The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-08-12
VERY TRYING.
Tho Unfortunate Position OF Two Patients
In n Doctors Office.

Tho Unfortunate Position OF Two Patients
In Doctors Office.
There Is q doctor in u ncighboring city
who makes n speciality of diseases of tho
nose and throat He Is skillful and sue.
cessful practitioner and has mado q great
reputation for himself. Ono morning. not
so very long ago, u young man went to
sec him. Tho specialist asked him a fow
questions, pecrcd down his throat and
then took u towel md wet 1t under a tap.
He handed tho towel to tho young man
and said; Put that towel over your nos
trils and mouth and go into this room In
tho rear Of my office. Breathe through it
until tell you to como out. Do not, in
any circumstance, remove tho towel until
I call you into this Office"
Tho young man did rs he was bid. Ho
walked into tho rear room, which was u
small, dingy place Uttered with lnstru-
ments and books and containing two easy
chairs. AS he went in no looked Mt his
watch. 1t was 1880 o'clock. Ho placed
the wet towel over his nostrils and mouth
and sat down In one Of the chairs. Ho
had not boen there longer than is min
utes when the door opened and the rather
pretty young woman whom he had OBJ
served in the waiting room came In Sho
carried wet towel in her hand, and sho
carefully placed 1t over her nostrils and
mouth and sat down in the other chair
They sat there for half an hour longer
Then tho girl thought of something. Sho
held up her hands and slowly and labori-
ously spelled out with her fingers, do
you understand tho sign langunge?" Tho
young man nodded his head vigorously
Then she spelled out "What on earth
makes him keep us herc so long7'' Tho
young man 8 fingers told her that he didn't
know. II don't dare go away or go out
there" she spelled for hos awful cross,
and he's so high priced and knows SO much
that 1 want to get all the good I can from
him this visit" Same here Spelled the
young man.
BY this time it was o'clock They
moved thoir chairs together, still keeping
tho now dry towels over their mouths and
nostrils and talked with their fingers for
another hour. At O'Clock tho imprison-
ment became little less than torture They
could not walk around for if they did tho
towels would drop off, and that would
never do They did not want to go out
into the doctors office, for they did not
know but the doctor might have an eX-
cellcnt object in keeping them there. They
endured another hour. When the young
man looked ut his watch for tho three
hundred and thirty seventh time, he found
1t was o'clock. During that hour, from
to 6, he had been growing very restless.
He was hungry. At 5 O'Clock he tore of
the towel and said vigorously: III not
stay here another minute for all the throat
doctors In tho world. This is II blank
blank outrage" The young woman pulled
her towel down and sad, "Oh, I'm ever SO
much obliged TO you for thatl''
Then together, carrying the towels, they
went out to the other office. Itwas empty.
They went into the waiting room There
was no one there. They walked out the
front door and down the step. They saw
no one. Half q block down the street they
met tho doctor ambling along with big
cigar in his mouth and n look of serene
contcntmcnt on his face. "Hcrel" shouted
the young man to him rs the three met.
what in the name of the larynx of the
great joss do you mean by keeping us in
that room so long?"
The look of contcntmcnt on the doctors
face gave place to startled expression.
why" he said confuscdly, upon my
soul, l forgot all about you. Buffalo
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