The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1911-01-27

pecuuiary harvest. Then the crash
came. and they had sunk with amaz-
ing swiftness. Only three days before
| had telephoned my broker to sell
out and send the wretched remnant
to my wife that she might have a
| little to live upon for a few weeks at
least And II | had not sent 1t |
should have made q fortune.
The broker was an old acquaint-
ance; he had been the cause of my
ruin; perhaps he would give me work
any work. at ten dollars a week,
something that would at least provide
us with the bare necessities of life
Resolved to plead my cause desperate
ly | hurried to his office. where ]
| found him Just taking on his coat
| When he saw me he fastened forward
with hands outstretched.
Congratulations. my dear fellow"
he cried heartily. You have made
thirty-seven thousand odd on this deal
have been expecting your instruc-
tons to SELL The boom won't last
perhaps not over tonight. Shall sell
for you at once? Be satisfied with
what you've madel"
He had never received my telephone
message. His clerk must have re-
ceived 1t and, in some incomprehens-
ible lapse of memory, forgotten it.
The next day Seaboard Eagle stocks
fell back to what they had previously
been, but not before l had sold out
for nearly forty thousand dollars.
On the next day | went back to my
offices in Pitt street and re-engaged
them, paying years rent in advance.
Though | had been compelled to dis
pose of all my instruments and H.
brary, by some fortunate chance they
still remained there; the dealer had
sold them to the landlord, who had
contemplated transferring them to his
son, a young student In few min
utes l had again become their pos
SCISSOR. l looked round my apartment
| Patients will not matter to me
now" / unused aloud. Il shall have
leisure to devote myself to medical
Investigation"
o knock at the door recalled me to
myself. | opened it; there upon the
threshold stood Van Wybergh himself
| He sprang forward and grasped my
| hands
Thank God | have found you, doc
| tor" he exclaimed. l have heard of
the reputation you made for yourself
at the hospital; you performed the
| identical operation successfully, they
tell me, and | would not trust any
surgeon but you. Come quickly"
Within two years | had gained
reputation second to no surgeon in
the east. | attended the president;
my fame spread to Europe, and | re-
ceived the largest fee upon record
for curing the infant Prince of Portu-
| gal of some childish complaint, being
| escorted to Lisbon upon the royal
yacht with naval honors. My home life
was ideally happy. Two children we're
born to us. With money, fame, and,
best of ALL work, nothing was lacking
to make my fortune complete. / had
| forgotten the misty dream of that
night upon the wharf If | recalled it
| l dismissed it as the phantasy of a
| starving man. And yet, somehow,
| somewhere, | felt the existence of
some troublous thing that | put from
my mind, some dark secret which
hardly entered my field of conscious
ness.
For several weeks l had been feel
ing curiously indisposed They say
that the physician who diagnoses his
own ailments has fool for patient
| went to Sargent of Buffalo. He
sounded me; then he took me by the
coat lapels and | saw the Joy Of the
| doctor over some rare complaint burn
| in his eyes for all his sclemnity.
MY dear doctor" he said, your
working days are over Has your heart
never troubled you before?"
MY heart!" | exclaimed
You have congenial malposition
of the heart" he answered. did you
not know that it was on the right side
of your body? 1t is one of the rarest
things in pathology. isn't it? | have
seen two cases in thirty years Of
| practice and neither survived to adol-
essence. Surely you knew"
Yes, | had known. This was the
secret that l put out of thought and
mind.
How long do you give me?" |
asked
-Four weeks" he answered.
The blow had fallen. | was to taste
| the lees at last. For days / wrestled
with my despair. And at last thought