Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-04-21
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ALL THE FAULT OF A FoL0lNc.sED.
The Handsome Young Doctor Loses q
Profitable Patient.

MY dear, there's n guilty look IN
you eye" remarked the young woman
10 the lace and jet bonnet, tell me what
you've been doing now"
well. for one thing I've been decid-
ING to become n Christian scientist and
never TO sleep in a ~folding-bed again
while ! retain my senses" replied the
girl with the dimplc in her chin.
"Humph; | didn't expect you to tell
me right away-just take your time,
my dear. BY the way. have you sue
ceeded yet in attracting the attention OF
the handsome young doctor across the
way?"
Il have, but not in the way l intended
to. ! was born under an unlucky star;
| once broke a looking glass and | have
an opal ring in my possession, so | can't
expect much of Fate, but really the last
blow she dealt me was the unkindest
one of all"
Don't trouble yourself to tell me
about it, dear. If it is anything un.
pleasant Grace will give it to me with a
wealth of detail such as you could
never lend it. l shall call upon her as
soon as l leave you. Lovely day, isn't
it?"
Look here, Cora, if you so much as
whisper this to Grace lll-Ill tell your
husband just how much you paid for the
gown you are now wearing. I'm dy-
ing to tell you all about my misfortune,
however. This is how it happened:
You know I've been dying to meet that
young doctor ever since he moved into
| our ne~ighborhood, but never could ar
range it. He seems to look upon girls
merely as anatomical specimens or pos
sible patients, but | just knewif l could
once meet him l could teach him some
thing very different. O,dear, | wonder
why heaven ever wasted such a pair of
blue eyes upon him."
perhaps he wouldn't be able to
practice his profession if he had none,
dear"
We'll. our old doctor is off on a brief
vacation and ! caught a horrid cold out
skating the other night. Don't look
that way, Cora, I assure you / did"
and she coughed pathetically; "the
next morning | was as hoarse as a frog.
Well, perhaps | wasn't as ill as mann
ma seemed to think after | had groaned
for her a few times, still l did feel bad
ly."
80 you frightened her into sending
for the nearest physician, who happened
to be the blue-eyed one, eh?'
"She sent for him of her own accord
and then put me to bed. Pretty soon !
heard him come in and stop to speak to
mamma in the hall. | hadn't a mirror
within reach so | sprang out OF bed to
see if my hair was all right and to put a
dab of powder on my nose. Just as !
bounced back | heard mamma sayings
Yes, her voice is just the meres'
whisper when, o, Cora"
"He came into the room, blue eyes and
all-wellp"
when the f~olding-bed flew up with a
jerk and closed on me. 1t didn't seem
to me that l screamed very loudly, but
the people next door sentin to see if any
II was being murdered"
"And the young doctorp"
20, he helped IN to extricate
me, and then he remarked dryly: Our
patient seems to have miraculously re-
covered her voice; il seem that my pro-
fessional services are not greatly needed,
after ALL Cora Coldsteel, if you dom
stop laughing in that idiotic fashion III
never speak to you again as long as ]
liye!"