The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-22
September : 1906.

it's bad enough to call for immediate
attention if he wants to save his leg.
addressing the navy, for there's ply
stefan right here to hand: A good one.
too,' he added with smirk and bow
to the Mortified Thursc, "to judge from
his knowledge Of hemiplegia. Doctor.
will you look over the case? I've all
the appliances here for bone-setting.'
The constables respectfully made way
streteher ceased to groan and turned on
him bloodshot eyes that held the dumb
appeal and trust of a hurt dog. The
look went thru Thurso like white-hot
iron. He stood inert, nerveless. 49,
"Excuse me, sir! - said the chemist
timidly, "but I think there's no time
to wait. The man is in great pain.
Thurso's first impulse was to declare
that he was no physician and that the
chemist had been mistaken in thinking
he had claimed to be one. But there.
on the counter, lay the half-written
prescription to give him the lie: There;
too, at his side, were three officers OF
the law. Of the law that he had trans.
. crossed in usurping the right to prac-
tice medical lore. His brain went blank.
The navy. reading bewilderment in
his glance, broke out again in series
of nerve wracking means. The con-
stables looked stolidly expectant:
For the moment, Thurso s craving for
the drug that had led him into such a
predicament turned to loathing. He felt
like an animal in trap.
"Wait!' he gasped, his voice harsh
and hfeless. ell must get my medi-
cal chest.'
''There's no need Of began the
chemist; but Thurso was gone. Snatch
ing up his half finished prescription he
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thru the crowd that parted respectfully
for him, gained his cart, and with one
leap was on the seat, and driving down
the High street like mad.
Nor did he pause nor look back until
he turned the sweating horse over to a
groom at his own gate.
Maud came back to the tea-table;
dropped into chair next Lily and
waited till she could speak to her.
"He has gone back to Windsor to
not listen to me. He is frightfully
angry with u.s.
Lady Thurso just nodded, and then.
since whatever private tragedy was
going on, the public comedy had to be
kept up, she devoted herself again to
hostess duties. .,.-
:. Meantime the tinkle of :drawingroom
philosophy went on round her, and she
Joined in it with that facility that was
always hers.
eyes, it is quite certain we must
have some fad which for the time being
we take as the most serious thing in
the world,' she said to Lady Swindon,
Cookham. "Two years ago, do you
remember, it was no hats, and that
was followed by the simple life.'
Lady Swindon laughed.
~ know, and we gave that up be-
cause it proved to be 50 frigh7tfqllly com
plicated,' she said. Gone had to pro-
vide two sorts Of lunches and two sorts
of dinners every day, one for the sim
pie life people, who ate lentils and all
the most expensive fruits, but no meat,
and one for the complicated life, which
didn't mind what it ate as long as
there was beef. Swindon always ate
both, to show he WASH t bigoteed either
ford it. And what is the next fad.
darling Lilyg You always are half
thru fad before anybody else has
heard of it, T..
"Deep breathing I have tried,' said
Lady Thurso, "but it takes too long.
breathing, whereas you could when you
were eating lentils. IF Perhaps it will be
Christian Science, tho, do you know, I
think the real thingxis too serious and
sensible, and the spurious thing too
silly ever to become fad; But ask
Maud to tell you about Mr.. Cochran and
the typhoid up in Caithness. -
1T will: And where 8 Thursos Ism It
he here9o
"Oh, yes, but ea-time isn't his hour.
Tea, Theodosia?'
r. Theodosia had truly American ideas
about being introduced. It was her
custom to make all her guests formally
known to each other, and she expected
the same treatment. at
:.xKindly introduce me, lily she
said. =. t -, s..r.
"Lady. swindon, my cousin, Mrs.
Moreton.'
every happy to make your acquaint-
ance, Lady Swindon,'' said she, "and
don't you think that Lady Thurso g
place down here is just the cunningest
you ever saws Why, look at that Yew
hedge. It must have been planted be-
fore the food to have grown like that.