Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-02-01

serted. cheerfully. The winds get
ting around TO the west. and we re sure
Of fair day for our iaunt. Luy.
"Whatr' he exclaimed. suddenly.
perceiying the lately detected Luly now
very absorbed and eager. posing upon
her up-lifted fingers "A fragment IN straw
and blossoms and dangling ribbons.
Spring Millinery o.
swell. | wasn't going down there
looking like a dowdy,' mumblcd Luly,
with her mouth full of pins.
Jacks prediction came true. The
FIVE days sulk and evenings drench
were succeeded by the bohniest Of
May mornings. Luly donned the
Glove of bonnet her deft fingers
had fashioned, and managed, somehow,
TO look most wonderfully bright and
blooming for person suffering from i'll
health.
docs your shoulder pain YOU very
badly. dear?' Jack asked. with tender
solicitude as they pursued Their Jour
ney.
The vernal sunshine. streaming in at
| the car-windOw's unshaded lower half.
Tapped her in n comfort quite luxurious.
IL was with an effort, in fact, that she
/ NNtA GNtoltutt vi lIt ilDIG-
named troublesome member. But.
come to think Of il! well. It didn't ache
so perfectly awfllly rs il had some
times. She should hope not, indeed;
but il didn't feel just right now
The city was all life and animation
and stir. Beautiful fabrics filled the
shop-windows. Eager-faced people
thronged the walks. So much To do!
This capricious spring had stolen
march on everybody, aud everybody was
making glad haste TO get ready for the
welcome inva Ter.
IL must stop here at Hollingsworth'
I've some shopping to attend to, and
want to see about the chldren's summer.
su.ts and so on Luly said.
/ Jack accompanied her within.
| But now j must go my way" he
/ declared, after alrttle. Take Il easy
here. Luly, and get you some dinner
before going further, Gluek auf.''
A lay-tgure stood just before them,
and, in the retirement il afforded. Jack
let his blonde mustac brush lightly
the far cheek of his companion.
/ He came ba k a moment later.
understand your doctor occupies
new quarters" he said Wentworth
street, No. 57-one flight up. remember.
You want 10 take Merivale avenue
car'-and then he was really gone.
IL was not until nearly the middle of
the afternoon that Lufy found herself
at the designated place. Her ewes
searched the building for some assuring
sign, but found II not. Yet this was
1 wentworth street surely, and this was
/ No. %, and so she ventured in.
With entire correctness. rs she soon
gathered from the diminutive son Of
Autographed Enthusiastically, hammered
n In Chesterield-who received her at
the door. Across the polished hard
wood floor and Persian rugs of the
/ quaintly-appointed little antechamber
the urbane scrvitor led the way. slipped
n silken portiere. aud passed her in
under the golden-liied banneret of
France that depended from above and
between the gigantic pair of lacquered
vases that lowered one on either side.
Immediately there was bowling low
before her. with his hand upon his
heart, n very elegant gentleman i'm a
very elegant dress-suit and a blaze of
diamonds at his breast. rs he CHANGED
To intersect bar of sunlight with the
| hAN lflNOu WIS ufNtIaO III.
a name of ietty curls fell To his
shoulders. A glitter of white teeth
broke from the blackness Of his beard
ed lip. Adamantean, indeed. must be
the fancy To- which these so patent
charms could make no appeal, Besides
u was the perfection of fine breeding,
Luly thought, with which DR. Noullaire
performed the simple courtesy of hand
ing her n chair, rs il was certainly the
ideal of agreebbleness with which, hav-
ing placed himself opposite, he pro-
ceedcd to speak of the weather and the
topics of the times in English charm
ingly corrupt.
Then, would Madam be pleased
To look about his den little?
And he showed To- one side small vel
low jar. encircled by an artistically
ugly green lizard and hold'ng II big
bunch Of freshly-cut Jacquemnot roses,
the better To display the design of a
rare mosaic that formed the top of the
stand on which his arm was resting
Here was a curious bit i'm antique
bronze here n whimsey in wood cary
ing; this painting had a good point or
two.
Luly became so swallowed up i'm de-
light and admiration as To quite lose
4 sight of the purpose of her visit, and Il
was not until there happened TO flash
into her mind n sudden recollection of
the memorable train for home that she
remembered to say wherefore it was
she had come.
DIR. VOullaire had her seated at once.
"Ah! 20 rheumatism i'm 10 s'oulder
Ma f0iS, 10 is one terrible 'urt."
He took her hand lightly, and made n
few swift passes from the shoulder
downward.
/ Madam is cured he said. inn
pressively; and IL no more occurred to
Euly to gainsay the statement than IL
would have done had he asserted that
the sun was shining.
Behind the tall screen i'm corner he
disappeared, To return n moment later
with n tiny vial, half full of a colorless
and an Odoriess liquid.
Tree drop everee tree morning
Madame veel So stay one cured" he
SIN lingly explained; land zis day two
week ONE"
Jack rushed into the station in the
mere nick of time
"WellP' he said, interrogatively.
when he had settled himself beside Luiy
and the train was moving out.
'Oh, feel like a new creature. Jackl
And such q lovely place! No dusty old
bottles and no smelly old medicines;
not one bit Ike doctors office any
way-morc like an art museum! And
the pictures. oh, MY Such lots and
lots Of them-cherubs and cupids and
dear little Kate Greenawayish figures,
and 1 don't know what And such a
lovely gentleman. too! Tall and SPLEEN
dld-"
"A big Frenchman. ehP" laughed
Jack.
''And strong and brave and grand and
noble. like a true knight come forth TO
battle physical suffering and deliver the
oppressed. just imagine him az
coutred all in glittering armor. Jack,
/ with helmet and nlunne ator, thcsa ~ xoD