Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-03-25


forgive you, and l won't let you KISS
me-not for very long time. You
are not nearly as nice as-as you used
to be-
Twill you listen to reason, Dora
"No. | won't! That is, l am always
reasonable. 1t is you who are unreal
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 it,
so you would"
"That is lust 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
you are have said l loved you, and
would marry you. But we must walt
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
tients are coming back to me- and leav-
ing that odious cad. Maloney-"
I'D like to know who you call an
odious cad young man." broke in Il
sharp thin voice, and tall lady. wear
ing a front a set of false teeth and
pince-nez came suddenly round the
corner of the laurel hedge.
Young Harry Lawrence stood
speechless. for he knew that Miss Ma
tilda Prendergast professed Il great es
TEEN land possibly cherished yet
warmer feeling for the plausible. red
haired Irishman. who had stolen away
his fathers patients while protesting
to keep the practice together for him
while he finished his course at Guy's
That evening. Mr. Denyer. the solic-
itor. sat in his dining room. celebrat
ing his recovery from lit of govt,
which he owed--the recovery. not the
gout-to the skillful prescriptions Of
Michael Maloney, NJ. r. c. S, and 9TH
er initials. who now sat opposite to
him.
"A doctor should he a married man,
l feel that said DR.. Maloney. with
a 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 | cant 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
"Humph!'
But I'd think it safer as a prudent
man, to have few particulars. I'd
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 deaf
now.
You and l have done one another
many a good turn" said the doctor.
edging his chair little nearer. land
1 hope we shall live to do each other
many more. Now, / should be eter
many ODhScu IL you WOulu tell me in
strict confidence-mind. in the very
strictest confidence-how much Miss
Prendergast possesses in her own right
with absolute control
Are you aware. DIR. Maloney." said
the lawyer, speaking very slowly. that
you are insulting me in q very gross
manner The late Stephen Prender-
CAST was my client sir and YOU calm
ly propose that l should make his af-
fairs known to you, perfect stranger
And you have the audacity to do
this"
Hang you, sirr' roared the hot
headed Irishman, f1inging out of the
house.
At his next attack. which happened
not long after, Mr.. Denyer. of course
called in another medical man but
whether it was that DIR. Maloney knew
the patients constitution and habits
better, or that he was IN possession of
a drug OF singular efficacy, the fact
remained that the lawyer did not re-
ceive anything like the same relief
from the new doctors remedies as no
had been accustomed to obtain from
those supplied by the Irishman.
' The lawyer had fully made I'D his
mind that under no circumstances
would he ever speak to DIR. Malonev
again; but pain is a wonderful stimu.
liant, and In one of his worst no.