Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-11-19

DR.. Thomas X. Uprood. who discharged
the laborioua duties ~ assistant 90
fashionable city physician, came into
the office. aftof long round OF calls. he
found "a pretty Firi IN a dark travelling
costume. waiting for him.
u won't dctain you long. air." she
said. ''Thla isn't a professional matter;
IL ia personal I want 90 know " you
remember a man named Carr nt Ban
tiago."
WAS his FIRST name Ephraim7"
THAT was IT," said Ethel. HIS
brother said you could tell me some
thing about him"
4 don't know that can tell you
much. said the young doctor. cautious
~. az n anxious not 10 commit himself
But did you happen to hear that
he tried to dodEc back from the hring
line
WHAT" tho doctor almost shouted.
forgetting hin manners. Dodge backf
Whore did you hear thatr
"Oh. that isn't 81 no much conae-
qucncc." raid Ethel, so long az II isn't
true
''My dear Young lady. n you mean a
man named Fphraim Carr, n corporal.
he was taken sick with common fever
the day before the attack ON Gan Juan.
I had him under my care. lie broke
loose. when he heard his company was
going to the front. and followed them.
Next DAY he tainted and was seized
with dolirium. and I and an orderly had
20 carry him 90 the rear BY main force
Did you know the man.
VERY we'll, indeed
you are not 70 relation ~ hia7" said
the doctor. oying his pretty visitor.
"No." said Ethel. hut I am-lntor-
csted. Hts mother has been told sto-
'whatp That he wanted to run
away from the spanlards7''
'Iust rn VIII you give mo what
you have Just said. In writlngT'
certainly" said the doctor. But
before he had settled down TO write a
new idea seemed to strike him. u
should like to meet Carr'a mother" he
said, "nnd talk 10 her myself. You are
Miss Muir, 1 believe. You live In the
same town with Mrn. Carr
Ethel nodded.
III IL not moro than forty miles up."
the doctor mcditatcd aloud. ~ came
thorc. could you point out the persons
who circulated thiH-this outrageous
licy''
u think I could point out one" said
Ethel. biting her iip to keep down "a
smile.
Very well. then" said the doctor.
II can't leave the citv Tor "a few days
yet. but. say. next Thursday, ! hope
10 have the pleasure OF calling on you.
Miss Mulr-and on Mrs. Carr"
However. DR.. UpEood arrived pune
tunlly on Thursday and called upon
Mrs. Carr. when his visit at that cot-
tnvo WINS ended the widows face looked
unrcnnonnhly beautiful under itH crown
Of gray hairs her checks were flushed
ana wet with tears, but the tears were
tears of Joy.
After that tho doctor. on his way 20
call ON Miss Muif. aa agreed, met that
young woman.
Ethcl-lt may have been vIndlctiyo
~ her-topk the trouble 10 conduct nr.
| upEood 20 Caleb BHstuNH place of bua-
mess nud there was au interview, be-
ginning with. n understand YOU knew
something about EphrnIm Carr who
died two on three months aru az Snuti-
ago," from tho doctor, and ending with
string ~ cpithotH from the same
speaker that made two clerks nnd
female typewriter stare az BriHtnw, but
not envy him.
when Ethel went back 90 Mrs.
Cars cottage the uid lady said 90 tho
| Eirl. Dear We viii both have a great
deal 90 be- thankful Tor this Thankugiy-
ms"
"Yoa. Mother. Carr we will Ana.
do you know no wiil caleb hriHtow,"
lilo IA alive. Not even broken