The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-02-05

"Eor nifty years, nearly, the doctor
had given himself without relaxation
to scientific studies. From these re-
searches and surgical operations re-
vealing such ugly contrasts to rosy
tints and vermilion lips, he came out
with rs little human illusion as might
possibly exist. Science killed the little
passion inherent i'll this cold nature
and calm temperament. He would
stop, radiant, by the bedside of some
unhappy creature in the hospital,
turn back the coverlids with a gesture
of JOY, and with enthusiasm say to his
pupils, "A superb case of carries of
bone, sirs!' He was before a danger
Gus gnawing enemy-very well-so
much the better-he would gnaw too.
The patient, a manikin of whom he
did not think for q minute. A life Of
that sort turns q man into bronze.
"These other occupations came to
him unavoidably. He was known to
be progressive, and his name was one
around which crowds, would willingly
group themselves, and one, day, with
out very well knowing how, he found
himself returned deputy from his de-
parrment. He took his role of re-
former seriously, and threw himself
with every energy into a warfare
against these social ulcers which
flourish at the chamber as we'll as 9th
er ulcers do at the hospital. Con-
stantly occupied with pressing duties,
one al hardly imagine how love
crept in under that impressive front.
However, it was SO, and it took pos
session with incomprehensible tenac-
ity.
Gone day, in driving through the
Rue des Ecolss,a coupefrom M ofthe
narrow side streets turned suddenly in
at the point where we were, and before
it was possible to avoid it, the carriage
wheels were e~ntangled with such ashock
that the coachman was thrown half
through the door, which was lily fast
ened, and which flew open at this sud-
den arrest. It took but a moment
for Doctor CAVITY to recover, and to
be at the side of the lady who lay
stunned in her coupe. We carried her
into the court of the School of Medi-
cine, at whose doors we were, and
whose walls were as familiar to the
doctor as his own fireside, and we laid
the lady on q settee in the nearest
room. 1t is not necessary to say
that the doctor, with his calm brain
and hand, did all that was possible
to restore her. / noticed with sur.
prise at the end of his efforts, two
bright red spots on his cheeks, which
would have been remarked even if it
were notfor his habitual pallor, and |
remember they lasted long after the
lady had recovered and been sent home
in the doctors carriage under my es-
cort.
81 remember, too, how she looked
as she Law there unconscious-a wom-
an of thirty, with a perfect physique,
with that dignity of line and grace
which gives character and fascination
TO the roundness of twenty. She was
a blonde-her hair was braided in
small braides and pinned down closely
to the back other head and her dainty
ears. The lady was Mile. - the
heiress of an old and rich family of
Blois, and lived in Rue de ".
''It was not long before the doctor,
by virtue Of his name and character,
was a regular visitor at the house of
Mile. -. From the morning he met
her by the Schoolof Medicine, a singu-
lar quiet vigor and enthusiasm took
possession of him, and he often wore
an exalted expression like one who
has by accident set eyes on an UNI
imagined ideal-if one may say SO.
"Mlle--is of the most charm
ing OF French women, which is to say
much. Generous, broad-minded hospit-
able, there met at her home all that
was distinguished and intelligent In
Paris. A few months since there was
introduced to her salon a cultivated
young American gentleman OF large
fortune, and with a broad education
| received at the universities of Paris
! and Germany.
"You knowth the American men. They
have the truly honorable regard for
women that we moot often miss, gal
liant and polite as We may be. 1t is
the something ideal and inspiring to
the French woman, and the result Of
this acquaintance in the salon of Mile.
was a violent attachment on both
| sides-and which ends the coming
month in a wedding The doctor had
been as it were blinded by his supreme
but silent Joy. He has seemed to ex-
ist in its possession without a thought
Of it's fruition. 1t was his
first and only passion. But there
came the moment when the
engagement of Mlle.--- and Mr..
RI was announced. An hour
| after the doctor drove to the house
of Mlle.-. What passed there,
+hoxv +u,o olcna Enau, h,,t I xvho no va
known his nobility and simplicity of
heart may guess.
"After that he seemed like a man in
a state of suspense. He went like q
man without breathin him. till finally
one day in the class, a sudden and
| curious CLEAN came over his face, a