The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1885-02-19

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her brown syss lighted viii interest ID
doctor would ~ V hi1sslf: ny Jsvs
What pretty srsssars u III Why vass'
shs bers in ssns other sessiss sf liie'
Asl asais, vhss oct IN ssld ed sssss,
night. ks vslld aad hinssll hurryisg th
horss. ssd pisssrisg Ne pleasure Of -
BY the nrs opposite Dessshy Add ths'
again be vss sayisC 'Caisasd shs sts
sios d liisl A perfect vsnaa sobly plan
ned i sAasiss 10 liis hsssslf." Asa sn'
night - he looked svss = bsr sissise ep
posits. dsuursly dassing - lsbas slosi
there hs wssdsrsA Wy b shesld sss cros'
ever ssd sis beside her Still hs said
nothing Of sll this thinking; hs va aet |
sviit msa al speaking; bic purpsss formed
slowly.
II only vousn could b. patisatl Whal
had Il bssn 10 pretty Dorothy y--thsss even
isg hours. this familiar talk, thsss frisndly
words. these long silsuoss. illuminsi only
By flashing slanesss Hs never know
Oas day b eans homo and ioand n
angular spiaistsr ia pretty Dsrsthy's
place. Miss Merle had engaged her shs
said; aad Dsrothy vas nowhere 10 b seen
II Vas Of no ne for everything TO rush
over Dr.. Tredickar then in one torrent oI
rsmsmbrancss and thuudsrbolt Of dscis--
ion rsmsmbrascs Of oil her svsstssas
asd sense. ef all her charm and delight
deoision Of long fsltsring purpose. II
Was Of NO use for him 10 rage and imagine
vain thiDgs; nobody knew anything oi
Dorothy and search - hs might. far and
near. high and low. 10 oil bis acquaintance
with the country side, neither hs nor any.
body else came acrsss any trace Of her.
DR.. Trsdiokar. for some reason or ether.
discardsd bis dark little pills nov. but he
plunged back into bis business with sort
Of madness He tried 10 forget himself In
killing or curing; hs never looked at :
woman except from scientific point Of
view; he never spoke TO his spinister il he
could help it; be studied as il bis life de-
pended on it; practice he had been on the
point Of surrsndsring to the new doctor
he retained, and rode far into the night to
exactipg people on outlaying farms; and
was up early iu the daybreak for his lab
Oratory experiments and books; he forgot
10 eat. and was unable to sleep.
OF course such devotion to work had ito
own reward in one way. DR.. Tredickar
vas besoming comfortably rich man for
} country practitioner, and vas rsaping :
ripe harvest Of fame. that was, however,
u worthless to him 40 the breath Of the
idlsst breeze.
And 20 one year followed another till 20
had slipped away, and The babies to whom
hs had given their first bolus had babies
II their own; and fsvsrs and eossump.
lions and amputations and autopsiss filled
up the measures Of his days; and there
'eemsd 70 DR.. Tredicksr nothing worth
wing for; and worn with work, irregular
'ood. unhealthy hurries, sympsthiss. dis
yusts, fatigues, ono morning DR.. Tvcdick.
Ir discovered that lie was without appe-
lite. without strength. without hope or
wish, looking on the world ~ o mass OF
disease, and saw. with hardly surprise OF
.egret, that there WINS no health in him.
DIR. Trsdicksr had scarcely the energy
eft to set about curing himself; he really
lid not care. He took one little dose and
mother. and would not have taken them
/ his aged spinistsr had not set them by
,is plate. As he looked about his dull
md desolate home he thought that this
Was the time when . man needed wife
Ind cheer, aud cursed himself for not
linking Of it twenty years ago. DR.. Eel
ows came 10 see him, and told him be
must do 80 and 50; and he did. and grew
more listlsss and melancholy. Then DR..
Harvey came. and said lie must do this
md that; and hs did, and be felt 30 much
worse that he vent himself to 80 DR.,
Field. Aud then Ill three Mad consul.
Atisa. and one said il vas the spleen. and
'ps said il vas the kidneys. aud be him.
'elf was as sure it was the liver. And %
hey could do nothing that lai cot already
been done, they sent him Of to the sprisgs
10 see what they could do.
But the Virginia springs did DR.. Ire
iickar no good : hot or cold or sulphur
and the Csnadian springs did him No
good. and the Maine springs did him 10
good, aud the Vermont and the Arkansas
springs were equally worthless 10 his case,
md at last he was on his way to the Wis.
cousin springs, hopeless. listless. wretehsd
IaiIiug generally and aiiing particularly,
rom mere forcs Of habit trying 70 get
we'll, aud yet not caring whether be did
,r not, with NO object and no aim simply
a. it were, by the instinct Of
'slf preservation.
He was within 200 miles OF WaukesLa
when he encountered Allen in the cars
IN old clsssmste whom be had net met
'or years; aud Of course they sseh had .
world to say, aud the first topic vas their
health.
Going 10 Wankesha?' said Allen
'Wsll," consolingly. 'is'il do You NO
rood. Itried il. tried them al. Iwss
= precisely your condition. And look q
ne today sound - . dram! nov lot me
ell you. You cas't enrs yoursslf You've
zone through the faculty. You've nearly
zone through the springs. There's meth
nc left but old vonsn's notioss; suppose
Isa try them. Nov let me tsll you. Trs
lickar. Thsrssa person 1t the next tow
! sort Of doctor -quack, Of course ss---shs's
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