Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-12-16

| les in the treatment of indigestion In
its most aggravated FORM
Twining shook his head He had
had previous encounters with enter
prising reporters. which had dulled
his enthusiasm for the press.
Il shall have nothing to say foI
publication until l have made my re-
port to the medical society"
"Oh. l am not reporter" said the
young man with a smile. Far from
| it. But a friend of mine, who Is
waiting outside, would like to have
you treat him. if you will. Had many
cases? l mean, where have you used
the discovery"
Twining briefly explained that he
had treated ten cases. most of them
hopeless ones, and that his success
had been uniform.
The young man listened with every
appearance Of satisfaction. THAT
will do. I shall send in my friend
right away" he announced when the
story had been told.
He strobe out from the room, and
in a few minutes returned with a tall
man of about sixty, who leaned heavi-
" on stout stick as he walked.
MY friend. Mr.. Dickson" said the
dapper young man with a wave of his
hand. With a quick nod he vanished
The newcomer turned to Twinine
with a smile. Il suppose you wonder
how l came here" he remarked
You see. I have secured the world
for cure and all my friends are on
the alert for anything new. Conse-
uuently when my friend, Mason
heard from your friend. Stanton
of your discovery, he telephoned the
news to me. OF course" he ended
LII.
after all l have gone through, | am
naturally from Missouri"
John Twining nodded absently. For
moment an outsider would have
thought that he had quite forgotten
his visitor.
THE discovery is genuine" he said
at length. And best of all, the pro-
cess of recovery is extremely rapid
Mr.. Dickson leaned back in his
chair and closed his eyes wearily.
Left without the brilliance of his keen,
dark eyes. his face was gray and hag-
gard, the face of a man whose days
on earth are numbered.
Il wonder if we are going to make
out" he said slowly. Make cure
I mean"
Surely" said John Twining. He
was standing in the middle of his
study, staring at the array of glass
bottles that had served him in his ex-
periments. His face, generally fresh
of color, had faded to a dull white.
His fingers were playing nervously
with his watchguard. IF there are no
cancerous complications l hope to
cure you in a week." he went on.
But Of course l promise nothing
Then the tall man opened his eyes,
and swept a hawk-like glance about
the room. II am business man. he
said rather feebly, "and ! want to
know just what you will charge me
for the cure. 1 want to know because
/ am tired of being bled. Suppose we
arrange a price now"
The price, did you say" John
Twinings voice seemed to himself to
come from a thousand miles away.
II have only one price-twenty dol
lars"
The tall man smiled. ''Is that a
bargain?" he asked shrewdly.
John Twining looked once more at
the most disagreeable patient he had
had the misfortune to receive.
That's every cent. Mr.. Kingsley,
he said firmly.
The older man started slightly.
"Confound those newspapers" he
cried. $50 the Dickson didn't fool
You don't seem to consider me in the
light of a possible gold mine"
NO" said Twining grimly, II
don't"
Henry Kingsley. master of a dozen
railroad systems lifted his bushy eye
brows. but was silent He had gained
his place by keeping silence when
other people talked. and his vast in
terests combined to render him insen-
sible to personal curiosity.
Twining, meanwhile. as he proceed
ed to diagnose a case with which from
report he was already entirely famil-
lar. was busy i'm the back of his brain
with the problem of Kingsley.
Should he defer the treatment for
a day. by giving him harmless tonic ?
Just long enough to get Maria's money
i'm out of the storm? He could easily
do it. he reflected. And it would do
absolutely no harm to mis- patient. 1t
would merely bring things around as
they would have been had Kingsley
deferred his call until the next day
He turned away and busied himself
with his note book. And temptation
assailed him more fiercely than ever.
Life was a battle. he told himself
a battle in which the strong survived
and the weak went to the wall. And
i'm this battle II was his duty 10 fight
for the woman who loved him. not
for this stranger who had hired his
skill for money. He threw back his
shoulders with decision. and began to
prepare a pleasant tonic. which would
hold the case exactly steady until next
day.
Henry Kingsley. surveyed him from
the depths of his chair, went through
his examination with an habituated
air.
This makes about the twentieth
time for all those questions. | sup
pose if had taken time for my meals
years ago this wouldn't have hap
pened."
You never can tell" Twining as
sured him. My worst case. poor
Italian woman. took plenty of time
and ate little"
The brilliant dark eyes held him a
moment. Charity patient"
Twining nodded. "A lot of them
are that"
The dark eyes closed wearily and
the sick man sighed as though to him.
self. Il put myself in your hands.
doctor" he said after pause. i
have played the game so long that |
don't really care if | do have to lay
down my cafdS.
He leaned back in his chair, his
thin hands clasping his stick, his
cavernous face haggard and worn as
the light fell across it. And Twining,
looking at him. found himself, almost
without thinking. throwing aside the
tonic he had been SO carefully pre-
pairing. The simple little phrase: Il
put myself in your hands" had
brought all his professional pride TO
the surface.
During the next half hour his wife
and the problem of her savings dis
appeared from Twining's mind. and
only the question of his patient re-
mained. He worked hard, gave the
case his undivided attention. and was
rewarded by a gleam of pleasure in
the fierce dark eyes.
Il actually feel better already,
cried Henry Kingsley
Twining smiled AT the others en-
thuSiaSm. "Of course you do. he
said encouragingly. He rose TO his
feet. Had anything to eat lately?'
"Oh. | can't eat" said the sick man
with Il quick return to his old atti-
tudo of passive endurance. THE
Wall Street VultureS know that. They
follow up my diet and figure out just
how long the old man can last.
Never mind the vultures," said