The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-05-03


vestibule, as his professional services
are desired"
When the young doctor responded
| as requested, 10! there was no one
awaiting him! DR.. johnson reckoned
on the most virsuous-minded taking
| the incident as an advertising dodge,
and hoped to draw contempt upon
the young doctors unprofesslonai
subterfuge. A MIN would better DC
rocked than laughed at up the COM
munity sleeve! 1t took successful
| Operations or two to overcome the
misadventure of the pulpit call. Then
came a rebound. Following this came
liberal innuendo and exaggerations,
skiIlfully managed by DIR. johnson,
of DIR. RowIa nd~on's partiality for the
knife, his deficiency in fever treat
ment, and again in child ailments.
| Then was the tinse Lena waxed warm
| in her heart and openly fought his
battles among her friends, and called
| him to his face "a fake"
In the meantime he and Lena were
forever at the game OF mutual
elusiveness. Then were made some
interesting entries in the diary:
"Dec. 15.-He will succeed, but he
shall never know how greatly i de-
sire it."
"Dec. 24.--Frank's Christmas re-
membrance was a photo OF himself
signed a Scientific Abstraction, or
as you will Now, that's vague
Jan. 1.-Resclved, That Frank
Rowlandson is the only man in the
world to whom desire to stand Tor
ever Just heart high"
OF course this COME ssion stood on
page alone, carefully sealed to its Wis
avis, and plainly posted ON its back:
ITO never be opened"
In the beginning of his cancer he had
tried to tell her of his love, and she
tilted up her chin and measured his
full stature with a whitening, scorn:
II require more than SIX feet o.. clay,
sir. l need an establishment and a
husband with a reputation"
Then for weeks she secretly agoniz. ed
over the possibility of her folly. She
was too brave to hamper him with mar
rage. Success first, then a wife,"
wisely went down in the diary.
In these latter days her moods were
as many as the points of chestnut
burr. philanthropy was one of them.
Hearing that a seamstress who had
worried in former years for her moth
er was il, need and Ill in cheap lodging
house. .Sl.e armed herself with huge
chunks OF commisseration, some flow
ers and re,l 'eshments and sought to To-
cate the sun 'erer and minister to her
uccexsities. climbing one long fight
% .-tairs, a sec, md likewise assembled,
mir. half done. when at the landing,
- tha .,r,-. she ste 'ps and stands aside
80 allow most al astounding process
s;or 80 descend in the gloomy stair
way she thought 1T M - sne was en-,
in the f. 'sn 'ne na'u.a a.
freak of two-headed vsB, WIN pne
nomenal abdominal W0rus'ons,
danked by a flying buttr, ~
proximity revealed big man as
"A sick woman cozily and tent W !"
his arms down the stairs. Frank
miliar voice said: beg pardon; "
ry to trespass on your right of way,
only a moment. however" Down the /
stairs to waiting carriage he goes.
She stands and stares! The roses are
crushed. the dainties fall from agitated
hands, and Lena Raymond's charity is
forestalled!
Memory of the day she saw him drop
on his own lawn and exc1aim: an be
drrned," after her patronizing essur-
ance of superior in development, was
SO unexpectedly hurled at him, rushed
over her as aggressively as Tigris in
undation. She sat down on the land
ing, full of pride in his achievements
and success, and shame at her own USE
less career.
During the weeks following she kept
linn, figuratively, on the grapevine
swing; now high with hope, now to the
earth with thud of despair.
Then something happened. 1t was
a trifle apparently, but be that as It
may, il happened.
Lena went to the hospital to see her
would-be protege and found Frank ex-
her heart with stehoscope.
Growing interested in the Invention