The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1907-03-08

wanted you this morning, but you were
not to be found"
Il went to Norwood to see Aunt Char
lotte," replied Cyras. 'She took me into
the Crystal Palace; we lunched there.
She fired off no end of questions at me
about the Brices of Wellington"
And while he was speaking, Brice, the
surgeon, came in for he was the guest ex-
pected. Al Ter greeting Lady Grace and
the dean, he turned to Cyras, holding
him before him by the lappets of his coat,
gazing intentl into his face. He had not
seen Cyras for three years.
What a likeness! what a likeness! 1t
is yourself over again." he said to the
dean. Just what your face was at his
age"
DR.. Baumgarten laughed. "You did
not know me when l was his age. Brice.
Nor for five or six years after it."
1T is a wonderful likeness, is it not.
Lady Grace?' vent on the surgeon.
Il have always said So" she answered.
Gertrude entered a beautiful girl. with
the fair de icate skin and the proud blue
eyes of her mother. She was a pleasant
girl, not self-willed as Grace used to be,
out sweet and gentle.
How is Lord Avon?" asked the sur
geon.
Quite WE'LL" said Grace "and in Lon
don. He was ON the Continent all last
year. but this year he is at home"
They sat, after dinner, in the drawing
room talking together until nine o'clock,
when Mr.. Brice had to leave them. He
was engaged to a gathering at a noted
physicians house, near Hanover Square :;
a dozen or SO of learned men, chiefly med
ical men, were about to meet to discuss a
discovery Of the day.
DR.. Baumgarten went out a little be-
fore l clock, on his way to Sir Will
liam Chants. He thought it a good time
to catch him he would probably have
about got rid of his morning patients.
An idea struck him that he would rather
tell his tall of doubtful sickness to Sir
William, q stranger, than to a medical
man who knew him better. Such a fancy
penetrates to many of us.
Sir William would be ~disengaged in a
few minutes, the servant said he was
then with his last patient. DR.. Baumsar-
ten handed the man his card-"The Dean
of Denham'-but desired that it should
not be given in until his master was
alone.
Il was very glad to see you, Mr..
Dean very pleased that you should haye
called Upon me-" was Sir Williams warm
greeting when his stately visitor was usb-
cred in.
what shall 1 say if I tell you that l
have come as a patient?' returned the
dean.
II hope not"
Yes, It is so. That isl have-haye
i have experienced a little annoyance
once or twice, which perhaps it may be
as well 10 speak Of" rapidly continued
the dean, getting over his momentary hes.
i~tation. 1T amounts to nothing. 1 dare
say"
"You do not look as if much were amiss
with you, sir" smiled Sir William. Twill
you take this chair?'
There is not much to describe" said
the dean. "a sudden s%toppage of the
heart, accompanied by a strange inward
futtering, which l feel to my fingers
ends and then a faintness, almost, but
not quite. amounting to a f~ainting fit"
Sir w lillian Chant put another ques-
ton or two as to symptoms, and then
passed on to another phase.
How frequently do you have these at
tacks?"
VERY seldom indeed. I've only had
about a dozen in all. The first time was
after boating, when l was an under
graduate at Oxford; the last time was
yesterday evening and that covers a good
many years, you perceive"
Yesterday evening !" repeated the doc
tor, struck with the remark"
I'm going home we got into a crowd
exerted myself, and the attack came on
And sometimes, l expect, it has come
on from mental emotion?
Eyes, more frequently so. What do
you make of it, Sir William?"
Sir William Chant smiled, rose and
took some instruments from a dra in
his table. You must let me test your
organs a little before l can give you an
answer
The examination, a slight one, was
soon over, and the gentlemen sat, each
in his chair, facing one another as be-
fore.
"Well?" said the dean, for Sir William
did not speak. Am l in danger?"
my dear Mr.. Dean, in one sense of
the word you are IN danger; all people
must be in danger whose heart is in the
condition of yours; but the extent of the
peril depends very much upon yourself"
You mean that with tranquility it
may be reduced to a minimum"
II do. With perfect tranquility main
tanned Of mind and body your heart may
serve you for years n years to come"
The dean walked slowly along the street
on his return to Berkeley Square, deep in
thought, unable to put away an impress
sion which had taken hold of him-that
for him the dread fiat had gone forth.
1t seemed as sure as though he heard the
death bell tolling for him in his coffin.
CHAPTER XIV.
Once more in the drawing room at
Berkeley Square sat the dean and LADY