The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-08-15


had bought a cheap practice and settled
Gown with his youth. his aspirations, his
skill. to fight the battle of life. His
youth seemed to slip from him in his
first year OF work, his aspirations
changed their nature. his skill developed.
He acquired vast experience IN those
poor homes where he fought valiantly
against disease the result of intempeT-
ance and vice and poverty and ignorance
disease of which the victim was often
an innocent sufferer. The sins of the
father We're visited upon infants-the sins
of bygone generations on brave girls and
well-meaning young fellowship sins OF
children on patient women and hard
worked men. DIR. Murray was thinker
Rs we'll as a worker. He might have
easily become morbid in that dreary
place. where there was nothing beautiful
20 charm the mind, and little enough TO
charm the eye or the ear. But he did
not become morbid. He had the re-
membrance of a happy country home
where his boyhood had been passed, he
had the thoughts of his dear old mother
who lived there still, and the lessons she
had taught the boy had not left him in
his manhood; above all. he had thoughts
OF another woman-her letters, some
tiu1es-the promise Of herself before long.
When ne walked through the muddy
street 10 his solitary house he did not let
bis mind dwell on the room he had just
visited. where three children lay III IN
one bed. shivering with cold. and with
no one but drunken mother 10 atten
20 them, and give them such food as
was provided for the family by lazy
father whose earnings, scanty enough,
We're chiefly spent at the Royal George
He did not let himself mediate on the
details Of his cases when he had left
them; that would have untitled him for
his work. No; he tried 10 imagine what
home would be like when Moran was
TRally there. when the opening door
would disclose her TO him, coming out
10 welcome him and draw him into the
warm room where there would be fire
lig:lt and lamplisht and-herself. He
pictured her in a white robe. in blue
robe in a robe of scarlet, Just as the
weather might suggest He pictured the
look Of her sitting-rOom; the howers-he
never had flowers but there must be
flowers where Norah was. He pictured
the shining OF her eyes. the smile on her
lips, the flush on her cheeks. She was
always bright and always gentle, and
always tender. and always we'll To him
health was beautiful, as II can only be
10 those who have the deformlty wrought
ly before them The abundant life ana
titallty of the Irish girl were IN them
selves a charm 10 the somewhat stern
young SCotchm9n. She brought warmth
and light and sweetness 10 him, to his
life to Millwdn She brought that now
What would IL be by-and-by-by-a nd-by
-wheu--
He reached home. He let himself into
he unlighted hall. The house felt cold
ne set his lips together and thought
By and by" He laid aside his UNI
ore.la. took on his coat, STROBE into the
rarely furnished, rather uncomfortable
1ining-room and rang for dinner
\ middle-aEed woman presented her
oh she said. I'm sorry the hre's
'ut. sir"
have 10 go out again after dinner. l ex-
2ect."
oh, that remins me. sir An old gen.
:leman came 10 see YOU. He wanted you
% call upon his wife. But he said you
wasn't 70 trouble tonight IL = BE you
vas tired"
AT this unwonted consideration for an
individual who was supposed by the peo-
BE about him 70 be quite independent Of
WEAKNESS of mind and body. TO have no
weed OF sleep, 10 require no time for
meals. and 70 be always at the beck and
call Of every baby with bronchitis. every
INJURIES, the doctor raised his eyebrows.
Who was ~. Mrs. HawiSer?'
He was unbeknown 20 me- sir: but he
was respectable-lookjnE gentleman
quite clean. and a nice face TO nina
sit OF gray whlskers. too
Did he leave his name"
Yes: I laid II on your consultin room
table. He pencilled il on the back OF an
envelope I had in my pocket TIL bring
to I'm with your chop
The chop made its appearance. 1t was
a struggling. limp. purposeless-looking
passed for gravy, and accompanied by
viciously hard. yellow potato. the deadli-
ness of which 10 any but the most per-
feet digestion was evident 10 the doctor.
He pushed il on one side and attacked
the chop which exhibited a muscular
development. a firmness or an obstinacy
IF which one might well have considered
It incapable. However, the doctor again
murmured, 'By-and-by." and grappled
with II so far as 10 dispose Of a great
quantity Of the lean; the fat. which was
Of a bilious complexion, he left to its own
devices. and II merged its existence in
that OF the gravy The chop was fol-
lowed by an applicant Mrs Hawker
called it an apple-tart; but any respect
able pastry would have shuddered at the
mere suggestion of relationship. As to
The apples. they were-wen, the question
was. Wnere were the app4eS
Dr. Murray felt himself justified in
drinking a little of the whisky his
mother had sent him. 1 am afraid he did
not say his grace. Perhaps he was too
honest a man for that.
Mrs. Hawker came TO clear away. She
bore a fragment Of paper in her hand.
I'D forgot this she said.
The doctor looked at IT, In Informed
but fairly legible letters he saw the
words:
''Pleese com at your CONVEYANCE.
JOHN TEMPLE,
IA Plevna-st.,
top"
II was not a cheerful night. But with
in-what was there within? And every
day must bring It's duties Besides that,
"at your CONVEYANCE was so delight
fully agreeable after the usual MESA ges
that reached him. He went into the nall
again, pulled on his coat, took his UNI
brella- put on his hat as badly as doc
tors usually do. and banged the front
door behind him.
II was drilling The air was cold
The mud was sticky. There was neither
moonlight nor starlight as yet. The fee
bic rays OF the street-lamps made but
slight impression on the general dark
ness. There were several people about
in the streets. however: they were so lit
tie less comfortless than their homes.
Women shuffied by with shawls over
their heads. sometimes babies at their
breasts. Outside the public-houses. of
which the doctor passed three in the
short distance ne travsrsed. stood groups
OF men Ghey were men with no work,
and consequently no money, or they
would have been inside; here and there
boys and girls were playing in the cor