The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-03-15

All sorts of horses were brought by
dealers to the door for the doctor to try,
and it became the principal amusement
of the neighbors to see the doctor speed
ing them up and down the shady street.
The Bissell household came out to in
spect each new aspirant for the doctors
favor 1t was Mrs. Bisselps opinion that
the doctor would need a long winded
horse and good goer for the flourishing
practice she anticipated for him through
Drayton Spurs and Deadman's Hollow
and many outlying places, where there
were believers in the little pill theory
who would yet rise up and call him
blessed.
The scattering calls the doctor re-
ceived in those first weeks made the
whole house palpitate with sympathetic
excitement. If the sharp, snappy little
door bell rang at meal time they all
started and looked at the young man at
the head of the table. A slow, collect
i've smile expanded on the composite
countenance of the Holmes family.
Even old Grant, Bissell, deaf as he
was, heard it in the kitchen, and Mrs.
Bissell glowed as she busted herself dish
ing up the vegetables Bridget was to
carry into the dining room, and, if pos
sible, Anne was roster than her won't.
There was no end of joking at the table
about the good eight hours Of sleep the
doctor enjoyed nightly.
81 sha'n't feel at all satisfied" said
Anne, beaming on him across the board,
until our bell wire is broken three or
four times week by country boys rid
ing wild colts bareback to summon the
doctor in hot haste for some old woman
with the toothache"
IF you expect me to do the repairing
it may cost more than get in fees"
"Oh, / guess we can afford a few re-
pairs, retorted Anne, "for the glory Of
the thing. We expect our doctor to
have the biggest practice of anybody in
town."
"Our doctor" Miss Carver repeated
the words with her mouth pursed up in
a quicker of disapproval that afternoon,
as she sat with her friend, the Widow
Harkaway, cooling off after her walk,
with her bonnet strings united. you'd
think to hear them talk they had pre-
empted him and were dividing him up
into quarter sections for their own ex-
elusive USE"
There were moments when Miss Car
yer had ''slumped" through in her origi-
nal grim determination to suspect the
doctor Of possessing snowy but untrust-
worthy qualities. She was like one OF
those sugar" days in early spring that
thaw at noon and freeze overnight
| just now it was frosty weather.
The Widow Harkaway was often in
30 sensitive state of mind about the go
ings on Of her neighbors, and the wick
ed of the world in general, that she felt
forced to sit with her eyes shut. Now
her eyes were sealed, and the lids quiv-
cred with reprobation.
81 did think Of calling him in for my
lumbago," she began in disparaging
tone of voice, "but l have to conclude
from what / have heard that he is very
reprehensible person. 1t has leaked out
through Mary French that he is engaged
to one of her schoolmates at Smith col
lege, has been engaged year or more,
and now he has crep' in here at Little
field and KEEP it all hushed up and gone
to flirting hammer and tongs with Anns
/ Bissell."
"EngagedT' whistled Miss Carver
through the gap made by the loss of one
of her incisors, which the dentists art
had not yet repaired. We'll, neverl
And he's been sailing along under false
colors, hiding it away as If it was some
thing to be ashamed Of. | guess Anne
viii feel as if she had took hold of live
electric wire when she hears this news.
"Yon1l feel it your duty to let her
know. Susan" and the Widow Hark-