The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-17

and be feIt the heat. The old servant, pull
ire of his boots. commisersted him.
Hot he calculated CONTEMPORARY.
~rm I'm a bath. The wonder Is there's any
ching Of me left. Tbs mistress has got
hack. / suppose2'
NO. Doctor. You was not TO wait dinner
for her, She said
ION. wasn't L? Very well, then, L won't.
It's as wei I'm not likely to want the car
riagc. Where's Dolly?' he added, as if
with an afterthOught.
Old Susan rose stifTly to her feet, her task
accomplished. as she answered:
aThe mistress put her to bed. doctor. be-
fore she went out-she was that naughty
over her lessons"
The statement could not have been sim
pier. but there was an indeinable some
thing IN the woman's tone. a suggestion of
disapprOval. that had been present before
in the delivery of the message relative TO
the dinner; and Enderby, detecting it.
checked the expletive that was rising 10 his
lips. His old housekeeper was none too
friendly towards his wife, and he knew il.
Il would never do for Susan to suspect him
Of blaming Evelyn.
The lessons are a nuisance to both of
them, he remarked. Its enough to spoil
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fact 1 shall have TO put a stop to it,
well, yes. doctor-which it's holiday
time and all; and little Missie-she's not too
strong. Why! 1 remember the summer be-
fore you was sent off TO Littlehampton
your dear mamma she says to me, Susan
she says
But the doctor broke in unceremoniously
on Susan's "reminiscences He had to draw
the line somewhere with the faithful soul.
"Oh, L know" he said. My mother spoilt
me. That has nothing TO do with it. I'm
not going to have the mistress worried to
death. Dolly shall have a governess. When
Ryoer left TO get married some one of that
sort should have been got i'm her place. 1
ought to have insisted upon it"
Sure and it wasn't your fault, DOCTOR
the Old woman exclaimed. with spirit. 1.-The
mistress wouldn't hear of it. She said she
could do for the child herself better than
anyone that could be got for her. and she
wasn't going to have Miss Dolly crying
after any other lady as she cried after Ry-
der-which. after all said and done, it was
only natural
quite natural" her master interposed
quickly, that the child's mother should
wish TO come first with the chiIdl But Dol
~ is older now, and things are different.
The mistress has more calls on her time,
and-and Dolly is getting too big to be sent
to bed. Some one must be got to relieve
Mrs. Enderby. l suppose everything has
been quiet upstairs?"
He spoke with a slight upward jerk OF
the head. His consulting room, in which h.
was sitting for the moment, was on the
ground floor.
Yes, Susan assured him, everything had
bcpU nuirf Tho oav4afp bo1 - E \.
constitutional as usual. and Isaac had made
no remark save the accustomed one as tc
his avoidance of the cliffs.
The fellow is a 1ool,' Enderby ex.
claimed iritably. ITS a very good thing
for him he does avoid the cliffs. What il
be were to take it into his head to throw
himself over? Isaac would go a long way
before he met with so easy a berth again.
He don't go far TO give much trouble
poor gentleman, surely" the old servant
said, preparing to go.
i don't suppose he ever will. so long a,
he IS kept from excitement of any sort
as he Is here" he observed. eff il hat
been a violent case, L would not have
undertaken i'll couldn't. The mistres.
has quite got over her nervousness, eh?'
He turned a sharp glance of interroga,
ton on his companion.
It's my belief as she doesn't give 2
thought to it, Doctor; no more than if h;
wasn't there" was the reply.
hen the woman had gone, Frank En-.
derby lit his pipe and reflected. He had :
pretty house, a pretty wife, and-for sc
youns a mana pretty little practice
slowford-on-Sea was a rising waterins
place, and Enderby had not started i'm hi:
profession as house surgeon in a great
metropolitan hospital for nothing. Hi.
London connection kept him in sight, anC
he was always having patients sent dowr
10 him. What he got he might be trusted
Il keep.
Ills resident patient had been sent to him
IN the same way. 1t was a sad case-thaf
Oh a military man suffering from the eff
iects OF sunstrOke. He had been pro
nounced harmless, but incapable of manag
Ing his own affairs. and as industrious Of
as he was disqualified for-any society bu
his own.
His friends paid Enderby handsomely
aud the latter had started his broughan
on the strength of their munifcence. Tina
Evelyn should persist in acting as a lsorr
Oh nursery governess 10 the child Wa.
ridiculous; besides. it was bad for then
both. He did not believe in children learn
lhg anything at their mothers knee ex
eeptng their prayers. She had enough t
OO-more than e-nough-without teaching
sometimes he wished-could not help wish
Hs-she had less-not so many people Il
eaH upon and entertain and be entertained
W. IL was quite right she should be pop
uaF-he was proud of her popularity. quit
a much so as of his own-and he was "th'
most genial fellah. ?"-bu
Ne could have borne to see a little more o
Aef- This evening, for example,
she did not come home until late, wher
4 Was all cool and comfortable-so much
"eter for poor Vixen she observed. witt
an AR of virtue. She had dropped Mrs
sinclair and the three girls at the vicar.
age. Nina was looking dreadful. She be.
san TO think it must be true about youns
ienley. If he really had played fast anc
nose with her. il was abominable. At the
same time. she had thrown herself at his
mead IL the most outrageous manner
ana Mrs. Sinclair let the girls go theil
own gait so completely one could not b.