Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-08-10


gifts of flowers and a cheap ring OF
two; but il was utterly lost here, fol
tits intended recipient was looking an
other way, and as it faded from its
Inventors face there was a blank
inane expression left, bordering upor
the grotesque.
You should go more into ladies
society, then, Mr.. Poynter, as soon as
your health permits" said Richmond
with provoking GOODNESS.
"Oh, I'm not ill.," he said hastily
and his forehead grew damp as he
hounderd about, looking fishy now
about the eyes and mouth, which
lopened and shut at intervals, as if tC
give passage TO words which never
came. Felt was-er-little out OF
sorts, you know, and thought I'd see
the doctor Let's see, said so before
didn't ~"
Yes, l think you did, Mr.. POINTER
Here is my father"
There was a slight cough just then
the door opened, and the doctor
entered, his bland, aristocratiC
presence contrasting broadly with that
of his patient.
"Ah, Poynter," he said, good
morning. Don't go, my dear; Mr.
Poynter will come into my consulting
room, daresay."
Eyes, of course" cried the patient
shaking hands, and forgetting to leave
of. Il shall-shall you?-good,
morning, Miss Charley"
He released the doctors hand, to
turn and shake Richmond's which he
pressed desperately, and then followed
the bland, calm, stately doctor out OF
the room, when he caught up his hat
savagely and ground his teeth In the
dark passage.
II feel just like a fool when I'm with
her!" he said to himself. Il never
feel so anywhere else. And l amt a
fool. l should just like to see the man
who would say l was"
The doctor led the way through the
glazed door into the dim surgery, with
its rows of bottles, and stoppered
glass jars containing unpleasant look.
ing specimens preserved in spirits
all carefully labeled and inscribed in
the doctors own neat hand, but grown
yellow with time; and as he closed
the door after his patient, the latter's
nostrils distended slightly, and an air
OF disgust chased the inane look as he
breathed the unpleasant medicinal
druggy air.
Il was just busy over my discovery,
continued the doctor blandly, "and
thought as a friend you would not
mind coming here-it is the consult
ing-room, my dear POINTER; and !
could go on, and we could chat over
your ailment the while"
"Oh, it's all the same to me-" said
Poynter; and, once out of Richmond
presence, he seemed another being
Instead of carrying his glossy hat in
his hand, he had resumed it. and wore
it with vulgar cock; he walked with
the swagger of the low-class city
man; and mis- face shone as he
whisked out a second crimson silk
handkerchief redOlent of perfume, and
blew his nose with a loud blast, wnlca
sounded defiant
Here we are. sai1 the doctor
smiling at his patient, as if after a
long search he had found the Ill which
troubled him, and pulled it up by the
roots. Take that chair, my dea.
POINTER" he continued, pointing 70
one by the fire, which a brigh,
/ copper kettle was on the hob, an0
closing the door, while his patient took
on his hat, glanced round the room
and blew the dust of the top Of a
side table before depositing thereon
his new head-covcring
There was a litter on the table. a
chemists set of weights and scales
divers papers, a spatula, pestle and
mortar of glass, toy-like in size, and a
book with memoranda, and pen and
ink.
Very busy, you see, Poynter; I've
nearly completed my task, and in a
few months, perhaps weeks, the
the medical world will be startled
by my discovery"
What are you going to do with il
when you've done?"
do with it?"
YES. Now, if | was you, should
say TO a friend. Lend me a thou,
and then take little shop, put it uI
in bottles, with three halfpenny
stamps, and advertise it well as the
new patent medicine"
MY dear Mr.. Poynter!"
Hold hard, doctor, / haven't DONE
he cried, speaking in hard, brow
beating manned, as if he were giving
orders. GIVE il a spanking name
'Heal-all, or Cure all; won't do to
say Kill-all, Ell? Haw, haw, haw!"
He burst into a coarse, loud laugh
and the doctor sank back in his chair
with his brows twitching slightly.
Hold hard. have it. Nothing like
a good name for the fools who swallow
everything. Get something out o: one
DF var Craal- and Latin ph-cfC.