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he asked himself.
Shaken and agitated he walked to the
window and looked out. Then, turning
i,npulsivcly to Eustace, he cried out:
Away with these thoughts! I'll have
none of them. What brought you here
to put me into this conditions"
IL did not come here to put you into
any condition, nor did |, for you were
in your present mood when you entered.
What | did come here for was to ask you
what occurred between you and the
pater last evening"" replied Eustace.
Il think your fathers treatment last
night has something to do with my pres
ent frame of mind. You see," he laughed
bitterly, Il am bound to put it on some
one of your family. To answer your
question: don't know. Your father was
agreeable and pleasant to me as one could
wish during the early part of the dinner.
He has discovered in me some strong re-
semblence to an old friend. and at
tempted to supply me with new set of
relatives The attempt involved an in
quiry into my family relations. | arr
not always master of my own moods,
and | took the caprice to object to talk
ing about them before strangers Prob
ably was not as sensible of the honor
done me by gentleman Of the distinc-
ton of your father. in manifesting an in
terest in my surroundings, as ! should
have been, and gave offense by my eva
sion of the inquiry. If it be not that, |
know not what it is. At all events he
froZe to me-"
YES, noticed he did" replied Eus-
tace. "However, If that is all, the mat
ter will be soon righted Now my next
reason for calling. | am thinking of
giving small theater party next Mon
day night, with a snack afterward at
Ders. Will you be one?'
"With pleasure"
will you escort my sister-Evelyn,
you know"
Il am honored."
"And not brighten her with gloomy
outburst and warn her to beware Of
you:'
Dorson blnshed and smiled.
II will endeavor to Justify her broth
er's confidence"
For little while there was silence
between them, when Dorison suddenly
said
"Eustace, the first night ever saw
you man named Langdon approached
you. You treated him with considera-
Bile hauteur. Who is the fellow"
The young man turned sharp, in
curing look upon Dorison; his face
flushed and a vexcd expression came
into his eyes
"Why d. You ask? He cannot be a
friend Of yours
mo, not even an acquaintance, but
have reason for knowing more about
him than do"
THE fellow was somewhat offensive
TO my sister Evelyn the day you saved
her from being run over, think"
f"It did not appear to me that Mis-
Enstace relished his assumption Of
friendship"
81 should think not" replied Eustace,
iSdignantly. He looked out of the win
dow for few moments, Dorison waiting
for him to continue. After awhile he
said:
(I don't know much about the fellow,
dudley. To begin at the beginning this
is all | know; Something more than u
year ago my younger sister, then about
fifteen, was taken seriously i'll and our
regular family physician was unable to
do anything for her, fact he ackuOwl-
e)lged himself, and suggested the calling
lip Of other Physicians. That was done,
but she continued to decline, and both
mother ana father We're nearly frantic,
When she was at her worst, and when
the physicians were despairiug, some
ONE called fathers attention to young
physician nImed FasSett, VINO was max
. ing marvellous cures, Our own ply
sicians. having admitted their inability
To cope with the strange difficulty, could
not object to his being called. He was,
and declared the difficulty to be princi-
pally "a nervous one, and began treat
ment Numerically opposed to that she
had been under, Notwithstanding the
protests of her other physicians against
the treatment, she improved steadily. In
the course of a few months she was com
pletely restored to health. OF course you
can understand that under the circuln-
stances our people We're grateful to DR..
Fassett, and though father said that
from the first he appreciated that DR..
Fassett was far from being a gentle
man, he was loaded with attention by
our people; he had saved the pet of the
household when she was given up to die.
Then mother and Evelyn fell sick, and
they We're both brought triumphantly
through by Dr. Fassett, who is undenia-
bly, a skillful physician, as well as
coarse, vulgar man. No one can get
upon more familiar terms with family
than its physician, and one day, without
asking consent or permission, he intro
duced into the family this fellow Lang
dOn-an insufFerable cad-vulgar. i'll
bred, dissipated and coarse Without
request the fellow began to call until
finally orders were given the servants to
say no one was at homo when he called.
Father tells me he had quite scene
with DR., Fassett over this, and was
obliged to tell him that his position as
medical adviser to the family put him
Gather) under no social obligations, and
that if in addition IN tba fpee he aN--