Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-10-21
Dr. kendall's Revenge.
 By Hoscord Fielding.
Copyright. 1908. by c. W. Hooks.

$ *M had been a medical prac
 titioner in the city O.
 :!l :::s New York, and he hat
 not earned 10 per cent O his expenses. which were very mod crate. @
 He was a throat specialist, but hi, earnings thus far had come from hi, own throat and not from the throat. of his patients. He had supported himself since his youth and had pait for an expensive professional educa tion by singing. have heard good judges say that Deane might have talk en rank among the few great tenors of the time and have made money by the bushel, but he disliked singing fol pay. and he especially. fervently, ia natically, disliked notoriety. anything whatever that could be called adver Using. He had sung chiefly in church choirs and very select concerts and had marvelously succeeded in conceal, Ing the fact that he was one of the favorite children of Apollo.
 I Upon his return from Germany he went to his native town of Eddington, In Connecticut. where he remained three years. He got few patients, but his salary as tenor in New Haven church choir constituted more than half his income.
 The Kendalls were among the few l people in Eddington who had any money. but they never had throat trou- bles. These seemed to occur among the poor only. Elsa Kendall was called the prettiest girl in the town, and she was the heiress also. To pay court to her was perhaps the only worldly wise thing that Sydney Deane did in his three years residence in Eddington. but Elsa Kendall grew from eighteen to twenty-one. seeing Deane almost daily except for her own brief ab- sences from the town. and she never knew the nature of his sentiments to- l ward her.
 In the early days she fancied herself l in love with him. Then she was his friend. adoring only his voice. and at last she came to despise him just lit tie as weak man. finical in his devo- ton to the proprieties and incapable of dealing with the world. Relentlessly she forced Deane into the battle. It was her energy that propelled him in-, to the larger field. When he was gone she missed him very much and shed some tears.
 In New York Deane made some very nice acquaintances among the doctors. but got no patients.
 Deane's stock of money began to run low. His voice was earning him noth- ing except the admiration of his neigh bors and of the wayfarers who paused outside his windows. but he felt that tho day was at hand when he must sing. for hire. This thought was thorn in his flesh, and there was an- other that was even sharper. He had neglected one of Elsa's most urgent admonitions. Worse. he was deceiving her about it. Look up my uncle, Dr. Kendall, the very first thing she had said to him. He will help you"
 Deane had looked him up." as the phrase is understood in New York and had not been satisfied with the re- suit.
 To put it mildly. Dr. Kendall was man who did not avoid notoriety. His name was constantly before the pub, lie. Interviews with Dr. Kendall if cut from the daily press and pasted end to end would reach to the planet Neptune and tie in double bowknot. So said doctor whom Deane ventured to interrogate upon the subject, and he added:
 Kendall is in good standing, of course. and he's m able man, prob ably one of the best men on the throat that we have. but he advertises him. self out of all reason. He has a great