Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-02

Ing and she found the doctor who had SUI
| perlntended this just on the point of leav-
| give of several of the patients who Maud
| asked after. but there was at least this
cause for thankfulness In that no fresh case
had appeared during the day.
And that, too, is rather odd" he said,
''for we have not yet been able to discover
what the cause of the outbreak was, so that
| We have not Intentionally cut off any source
| OF infection. But I am quite content not
to know what 1t was, provided 1t is cut
| off,"
Yes, indeed" said she. land tomorrow
you will I'LL up all the beds here7"
Yes. Of course one has to take certain
risks. and for the sake of the fresher air
and better attention they can receive here
l am going to move some very serious
, cases Really. Lady Maud. doctor though
am and prescriber OF drugs. sometimes
| wonder whether all the contents of all the
Snemsts shops In the world have the
healing power of fresh air and quiet"
| oh. do you think that quiet cures az
many people as work. asked she.
He laughed.
Well. work is the best medicine If you
are not Ill. and rest IL you are" he said.
by the way, should like to say just once
| now splendid think It is of you and Lord
Thnrso to give the house up like this"
II was entirely Thurso's idea." she said,
| and 1t really seemed so obvious when he
suegested it. Has he come in yet, do you
Yes. he came In half an hour ago. In
great pain with one of those neuralgia
| headaches. am afraid He is rather over.
| done He wants rest"
Maud made a little quick movement to-
| ward him.
Not seriously?" she asked. ''You don't
about?'
NO, out as long as he is continually anx-
| ious himself and constantly tired. those
neaoaches will probably be rather frequent
One only hopes he will get rest soon: one
ooes not want them to become chronic"
Yes, that is one of the penalties of being
| mgniy strung from nervous point of view,
nus aus nerves are very easily excted-one
does not want him to get a habit of that"
Maud was silent moment Then she
spoke in a lower tone
He takes laudanum when ne is In great
PAIN, she said. us that unwise?'
1t would be unwise to continue doing 50
Tor long together. l did not know, by the
way that ne took 1t. But hope, and there
Is reason for hoping today, that we have
! seen the worst of this epidemic. He ought
| to be able to- get away before many DAYS
| does"
Ought he to go now, do you think?, she
| asked.
DR.. symes looked at her moment before
replying.
mo. I think he ought to stop here He
| Is running a certain risk of producing that
| chronic condition of irritated nerves and
also certain risk in stopping the pain by
the use of laudanum. But / think we'll his
nurses orders are obeyed when they know
| that Lord Thurso is backing US up. You
| have no idea of the difficulties We had be-
fore you and he came. Well, must get
down to the village again. And, Lady
| Maud, 1 like brave people like you and
! your brother Goodnight. The patients
I will begin to arrive early tomorrow"
Thurso, to his sisters great relief, came
| down to dinner in the most equable and
cheerful spirits. All trace of his headache
had vanished. and Maud thought that DIR.
| Symes must have been mistaken about it.
| In any case, according to her plan, 1t was
| her part to take his thoughts away from
| the somberness of the day, and she had the
| huge comedy of her own poaching to talk
about.
'Thurso, I've done the most awful thing
that any one ever did" she said. After
| you went out this morning 1 went down to
| fish in the river, and was firm in salmon
when-when Mr. Walter Cochran appeared.
| How could you forget to tell me you had
| let the fishing? There / was, tied to It, to
his fish OF course, didn't know him from
Adam"
Thurso. for the first moment was almost
as Mortified as Maud had been.
Good Lord!' said he. Il hope you lost
| the fish,"
mot at all. Owing to Mr.. Cochran,
landed it. In the nick of time down came
Duncan-his gille, not ours at all-with a
gaff. Mr. Cochran looked on with interest
| and sympathy. l had only light tackle for
sea-trout The whole situation dawned on
me by degrees, but not before 1 had told
Mr.. Cochran in a rather dignified manner
that 1t was your river. But 1 asked him to
come and dine tomorrow night and help to
eat his own fish,
Thurso broke out into immoderata
laughter
"Oh. dear; oh, dear!" he cried. 'What
would l not have given to be there when
the situation dawned on you. And to ask
him to dinner was to add insult to injury.
You are caught poaching-poachfng, you
know-and then ask the rightful owner to
come and have some. perfect stranger.
too. He will probably cable an exagger-
| ated account of 1t to New York news
| paper or the paper of whatever town. he
comes from. At least, 1t can't be exag-
gerated. Even American ingenuity would
be taxed to concoct anything more out-
rageous than the simple truth"
Maud Joined in his laughter.
"It is pretty bad" she said And then
we sat and talked, and really he is delight
full. He asked me to go on fishing, too,
and you will scarcely believe it, but did.
| and caught six sea-trout He made 1t quite
easy for me to say yes l couldn't have
Thurso laughed again.
But how could you?" he asked. Il never
heard such brazen cheek"
Not at all. When you see Mr.. Cochran
you will understand how simple 1t was"
II have seen him. 1 am sure 1t was he
I met yesterday down in the village. 1t
occurred to me then that we might ask him
to dinner. 1t was that I began to suggest
last night"
well. don't you understand then?"
Thurso considered this.
Eyes; even though did not speak to him,
think do. He does seem to me the sort
of man whose sea-trout you might catch
after he had caught you poaching his
salmon. That's rather a high compliment
1t is a great gift to be able to make pro-
pie not ashamed of themselves. l should
have sunk into the earth with shame, but
you say that Mr. Cochran would very kind .
1y have pulled me out"
There was moments pause, during
which Maud debated whether she should
tell her brother that Mr.. Cochran was a
Christian Scientist. But his remark that 1t
was not his way" to proseytize made her
decide not to. Then Thurso spoke again.
do you know 1t is the first day that I
haven't felt simply overwhelmed with de-
preston and anxiety?" he said. There
has been no fresh case since morning, and
Duncan's wife. who. like Sandy, was al /.
most despaired Of has taken a sudden in
applicable turn for the better. She was
dying of sheer exhaustion from fever and
now all day she has been gaining strength,
gaining it quickly, too. 1 saw Duncan this
evening. He-really, I wondered whether
he had been drinking"
"Drinking?" asked Maud. why, Dun 1
cans a teetotaler.'
as,rhe worst sort of drllnkard." remarked