Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-04-02
THE DOCTORS ROMANCE.

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you one. if you viii give me an idea OF
where / shall begin. A heroine9 OF
course have heroine-half one, say
for she is not bigger than minu.e, and
then she really did nothing much, after
all-only @plucked me as brand from
the burning.
Hows I'll tell you. I'm doctor
r. V. Story, NJ D.-so you will readily
understand that when / reached my
cosy sitting room, one cold night at
about 10 o'clock. was tired.
Ten o'clock was early for me, but /
fully expected to be called out before
morning, so did not feel elated. In-
deed, was too tired to feel anything
but that pleasant warm fire. pulled
the sofa up to the CRATE, threw m, self
upon it. and was as eep in five minutes.
had horrible dreams, and fell off that
sofa right into the CRATE. thought /
was fighting = burglar, and dreamed /
had pushed him out OF the window,
when awoke to find I had precipitated
myself "out of the frying pan into the
fire, so TO speak. felt stinging pain
in my hand and arm, aud little mite
OF a girl was bending over me, bathing
a lump on my forehead as big as wal.
nut.
had fallen on the fender, and my
unlucky hand had dropped right ON the
Goals; my sleeve took fire, aud if that
baby had not been there to suatch my
hand away and wrap rug around my
arm, believe / might have been IA
tally burned before l could have real
lied the danger.
suffered for days with the burn, but
had comforter: Trix was with me
nearly all of the time, nursing me.
called her my little life preserver, but
she objected to that; she said the word
reminded her of Cork, but she wasn't t
patriotic, il she Was Irish
Then reminded her of the fiery death
from which she had saved me, but she
thought that was suggestive of the cat
and the chestnuts, so l gave it up and
told her she wouldn't understa nd the
word gratitude if should use it, so /
was not going to trouble myself about
being grateful any further. At that she
intimated that / was IN migrate.
Did l tell you who Trix was? Bea-
trice Warburton was her name-I as
sured her that it made up for her lack
of size. She had been placed under my
care till she attained the great age of IS
years, as her fatller-my true and tried
friend-had, with his wife, been lost at
sea. So cared for her, aud she wasn't
burden either.
And was she pretty? Bic you, yes!
She had charming little turn up"
nOse-and such dimples--and the most
captivating way Of arranging her hair
Think it WAS sha le Of red--you ever
saw. But wish you cou.d have seen
her mouthl Ever see my wife? Looked
somthing like hers
/ often wondered, il she was so pretty
then, what she would be when she was
grown up. Now she was not more than
II, and think she told me confidentially
once that she dd not intend to be a
young lady for years aud years; she
would rather stay little girl. Quite
phenomenon, was sile not?
Did fall in love with her? Weller
my nephew did, know. / sent for
him to come home from college aud take
care of nae. I'm ever so proud of that
big nephew of mine, though he's
not an M. D.-dear. mol Catch him
working himself to death for his fellow
mortalsl There's but one person that he
would hurt himself for, and that is Trix.
He had not been at home two weeks
before he was hopelessly in love with
my baby. And she--well, / noticed
that she said less about being a little
girl, and believe she practiced looking
sedate and grave before the mirror, i.
was 80 vastly becoming to her. l per-
suaded myself that / was rejoiced to
have her find my nepIsew as agreeable
as did, but TIM afraid
However, she came to me one day aud
said in her direct manner
Doctor, when are little girls like me
considered young ladiess"
So serious, you know I picked her
right up in my arms and answered, as /
kissed her rosy cheeks
When they fall in love with my
nephew, sweetheart Don't you think
shall make capital father in law?"
"Well, she said, @of all the impu-
dence-"
-Why, Beatrice. asked, -don't you
think / wilI7"
Il hope so, she said sarcastically.-
but think you would shine brightest
as Chicago detective. you are so pene-
trating. Aud she departed with great
dignity.
/ have not lived thirty and five years
In this cold world for nothing, as the
fourteen gray hairs in my head may
testify, and though / am five feet ten
inches in height, . baby might have
pushed me over at that moment
Ny dear little Trixy, my babyI And
did she really care for me instead Of
my youthful nephew subsequently
found out that she did. And to day
she 10 the dearest and best little wife in
existence-in my opinion.
Shame, was it 2 December and May.
and 50 forths Oh, well, never mind
Ny wife declares that / am the hand
soonest man OF her acquaintance; will
not that atonef
Oh no, that nephew Of mi6e did
nothing rash on being acquainted with
tho fact that his Trix would be nothing
more than . mother % him, but straight
way became enanarnd with another fnir