The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-05-17

ard, and again the ladies found that
they had no reason to be disconnected
with their neighbors. DR.. Balthazar
Walker was very well known name i'll
the medical world Did not his qualifi-
jltions, his memberships and the record
of his writings fill a long half column in
The Medical Directory from his first lit
tie paper on the "Gouty Diathesis" i'll
1859 to his exhaustive treatise upon "Af-
fections of the Vaso-Motor System" in
1884? A successful medical career which
promised to end in Il presidentship Of a
college and barOnetcy had been cut
short by his sudden inheritance of a con-
siderable sum from grateful patient,
which had rendered him independent for
life and had enabled him to turn his at
tention to the more scientific part Of his
profession, which had always had
greater charm for him than it's more
practical and commercial aspect. To
this end he had given up his house in
Weymouth street and had taken this
opportunity of moving himself, his
scientific instruments and his two
charming daughters Che had been wild
over for some years. into the more
peaceful atmosphere of Norwood.
There was thus but one villa unOccu-
pied, and it was no wonder that the two
maiden ladies watched with keen in
terest, which deepened into a dire APP
prehension, the curious incidents which
heralded the coming of the new tenants.
They had already learned from the
agent that the family consisted of two
only, Mrs. WestmacOtt, a widow, and
her nephew, Charles Westmacott. How
simple and how select it had sounded!
Who could have fOreseen from it these
fearful potents which seemed to threaten
violence and discord among the jewellers
in The Wilderness? Again the two old
maids cried in heartfelt chorus that they
wished they had not sold their field.
"Well, at least, Monica" remarked
Bertha as they sat over their teacups
that afternoon, ''however strange these
people may be, it is our duty to be as po-
lite to them as to the others"
''Most certainly" acquiesced her sister.
''Since we have called upon Mrs. Hay
Denver and upon the Misses Walker, we
must call upon this Mrs. Westmacott
also"
"Certainly, dear. As long as they are
living upon our land feel as if they were
in a sense our guests and that it is our
duty to welcome them"
''Then we shall call tomorrow" said
Bertha, with decision.
Eyes, dear, we shall. But. oh, wish
it was overt
At 4 o'clock on the next day the two
maiden ladies set off upon their hospita-
BILE errand. In their stiff cracking dresses
of black silk with jet bespangled jackets
and little rows Of cylindrical gray curls
dropping down on either side of their
black bonnets, they looked like two old
fashion plates which had wandered off
into the wrong decade Half curious
and half fearful, they knocked at the
door Of No. 3, which was instantly
opened by a redheaded page boy.
Yes, Mrs. Westmacott was at home.
He ushered them into the front room.
furnished as drawing room, where i'll
spite of the fine spring weather a large
fire was burning i'll the CRATE. The boy
took their cards. and then, as they sat
down together upon IL settee, he set their
nerves i'll thrill by dartiny behind
curtain with Il shrill cry and prodling
at something with his foot. The bull
pup which they had seen upon the day
before bolted from his hiding place ans
scuttled snarling from the room.