Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-01-05

culinary ski ana general aDluCy. dence
the frivolous youth of yarmouth insisted
that it was simply a matter of time as to the
ultimate matrimonial resultS
Three times year Mrs Mack had been
in the habit of giving Dr. Blake warming"
in more or less impassiOned terms. The
alleged causes were sins of omission or COM
mission on the respective parts of the SHRED
help" Bob. the office boy, and Miss Doris
Lane the Doctors nineteen-year- old ward
1t was the morning after Christmas Day
in the year Of grace 1888. Dr.. Blake was
in his library and Office combined, hoping
for quiet hour with the Lancet, which he
held in his hand with pages uncut, as Mrs.
Mack, whose black eyes We're swapping ON
inOusly, fungi use the word advisedly-
into the room.
With a premonition of what was coming
the Doctor laid aside the pamphlet
We'll, Mrs Mack" he said, WEAKLY,
"which-that is Who'll mean, what is it
now"
This day week, Dr.. Blake, either Mis-
Doris or l leave-you can choose between
as" responded the Widow Mack, with on
inOus calmnesS Barring the name of the
offender. her formula of warning was al
ways the same. Possibly she dreamed that
by patient persistence in this line the Doc
tor in some unguarded moment might be
He'd to say: @Then, Mrs Mack, my advice
will be-yourself
Why not? The widow only acknowled ged
To thirty six, her figure was trim, her face
not uncomely and she held property in her
own right In addition to this her cookery
was unequaled, and Is itnot recorded that
masculine hearts untouched by personal
charms have been reached through the vul-
gar medium of the stomach?
Not being the dirt under Miss Doris
feet" acrimon:ously continued Mrs. Mack,
before DIX. Blake could speak, 81 don't pro-
pose being trod on no longer The idear'
said the irats lady. with backward toss of
her head; ordering me out of her study'er
just because said her goings on with your
.nevew. Paul Blake, was scindalous! Things
have come to a pretty pass in this house,
.bhink:'
DR. Blake groaned in spirit as Mrs
Mack slammed the door behind her.
why can't she let Doris alone" he NUT
tered. and when he said 3Doris" it was with
n pscularly tender infection. But that,
perhaps. was because of the semi parental
relation in which he pretended to stand
toward her
DIR Blake communed with himself for a
.uncnt pamphlet, rose and regarded himself
,csIriously in the glass over the mantel
You're nothing but an old fool. Paul
Blake" he said, turning abruptly away. Yet
theearnest, scholarly face AMI dark inscrut-
able eyes which had returned his brief
glance were by no means deserving of such
a scathing remark But in COMPARISON will
his nephew, Paul Blake, the doctor regarded
himself as a modern Mcthuselah
Doris Vane's ''study'er" was a rather coy
interior formed by parting portion of the
attic proper with some faded chintz cur
tains rummaged out from the big cedar
wood chest in the corner One of the hang
ings was pushed back for a better side light.
and DR. Blake, who had soughG the attic
with a view Of reconc;ling Doris and Mrs
Mack stood still at the head of the stairs
regarding the chintz- framed picture before
him
Under the sky Light in the roof was an
easel supporting a partly finished portrait
in oil Before it. holding palette and
mahl-stick in rest, stood pretty Doris the