside the hue of Crammer's
face. He was literally boiling and chok-
ing with Indignation at me.
He had received due information of
| my ''insolence and presumption" from
Sir Percival; was desired to send in his
account, and appear at the house no
more. Thus his most aristocratic
patients were lost to him forever.
Ere could speak, he took the initia-
tive, and dismissed me, and that night
found me in humble residence, near
the temple, with few pounds in my
purse, my worldly goods a portmanteau
and few medical books ("Bell on the
Bones'), seeking to soothe my thoughts
by the aid of an execrable cigar and
little weak brandy and water.
The bright bubble had burst / had
lost Gertrude, and she, being facile, or
having little will of her own, on finding
that she had lost me, would too proba-
| alyo xx,ifh lar fa hxy
fulfilling the engagement that was SO
odious to her.
AS this conviction forced itself upon
me, could have wept; then L would
start up, and mutter of going to France
ere it might be too late; but l had no
money, and travelling in those pre-rail-
way time was not the cheap luxury it is
now. Moreover, 1 knew not how or
where to seek her; and while doubts
grew thus, and time went on, might
lose her forever.
The result of all this was that the next
day saw me in a raging fever, and
months elapsed ere 1 was convalescent.
For some time after sense returned L
knew not where l was, or what had
happened to me. Close by the table sat
familiar figure in his shirt-sleeves,
smoking, and occasional taking pull
at pint Of stout. The pleasures he
varied by reading aloud from med
ical work, on pharmacy apparently,
and breaking into scrap from a song
thus +"
"'P1ua165 subdcet. an aqueous solu-
tion of the salt thus produced with the
acetate and oxide of lead. A dense,
clear liquid. Colorless, odorless, and
slightly alkaline in taste. Produces a
white coating on glass PS,msbi sabdcet
that's the ticketl
"'Sod@ chloroto:, solution of car
Donate of soda, after the absorption of
chlorine gas. A clear liquid, and color
less. Odor-'"
Bob-Bob Asher!" said l, in a faint
voice, and he started at once to my bed
side and from him got history of
how i'll had been, and how he had
been my chief attendant; how sore
trials had come upon himself, and that,
by his fathers failure, he was at the
lowest ebb now for funds, he had be-
taken himself to study, and meant to
pass now. - Gil4 .3la
" But who the deuce is this Gertrude
of whom you have been raving for weeks
past 7 Not she 'of Wyoming eh,
Fred ?"
1 told him my story, and he was ex-
cessively indignant.
"Why, death alivel' said he, "Chal-
cot is only baronet, and in the civil
line of precedence-that is pretty like q
full corporal in the army-the second
round of the long ladder of rank. I'd
have chucked the old beggar over his
own window"
"Not if you loved his daughter, Bob, .
said I, mournfully.
"Well, no, perhaps"
"And you are reading up?"
Hard, Fred. 1 am doing the Modi
fled Examination in pharmacy, and
think shall pass now"
had been three months i'll. Three
months Bob told me that the Chal
cots town house was still shut up, ant
no one knew in what part of the Cont
nent they were travelling. Our separa
tion seemed confirmed now. The dreat
OF, never again beholding that sweet face
, with the bright eyes and the pretty
Grape bonnet, grew strong within me
and the idea that she might already
have become the wife of another addet
Z to my torture of mind.