Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-01-29
DIR. DAPSON.
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The following confessions of Zeb. w.
Teal were presented to mc by the author
1t doesn't make any difference where /
wns born or where 1 was reared. am
the proprietor of grocery store, and by
closeness that involved much self sac
rifice have managed to buy home {;
but this can be of no interest to any one
who may read these confessions. must
have been thirty-five years old before the
thought that ought to marry some gen.
tie and confiding woman occurred to me.
l had never gone into society and couse-
quently knew but few women, and those
whom did know had haggled SO much
over the price of sugar or dried Goldfish
that the thought of marrying them was
shock to my fancy. l was ut that time
living in n large city and boarded ut n
house situated several miles from my
place of business. One day while going
home on horse car, l noticed woman
sitting opposite me. OF course, 1 noticed
women every day, but there was some
thing about this woman that especially
attracted me. Her face was not impress
sivcly handsome, but there was an intel
lectual cast about 4, an evidence of cul.
tivation that l could not help admiring.
must have gazcd at haF, indeed, L know
that did but she did not appear to take
any notice of me. The next evening
when / started home, there she was again
on the car. regarded this rs fortu-
nate, but was compelled to content my
self with simply looking at her. Just
before getting of, asked the driver if
he knew her name, but he said that he
did not. The next evening when I
started home, I was disappointed in not
finding her, and got off and waited for
the next car, but did not see her.
One night was suddenly taken i'll of
pneumonia. One of the boarders was
dispatched for doctor, and was in
structed TO get the nearest one. Shortly
afterward the messenger returned with
the woman whom l had gnzed Mt on the
car.
as it possible that you are a doctor2"
asked.
at is not only possible" she an
swercd, smiling, "but it is an established
fact"
"a am glad to see you again, at any
rate
"See me again2"
"Ycs, for was disappointed when
found that you were rot on the car the
ether evening"
81 don't remember having seen YOU
before, she replied. was unreasonable
enough to allow sharp sting to enter
my pride. She had not even noticed
me. She felt my pulse, wrote pre-.
scription and said that she would call
again the next day. She came early Mt
morning and declared that WAS much
better.
''But I think you'd better come again, :"
said l. pneumonia is n tricky disease,
you know. had friend that was pro-
nounccd cured, and the doctor ceased
his visits and my friend died"
81 have known patient 10 die before
the doctors visits ceased" she re-
sponded, smiling in a way half pro-
fessional and half woman.
"But you don't thinks that am in a
similar danger, do youf" asked, some
what alarmed, for courage was never
numbered among my virtues.
"Oh, there is no cause for immediate
alarm, )" she answered. 81 will call again
Tomorrow"
"Can't you come this eveninga"
"That would not be necessary"
''But can't you come any way2 l
rather like the society of doctors. /
know great many physicians"
"What physicians do you know2" she
asked.
That somewhat stumped tme. had
never been sick before, and as I was n
humble if not modest grocer, knew
no doctors, but was, as the Congress
men say, equal to the occasion, and re-
piled that knew DR.. Prouty, DIR. Smell
and DR.. So-and-So."
~ don't know Them" she said.
Neither did l, but 1 was determined
to maintain my position. Cant you
come this cvening7" l implored rather
than asked.
II will come tomorrow morning. F."
she replied, and In way SO unsenti-
mental that l was almost angry, she
marched out. BY this time l was really
IN love with her, and in order to keep up
her visits, was resolved to feign sick
ness; so, when she came the next day
and asked me how 1 felt, answered
that thought was worse.
"Oh, don't know" she answered.
"Bnt do know. l have pain in my
side and feel shaky. BY the way, have
not asked your name. wish to say that
AMI very peculiar man."
My name is Dapson," she answered.
She came early the next morning, and
after taking my temperature, remarked
that was SO far restored to health that