The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-09-01
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tist."
"Oh. Case Of toothache?"
"The worst kind. I've had It two
days and nights. My jaw IL all swol
len up. Mother was coming with
me, but some company came at the
last moment"
The dentist tried to get a better
took at the girl beside him. He liked
the voice, and he liked the half OF
the face he could just make out He
was also pleased with the jaunty hal
and the brown hair under it.
"Will you go to Dentist Roberts ?
he asked as they proceeded at a slow
pace.
Mercy. no! Why, he almost pulled
q girls head OF once!"
Then to Dentist Brown"
mo He's savage as a meat-ax.
want to go to the new dentist. have
never seen him, but girl friend told
me he had dreamy blue eyes. and
that she didn't believe he would hurt
anybody. My brother Sam has dreamy
blue eyes. and you couldn't get him
to kill fly. Oh, forgot to say that
am Miss Lottie Morton. We live
back there in the house on the hill. :
And my name is Paul Chatterton.
will drive you to the Office OF the
new dentist. l have heard that he
was very careful and sympathetic"
"Oh, hope so. Just think have
had toothache for two days and
nights" "
Its awful"
Its worse than awful-it's terrible.
If he should pull my head around
while l am in the chair l know
should faint away.
"But he won't do that"
IF you know him won't you speak
to him? Tell him it's ached two days
and nights. Tell him that when
tried to get to sleep l dreamed of
dragons. Tell him that mamma
doesn't seem to think it's anything
great. and that brother Sam poked
fun at me. He said the dentist would
yank my head this way and that.
You tell the new dentist all about it.
won't you?"
'I will, and here we are at his Of
fee. I'll go right up with you"
Miss Lottie Morton was so taken
up with her toothache that she
thought nothing of his unlocking the
Office door and changing the signs.
1t was only when she had climbed
into the chair and he had removed
the bandage from her jaw that she
sat up and said
why, the new dentist-where is
he?"
I'm he, and I'm going to be very
gentle and sympathetic"
ITS so funny"
1t was an liberated tooth. There
was a hollow for the air to strike
down on live nerve The jaw was
gently bathed for time, and when
the tooth was examined the patient
was told that nothing could be done
until poultice had reduced the
swelling. She must come again in
three days. AS the dentist had no
pressing work on hand, he would act
as chauffeur to get her home safely.
With his own hands he replaced the
bandage, and by the time it had been
accomplished he realized that his
words to his mother might come true.
1t was queer about that tooth. It
wasn't such big tooth, and you
couldn't have put hickory nut in the
hollow, but Miss Lottie had to return
again and again. Each time she
found the dentist more gentle and
sympathetic. AS she related it home.
not one single "yank" had he ever
given her brown head. And the den
fist got in the habit of calling at the
house on the hill to see If the tooth
was all right, and the widowed moth
er happened to have lady friend
who knew all about him, and so one
day when the young man entered the
mothers presence and saw that she
was about to begin on the same old
subject. he forestalled her by saying:
Mater mine, promised to give up
dentistry when l found something
better. l have found it. That is. |
have II she will say yes. She is nv
nrst, last and best customer, and |
want to take you down there tomor.
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