San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-07-13


that people carried about in their purses.
People consulted her about the past as
they would 90 to a gazetteer or town
history, and the present poured itself
into her ears.
She had boarded many Years with Mrs.
Bisseu. SO exactly calculating her ey-
penditUres that they came out to within
fifty cents of her income every LIST of
JanIqry. She invariably allowed for
month Of visits to oil friends during the
twelve, and If she was invited for ONLY
three weeks II invoIy-i Il little extra
pinching, AID if fov five or SIX weeks
corresponding financial else. Miss Car
yer had a little ministry by which she
occasionally earned t.lie. she made
paper flowers and sold them for the
adOrnmsut Of Christmas trees. children's
festivals and church fairs. it was easy
work Of Il clean kind, such rs a gentle
woman cou,d ID whose father had been
high sheriff of the county without de-
tracing from her social position in Lit
tleheld. She called herself an artist III
flower WORK, and ON this particular
morning she had arranged her little Ia
bic with bcirlt l5sue pdpet. tiue wire.
scissors and gide POI, but 1t was impos-
siDle tor Miss Carver ID settle 10 any
thing She sat by the window. ana
through her spectacle5 syiel che coming
of the new boarder. gazing out under
the great elm trees that shaded the brown
road in front of the Blssell cottage.
1t was not a matter OF small impor-
tance to Mis- Carver that new doctor
was coming 10 Littlefield. The old doc
tor, whose place he was taxing had
been a great trend Of Miss Carver and
of her family, when she had family,
for now she was ali alone in tue wvG.L,
with no Ill nearer than second cousins.
The BIssell cottage, a boarding house of
the cheapest and humblest sort. gained
a kind OF Importance from the fact that
the new doctor was to establish himself
there for the first experimental months
of his stay in Littleield. Miss Carver
felt this added Importance as a slight in
crease of her own individual respecta-
bility. She would no longer feel Obliged
to excuse herself for living at Mrs. Bis
sells by the fact that she liked the air of
that end of the town, leaving it to be in
ferrcd that she could if she chose live at
the Oak Hill hotel or any Of the more
fashionable places.
she had talked the young doctor over
at many tea tables. In her set he haG
almost Supplanted Mrs. Bissell and her
lapses in management. the ina.fiCiency
of Bissell, and the independent, slightly
impudent air assumed by Anne in the
household.
Thee WAS only one thing that trou-
lied Miss Carver: the doctor belonged
to the wrong medical school She had
always been very stapch in her orthodox
medioH views. A doctor in the house
would certainly ba a convenience for
Miss Carver had her pet infrmities, and
she regretted the expensive luxury of
talking them over with a regular praC-
titioner. But a doctor in the house,
whom one met Familiarity at meals.
would hardly estimate his professional
talk as highly as Dr. Leavirt did. She |
would doubtless be able to pick up good |
deal that might be useful to her gratis. |
But, alas, he was of the wrong school. !
She could not in all conscience ever |
bring herself to take those absurd little |
pills, even if they were given away.
Miss Carver had been gong over these |
questions in her mind when u station |
hack drew up to the front gate and |
young Ia~H e fair complexion, well |
set up a. our English COUSINS say. and |