The Holbrook news., 1910-12-16

into the left. It now surrounded the
 heart He used his stethoscope, and
 found the heart beating as regularly
 as the tick of clock, but even as he
 was saying so the pain disappeared
 and the patient complained of roar
 in>the right ear. It roared and reared
 and roared. and Miss Fanny almost
 had tears in her eyes as she asked fl it was the Precufs sor of stone deaf ness.
 ''Um, Um, Um.'' muttered the doctor; and then recommended cotton and weak solution of laudanum.
 He was followed to the door by the solemn but motherly Mrs. George who asked:
 Doctor. do you regard the case as serious?"
 Not at present." was the reply, but 1t is one that needs watching"
 Two hours later as the patient was racing the Newfoundland dog up and down the lawn, Miss Helen stopped the sport for a moment to say:
 T wouldn't have new symptoms to- morrow if l were you. You are get ting so many that Dr. Harper forgot to put on a necktie this morning."
 T wasn't going to have any, you mean old thingl" was the reply.
 As luck would have it. there was none, and the doctor was so encour- aged that he invited Miss Fanny to ride with him in the afternoon. It was a social. not a professional. ride. Nothing whatever was said about the patients ailments. It was general talk.
 ''Oh, I'm so glad I vent" the girl exclaimed when she returned. Do you know I almost feared I was los ing my mind, but P found I could un- derstand everything the doctor said and talk back to him. Isn't it an aw- ful thing when girl loses her mind."
 Next day the doctor dropped in, un- professionally. He came to chat for an hour. It was so on the next day also, but on the third there was more than a social chat that awaited him. Total loss of appetite and a feeling of general lassitude were troubling the girl With tears in her eyes, Miss Fanny admitted that she couldn't eat broiled lobster if 1t were placed be- for her, and that she was so dis couraged she didn't care how soon the grave closed over her.
 Dr. Harper started out to feel her pulse. but only got to the palm of the hand and stopped. He held that hand all of five minutes while he talked. He didn't talk about mustard plasters, but about girls getting morbid, and the effort they must make to shake 1t of.
 Did you tell him?" asked Miss Helen after the doctor had departed did you tell him the reason you had lost your. appetite was because, you ate so many pears yesterday7 ftSwas | all of two dozen"
 Its for doctor to find out such was the calm reply.
 Mother thinks the doctor doesn't | know much"
 He doesn't have to. That is, he has cured me, and he won't have to | wrinkle his brow any more. thought | had lost my appetite and that | didn't care to live any longer, but I've | my mind. Let's go out and | see if any more ripe pears have fallen"
 There was one more attack. and | that didn't come until the doctor had | paid a dozen or more social calls Then the pain came back on the heari | side. He didn't write a prescription. but teIephoned for his auto and or iered his patient to accompany him on a twenty-mile ride. When it was we'll under way he said. and said it professionally:
 Miss Leslie. find yours compli- ,ated case-very complicated"
 You don't think it may result in my losing my mind. do you?" she sravely replied.
 Well. no. On the contrary, after
 have been up to see your father, I hink your mind will be much clear ,r"
 Why. Dr. Harper. what can you mean? Are you going to tell ny father that-that-"
 Just so. I shall tell him that he leeds a son-in-law who is a doctor md understands your symptoms. I've Ilso got bit of heart trouble, and l hink both can be cured at oncel"
 And when Miss Leslie returned lome the staid Helen gave her long ook and then said:
 So that's what you were up to. h? We'll. you behave yourself for t least fortnight nowi"