Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-01-07
APPARATUS S..
a Doctors story.

~ A Doctors Story.
rom tho German OF H%auptman.
al will tell you OF the case of which
spoke, provided you will hold your
bsgue about it," said the doctor,
rawing his visiting book from his
ocket. andsettling himself with the
Pr of q professional story teller.
The lady who was the patient in the
Use is still alive and one OF the love
West women IN the city. II would
yer do for an iadiscretion of mine
be the means of eniighteni G her as
b facts which, up to this time, we
aye carefully kept from her"
The speaker was one OF a party Of
bur who gathered about a lavishly
bread table in a private rom of the
Ter Jahreszeiten Munich. Tall broad,
houldered, and with one OF those
! uge heads so Enthusiastically Ger
ban in type, Cornelius Schorn, Sur
eon.in-C Chief of the Royal 0bstetrical
4 linic, would have been a noticeable
CURE in any assemblage.
Superbly furnished, brilliant with
light, and fragrant with the delicate
roma of Bordeaux and Burgundy,
be DON was a picture ofcheerful and
onvivial comfort. Outside the drawn
tlrtains a wild night was closing
y round the city, the keen and cutting
lind, driving straight fromthe Bavar-
bp Alps, swept through the narrow
~treets with the fury Of an enraged
g Jon. All the afternoon the storm had
seen bowling and shrieking. A. the
a orners OF the Schloss square, where
lie blasts were strongest, hats and
laps whirled from the heads of the
Sfsor'e rs they struggled up the deep
+ lciine, and, dancing merrily to the
rim melody OF the gale, escaped from
N light.
Needless Of the increasing uproar
s int Of doors, the gentlemen so pleas
ntly engaged with the delicacies before
hem eagerly assented TO the doctors
ish for silence.
Gathering more closely about the
able they awaited patiently the dis
n losure, certain TO be an interesting
ne unless Schorn's reputation as a
3ecanteur was greatly overrated. ,
Three years ago" he began, "worn
tut by the years work, a brief iet-up
as absolutely necessary if | wished
Q avoid changing places with my pa
tents. After completing prepare.
ions to join a party of friends
On q hunting expedition into the
AUSTRIAN Tyrol, / was sitting in
r he Office en- the morning ofthe2 goth
August, waiting simply until it was
kime to take the train. Always the
= eryant OF the people, u doctor never
knowns that anticipated vacations
IAN be realized until actually un.
Per way; therefore, | was not at
II surprised when the bell pealed iuri-
pusly and a messenger entered with a
*ummons to the bedside of an old
Friend st Berg, dying of consumption.
Hastily telegraphing the party to 60
Pm without me, | jumped into the car
fiage, and in an hour" time stepped
Prom the train at Berg.
"lt was very late in the evening be-
fore | returned to Munich, the clock
n the neighborhood striking IL as the
fchnellzug pulled into the depot. The
plight, a fearfully close and sultry one,
promised to end later on in n OF
hose summer tempests, brief in du-
Patton, but frequently OF a terribly
destructive character. The stencil
brought out by the h~eaviness OF
atmosphere from the cutters and
lithy thoroughfares of that part OF
he city known as the old town was
Pverpowering. Far advanced in the
rts and sciences, Munich is q city
ehich has yet much to learn OF
anitary principles. The ride be-
{ore me was a long one. Throwing
nyself back upon the drosky's seat,
closed my eyes, and before ] knew it
pad dropped into n doze. / slept per-
laps twenty minutes or more with
4 hat heavy, dreamless slumber al
gays the result of fatigue and unusu-
emotion. doubt whether Should
pave awakened at all had not the alb
utpt bouncing and swaying of the car
lage checked suddenly reused roe 10
-onseiousness. In the ~obscurity OF
be night | distinguished the figure OF
man, ~gesticulating wild for us to
top, and evidently in a state of in
&ense excitement. Without waiting
pr ME to question him he gasped out
ne intelligence between his labored
i reaths that something was wrong at
he Sendlingerther's 'deadhouse'
4the new Gottsaker recently finished
the outskirts Of the town.
Il For Gods sake, Herr Doctor,
PRED the man as he saw us driving
I, go as if the devil were after you.
The pace ut which we Travelled the
Raaximiiianstrasse would assuredly
pave distanced any devil of my nc.
Puaintance," added the doctor, with
smile. Sparks OF fire fairly rained
From the iron heels ofthe flying horses
n tho laundering of the hoofs on
ne hollow planking OF the bridge
ounded in the silence OF the night like
ne tread OF an army under a quick
movement. With the lights OF Munich
Plnce behind us ID was not long, with a
clear highway, before we were standing
7 the scndlingerther' gateway, rising
ne grimmest OF sentinels in front OF
ne citadel held by death. The scene
ipon which | entered, plotted by the
guard watching for my arrival, becgars
description. The hall beforethe dead
house doors was literally packed with
cemetery attendants, white as ashes
Win terror lNnd ali tuikiiy no sse
! gathered from their conhictinghtate-
|ments that a devil or a disembodied
soul was loose in the building and
ringing the alarm. 1t is bound
10 be so, Herr Doctor persisted the
attendant on night duty at the time
" Is bound to be so. for No, So is as