The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1903-05-29

hish-class Brltish medical consuitant
OF the axe OF NIFTY. or porhaps Just a
year or two older
The doctor. IN his hey-day had been .
cool over great things. but now, In his |
retirement he was fussy over trnos. |
The man who had operated without the /
culver Of finger. when not only his |
patients life hut his own reputation |
and future were at stake was now |
shaken TO the soul by mislaid book or
a careless maid. He remarked It him
self, ana knew the reason. when Mary
was alive he would say. "shc stood
between me and the little troubles. l
could brace myself for the big ones
NV girls are as good as girls can he,
but who can know "a man as his wife
knows him3" Then his memory would
coniure up tuft OF brown hair and
a single white thin hand over cover
let. ana he would feel, as We have all
felt, that n We do not live and know
each other after death then indeed we
are trickod and betrayed by all the
highest hopes and subticst intuiuona OF
our nature.
The doctor had hls compensations 20
make up for his loss. The great scales
Of fate had been held on level for
him' Tor where In all great London
could one hnd two awectcr girls, more
loving. more intelligent. and moro SYM
pathetic than Clara and Ida Welkerf
So bright were they, 80 quick. 40 inter-
osted In all which interested him, that
n It were possible for a man TO be COM
pensnted for the loss OF good wife
then Balthazar Walker might claim TO
be 80
Clara was tall and thin and supple,
with n graceful. womanly figure. There
was something stately and diatin-
gulshed In her carriage. "queenly'' her
| friends called her. while her critics de-
scribed her az reserved and distant.
Such as II was however, Il was part
and parcel ~ herself, for she was, and
had always from her childhood been,
/ different from any one around her.
/ There was nothing gregarlous In her
nature. She thought with her own
mind. saw with her own eyes, acted
from her own impulse. Her face was
pale, striking rather than pretty, but
with two great dark eyes 30 earnestly
questioning. 10 quick In their transit
tons from Joy TO pathos. no swift In
their comment upon every word and
deed around her that those eyes alone
were to many more attractive than all
the beauty Of her younger sister. Hers
was n strong quiet soul. and II was her
firm hand which had taken over tho
duties OF her mother. had ordered tho
house. restrained the servants. comfort
ed her father. and upheld her weaker
sister, from the day OF that great mis-
fortune.
Ida Walker was hands breadth
smaller than clara. but was n littl'
fuller In the face and plumpcr In The
figure. She had HIGHT yellow hair, mis-
chlevoua blue eyes with the llght al
, humor ever twlnkilng In their depths
and n large. perfectly formed mouth
; with that slight upward curve OF IN
! corners which goes with n keen appre
citation OF fun. suggesting even In re-
r pose that latent smile In ever lurtin
at the edges Of the lips. She was mod
= crn to the soies of her dainty it'll
e high-hecled shoes. frankly fond OF dres
IA aid OF plcaAurc. devoted 10 tennis an
!. TO comic opera, delighted with dane,
= which came her way only too seldom
4 longing ever for some new excitement
: and yet behind all this lighter side O
!, her character thoroughly good
2 healthy minded English girl. the M
y and soul OF the house. and the idol O
i her sister and her father a peep int
= the remaining villa and our introduS
lions are complete.