News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1895-07-25

injured leg, ana woman, with an open
case Of polished instruments cleaning
il the yellow light, was deftly Sitting
up his trousers with a crooked pair of
scissors.
cts all right, DOCTOR" said she,
soothingly. 81 am so sorry about it.
You can have DIR. Horton tomorrow,
but am sure you will allow me to help
you tonight. could hardly believe my
eyes when l saw you by the roadside.
THE groom has gone for help"
groaned the sufferer.
When it comes, we can move you
into the gig. A little more light, John!
Sol All, dear, dear, we shall have lacera-
tion unless we reduce this before we
move you. Allow me to give you Whit
of chloroform, and have no doubt that
can secure it sufficiently to-
Dr. Ripley never heard the end of
that sentence. He tried to raise hand
and to mrrmur something in protest,
but a sweet smell was in his nostrils,
and a sense of rich peace and lethargy
stole over his tangled nerves. Down he
sank, through clear, cool water, ever
down and down into tie green shadows
beneath, gently, withcat effort, while
the pleasant Ginning of great belfry
rose and fell in his ears. Then he rose
again, up and up, and ever up, with a
terrible tightness about his temples, I'M
til at last he shot out of those green
shadows and was out in tho light once
more. Two bright shining golden spots
cleaned before his dazed eyes. He
blinked and blinked before he could give
name to them. They were only the
two brass balls at the end posts of his
bed, and he was lying in his own little
room, with head like q cannon ball
and leg like an iron bar. Turning his
eyes, he saw the calm face of Dir. Ver-
rinder Smith looking down at him.
''Ah, at last!" said she. 81 kept you
under all the way homo, for 1 knew
how painful the jolting would be. 1t is
in good position now, with strong side
splint. I have ordered a morphia draft
for you. Shall tell your groom to ride
for DR.. Horton in the morning?"
81 should prefer that you should con-
tinuo the case" said DR.. Ripley feebly,
and then, with half hysterical laugh,
"You have all the rest of tho parish as
patients, you know, SO you may as we'll
make the thing complete by having me
Also" 1t was not very gracious speech,
but it was a look of pity, and not of
anger, which shone in her eyes as she
turned away from his bedside.
DR.. Ripley had a brother William,
who was assistant surgeon at London
hospital, and who was down in Hamp-
shire within few hours of his hearing
of the accident. He raised his brows
when he heard tho details.
"What! You are pestered with one
of thosep' no cried.
81 don't know what I should have
done without her."
1--WE no doubt she's an excellent
nurse. "
"Sho knows her work as we'll as you
or T."
"Speak for yourself, James, said the
London man, with sniff. "But, apart
from that, you know that the principle
OF the thing is all wrong"
"You think there is nothing to be sait
on the other side?"
"Good heavens, do you?"
"Well, l don't know. 1t struck mt
during the night thatwe may have beer
little narrow in our views.
Nonsense, James! It's all very fine
for women to win prizes in tho lecture
room, but you know as well as do thai
they are no uso in an emergency. Nov
| warrant that this woman was al
nerves when she was setting your leg
That reminds me that had better jus
take look at it and see that it is al
right.
II would rather that you did not un
do it, " said the patient. II have her as
surance that it is all right.
Brother William was deeply shocked
"Of course, if woman's assurance
is Of moro value than the opinion of tn
assistant surgeon of London hospital
there is nothing more to be said, ;" h
remarked
II should prefer that you did no
touch it," said the patient firmly, ant
DR.. William went back to London tina
evening in huff. The lady, who ha,
heard of his coming, was much surprised
on learning of his departure.
"We had difference upon a point o
professional etiquette, said DR.. James
and it was all the explanation he woul,
vouchsafe.
For two months Dr. Ripley wa
brought in contact with his rival ever.
day, and he learned many things whic
he had not known before She was
charming companion as well as mos
assiduous doctor. Her short presenc
during the long weary day was like
flower in sand waste. What intereste
him was precisely what interested her
and she could meet him at every poin
upon equal terms, and yet under all he
learning and her firmness ran sweet
womanly nature, peeping out i'll he
talk, shining in her greenish eyes
showing itself in a thousand subtl
ways which the dullest of men coul
read. And he, though a bit of a pri
and pedant, was by no means dull an
had honesty enough to confess when h
was in the wrong.
II don't know how to apologize t
you, !" he said in his shamefaced fashio
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