The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-03-24
Or. DENIES DIVINITY.
BY Edith Dunaway.

Df. Dene was a young man who by
much over study and superfious cram
ming had managed to scrape through
his many exams, gain his degree, and
yet be one Of the simplest men hat
ever ate bread and butter.
He had a good practice in a fashion
able London suburb, and although too
shy a man-apart from his profession
al character-eVer to make many
friends, especially among the fair sex,
still he was universally admired for
skill and integrity. and laughed at as
well, because of his extreme gullibility.
Instead of growing better in this re-
speet as he grew older, the doctor sud
denly became rapidly worse.
More dreamy, more absent minded,
more eccentric every day.
Truth to tell, Theodore Dene had fall
len in love.
To q serious, single-minded, shy man,
such as he, this was a fearful calam-
ity.
His divinity, too, was the veriest
shrimp of a thing. Wasp-waisted,
high-heeled, always fashionably
dressed. The very sort of a girl that
a medical man. who hadn't quite for
gotten all h% anatomy, would tell you
was a disgrace to civilization.
She passed his house frequently,
generally once a day; and looking up
a. Aio SdiSSIS WllluDN one morning
her big eyes had caught him peeping
behind the blind-had made a conquest
of him then n there.
Kitty Coram-for that was the di-
Vin!ty's name-was very quick to per-
ceive-as indeed, what ordinary wom-
an is not?-the impression she made
on the retfcent, studious man. From
a friend of hers-Gerald Thorncroft-
she managed to CLEAN a great deal
at odd times about the DOCTOR; of his
goodness, his simpleness, his clever
ness.
This Thorncroft had, indeed, stud
led for some time at the same college
with Theodore Dene.
A man of the world, a dashing fell
low was Gerald; handsome, passing
rich, we'll connected, and a thorough
paced ~scoundrel withal.
He paid assiduous court to Kitty.
and at first she smiled on him, al
though, wondrous to relate, she kept
herself as straight and pure as If she
had a chaperon ever at her elbow. Self
reliant, witty, ambitious, Kitty did NOT
let her morals run askew.
When she heard so much about the
doctor, thought of the security of his
pos.tlon' the happy home he could offer
a Wlfe, a great disgust came over her
for Gerald Thorncroft, with his swag
ger and dash and style.
He swears he loves me. Yet he's
never asked me to marry. If he did,
he's drowning in debt. and would make
a orute OF a husband. Oh! If l could
only marry DR.. Dene."
The thought grew in her mind until
she could picture nothing else,
Her head was a clever as well as a
pretty one, and this is how she set to
work:
One day. passing the doctors house,
she caught him watching for her at his
i surgery window rrhjoL 3~-1
looked the road. Just as nervous and
shy was he as any silly SCHOOLGIRL
when she sees her lover in church.
Kitty, who was a first-rate actress.
let her umbrella slip out Of her hand
staggered a step or two, clutched Wild
~ at me lamp post, n finally fell
very gracefully on the unimpressive
pavement.
LII. Dene was at her side in a mo-
ment. Lifting her little figure very ten
DERBY In his arms he bore her to his
surgery.
She has tainted. Poor child.. he
said compassionately to his housekeep-
er, who had been a witness to the
scene. Mrs. Grant tossed her head and
deluged the pretty face with cold water.
rms quickly brought Kitty to, and
she went on with her acting.
She was better, much better. So
ashame and sorry to have given so
ioooAC. IlldithN Cilefl DOCn" very
much. She was quite ready to go now.
Sne mad not far to walk, only to Cara
man street.
The doctor told a white lie for once
man.
! am passing caraman street on a
professional visit" he said. May /
offer to take you in my carriage"
she refused very prettily and with
sweet hesitation.
Half surprised at his own temerity.
the doctor pressed the matter and
oVerruled her objections.
Mrs, Grant tossed her head again as
the little, dainty thing went lightly
down the steps on Dr. Dene's arm and
then into DR.. Dene's carriage.
On the way Kitty was laxative.
Ioid the doctor all about herself. There
was no mention of a theater in her
narrative, though, nor of anything else
connected with her real life. Just a
cleVerly told, high flown little fiction of
ralien fortunes-a helpless orphan-no
one to befriend her. and so on. The
doctor was charmed with her woes, and
ne you'd have asked her to marry
MIN on the spot, If he only had dared.
she made good use of the twenty
mihutes' drive, you may be sure, and
when they reached Caraman street she
gave his hand ever so slight a pressure.
2 said modestly: -
Il Will ask o to set me down at
the corner. My landlady is very strict.
and might be harsh to me if she saw
me get out of our carriage. Unfor-
tunately for me, / am in hey debt, and
II world is SO ~censorious."
HOW delicate! How thoughtful!t'
unused Theodore a~fterwart.
But she no more lived in Caraman
street, reader, than you or / do. But
peIore nightfall she had secured two
ion rooms in one Of the highly respect
! houses there: had cut her con-
neclon with the theater under the plea
ina n was going to America to join
some rich relatives. Had even bor-
rowea ten pounds from Gerald Thorn
croft to aid he. on her voyage out.
dou.2an pay me how and when you