Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1901-11-08

far as 10 question DR.. Adams wheth-
er she knew Mrs. Gerson. The doc
tor professed not to, though she said
theo face was familiar and all that.
All Mrs. Gersoni would permit herself
to say was. ST don't believe in wom-
an doctors. nohow.''
It was plainly apparent that this
was not altogether the cause Of her
intense aversion for DIR. Adams. It
was in the nature of things to the
orize that another reason existed, of
which DIR. Adams probably knew
nothing
The observing women of Monarch
could not help noticing how rapidly
Mrs. Gerson had aged in the. past two
or three years. While it was true
that she suffered from a chronic all
ments before the excitement OF DR..
Adams arrival, her general health
heretofore had been good. In this
intervening short time in appearances
she had aged fully dozen years,
and now was growing sickly and
emacia ted. No one seemed able to
account for it.
l. Nothing of .here antecedents prior
to her residence in Monarch was
known. She had removed to Monarch
from a camp near by. Her husband
was a miner. He had met his death
while blasting near Monarch. Some
said her daughter was by former
marriage, but the statement was gen.
orally taken as mere conjecture.
It was singular that despite Mrs.
Gerson's dislike for DR.. Adams her
daughter should be practically fond
of her. Miss Gerson spent much of
her time in the doctors Office as she
could spare from her mothers store.
DR.. Adams reciprocated this affection.
In her opinion she passed no hour
better than when in the company Of
Miss sGerson, though she was scarce
" Is.
There was one who We'd with Miss
ship. This was DR.. Basil Cuthbert
Just as DR.. Adams had about con-
cluded that the other physicians were
going to show their displeasure at
her arrival by ignoring her, DR.. Cuth-
bert called. He was the first of the
doctors, to do this. He had post-
poned his visit to give the mob's en-
thusiasm time to wane.
DR.. Cutchbert was childless wild
over. Up to the time DIR. Adams en-
tered the field he enjoyed the most
lucrative practice in the camp. Now
this honor lay between him and DR..
Adams
From. the time of that first visit a
friendship, bordering on attachment,
arose between them. They were fire.
quently at one another's office. And
after they met in. professional con-
sultation.
Time of friendship and the fact
that neither was young in years en-
Fboldened DR.. Cuthber one day to pro-.
pose marriage to DR.. Adams.
She told him she would ''see about
it,
DR.. Adams. was in her office at an
unusually late hour looking over her
books. Without knocking, wild-eyed
and breathless, Miss Gerson rushed
in.
Mothers dying!"
Half the camp knew it before DIR.
Adams, and she had to force her way
through a dense crowd standing in
front of Mrs. Gerson's store.
She found that DR.. Cuthbert, Mrs.
Gerson's physician. had preceded her.
He was already making out the GER
tifcate of death.
It required but a cursory examina.
ton of Mrs. Gerson, and DR.. Adams
solemnly nodded her approval to DR..
Cuth bert.
The undertaker's boy brought q
note with an, inclosure to DR.. Adams
the following day. The note had been
found on Mrs. Gerson. It was worn
and faded, and bore a date 16 years
back. It read:
~Dear Alkaline: If you prefer him
to my friendship, and he prefers you
to me, elope-unite. Be devoted to
him. He sacrifices his word of honor
for You. But think of me neither in
your success. for you may pity me,
nor in your sorrow, for then you may
envy me. Let me be to you as one
you have never known. forgive Won
BOTH LEYoLA ADAMS"
1t would be expected Of a woman
so generous and kind as DR.. Adams
that she adopt Miss Gerson. Her
love for the young girl went further.
1t prompted her to hasten her &C.
ceptance of DR.. Cuthbert's offer.
Oats ana Hay
A husky-looking, one-armed gentle
man, wearing the SLOUGH hat that de.
notes the southerner to the manor
born, was entering the Arlington.
when he came into hao1or .1,1:-.t