Middletown transcript., 1906-08-11
THE DOCTOR
\ fSoNT1 NUEI3 FROM LAsr WEEK
BE INA BREvooRT ROBERTS

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the light of shaded lamp.
she wore a dinner gown of
some light-colored, shimmering
silk, and d diamond butterfly
glistened in the waving coils of
her hair. AS the young man en-
tered she laid the letter down and
came towards him. A sharp
pang shot through Edgar as he
contrasted this scene With the
one he had just left.
Ny sister wants Doctor Man
deville at once, he said. I fear
Ethel is dying.
Doctor Vaudeville has gone to.
Daleville; She may not be back
until tomorrow morning, AS
she spoke the girl moved quickly
towards the stairs, slipping off
her rings as she walked.
Edgar muttered something un-
der his breath as he made for the
door.
I'll 60 for Doctor Lamson, he
called. Caroline was half way
up the stairs. With his hand on
the knob of the open door, Edgar
paused long enough to say:Would
you mind going TO Angelas ]
think woman
He stopped; her eyes told him
she had reached out and OWNED
his sudden and intuitiye under
standing of feminine nature and
need, and for just second there
dwelt in them an expression be
had never seen there before and
might never see again; it was
such a look as woman gives
the man she loves when his back
is turned.
Before he could be sure it was
there this look had faded and
Caroline was saying in quick,
business-like tone:
Stop for me on your way back;
I'll be ready.
All right, he answered The
nextinstant he wasoutside, where
the dusk had become darknt SIS.
When he came back Caroline
was waiting on the porch. She
stood in the pathway of light that
streamed from the open door.
Edgar saw that she had changed
the dinner gown fer a shirt-waist
and a short cloth walking suit.
Lamson's gone, too, he said
briefly.
Without replying Caroline dis
appeared into the house, reap
pearing iii a moment with a
small satchel, which Edgar took
from her as they started.
III have to take a horse and
ride to Middletown; there's no
doctor nearer, he told her. Pray
God I may be in time.
His companion quickened her
steps.
After what seemed to Edgar an
eternity Of hurried walking they
! reached the house.
In the nursery as they en-
tered it confusion and disorder
reigned. Light fared from every
jet in the chandelier, and the
place was Uttered with medicine
bottles, half. filled glasses and the
silver and enameled parapher-
MALTA Of baby's bath.
The nurse Still stood beside the
crib; Edgar thought she could
not have moved while he was
gone. Inside the crib lay the
baby, her face whittier, her lips
bluer and her little body more
tense and strained than when he
had seen her last.
ear By, with her head and
thrown across q chair, knelt
Angela, a pitiful, moaning heap
III blue satin, while beside her.
n2d on her, his eyes watch
Us child, stood the father
5h a look on his face that
ought tears 10 Edgar's eyes, it
as so full of the dumb, hopeless
agony that finds no relief in ex-
preston.
Edgar, who had paused in the
doorway, took in the details of
this tableau in one swift glance
before he spoke
I'll have to ride to Middletown
fora Doctor Doctor Vaudeville
is away. I've ordered horse
and I won't lose minute, he
was beginning, when his atten-
ton vas attracted TO Caroline.
She had opened her bag and
taken from it asmall vial and q
silver Thermometer. With
these she proseeded to the baby's
side,
A spoon and water, she said,
and someone brought them.
When she had given the medicine