Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-01-22
RATA TOM.

atiow Is pill this morning, doctort"
bust LEFT hlm-bndly oT-typhoid
r-needs careful nursing more than
from me, replied the post surgeon
N i drained frothy glass of warm bot
J. beer in the hot adobe clubroom, aud
HI pushed back his gray campaign hat
's ipo bis dusty face
pw this was JuGs and the land Ari-
fsf, where summer is secure but ice i'm
~ ible, and trained nurses haunting
1|stn Of days. unassociated with sage
1.sh, accomplished in pleasant, eastern
nj itals,
9pn a place like this, sensible man
tnIn ID die first and have his typhoid fever
Il iell afterward, where he'd DO more
.I4If portable, growled the post surgeon,
.eii weteFng from 90 mile ride ncross
iht dusty mesa in the face of the hot
net ling sun, where he had gone, after
sin. eOn's call, on charity visit to Bill
tIe1In rancher in the Sierra Bonita
lootlills,
Once he had been q mild spoken man,
this surgeon, as he was still mild hearted
For, even while speaking, he resolved TO
Hlaeraph for ice and to send n man away
nllfs across the desert to the station after
8 iis brusqueness was the shell sensi-
t7ehatuTe had acquired in adjusting itself
Ae wear and tear Of garrison life in
a1Nrheated climate. He wondered at it
Iult unH .VI,a !,
r. tortled as one feels surprised to find
l. foiee suddenly grown coarse with cold.
Pc could have told you accurately why
kin on the hand thickens in time OF
keep the nerves quick within.
70, don't know nuthin bout nurs-
ent u / cal be any good I'll lend
lNHl Wy hroncho's outside, an / amt
gnuthin particular"
|,Nf DC speaker was a young cowboy, clad
ple eottonnde and high heelcd boots,
f the fashion Of the country. Ho stood
1hly on one foot near the door Of the
NO club, in the general storeroom
r the MeXiCans loiter and the ranch
Muy their bacon and tobacco. The sur
glanced at the boy, and his eyes rest
MN Q moment without reply.
Nata Toms all right, doctor. He
Ea 81 ior McCunn on the roundup this
FL and is handy as woman about a
Ef added bystander.
I ery well, Tom; tell thesteward sent
w me hospital for lesson in nursing
o'I lever This evening go over to
bonita and take charge of Bill Mer-
t u eail tomorrow, after muster.
I'd n ! There anything can send Billfn
ft the trader.
oi nothing now, Williams. May
N& h'le champagne later He was
OF Ice. In crossing the hot pa
E4 Ptne hospital, he wondered if the
r., .m car supply could possibly last
lsei ,1s allspnsary he wrote telegram
V'u .he steward TO send It to the op.
N'i., aHu 10 tell Murrisy TO put the am
y I, rules In the blackboard and drive
i.i Needles- Then he visited the sick
next afternoon DR.. Davis rode to
W stanch' The sun shone hotly, and
Vs. sage tufts plumed themesa bowl
suius In thin, half clad gray. The
NE mar tossed In the heat waves, and
lANAlANH tlfluhlNlls AINlNlllE
IA ,s,l1on .otunhroken blue. There We're
| ". ~ above, and the glare was in-
sasAlhg the eye to recoll and strain
~. \ \, ne effort TO contract aud shut out
"A ,'e9t while the quick, throbbing
~ 'he neat laden air felt like fever
saeh strong light. rs In great fors.
M Inside world escanes us and vision
inward on the brain. Tho doctor
4.-' " ioliowlng that curious chart
ia where details are recorded, then
's.u or forgotten. He no longer
stretch OF trail Immediately be-
Ia III ne saw the whole trail-saw Il
slelt the post and wandered across
~ mesa; saw IL span the nrrovo
|.a hi,hte nIoken table land and then
VIZ \ sii ii',r ana higher among the ascend.
rs. !. ,t.1 4Acn he strained his eyes
4 mt,S S snimmerlng heat aud fanoiod
NJ e,., very swayiug with the motion
~ y 49, ny. ue eplid see their crests reach
w. 49, ,ae bl'ek scarp Of the Sierra.
NJ - breakers toward a beach Of
e ne,or the Sierra was Rancho
on a brown hillow Of this
T. tive-swells mora mi
,-l ~ be dashed in tho fncc ~
~ ~, It Is not the sea. IL Il onlv
p. how Ike the sea-so mo.
~ ewo'ate. '-'N
N ~. ''ul3'ls ceased tossing, and II,
49, ~ ulaln was folded away. Now
~ IN I. saN Gully the rancho. He was
~ !. 20 ltlse a bark On IN unsails5
- 80 Woald meet 10 other versel
"A 4 u, !. YES an Imaginative man. Win
|l : ,,',- Seem in more Inhabited
|' IN - - ,,lsinepoor little ranch would
r,, M nm but a simple version 81
~: ~, ny all told, but here, in
4 nom ~, nn,se the aid which does not
20 4 iea i,.est come from God-in
70 N. 'nlnite-this seemed inade.
y A'r,' such selt imposed ba i