The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-12-21
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IT HE night was a wild one. Such a
night and such weather as only
New England can inflict on suffer
ing humanity. The dspensary was
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 d~ispensary :oom.
Just 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 ehos-
en- from among 20 applicants for the post
of resident at the dispensary. The posi-.
ton paid in experience and gave a wide
field for work among the poor of the dis
trict, both at their homes and at the dis
p~ensary. The salary was chiefly salary
in name, 800 a year and room rent free
not enough to cover expenses but 1t was
the experience to be gained that paid.
He had been a young man with expec
tations and had had matrimonial designs
on a certain dainty young lady, and what
hope was there for a poor ~dispensary doc
tori Only that morning the wealthy Mr..
Peabody, her pompous papa, had passed
DR.. Brown on the street and had return
ed his polite good morning" with a cold
look, which seemed to say II do not
wish to know you, sir" And that, too,
when but a few years before the student
Brown, with great expectations, had been
a welcome guest at the Peabody mansion.
Society had gossiped that Dolly Pea
body and Harvey Brown would make a
match.
He had written once since hat 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.
DIR. 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
duher that Peabody is, anyway. Won
der If Dol-Miss Peabody would cut me
like that? Hang 1t ALL A man don't
feel good to be frozen out like that just
because he has lost his expectations. l
! thought l knew Dolly-dash it, l do know
her She wouldn't throw a fellow over
like that. But why-hang It all, but I
do feel empty pity that boarding house
couldn't keep open Of a night once In
awhile, and I'm broke, too. Well, there's
-.LL ~. nnNn. FhaAAn
sure !"
The electric bell over his head rang
violently and DIR. Brown, stepping TO b
speaking tube, shouted: well, what's
wantedI"
Say, be youse de dOctor7 Deys a swell
bloke up de street w0ts all smashed up
Dey wants de doctor to get a wiggle on.
see?"
/ A few minutes later Dr. Brown was
stumbling through the storm In the wake
OF the small gamin who had summoned
him. At the corner two men were holding
a frightened horse, to which was hanging
the remains of a broken harness. A little
further on was an overturned cab, sur
rounded by a number of residents who had
turned out In spite Of the storm. They
had Just pulled from under the wheels an
elderly gentleman. whose dress had stamp
cd him as a swell with the gamin.
Dr.. 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. Dr.. Brown did not need to be told
that 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 ply
stefan had passed the night in silence, the
doctor doing all in his power to soothe
his patient, his personal feelings buried
deeply under professional zeal.
In the morning Mr.. Peabody had made
an attempt at conversation, but the doc
tor would not permit 1t.
The bell was ringing again and DIR.
Brown hurried to open the door to Miss
Peabody and her fathers valet.
you, Harvey, your" Then, biushing
like a rose Harvey, take me to papa"
In another momen she was at her faith
er's side.
But DIT. Brown was happy. She had
said Harvey :" Her eyes-Eell, only
DR.. Brown knew what her eyes said.
As the patient was assisted to his car
riage he said "Dr. Brown, this is your
case; l shall expect you to finish it, sir.
} Please call this evening Rocky Noun
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