Connecticut western news., 1908-12-17
Bunting a Dor11er11aRer. By LULU JOHNSON. >.rcyrishted. l1cS, hy Associated
 Literary Press.
By LULU JOHNSON.

4 ,uere toddler of q boy stood on the bank above the railroad track. In his hanG was a stone. Aiming blindly, he tossed the stone upon the track, and ii snuggled against the gleaming rail.
 In less than forty-eight hours that stone, tossed by a baby hand, had thrown Wall street and the money market of the country into panic.
 The single track of the little western road afforded rough travelling. Not many of the travellers aboard that par ticular; train even noticed the somewhat harder jolt whep the car wheel struck the stone.
 But Gilbert Fairbain, smoking a good night cigar as he leaned alone against the railing of the observation >cars platform, felt the jar-and then felt nothing more.
 And it was two weeks before Wall street learned that Fairbain, the one man who could have stopped the panic, had been found beside the tracks and removed to d farmhouse oh the quarter section nearest the road.
 For ten days he had been uncon- scious, and for two days or more he had been in no condition to be left alone. There was but one inmate Of that farmhouse besides himself, and she had been too busy nursing him to make the trip to the nearest town to report that he had been found.
 AS soon as his whereabouts had been discovered the lonesome little town was overrun with people. Grave and learn ed physicians from the east were hur- ried westward on special trains and n regiment of nurses attended them, but Fairbain waved them all away.
 q. don't need you" he said irritably. Little Mrs. Bodington pulled me through without lot of palaver or thousand dollar doctors to help her. Leave a couple of nurses to wait on her, and tho rest of you go away"
 "There is an excellent hospital not fifty miles from here" suggested the family physician. T can look after you with better assurance of success full treatment"
 "Sugden, you're an ass," declared Fairbain irritably. '"This little woman nursed me single handed through an attack of brain fever. guess she can attend to the convalescence."
 q will not undertake to be respon- sible for the consequences" said SuG- den. with ponderous emphasis.
 "You don't have to be-" was the acrio response. You are going to be packed out of here. the whole lot of you. Pye spent most of my life with doctor on one side of me and lawyer on the other I'm sick of 1t all, and I'm en- l titled to a rest"
 He looked contentedly about the tiny room. The outlook from the narrow paned windows was dreary, and the room itself was walled with rough plaster and decorated with cheap prints in homemade frames.
 The bed on which he rested was q wooden affair with a cotton mattress and coarse cotton sheets, but the sheets were immediately clean, and there was an air of nominees about the place that Fairbain had not known in years.
 He closed his eyes contentedly and dozed off. Sugden, mindful of his fat fees, waited in deferential silence dur ing the half hour the nap lasted Fairbanks glance fell first on him as his eyes opened again.
 You still herew he cried. "Sugden if you don't take the first train back to New York I'll make you sue fol whatever I owe you and I'll take 1t or appeal and appeal until you spend every cent you ever made off of me Now get out of here"
 Sugden took his departure, vowine that his patient was insane, but Fair bain only smiled contentedly ant turned to the sweet faced woman who sat beside the bed.
 That's the way to talk to those sharks" he declared. 'I have a head ache. and Sugden gives me something to make it worse. Then he doctors mt for the new disease and sends in { bill a yard long. This Is the time fooled him."
 '1 am glad that you were no moved" said the woman softly. "1 think that the excitement would have been bad for you"
 Tt Is not the trip was threading, admitted Fairbain frankly. 'T like i here, and I want to stay little while My secretary will stay over in towl and bring my important mail ever. day, and the two nurses will relieve you of the watchful nights.
 "If you want anything else, buy i or hire it or something. Wilson vii give you what money l need. WilsoI Is a fine fellow" he added. He came into my office this fall as a clerk, an( I took a fancy to him and made hin my confidential man. He took to th' job as though he had known me ant my affairs since he was born" Tt must be very nice to have som' one to do your work the way you wan 1t done," she said softly. T am gla( that you are so pleased with him." "I'm pleased with him." said Fair bain meaningly, "so long as you arr not too well pleased with him. Yo' won't be pleased with him?" he plead i n1