The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-12-21

night and such weather as only
New England can inflict on suffer
ing humanity. The dispcnsary was
in darkness. save a light which cleaned
from the windows of the resident physi-
clans room.
DIR. Brown, the resident physician. had
made a bad day of it. tramping through
the snow, making his regular calls on the
sick poor of his district. Now he found
small comfort in his pipe as he sat by his
little stove in the dispensary room.
ust now the young doctor suffered
from an attack Of the blues. He had
worked hard, this last year, for his de-
gree, and after graduation had been chos-
en- from among 20 applicants for the post
OF resident at the dispensary. Tn posi-
ton paid in experience and gave a wide
field for work among the poor of the dis
trlct, both at their homes and at the dis
pensary. The salary was chiefly salary
in name, 500 a year and room rent free,
not enough to cover expenses: but ii was
the experience 10 be gained that paid.
He had been a young mar with expec-
tations and had had matrimonial designs
on a certain dainty young lady, and what
hope was there for a poor dispensary doc
tor! Only that morning the wealthy Mr..
Peabody. her pompou papa. had passed
DR.. Brown on the street and had return
ed his polite good morning. with a cold
look, which seemed to say: Il do not
wish to know you. sir" And that, too.
when but a few years before the student
Brown, with great expectations. had been
q welcome guest ut the Peabody mansion.
Society had gossiped that Dolly Pea
body and Harvey Brown would make a
match.
lie had written once since that to Miss
Dorothy and his letter had been returned
to him unopened. The Peabodys had gone
abroad and he had heard no more of them
until to-day, when Mr.. Peabody had given
him the cut direct.
DR.. Brown had worked hard all day,
had had a case at a Stun tenement house
that afternoon and had missed his supper
at the boarding house. AS he brooded
over these things small wonder that the
blue devils" tormented him.
Devil of a night out unused the doc
tor. "Christmas eve. too! Hope l won't
have a call out tonight. What an old
duffer that Peabody is. anyway. Won
der if Dol-Miss Peabody would cut me
like that? Hang it all! A man DOM
feel good to be frozen out like that Just
because he has lost his expectations. |
thought l knew Dolly-dash it, / do know
her! She wouldn't throw a fellow over
like that. Blu why-hang it all. but /
do feel empty pity that boarding house
couldn't keep open of a night once in
awhi1o md I'm, hrn1yo 4no yVo11 41,o,,.e
no hope for me with her pater, that's
sure !"
The electric bell over his head rang
violently and DR.. Brown, stepping TO the
speaking tube, shouted: We'll. whats
wanted?'
"Say, be youse de doctor? Dcys a swell
bloke up de street wots all smashed up
Dey wants de doctor to get a wiggle on
see?"
A few minutes later i)r. Brown wa.
stumbling through the storm in the wake
of the small gamin who had summoned
him. At the corner two men We're holding
a frightened horse. to which was hangin.
the remains of a broken harness.. 4 little
further on was an overturned cab. sur
rounded by a number of residents who ha(
turned out in spite of the storm. The,
had just pulled from under the wheels ar
elderly gentleman. whose dress had stamp
ed him as a swell" with the gamin.
DIR. Brown was all professional in an
instant, and superintendent the CARRYING
of the injured man to the dispensary
where he was placed on the doctors own
cot. DIR. Brown did not need to be told
thai this victim of a runaway cab was
the same Mr.. Peabody who had cut him
on the street the morning of that same
day.
In the doctors room patient and phy.
stefan had passed the night in silence. the
doctor doing all in his power to sootba
his patient, his personal feelings buried
deeply under professional zeal.
In the morning Mr.. Peabody had made
an attempt at conversation, but the doe.
tor would not permit it.
The bell was ringing again and DIR.
Brown hurried to open the door to Miss
Peabody and her fathers valet.
You, Harvey, you:" Then, blusb;n,
like a rose: Harvey, take me to nan, =,
In another moment she was at her FAN.
er's side. 'i
But DR.. Brown was happy. She had
said Harvey Her eyes-wcjl onlr
br. Brown knew what her eys. said.
AS the patient was ASSISTED to his O., =
rage he said: "Dr. Brown. this is yo,r
case; shall expect you to finish II .;n
Please call this evenins."-Rockv Morn
tain News. fouli-