Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1889-11-23
The New Doctor.

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half pleading tone, as if she expected
to meet storm Of objections, but
somehow, to her surprise her aunt
Martha said !:
81 would if were you"
'Dr. Wyck, it would seem, has tried
his utmost skill for the last five years,
sighed Esther, "and | get no better. Il
may be DR.. Dunn will know of some
new remedy"
81 will write to DR.. Dunn now
said Miss Martha. 81 will let Robert
harness up to drive to town.
1t was very brief note, merely re-
questing DIR. Dunn to call on Miss
Warren at his earliest convenience, yet
Miss Martha's pen travelled very slowly
over the paper, and she kept her head
to one side, lest tear drop should mar
the neat letters.
Five years before there had been no
brighter, stronger maiden in all Mill
vile than Esther Warren, only child
of Bates Warren who had made an
enormous fortune in iron, and held
Esther as the choicest of all his earthly
treasures.
At eighteen her father was killed,
and she seriously crippled in a railway
collision
Her hands and arms were strong as
ever, her brain clear, but her lower
limbs were utterly without power.
Heiress to immense wealth she. was
almost prisoner in her splendid
home, subject to attacks of pain that
Frustrated her for days, suffering in
tensely.
Books, needlework and feeble at
tempt at drawing helped her to fill up
the time but it was not easy to be
patient, and Esther was not yet per-
fectly saint-like, although she tried to
be submissive.
DIR. Dunn's practice was small, and
much of his time was at his own con-
troll, but he was an enthusiast in his
profession and gladly took much of the
old doctors gratuitous practice off his
hands.
He had come to Millville as Doctor
Wyck's assistant, to take his place
when he retired, but the patients of
the old doctor were little shy of the
new one.
"Ah-yes p' said Doctor Dunn,
reading Miss Martha's note. Little
Essie Warren! Sad easel" and the
doctor entered into long description
of the case, summing up the words,
utterly hopeless. She may live for
years but she will never walk or
stand"
1t seemed to Herbert Dunn when
he entered the beautiful room where
Esther spent her long waking hours,
that life even with pain must be pleas
ant surrounded with luxury, and the
rare, exquisite beauty of Esther's face,
pale, it is true, but delicately lovely,
was jewel worthy of exquisite setting
There was little flush on the inva-
lids cheeks as the new doctor took a
chair beside her, light Of hope in her
large eyes that made his heart ache.
1t was not long before Esther War
rem under the grave professional man.
ner, felt the power of sympathy, and
found herself expressing more freely
than she had ever before spoken the
hope that filled her heart, fully salts
fed when Doctor Dunn said
'TIn case Of so long standing |
cannot express an opinion at once,
Miss Warren, but depend on me to
give my most earnest study and care
to it"
But if Doctor Dunn could not re-
store strength to Esther Warren's
crippled body, it was not long before
she felt her life flooded with new
and strange happiness.
The hour that the new doctor spent
with her every morning gladdened the
whole day.
He was not ii conceited man and
Esther seemed to him like child, so
that he was blinded to the fact of the
crippled heiress.
So when Martha invited him to
spend some chance evenings there, he
went.
Essie was to him patient; one who
called on his professional skill fire.
quently to care for the most agonizing
suffering; and if he could also make