Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-01-17

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Joe"' aske Richard.
"Oh, no.
"What do YOU do. generality"
"Well, I'm proof-readsr, of1ice-boy,
book-keeper, copy-holder, collector. So
licitor, reporter. devil and editor. l
think that all. :, ---------------------4--
why, then it's you who get out the
paper" . ;,
Ten, And what do you all do?"
Each of us does all those things"
"Tnis is your busy day, suppose"'
"Well, yes, rather. All the week the
doctoris occasionally insane, bit Satur-
day is his very bad day
| "Ah. this is interesting. How is he
affected?'
"He signs frequently and then looks
around as if he was going to confess
something awful; but he doesn't. Then
he will say: Mr.. King CHATS me), will
YOU please ask Mr.. Wh'tewright to step
here for moment?' Bob Whitewright
is little fellow of fifteen that runs
most of the crrands. Well, Bob steps
up to the doctor and stands there for a
| minute before tie doctor discovers him.
What is wantedo' sOh- ahr he signs;
| yes, l sent for you, but! (and he
presses his forehead and draws in his
breath through his teeth. like a child
eating hot soup without a spoon) have
| forgOttel what 1 wanted with you. You
can 90: will remember it presently
and send for you g.
Snow let me tell you. I was up
stairs this morning before we went to
press he Gale up through the tube
that he wanted me to step down a mo-
ment-he meant hundred steps down.
went down for the ninety-ninth time
and reported Mr.. King (and he
| sighed), there are two or three matters
pressing that I'll have You attend to I
guess. Here's Il special notice to
be written about B!ddle's sale; then
write alout tinger-length editorial on
! the dangerous condition of Myrtle and
Hya-inth streets; then 60 over all our
standing advertisements and make a
list of them Well, wrote thelnotice
and the editorial and made out the list
and handed it all over to the doctor.
OF course none,of them were done right,
but d dn't expect they could be. The
doctor can be beat in improving other.
peoples work. When YOU do. the job
and are tired out. he comes up all fresh
and smiling. witha pair of microscopes.
The special notice was too short and the
editorial was too long, and he was sure
that he had told me to be eXtraordina-
rily careful with that list, and he re-
membcred distinctly telling me some
thing that never heard. ~ 80
That may be hailucinatiOn, Joe,
suggested Richard.
Joe was about to make strong state
ment of what he thought it was, when
his father entered and Joe stopped like
horse before a seven-barred gate.
I go on, joe" urged Lucy; tell us
the rest" co.
"Not now; it'll keep" said Joe,I
going out OF the ROOM: - Sex
"What's .his?' asked her father.
..Oh. nothing" said Rachel.
q see-he was at the doctot again,
wasn't he?'' - = - !
No one replied.
" A mighty clever fellow the doctor
is. Nothing Eighty or sensational about
him"
mo, indeed" said Rachcl.g
Her fa:herllooked steadily at her for
moment. He Lad ev: IDENTIFY expected
some mid contradiction, and, as there
was apparently only one side to the
quest on of the doctor merits, he was
not at all satisfied. -
After few constrained remarks
Richard took his leave. promising Luz
CIV and his good friend Rachel that he
would report on Monday just as soon as
possible afterthe arrangements had been
AS Richard went ont he met DR.. Stone,
who was about to enter. They spoke to
each other in a friendly manner-after
the fashion of pugilists who shake hands
before the combat.
IA, For some time / asst the visits of DR..
Some to John Kings house had, seri-
ously disturbed Richard, making him
feel ungenerons towards his prosperous
rival. He wished that he stood as well
in the estimation of Lucy's father. as
the doctor did, and he was ANNOYED
that he did not. But this unreasona-
ble young man never for a. moment
Thought of copying after DR.. Stone.
The doctor bought his success at a
price, and Richard wanted that sue cess
without paying the price. But tonight
4 chard felt too happy at the thought
of Monday being SO sIiear to grudge> tho
doctor tne barren pleasure Of plexsin9
the father-as- for him, he preferred
pleasing the daughter. He sympa-
thized with the doctor because-he could
partly realize how he himself would
feel if the ease were reversed and
there once had been a remote possibility
of the case being reversed. Like the
rest ofls.4 his sympathy was aroused by
similar case to his own, or what might
be his own, SHs
Monday came like anyother Monday.
Dawn drew the familiar world out ofthe
obscurity iofo broa.f daylight, VIII Ere,
having passed its allotted time dusk led
it back into the darkness - "
'ls Monday evening Lucy and Rachel
We're sitting together in the twilight
dis thssing . subject upon which they
could never agrea, because they never
tried to agree. lEiIcy's position air-th;s
standing sdehateiwas tlfat:dshe couldn't
love poor man enough to marry him,
while Rachel declared that if she loved
a man she did not care how poor he was
They had not said the last word when
Richard came ins = X a
"a Even before the room was lighted the
sisters knew that something was wrong.
In fact it was all wrong. Monday-the
suspicious day, the GROWING success :
Monday had brought utter failure and
TIL n TO his most cherished hopes At
thetcrit;cal moment in the presence Of
the CAPITALISTS who came. prepared to
invest all the money needed, the ma