The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-05-15
BY WORD OF MOUTH.
AN INDIAN STORY. BY RyDYARD K1rLlNa

This tale may be explained Ivy those
who know how SOUS nr,' made and
where the bounds of the Possible are
put down. l have lived long enough in
this country to know that it is best to
know nothing. and eau only write the
Story as it hai p'nrd.
! Uumoise was our civil surg on at Aier.
idki, and we c.l.ed Lin "Durni"lse,
because le WAS IL round. sleepy little
ulan. IL. was good doctor and never
q larreIrd with amy one. not even with
,ur deputy commissioner. who had the
n,annrrs of n bargee and the tact of a
horse. lie married II girl asr. und and
/ ;u sic, py looking u. himself. She was
a Miss lii!lardyce, dauS:,:er Squash"
II.llarlyce Of the Berars, who married
his chiefs daughter by mistake But
that is another 8 orv.
A honeymoon in India is seldom more
than Il week long; tut there IS nothing
- hinder IL coupe from tx ending it
over two or three year, hi. is dc
lightful country for married folk who
,re wrapped up in one another. They
can live absolutely alone and without
interrul tinn-iu t M tie d 'rmice did.
.hese two little people retired from the
world If er tI.er marriage and were
very happy. ley were forced, of
course t" give occaaioaal .liiner-, but
they made no friends thereby, and the
-tation went its own av and forgot
them, o"ly saying. occasional y. that
Dom II S.. was the best Of good fellows
,hougl dull y civil surgeon who never
quarrel is rarity. appreciated as such
Few people can aft 'rd 10 play r ,bin-
son Crllsoe any where-least Of all in
india. where we are few in the land,
and very much depended on each others
liud Offices. DInloise WAS wrong in
sIutt;ng himself from the wcrld for a
ear. and he discovered his mistake
Al,en the epidemic of typhoid broke out
the station in tine heart of the cold
weather. and his vito went down. He
WAS n shy little man, and five days were
wasted before he realized tina; Mrs
Dumoise was burning with sonnet ing
worse than simple fever and three days
| more l~s.l before he vrnturei to call
OF Mrs. Sautr. tI,s enyi GERS wife. and
iimidly speak about j., trouble. Nearly
every household in lad = knows that
doctors are very helpless in typhoid.
| The battle must lie fought out between
death and the nurses, minute by inmate
and degree by degree. Mrs. Suite a.
most boxed Duano:s:'s cars for what
she called his criminal delav," and
went off at once to look after the poor
| girl. We hal seven cases of typoid in
the station that winter. and rs the aver.
age of death i. about one in every five
cases, We felt Ger ain that we should
have to lose somebody. but all did
their best Tie women sat up nursing
the women and the men turned to and
tended the bachelors who were d ,wn.
and we wrestled with those typoid cases
II Sc days AMI brought them through
the Va ley of the shadow in triumph.
But j ,st when we thought AL was over,
and were g"irg to give Il d,nce to cele-
brate the victory. little Mrs Dumoiso
| got relapse and died in week. and
tine station went to the funeral Du noise
broke down utterly ut the ink of the
grave and had 10 ba taken away.
After the death Dinoiss crept into Ills
! own huu g and refused to be comfortcd.
He did his dali IS perfectly. but we ill
felt that lie should go on leave, and the
other M III of his own .rvice told him
80. d inoise was very thankful for the
suggestion-he was than iful for any
thing in those days-lnd went to Chini
on walking tour. C.,ini il some 40
marches from Sinla, in the heart of the
hills, anil the scenery is gool if you are
in trouble. You PISS through, big. still
deodar forests and under big. still cliffs,
and over big. still grass downs swelling
Ike n woman's breast; and the wind
across the grass, and the rain among the
,leotlars say: "1usll-husI, So little
Dumoise was packed off to CIiini, to wear
down his grief with u full pate camera
aud rifle. He took also useless
bearer. because the man Ind b>en his
wife's favorite servant. lie was idle
and thief, but Dumoise trusted every
thing to him.
o.. his way back from Chini, Dumoise
turne aside to Bag. through the Forest
Reserve. which is OH the Spur of Mount
Huttoo. Some men who have Travelled
more than little say that the march
from Kotegarh to Bagi is one Of the fin.
est in creation. 1t runs through the
dark wet 'rest. and eDls suddenly in
bleak nipped hillside and black rocks
B'gi dak bungalow isopen to all tho wind.
and is bitter y cold. Few people go to
DagL Perhaps that was the reason why