Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-02-04
DAlIY KENNEBEc JoURNAL MONDAY. FEBRUARY /. 1895.
WHEN DOCTORS DISAGREE.
By DAVID wEcHsLER.
copyright 1884,

copyright 1894.
CONTINUED from yesterday
SHE could have melted then, but, with
an effort, calmly said:
Let us stick to the patient, please"
No, confound the patient! I've given
up the patient. Now sit down, Helen,
ard I'll listen to your opinion with all
the respect I'd give to-"
will you, indeed?" archly.
'Yes, will. Now, do be seated. I'm
anxious to know what you have discov-
cred about Miss Passmore'
And you will listen to it without
prejudice?" she. asked, mechanically
taking seat on the opposite side of
the table.
Certainly I will"
Very well then, since you concede
I'm entitled to an opinion, / will give
you my diagnosis.
Thereupon Helen related Comics
love story, and dwelt upon how she had
improved since meeting Walter Plyne.
When she had finished DR.. Lancewood
exclaimed:
well, I declare! I should never
have looked at her case in that light"
"Of course not. Men have such
tough, leathern hearts they rarely
think of the female organ being so much
more fragile and sensitive"
Then you believe her lungs are
sound?"
Quite sound yet, but 1 admit they
are delicate"
There can be no doubt of that" he
said, musingly, playing with the paper
knife. ''ller mother, you perhaps
know, died of consumption.
"Yes-so her aunt told me. But the
girl has no will power; she has been
petted and pampered from the cradle;
every trivial disappointment she meets
with she takes to heart. If she is al
lowed to NOPE and rcpine, as she has
done for the last three months, and fur
Their weaken analready delicate consti-
tuition, we may expect an attack on her
weakest organs, the lungs"
Admirably reasoned! Iquite agree
with you"
Helen was fattered. In spite of an
effort at cool Indifference, her cheeks
glowed with pleasure at this sponta-
neous acknowledgment. Still, she
tried to deprecate his compliment by
saying:
THAT is only feminine practition-
er's view"
Nevertheless, rational. Now what
do you propose doing-what do you adj
vise?"
He saw the advantage he had gained
and astutely followed it up with defer
entail acquiesence.
Well" said Helen, with that graft
fication which every woman feels when
ment, 1--WE should advise Maj. Pass
more to withdraw his opposition to her
lover If he doesn't, we cannot be re-
sponsible for the consequences"
That is right" he assented. 'There
really was no need of consultation
you had mastered the case SO COM
pletely. ] must confess 1 should never
have sought for the trouble in that di-
rection."
From him this fattery came to her
like some delicate perfume, and though
her pleasurable emotion stru gglcd
with her reason, she was powerless to
resist absorbing it.
You will perhaps tell Maj. Passmore
of our-our csnclusions?" she asked.
"Would it not come better from You,
being your case?"
''Oh no; I fancy he would value
that is, your declaration would have
more weight"
Very well, if you think so. But let
us see; how can it be put? We can't
say boldly: You must let your niece
marry this young fellow, Or"
''Oh, no, that would never do; Maj
Passmore is so dogmatical."
"Ah! | have it. We can say your
niece is suffering from peculiar affec-
ton of the heart, and we recommend
that you place her under the care of
DR.. Plyne, who has made special
study of and understands the COM
plant"
'Oh, yes, yes, that would do splen-
didlyn cried Helen. But he doesn't
know Walter Plyne is practising"
"All the better"
"But if. when he learns who he is, he
refuses?"
1--WE must abandon the case"
would you?"
Decidedly, should support you"
"And it would serve him right, for
he is an arrogant old skeptic. He has
treated me with ill-concealed contempt
/ ever since took the case"
''Oh, he has, has he? That must have
sadly tried your patience" said Dr..
/ Lancewood, with earnest sympathy.
He has. He is not the only scoffer.
| There are masculine women, too; some
| who patronize, some who sheer, and
g.
Co.