Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-11-23

were uuwiIlNuely made, and that it WA
always q relief to him to get ont of the
room. 30 strongly was Fanny's curios.
ity excited by this strange behavior, that
she ventured one day TO speak TO her mas
ter.
81 am afraid, my lord. you are not hope
full OF Mr.. Oxbye's recovering.
mind your own business" was the saw
age answer that she received.
As for the Doctors behavior to his pm.
tent. IL was, in Fanny'S estimation, wor-
thy OF n savage. .
He appeared to feel no sort Of interest
In the man who had been sent to him from
the hospital at his wi request, and whose
malady 1t was supposed to be the height
OF his ambition to cure. When Mr.. Oxbye
described his symptoms Mr.. Vimpsny
hardly even made n pretense at listening.
With a frowning face he'applied the steth-
oscope, felt the pulse, looked at the tongue
and drew his own conclusions In sullen
silence
II the nurse had n favorable report to
make he b~rutally turned his back on her:
TX discouraging results Of the medical
treatment made their appearance at night,
and she felt IL n duty TO mention them,
he sneered as IL he doubted whether she
was speaking the truth. Mr.. Oxbye's In
exhaustible patience and amiability made
endless allowances for his medical adj
wiser. ut Is my misfortune to keep my
devoted doctor In n state OF perpetual
anxiety" he used to say, and we all know
what a trial TO the temper Is the conse-
quence OF uurelieved suspense. / believe
in Mr.. Vimpany." Fanny was careful
not to betray her own opinion BY making
any reply: her doubts OF the doctor had
by this time become terrifying doubts
even to herself. Whenever an opportuui-
ty favored her, she %vigilantly watched
him. One OF his WAYS OF finding amuse-
ment, 10 his leisure hours, was in the use
OF a Photographic apparatus. He TOOK
little pictures OF the rooms in the cottage,
which were followed by views in the gar
den. These having come to an end, he
completed the mystification OF the nurse
by producing a portrait OF the Dane, while
he lay asleep one day after he had been
improving In health for some little time
past. Fanny asked leave to look at the
likeness when it had been printed" from
the negative, in the garden. He first ex-
amined IL himself--and then deliberately
tore it up, and let the fragments fly away
In the wind. II am not satisfied with t."
WAS all the explanation he offered. One
OF the garden chairs happened to be near
him: he sat down, and looked like q man
In a STATE of torment under his own angry
thoughts.
II the patients health had altered for
the worse, and IL the tendency to relapse
hr,l proved to be noticeable after medicine
had been administered Fanny's first suspi.
clOnS might nave taken a very serious
turn. But the change in Oxbye-sleeping
in purer air and sustained by better food
thar he could obtain at the hospital
pointed more and more visibly to a de-
cided gain OF vital strength. His hollow
cheeks were filing out, aud color was be-
ginning to appear again on the pallor OF
his skin. Strange rs the conduct Of Lord
Harry and Mr.. Vimpany might be. there
was no possibility, thus far, OF connecting
IL with the position occupied by the Dan.
when he was first brought TO the cottage,
could nave looked at him again, after
the lapse of a fortnight, and have failed to
discover the signs which promise recovery
of health.