Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-01-01
Continued.

If in great CONSERVATION. AS Tor
distinguishing any sense at Miss
Bowers tea-parties, that is impos-
sible, for obvious reasons. But l
thought you could not know what you
were talking about when l heard you
say things to her which will GER
tainly result in her sending you
billet doux tomorrow. They say she
was once the plaintiff in breach of
promise case: though l don't know
whether it's true"
On the other hand, Mile was GER
tainly his guiding star through many
of the teacup storms which he soon
found to be for ever raging in the
quiet neighborhood. She warned him
not to mention the stage to Mrs.
cakes, who had nineteen years ago
found a photograph of dead and
gone prima donna in her husbands
coat pocket; not to touch upon the
Turf in the presence of Miss Shannon,
who had had brother who once lost
five pounds at the Derby, and came
home with a smashed hat, to which
events she traced his subsequent
death of bronchitis at the age of fifty
two; and, above all, to keep away, in
the presence of the vicar, from the
subject of church-lighting, as the
whole parish had seethed over huge
brass chandelier, presented to the
church by one of the congregation, the
tiny winged figures upon which, after
being overlooked altogether or
reverently looked upon as angels, had
suddenly been pronounced to be
cupids, and had been the cause of as
much controversy, not to say scandal,
as il the whole of the congregation
bacchanalian riot.
Armathwaite listened to these
admontions with much scorn, ana
protested that doctors trade was to
heal diseases, not to play tame cat to
a bevy of assorted old women, and
that, as for their petty wrangles ana
squabbles, they were the parson $
affairs, and not his. Mile let hum
talk, and then quietly assured him
that If he were to hold himself above
the consideration OF their prejudices,
they would soon find out that he was
incapable of curing their ailments.
"And when Maud catches the measles,
Mauds mamma will send for a doctor
who will sympathize with the strong
feeling she entertains on the personal
chastisement of little boys at a public
school," she ended confidently. ohe
was so kind and so sensible that she
kept his contempt within due bounds,
though she scarcely succeeded in re-.
ducing it; and it was certainly to her
beneficent influence that he owed his
retention of that high position in the
good graces Of his well-to-do patients
into which he had jumped so sudden
ly. He found his consolation for the
irritating pettiness of this side of his
life in his professional ministra tons
among the poorer classes. who accus-
toned only to see doctor when they
really needed his advice, and not al
ways then, excited his compa ssion,
woke his interest, and kept alive his
pride in On ELECTION for his own
calling.
For ten days he saw nothing either
of the KildCnans or of the Crosmonts,
except Tor fleeting glimpse he caught
one evening, when he was out lete on
his rounds, of the sleigh and its occ,i-
pants. 1t was hard winter, and the
frost still held; and though on bright
days the sun melted little of the
upper snow on the more oper parts,
the great mass of 1t still spread over
the hills and checked the vellsys, the
ice on the lake grew thicker and thick
er. and at night the hard roads rang
under the tread of man or beast The
ground was too slippery for Anna
thwaite to care to trust himself to the
old cob, which he'd now been placed
at his service in sign of his installa-
ton as DR., Peele's represer tative. He
was returning on foot at a good pace
from tramp &c an outlying cottage
among the hills beyond Mere side.
where en- cid an lay hopelessly i'll,
when. net far ficm the spot where he
had first heerd them. the sleigh-bells
struck upon his ears followed by the
sharp sounds of the ponies hoofs. He
drew beck end raised his hat as the
sleigh PASSED. Lady Kildonan, who
was driving, uttered a c.y of recogni-
ton, and pulled up to speak to him /.
but he" companion snatched the reins
from her hsnds and drove on with a
muttereo oath, which. in the clear
air Of the frosty night, reached the
young doctors ears with perfect dis.
tinctness. This was the only occasion
when he cFme tc anything like close
quarters with any of the four people
in whose history he took such vita
interest until he received. towards the
end of his second week at Branksome
note from Lady Kildonan, invit
ing him to skating party to be held
on the lake en- the following afternoon
from two till FIVE. There was a post
script. of course; Mrs. Crosmont
has been inv.ted. trust to the NUT
ual attraction to bring yen both
Armathwaite wrote back. acceptins
the invitation, and wondered whethe,