Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-23
A DOCTORS STORY.

| often that n medicaf man rats a holiday
and but for the kindness Of a fellow prac
titioner In taking NV practice for a fort.
night. | should not have had an oppor
tunity of enioyine the sea breezes.
] The train on which / started was an
early one and. having procured INV ticket
| took nv place in the second class car
ria.re and lit my cigar, for 1t was a smok
ing carriage. On entering il | was sur
| prised-and think naturally soto find
| the farther end of II occupied BY a Iady
''Ohor" said |. inwardly. ssome fast
American demoiseile who desired to In
dulge In a cigarette"
| On observation. bowever II anneared To
me that the features of INV feIiow trsv
eler did not hear unon them that imnras
sion of cuteness which marks American
nationality She had soft brown ave. a
| full. round face. and profusion of chest
/ mt hair She was dressed In n plain
| travelling suit. hound with white braid
and wore a straw hat
| .Maybe A German soliloouised
"thev ara terrible smokers
But again II occurred 10 ma that possi
bIv the vounp Iadv MIGHT he neitbar
| American nor German. but had Got into
the carriape without Noticing that n was
| reterVe0 smokers Under
this impression 1 bowed sligbt,v To her
saving.
| Il fear nv CIGAR NAV annov youl Per
haps Won are not aware that this la a
smoking compartmentf'
"Ob YES She answered with a sliobt
| German accent; YES. YES. yes yesl"
There was sometime peculiar In her
| slow. deliberate utteranee and ths four
times repeated monosvilabje A draamy
| look. too. In the speaker's ewes "a II her
| mind was nreoccnn;ed However the
| train was now In motion and had moth
| ing for II but TO ensconce myself in NV
| corner, look out of the window and take
birds eve view of the surrounding
bousetops
For. short time this was well enough
| but | began at last to weary of the
monotopy of such an amusement We
| Enplishmen. as a rule. are SO reserved and
| unsociabie that we shrink into ourselves
and eyery fresh addition tn the occunants
of a railway carriage or an omnibus Ia re-
ceived with blank looks and a sort of tacit
| intimation that he has no right to enter
Now. am free to confess that. whateyer
nv failings, want of sociability Is not one
of them. and determined to try to en-
| ora pe NV compan,on i'm n littla conyerea
| ton There could be no improprietv In
man of nv age Il was 3S) endes yorine to
| beguile the tedium of a law Journey by
conversing with a fellow traveler-a
| school girl-and certainly not out of her
| teens II was therefore, with an eImos,
paternal feeling that addressed her
There are not many passenpers bv this
train" remarked
Two thousand and three. vas the an
| swer that not a little startled my eoua
nimity
looked at the speaker. expecting to
| find miscb;evons smile dancing in he,
eyes or lurking In the corners of her
month Nothino of the sor. She was
| perfectly serious even stern and her ewes
| had still the same dreamy farawav IooL
! in them
Very absent minded or eIse IN love .
{ thought to myself However | tried
again
ii think wa shall have n fine dav for
mr iourney. yentured To remark
She turned upon me with that fierce,
iespairine. vet restless look that we see
m a trapoed rat
How YOU talk. talk. taIkI" she cried In
| iipnantly
| "But"-
Are YOU mady- she screamed in a tone
| ,f such. intensified shriIlness. and with
sucb an awfnI hungry look In her eva
that the truth flashed 1pon me like an In
| ,piration.
She was madl
Medical man as am. n feeling os bor
ror oyercame me when / reflected that I
was shut up alone in the carriage of a
train travelling at express speed with a
lunatic. True WAS a strong man she
only Girl But II Is inconceivab what
extreme strength ia possessed nv MANY of
the insane have known q woman Tins
afflicted reouire two and even three now
erful men TO restrain her during one of
her paroxvsms
However / endeayored to keer, ss cool
"a possible as 1 looked the young Girl
steadily In the face She looked Il me
for a moment or so without ouailinp
then she sank back In her corner resumed
her apatbetic posture and sat gazing out
of the window with the far.away look In
her ewes as II no such person as myself
| was In existence
| "Poor grill" | thought. and began to
wonder who or what she could be. and
how she came 70 be travelling alone,
| Could she have escaped from an asylumr
/ IL so. how came she to be possessed of
sufficient funds To procure a railway
ticketf
had had some exnerjence In ..mad
cases" and | knew that the most cut
| r,geous ones are those where the patient
maintains an even sullenness of demeanor
The girls case did moi seem TO me 10 be
one Of them On the contrary her sud
den change of mood when i aneered her
seemed to- indicate II 10 be a case of tenn.
| porary alteration of mind and eonse
ouentIy a curable one,
| iooAeo al my ~atcn Quarter Oh !
an noul we snouia oe AZ oasligs.oke
sAs ~ any very S ssso' se'ua ns my "ss.h ..h
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