The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-07-02
N GEORGE TECKELL NJ

/ There. my friend he said com
placently. that will quiet you a little
| When YOU wake up I'll have some
thing else for you" Under the per
suasive influence of the drug the luck
less Chubb dropped into heavy SUM
her and the conspirators against his
peace of mind joined Ben Paisley at
his station on the bridge.
ITS working like a charm said
somers gleefully: "but l never
thought he'd go under so easily"
Nothing singular about that" re-
marked the doctor Its no trick at
all to persuade a man that he's sick.
There seems to be a sort OF hypnotic
suggestion contained in the mere hint
to the average citizen that he doesn't
look quite we'll And your ventrilo.
dual performances were quite suffi-
cient to throw any unsuspecting indi-
vidual off his mental balance"
'He was sure scared stiff when he
was talkin' to me-" chuckled Paisley.
SERVES him right, SEES |; he wants a
lesson of some kind. Mebbe he'll re-
form now"
Very likely" agreed the doctor.
AT all events he'll enjoy mild.
harmless existence for the next few
days. I'm going to put him on very
meager liquid diet and take some of
the superfluous flesh off his bones"
Hes got lots to spare" grinned
Paisley. Hes a regular hog to eat
and in the last year he's fatted up like
prize porker."
"I'll thin him down." returned the
doctor venomously, and Somers
chortled aloud.
The Grenville thrashed her way
steadily eastward, while her slipper.
lying PROSTATE in his bunk, swallowed
thankfully the many harmless but
evil-tasting potions administered to
him, and led simple, blameless life
on a thin diet of water and biscuits.
His capacious stomach yearned hun
grily for the flesh pots Of Egypt, but
resistless fate in the person of DR..
Corbus controlled his appetite with an
iron hand.
Rapidly his all too solid flesh
melted away, and by the time Buff
falo appeared in sight the once corpu.
lent skipper had become mere
hooking shadow of his former self. At
this stage the doctor relented suffi.
GENTLY to allow him a roast beef
sandwich, which he devoured raven.
ously; and few hours later he par
took of the first square meal he had
eaten since his collapse.
When the Granville at last tied up
at her destination Capt Chubb, thin
and pale, but overlooking with graft
tude to his preserver, stood on the
bridge with Ben Paisley, who, with
the assistance of one of the crew, had
stood double watches for over four
days, during his superior's absence
from duty.
I'm off the drink for good, Ben,"
has bin awful solemn warnin to me-
Suppose you'll be sportin' a blue
ribbon next" growled the mate.
Never you mind" retorted the
skipper with touch of his old pug
nacity. 1T 'ud be better for everyone
if they'd steer clear of the grog. .
wish you'd have a touch of them de
lirium tremenses, Ben, | do. It 'ud
make new man of you, my lad"
Thanks" returned the mate acidly.
but | amt hankerin' for no such
change. Not but what some folks
might be all the better for bein made
over" he added, with meaning
glance, Of which the captain affected
to take no notice.
Miss Nancy Chubb welcoming her
FOND parent home, was stricken almost
dumb with establishment when she
perceived that he had companion.
and that the said companion was none
other than her quondam sutton. She
was still more astonished to learn that
gratitude for having saved his life
curing severe attack of fever had
wrought wondrous change in her
iatherIs sentiments toward the here.
tofore despised doctor.
The true facts of the case she was
never destined to know, but, for the
matter OF that, neither was Cant
ChlbD, whose course in after life WAC
marked by rigid and uncomnromis.
ing adherence to the principles advo.
Gated by the enthusiastic discin,es y,
the prohibition cause.
Copyright, by W. G. Chapman,