Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1889-02-20
HER OPPORTUNITY.


Dr. Mary shook the snow from har
black Astrs chan cap, unfastened her
cloak with a quick. professional AIR
making the most OF every minute,
drew off her articles and sat down
before her cheerful open fire, with Il
discouraged sigh. a lady buslly writing
on the other side OF the room looked
up. with her pen poised in mid air and
8 mildly iuterrogative arching OF the
brows- She knew all DR.. Mary's way,
and was discreetly silent.
The doctor sighed again. and gave
the bre an impatient poke. She knew
the nervous system, root and branch,
yet had her little tempers like ANY
ordinary woman without a scientific
bias.
Y es, 1 know what you're waiting
for, Eudora Blake. You are holding
your precious pen 'twixt heaven and
earth, like Mahomet's coffin, waiting
until my wrath chooses TO explode.
suppose l have interrupted the thread
of your love story, but as long as yen
depend on me for hints from real life,
you will have TO take them as they
come
Eudora slowly turned her eyes upon
her friend.
a little tired, aren't you, oesrp she
said meditatiyely. You make too
many visits In one day. Don't let your
own vital springs run down, trying to
keep other people in repair
She dipped her pen in the inkstand.
and scribbled sentence or two.
Trying to keep them in repairl Yes,
that's Just the trouble exclaimed DR..
Mary. i might try till the day OF
doom, and they would 60 on violating
one hyg!enic law after another, till II
makes ones soul sick within him.
What DO you suppose l found Bridget
Doian doing this Afternoonr Pat was
dead drunk On the bed. and she was
WASHING with her two-weeks-old baby
tucked away in one corner Of the table,
and breathing the steam At the rate OF
30 respiratIons per minute. Bridget
herself looked hardly able 10 stand
Tomorrow they will send for me post
haste 10 attend both mother and child =,
aud then systematically dlsobey every
Injunction / give them. wish It we're
possible to find one human being whom
could truly help
She passed her shapely hands across
her forehead, and brushed back the
short dark hair from the temples to
relieve the nervous tension.
EudorR Blake came to the fire and
spread her fingers TO the blaze.
The world is full OF people TO be
helped. You Will find the right one
some day. Do you remember the SEN
tence in Little DOrrIttP In our course
through life We meet the people who
are coming to meet US from many
strange places and by many strange
roads; and what is set Us TO do 10 them,
and what Is set them to do to US will
al be DONE
That is as solemn as the tolling Of a
funeral bell,' said Dr. Mary. What
oyeTshadowing things you do pick up.
Eudoral / suppose If It should be my
fate to administer dose OF poison to a
patient, should do 1t in spite OF all
my care and watchfulness. 1t will all
be done. It will all be donep
She lighted the gas and made tea for
Eudora and chocolate for herself They
kept house together to save expense,
and for the pleasure of each others
company, taking turns at the simple
household duties. The romance of life
had faded out for both, and now they
were sober women with a purpose.
Dr. Mary's Office was In the neighbor.
I hood OF Rugg's court The place had
Teen selected with a purpose. Tue
/ rich have physicians enough said the
/ doctor. i will minister among those
who faint by the waysids in sight of
! priests and Levites.'
II must not be understood that DR..
| Mary said this In any self-nghteous or
complacent spirit. II was only her
/ dgurative way Of putting things
Rugg's court was Of the CRIME,
! grinIy. Its morals were as lar removed
! from immaculate whiteness as were the
| wretched vestments which futtered on
( long lines from window to window
! when Rugg's court had washing day.
/ Yet DR.. Mary did not always despair.
| The day after this sketch begins. she
! was walking toward her Office, when
| her attention was drawn 10 woman
staggering In front of her. and holding
at intervals to the area railways OF tile
4 dingy tenements. The doctor Quickened
her pace. 1t was such an old, old
story; yet her heart yearned over this
poor tossed creature. She laid her hand
on tie woman's arm and S2id:
My friend
The woman turned upon her such 9
face as Marian Erie must have shown
TO her tormentors wien, as she tell:
I Aurora Leigh:
They feared my eyes and Ioosed me, as boy
might
a mad dog which they had tortured
q face In which the hollow cheeks
famed with fever. and the eyes CLEANED
With = wOeful desperate lG'ht-
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