River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-10-10


"Oh. no. He does not expect you
this evening. and it is SO late. To-
morrow at eleven will do. You have
a consultation at ten, though (ah. she
had taken note of that. would that be
too early. do YOU think?n
Certainly not. Aud the address?"
mo. - Broad street"
Did | yisibly start, wonder did
not know; but the coincidence was
most singular. What would jenkins
say to it all? l thought
The lady arose to depart As she
did so she extended her daintily-
glOved hand. How small it was and
how neatly-titting the glove.
You will do all you can for the
comfort of my poor sufferer, doctor?
But do not need to ask.
The door closed on her only when, a
little down the block. Thomas had APP
peared from the shadows in answer to
her reckoning hand, and joined her.
returned to my Office. which some-
how seemed commonplace and dull
now that she had left it, and threw
myself into chair before the CRATE
fire, which the chill October evening
had made necessary. As i gazed long
and absently into the Goals, now grow
ing dull and ash covered, what visions
of the future loated hazily through
my brain. | was "a young man. |
know my older brethren will forgive
me.
How long | dreamed do not know.
/ noticed at length that my mantel
clock had stopped.
"Ah. those wretched French clocksl
Forever out of orderl | must speak to
Jurggessen to send a man TO the office
tomorrow to put it in order for me.
Heigh no! | must TO bed. i wonder
what time it is anyhow. Must be near
twelve"
go to the table on which had laid
my watch earlier in the evening. while
we had been busy with our microseop-
ic work.
What is this? Gone? My watch
not here? An trick of Jenkins to
teach me to be more careful. Well,
the fright win. perhaps, be a lesson TO
me. What an interesting face that
little woman had, anyhow. Confound
it, l wish Jenkins had left my watch
alone. But I'll be sure to get it before
going to Broad street tomorrow. A
| fine figure | should make visiting a
patient without "A watch.
went to bed and slept The nature
of my dreams will spare the reader.
At ten called at Jenkins office to tell
him of my luck and to get my watch.
found he was Out-a sudden call.
"A plague on the luck! So | must
go without the watch after all. | wish
Jenkins weren't quite so full of pranks
sometimes-but that prophecy of his
CaS queer anyway"
walked rapidly down Girard from
Sixteenth, turning into Broad. A
couple of blocks or so along Broad
street. How long a Philadelphia
block is. anyhow! What magnificent
eye for distance Penn must have had
when be planned the old city. | must
be near my patients residence now.
The houses are few along here +
scan the numbers eagerly reach
the spot.
What is this? Am / mistaken? No.
No. ---is-d church,"
Light slowly dawns upon me. NY
watch? The little lady in gray? Was
it. possible l had been duped by what
we call in vulgar parlance an entry
thief? Horrible thought!
But her story-the coincidence with
what we had been talking! said to
Jenkins, when half hour later had
burst into his Office to find him re-
turned from visiting a patient, ''how
do you account for that, pray?"
Easiest thing in the world" said
my friend STOOD in the hallway and
overheard my brilliant augury, and
adapted it, as the story-tellers say, to
her needs"
"And Thomas, the footman, whom !
saw waiting outsider"
Bah! pal"
My patients. my reputation and my
shekels are still making haste slow
ly. Olive Green. in Detroit Free
Press.