Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-04-04
A PARFNTHESTIS.
stand back"

row plGttorm-whiling away a tedious
wait in the divers ways known to the
British excursionists- swayed like C
feld Of wheat and tottered. Then there
was little panic among them. a crash
ing and falling On one another. and a
sJ.ded cry that the roar Of the northern
express mutiied.
And when the train had whirled
through and the thunder and vibration
were past the 200-odd souls waiting for
irs tardy successor realized that some
thing had happened.
Three IN the rear Of the thrOng mad
had the life wen-night pressed ont OF
them-one, woman. was badly crush
ca bctw IN the Wall and a trolley laden
with milk cans.
Fetch the doctor" urged one and
another.
Suddenly someone made his way
through the crowd. Partly by virtue
Of his height partly of the load he car
RED. pathway was cut for him on the
instant. and he went Oh with his bur
den 70 the station gate. Here he halt
ed.
Foster" he called.
A lart Of man threaded his way
deity o. his side. and to- him he said,
Tell them to ger o bed ready at the
Kings Arms at once
IL only wants FIVE minutes 20 the
London train, Mr.. Frere % suggested the
station master. al his elbow. And We
could get DIT Gill here r an hour
Frcre paused a half second. But In
what condition" be asked
Well. not at his best allowed the
station master.
Il sh3, 90 on tomorrow. Keep
back my bags. will YOU BuN,Ou2 FOs-
ter can bring them across to the ina
presently. I Shalt drive back to Dun
Moor tonight. And ne preceded MS
pOr,manteau thither with the woman
he carried, as compcseGly as if iJ had
been his original intention 20 dine aud
sleep in a Wayside inn 800 miles from
town.
Men who have travelled their thou
sands over ha the countries of the
globe have kcack Of shaking down
easily and ~ short nO-ice. He had,
and generally came of fa..ly we'll, at
any rate. in his native country, where
te was q popular and conspicuous hs-
Lre for whom The rustiCs cherished "a
vague awe, as for q person who had
Owed deep into strange sciences;
weathered strange h4rdships. and con-
tributed strange books 10 the eruolJe
literature Of their land.
Well sir. remarked the landIady,
when theinjured woman was safely es-
tahlished under the funeral trapplngs
- prehistoric monsters of the most
wonderful old bed In the peak. Well,
sir. always do say as 10 was pity YOU
didn't stay among MS 90 do what Won
seem cut out Tor. instead OF facing Wild
beasts and wild men in Out,andiSh Tor
eign parts with but a fair-cOOked meal
olce i'm six months and never night 5
rest 10 speak OF,
Worsley Freere laughed. adjusting
the final baldage on the arm OF his un-
conscious patient.
who knows but what / may come 10
il yet. Mrs. Greenfield? Nothing like
having half a dozen trades 70 fall back
non. I shall look in again before ! turn
rouuLGiye the patient a litCle brandy
ELhen, We H. list have Gill here
t nU" first tbi6s = the morning.
For Gill a messenger was according
" dispatched the next day, and Frere,
scribbling kilograms in the bar parlor,
went out to meet him.
"One Of the pleasure seekers come TO
grief eh?" said the little surgeon Jo-
vially. Il heard something Of it last
night. but when they told me You were
here. I knew better than to come. Who
is she? --..-
NO one knows. Not an excursion
jst Buxton tells me she had just
hooked for town when the accident
baDDened Come and see her she
slept fairly and is conscious now. \
bad case. though
She was proDDed up against the huge
,,iIIoy,s when they entered together,
her cloud Of hair lost in the dark back
ground OF grOtesQue carved HguIes'
The examination and consultation oc-
cupied but a few minutes, during
witch the object of it kept her large
ewes on the two faces with curious
speculative calm. That the men an
fered in their opinion was evident 10
her. though they spoke scarcely haII
Iozen words and she dealt with the d.
lemma in the curious frank manner
maj had already puzzled the landlady,
m was when Frere came back into
fhe room after a brief adjournment. a
bar of sunlight fell across the bed and
sfreaked the unbandaged hand that lay
before her on the sheet. She greeted
him az once.
You are the doctor who attended me
last night L wish for no second opin-
ion.
Her manner. imperiOuS yet simple,
impressed him as a litJle incOnsonant
with the severely plain garb he had
seen her in the night before and ne
said. almost in the tone with which he
might humOr a child. Or. Gill Is
clever man, mOreover-
Fl don't like him
Moreover. / am not as he Is, doc
tor by profession. / have walked the
hospital. but
BUT you don't mean to bother YOUR
self with me- Tell me. ne oedt'eS
that tit must come on
FraIe. taken a little ab3ck by the
quick inuitions of this girl WINGED
looking al the uniniureo ana oeau1lu
ha.d lying at his elbow.
They are ny one charm, she said
slowly 10 herself
And as he had formulated no OPINION
a- vet on her points. he aid no, email
Ienge the words He was man VINO
generally said little. thought a 5000
zeal. and aschewed compliments
sud rlv she laij hold OF his oroaied
fager, and. Clinging to them, s3lu I'M
der her breath. gaspngiy.