Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-12-21
HOW HOPE x
x WAS BORN
HE night was a wild one.
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night and such weather as onl,
New England can infiict on suffer.
ing humanity. The dispensary 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 throuzs
the snow, making his regular calls on thu
sick poor of his district. Now he founo
small comfort in his pipe as he sat by hi-
little stove in the d~ispensary room.
Just now the young doctor suffere
from an attack Of the blues. He ha
worked hard, this last year, for his de
gree, and after graduation had been chos
en- from among 20 applicants for the posi-
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
pensary. The salary was chiefly salary
in name, 500 a year and room rent free,
not enough to cover expenses but it 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
tor? 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 col
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
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 that to Mis-
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 I wont
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 JUS
because he has lost his expectations. I
thought l knew Dolly-dash it, I do know
her! She wouldn't throw a fellow owe,
like that. But why-hans it all, but I
do feel empty: pity that boarding hous'
couldn't keep open of a night once in
awhile, and I'm broke, too. Well, there
no hope for me with her pater, that.
sure p
The electric bell over his head ran
violently and DR.. Brown, stepping to I
speaking tube, shouted "Weli, VIVA
wanted?"
Say, be youse de doctor? Deys a swell
bloke up de street wots all smashed NJ
Dey wants de doctor to get a wiggle or
see?"
A few minutes later Or. Brown VIZ
stumbling through the storm in the wax
of the small gamin who had summon
him. At the corner two men were holdir
a frightened horse, to which was hangi,
the remains of a broken harness. A lit
further on was an overturned cab, su
rounded by a number of residents who h.
turned out in spite Of the storm. The
had Just pulled from under the wheels .
elderly gentleman. whose dress had stamt
ed him as a "swelP' with the gamin.
DR.. Brown was all professional In >
instant, and superintendent the carryi'
of the injured man to the dispenser
where he was placed on the Doctors ov
cot. DR.. Brown did not need to be to
that this victim Of a runaway cab W
the same Mr.. Peabody who had cut hi
on the street the morning of that san
day.
In the doctors room patient and ph,
stefan had passed the night in silence. 4
doctor doing all in his power to SCOT
his patient, his personal feelings burie
deeply under professional zeal.
In the morning Mr.. Peabody had mad
an attempt at conversation, but the do
tor would not permit it.
The bell was ringing again and p
Brown hurried to open the door to Nil
Peabody and her fathers valet.
You, Harvey, your Then, blushin
like a rose Harvey, take me to papa
In another moment she was at her fath
er's side.
But DR.. Brown was happy. She hr
said Harvey y Her eyes-well. ON
DIR. Brown knew what her eyes said.
As the patient was assisted to his car
rage he said "Dr. Brown, this is you
case; I shall expect you to finish 1t. sir
Please call this evening."-Rocky Noun
tain News.