Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1905-03-17
DLSHLUSIONKENT
OF THE DOCTOR

= don't believe me! No, l won
forgive you, and l won't let you KISS
me-not for a very long time You
are not nearly as nice as-as you USED
to be-" -,
"Will you listen to reason, Dora
"No. I won't! That is, l am always
reasonable. 1t is you who are uhrea'
sonable, and altogether horrid!
"And all this because l pressed you
to marry me at once, and
And you said l could not love you
or that if l really loved you, l would
agree to il"
$50 you would"
''That is just the same as saying that
don't love you"
1T doesn't look as if you did, does
it?"
Harry" said the girl earnestly, Il
am going to be reasonable, as you say
sou are. have said l loved you, and
would marry you. But we must wait
until Aunt Mary gives us Leave
"Gives us leave, indeed"
"For the very good reason that we
can't afford to get married without
help from her."
Il don't see that at all" cried the
young man. my practice is not large
yet, but every day my fathers old pa
tents are coming back to me, and leav-
ing that odious cad, Maloney-"
I'D like to know who you call an
odious cad. young MANI" broke in a
sharp, thin voice, and tall lady, wear
ing front" set of false teeth and
pince-Dez came suddenly round the
corner of the laurel hedge.
Young Harry Lawrence stood
speechless, for he knew that Miss Ma
tilda Prendergast professed a great es-
TEEN (and possibly cherished a yet
warmer feeling for the plausible, red
haired lrishman, who had stolen away
his fathers patients while protesting
to keep the practice together for, him
while he finished his course at Guys.
That evening, Mr.. Denyer, the sollc-
itor, sat in his dining room, celebrat
ing his recovery from a fit of govt,
which he owed-the recovery, not the
gout-tO the skillful prescriptions of
Michael MalOney, NJ. r. G. S., and 9th
er initials, who now sat opposite to
him.
"A doctor should be q married man.
l feel that" said DR.. Maloney, with
sentimental air. "The ladies don't
altogether like an unmarried man. And
there's only one objection to Miss Prem
dergast, and that is that can't find
out anything definite about her posi-
ton
The aunt, do you mean, or the
nieceY"
"Oh, the aunt, to be sure. I'm aware
the money belongs to her. She's as
much as said so in my hearing many
a time"
"Humphp'
But I'd think it safer as a prudent
man, to have few particulars. ia
like to know, for one thing, whether
the money belongs to her, to do as she
likes with, or whether she has ONLY a
life interest in it."
Lawyer Denyer was occasionally as
deaf as a post. He chose to be dea
now.
you and l have done one another.
many good turn" said the doctor
edging his chair a little nearer "and
l hope we shall live to do each other
many more. Now, l should no a+or-
nally obliged if you would tell me in
strlct confdence-mind, in the verv
strictest confidence-how much Misc
Prendergast possesses in her own rigbt
with absolute CONTROL
Are you aware, DIR. Malonev - sotd
the lawyer, speaking very SLOWLY. "tbat
you are insulting me in a very gross
manner The late Stephen Prendar.
CAST was my client, sir, and Won calm
ly propose that l should make his 90
fairs known to you, a perfect stranoor,
ANA you have the audacity to do
this" w
Hang you, sirr' roared the hot
headed lrishman, flinging out of Tho
house. - 'iie
At his next attack, which banneroa
not long after, Mr.. Denyer. of course
called In another medical man hvt
whether it was that DR.. Malonev kno-,
the patients constitution and boL,t.
better, or that he was in possession o 80
drug Of singular efficacy, the foot
remained that the lawyer did not ~
ceive anything like the same ro,ies
from the new doctors remedies as ba
nad been accustomed to obtain from
those supplied by the Irishman
The lawyer had fully made Nm bis
mind that under no circumstano a,s
would he ever speak to DIR. MaIone~
again; but pain is a wonderful sim,
liant, and in one of his worst nsroT
ysms he sent a message to him boa
glng him to come and do what ba oo,,1,