Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-07-02

lOlic u lHeuu mas Deen OF marked Dene-
fit to her. She remembers gratefully
the success attending your ministra-
tions on shipboard, and feels confident
that your skill viii bring her the relief
she has sought so long. She asks me to
add that this plan was in her mind When
our chance meeting made it possible to
lsecure your address.
Yours very sincerely,
DOROTHY GRAY"
Again and again ! read these lines,
porting over them as joyously as ever
did Egyptologistover freshly discovered
hieroglyphs which set at rest a much
mooted point. Out above the rest of the
letter stood two words, for u.s." Mrs.
Loring's niece would hardly leave her.
but here was proof that both of them
would come to Rodneytown. That |
could succeed in convincing the elder
lady that nothing serious allied her was
hardly possible; it was quite on the
cards that after month or two she
would depart in huff; but, in the mean
time-well, l didn't trouble myself
with the details Of that problematicaI
period The great central point of in
teIest was that for several weeks, at
least. Dorothy Gray and | would be
thrown together. For the moment
Lamar, Banks, and all my recent wor-
ries We're forgotten.
Mrs. Weston said |, bouncing upon
that good woman as she passed the
door of the office, please do me a great
favor. | have an old friend-patient, [
mean-who is anxious to put herself
under my care. | must find boarding
place for her. Can't you take her in p
We'll, now, I'd real like to, doctor,
but / amt got the ROOM, she an.
swered. with kindly regret in her tone.
rs she all by herself?"
No, she isn't" | confessed. Her
niece is with her.
Little girl, is she?'
NO; young lady" answered. tiy-
ing to avoid the consciousness OF a
twinkle in my hostess eye.
Its too bad. I'm sure. but we're
pretty full house as it is. said she.
However. don't get discouraged. Try
Mis- Clark across the road: she don't
use half that big house siave her bows
went out west. ten be good place,
too. Mis- Clark's good provider, and
as neat as hull paper of pins
Over the way to he house of Clark
fastened. only to find its mistress dis
inclined to receive boarders. City
folks notions" she averred, were not
to be endured. But she began to re-
lent little when put her yielding on
the ground of a personal favor; and
when | dwelt generously on Mrs. Wes-
toms praise of her as housekeeper. she
led me upstairs to two rooms, sphinx and
span and very comfortable withal, aud,
with pretended ungraciousness, said
that my friends could occupy them.
provided they could stand plain livin
and palmer comply | closed the
bargain on the spot.
Mrs. Weston met me at her door. on
my return late that afternoon from a
drive, in the course of which the an
swer to Miss Gray's letter had been in
trusted TO the mail
You look like new man, said she,
approvingly. "Salles alivel how get
tin new patient does perl you young
doctors up
THE more the merrier, of course.'
said l.
You're lucky to get two such SPECIAL
suffers. You'll be gettin' rich. what
with the new one and the old one over
yonder"
She pointed to the house on the knoll,
which showed dark spot among the
lowlands lying about it fresh and green
and bright in the slanting rays of the
setting sun, now nearing the crests of
the hills To the west.
Seems like blot on our landscape,
don't it?" she said, with her eyes still
fixed on the somber mound
Yes" thought l, perhaps in more
ways than one"
CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.