The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1894-01-04
RIhTA TOM

Jssi lait hIm badly "a typhoid ieTel
--asels careful rantag aafe tbso 'l"t'
from mr.. replied the pest snfgrgn as be
pushsd back Als srsy caupstsn bat ta
wIps BE- dusty lac.
Sas this ~, Jape sad the I.ld Au.
r8us, whsre GUNNER ls secure bot ioe a.
possihle sod trained 1arses iGnoueg
VISION Of day. uuassocslei s.tb sage
brasL. accomplished 10 pleasant Eastern
bo,rials
90 place ltke tbl, sen,ible msn
voaIi Die drsl aud have tie lyptoii fever
sttersSri. stovlsd the post surgeon. sull
sWel'e iog from twenty mile ride scfoss
the dusty mess 10 the face OF the bot
morpiug eur, where be- lad Roue, A'ler
saigtons cal 90 chs Ivy viii 10 Bill
Merou. rnnchef 10 the SierfA BolIs
ioothllIs
Ouce be bad been mild spoken msn.
tdis sutge0u Sc be Vas sti IA hearted.
For even while spesklng, be resoived'o
AfAFEtH ~ tNt tt' hANA " Ntth y As'A N"NF
mtlrs across the dec II 10 the station after
it. HIS hru4uaB,st was the she'll a sen
sliye natur. had acquired 10 adjusting
itself to the wear aud tear Of ,rrlson life /
|inasuperhested climate He wondered |
81 1t hlmstli and often, when be bad |
spoken, felt startled as one feels surprised .
/ to find the voice suddenly grown coarse /
With cold. Yet be could have told yon
accurately Why the tkla ou The hand
,hickens 10 time oftoiI TO keep the nerves
quick within.
/ Doc. don't know nulhiu bout uurs'
log but II can be any good, I'll lend
hand My btonco's outside, sn' | sin't
doiog nutbin particular.
The speaker Was syonuy cowboy, Glad
10 blue cottola1e and high betled boots,
s'tCr the fashion Of the country, be stood
uuessily 90 ore foot near the door of the
officers club, 10 the general sttreroom
where MeIicsns loit,r and the Ianchers {
buy their bscol aud tobacco. Tue sur. I
gtoo glanced at the boy and his eyes rest
cd 90 HIM moment without reply. g
Rata Toms all night, doctor He
cooked for McCanu on the round up this |
.prug, and is handy as a woman about 3 il
place added bystsnder.
Very well, Tom tell the steward | s,nt i
you to the h.spith for a lesson in nursing d
typhoid fever, TITS evening go over 10
Sierra Bonita and take charge OF Bill d
Meron. I'll call III TO morrow, after mus s
Irr.
Amt there snytLing can send BlII2 Il
asked the naler, n
No; nothing now, Williams May want c.
A little champagne later He was tLiukI n
log Of ice. 10 crossing the hot parade to 81
he hospital, be woDdere! il the Pullman CO
,ar supply could possibly last across the "
lesert l
Ia the dispenssry be wrCti telegram
md told the steward TO send 1t to ihe nj
,perstor aud to tell Morrisy to put the pi
ambulance mules in the buck board and tt
hive to the Needles, Then he visited the I'D
ick ward
The LeGt afternoon Dr. Davis rode to 1
lIerons ranch The sun sboDe hotIy, na
I'D The sparse sage tufts pumed the mesa De
oglIer mounds IN thin. half clad gray,
lie 81 renice hair tossed 10 the heat th
,aves and the mountain profile trembled, m'
retting on horizon Of unbroken blue.
here we're no clouds above and The glare VT
as Intense, causing the eye to recoil and by
rain itself in the effort to co Outrect and
hot ont oil the light, while the quick, Ell
irobblng pulse OF the beat laden air ielt sac
ke fever breath on the face, an
10 such strong hight, as IN great fogs, pr
- outside world escapes us and vision do
Irns inward on the brain. The doctor
as now following thst curious chart fro
mory where details are recorded, then KY
mem bersd or forgotten. He no longer rot
" the stretch OF trail lmmediotaIy bei bs
re- him; be saw tbe whole trsil-saw II alo
here il left the pot aud wandered acfos
e vesry mesa, saw it span the arroyo 10
ter the broken tBble land and then dot
nd biz her among the ascending tOOt- STR
Is. Then he strained bis eyes against pre-
p shimmerlng hest ard fsucied the ioot' Jog
Il were ssayins with the motion OF thr
love; he could see their crest reaching her
asrl the black scsrp Of the Sierra, like re
ITS of breakers toward = beach Ui tirs, mol
Ile below the Sierra was Rancho i Jnns, SAT
ssiug on rown bllIov Of this bsrren Ind
!. -Four hve -swells ore and the VII
lcho will he dashed 10 the face Of acc
'rtsl No, 1t Is not the sea, 1t Is oaIy Ris
desert. Yet how Ike the sea 10 all
.nJtonous, 80 desolste. and
Here the biIlows ceased tossing and the thin
o 90 the BRAIN was folded away, Now pro
doctor saw ouly the rsnco He was T
aking It 80 ike bark on an uLsalltd secC
au, that sOu.d meet no other vessel T
e doctor Was an imaginative man, with gszi
oetlc natnre. Seen 10 more inhabited but
lutry, tbs same poor little ranch would lane
,e been to bim but simple version Of agst
gfrty, pIulul, but sll told, bat here 10 so b
desert, where the all which does not uou
De from self must come from God i'm live
olIlu1e so LdlIle tits seemed Insder II
tie to him sueh se I imposed bAuisbt Ton
1t sugg,s'cd rather tta1 salt, and left