The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1882-11-16
Let them alone,
And they'll come home;

And they'll come home;
so that Sadie felt quite at her ease with him,
| and even went so far, occasionally as to admit
that there was something wonderfully winning
| about Frank, after all.
He was very nice-looking, certainly, with the
professional air which those near-sighted glasses
gave him; and to-day his visitor was more
struck by his appearance than usual, as he rose
from his writing table to greet her.
Frank" she began, rather timidly, "can
you give me an unfailing prescription for Group ?
That is, the very best that has ever yet been
tried?"
Not for yourself, hope?"
"Don't be ridiculous, please, if you can help
it. Little Katie Masters is perfect martyr to
the disease; and I want it for some others, too.
You'll write it out for me, won't your"
"Most certainly" taking up his pen again :;
'but cannot concientiously call it 'unfailing,'
as they do the patent medicines"
A rush of color swept over Sadies face just
then, and Frank Gordon wondered what it
meant. But it was much too pretty to find fault
with.
"Please write it so that civilized people can
read it," observed the young lady, rather
saucily; "and don't put in those queer little
Latin authorizations. l have particular desire
to understand it myself"
Again that sunset color, as Doctor Frank
looked at her a little inquiringly; and he be-
gan to wonder if he had any grounds for hope.
"should this accomplish what want of it,"
said the recipient, as she carefully bestowed the
precious document in her chatelaine-ba "you
will not be forgotten"
She had not quite decided whether her &C.
acknowledgements of Doctor Gordon's services
should take the shape of q handsome gold
watch-he carried silver one now, poor fell
low-or some other testimonial. But the ex-
preston with which she made the remark was
so significant, that it was interpreted in quite
another way.
Thanks was the reply. ~ want no evil
donces of gratitude" also significantly. But
think that remedy the best that has ever yet
been tried. You are quite sure that you arc
not about to set up as a quack doctor?"
He said this quite at random and jestingly,
but she flushed up over cheek and brow again
"Cheeks like damask roses" he comm ented,
as he returned to his book, with piquant girls
face coming rather too frequently between him
and it.
The young lady wendell her way back to the
fiat which at present constituted the family
abidins-p place, and found mother and sister
busily engaged in the exhilarating occupation
of turning an old dress. Sadie longod to tell
them that it might be the last one upon which
they would need to exercise their talents but
mamma was scarcely safe repository for
secret, and Laura was infammable so she
wisely refrained for the present.
The next day Sadie went in quest of her
" familiar" as the family called lady of some
sixty odd years, who inherited a single room
in clearinghouse. and spent her time in
visiting the poor and relating her autobiogra-
ply. Mrs. Gladstone called herself an old
woman but it really seemed as though, to
afford space enough for the acting of all the
dramas, tragedies and comedies which had
fallen to her share, she should have been
female Methuselah.
She was wonderfully interested in the secret
confded to her, and bestowed abundant sym
pathy and some valuable advice; for Mrs. Glad
some was as much at home on the subject of
patent medicines as with most other things.
She also knew just the people, too, who were
needed for any emergency; and having i'm
pressed upon her young friend the disturbances
of a certain Mr.. James taking hold of it," she
escorted her forth with to be introduced to that
magnate
The young lady did not consider the gentle
man at all prepossessing in appearance. But,
fortunately, personal beauty was not indispen-
sable to success in venture of this kind. Mr..
James kept his hands in his pockets, and evil
IDENTIFY had no prejudices in favor Of clean linen.