The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-06-22
CHAPTER TX.

Now. L1zZy, my child, said the moth
er in a hurried undertone, put on your
sunbonnet and run as quick as you can
can to DR.. Mays and tell him that
want him to come, and bring some help,
II he thinks best. Run now"
But hadn't you better go with me
Is it safe for you aloneY'
The girl clasped her arms convulsive-
~ about her mothers neck.
1T will be perfectly safe for me, Lizzy.
Run, now"
The girl started, and her mother ran
after her to the door.
when you come back, don't come in
where he is, Lizzy. You know what
strange antipathies are often shown by
by-by people under great mental excite
ment"
She had hesitated at the very word
that was ringing louder and louder
through all the resounding labyrinths of
the brain. She had made a generaliza-
ton where the specific objec- wa +; most
glaringly before them, Lizzy thought,
as she ran through the dry, light, yield
ing SAINT of the street. If size had said
plainly what she so plainly meant she
would have said:
Don't venture near him. He Is furi-
ously insane, and is possessed of the
hallucination that you and Mr.. Mason
are plotting to injure and thwart and de-
stroy him. He may kill you in a sudden
paroxysm Of insane fury. Don't go near
him! Don't go near him.
Cnheeding the knots and larger
punches Of men that now literally dot
ted all the conjoined thoroughfares of
Go
of the way of the wagon loads of people
that were still coming in from the south
west By the River road and from the
northeast By the Overcoat road, Lizzy
ran on to the doctors office, only to dis
cover that he was not there.
Hes done gone down town some'rs,
long go. Reckon you'll fine i'm mebby
some'rs whur they're agoun to hole the
meetun on the bank bustun. I'll go down
IN sect kin ketch i'm fur yuh, eff you
wawnt me to-" said young Billy bikes,
who was known to be reading medicine
and tendun to Docs bosses fur i'm" as
his father, little Bill bikes, had said TO-
cosely in explanation of the process by
which young Billy had already achieved
the title of ''the young Doc upon the
spontaneous motion of the humorous
Hoosiers of his acquaintance.
The young Doc had clearly volunteered
to ''ketch 'im," as an afterthought found
I'd upon the signs of great anxiety and
distress in the young woman's face
signs of need of help that had appealed
successfully to the chivalric hearts of
these rough people Of Sandtown ever,
heretofore. and will continue so to appeal
successfully. SO long as one of their
characteristics shall remain unplaned
away by the smoothing and polishing pro-
eesses of advancing civilization.
You jist set right down right h-yrr
In this h-yur chur," continued the kindly
young Hoosier, exhibiting all the hos
pitable instincts of all the hospitable
Dikeses, as far back as anybody can re-
member. us your pap much worse,
LizzyY'
All Hoosierdom has fashion-dezpis-
ed of the polished East as it is-of call
ing everybody by his or her christened
name! A fashion that it is to be hoped
will MOI be planned away in the polishing
processes of westward-adva civiliza-
ton.
'T'm afraid he's very much worse in
deed" Lizzy said, taking the offered
chair, and feeling that even This rude
sympathy Hghtened the burden of he,
great grief. She had dreaded z, reveal ii
to the world But she force that the
world Of Sandtown knew il alee:sdy, and
took active and partisan fnterestN.u do
Ing what it could to help her.
IT h-yurn um say at this h-yur felleS.
Mason Is fist about the whole cause Nv
yur pap's uh-uh-sickness 2 "the young
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