The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-04-16

people inside nreO charge Oh DlTO'
shot at you and drove you on Lands,
but how it does rOur."
/ Miss Dorothy had heard the man
/ call himself doctor. and he. thoughts
/ leaped to poor old grandma. She
/ knew the doctors she had ,elriEoned
/ for. and this was neither Oh them.
The case demanded little bo.dncss
on her part, however, aid she ad.
/ vanced a step or two and asked:
Did ! understand you to say you
We're DOCTOR"
After a jump aside and en- eyc!ama.
4 ton OF Good Lord the man re.
piled:
Il can't make out who you are, but
| am a doctor. driven to shelter by
the storm. Ii trespass | am ready
! to 60"
No, no. had started to the vii
lage after medicine for my grand.
mother when the storm drove me
back. She is suffering with the collie.
and l should call this an act OF Provi.
dence if we could only get into the
house."
Locked out, Ell? I am a new doc.
tor just about to set up practice in
the village, and have bag OF rem.
edies with me. Let's see what sort OF
a burglar | am. Perhaps one OF my
KEYS will open the door.
One of them did. and as soon as ne
could throw OF some of his outer gar.
ments he was at the bedside Of his
patient. Grandma was having hard
time of 1t. Indeed, it was hours be-
fore she was easier, and the two
worked over her now and then, and
now and then had opportunity to talk.
A doctor with his first patient. and a
girl with a grandmother suffering from
to many raw peanuts, don't have to
stand on ice-cold formality.
When Harry reached the house
from the midnight train he almost
made up his mind that they wero
quite chummy. He didn't do any criti.
Ching. however. He loved his grand
mother, was happy her life had been
saved, and he wasn't the kind OF
brother to offer his advice simply be.
cause he had a sister. The only thing
he did say was after breakfast. and
that was partly to himself:
The ways Of Providence are past
finding out. Those peanuts and that
thunderstorm may bring me a brother.
in.law."
You need some one to get you
home earlier" was the reply: and
matters rested there.
Grandma heard all about the storm
and the providential appearance OF
DIR. Burnett, and when he called the
next afternoon to see If she had fully
recovered she was very grateful. Mr..
and Mrs. Burbanks were In the room
with the patient and doctor, but that
did not prevent the old lady from say.
ing to her son:
James, l thought surely my time
had come, and there was only one
thing that worried about. You know
what have often said to you?"
Il don't recall it at this minute. -
was the reply.
why, that We ought to have doc.
tor in the family. We can't get one
through Harry, but We can through
Dorothy. | wish you would have .
talk with her today"
Just what the son and his wife
thought, and just how the blushing
girl got out of the room without fall.
ing over the rugs is not recorded, but
this much the historian knows-the
doctor bent forward at just the right
instant to feel grandma's pulse and to
warn her that at her age person
shouldn't swallow too many wooden
toothpicks nor eat too many raw tur.
nips just before going to bed. lie
didn't look Over-red nor overpale
when he left the house, half an hour
later.
DIR. Burnett became popular in tho
village. In driving out that way he
always had time to make call at the
Burbanks' mansion, and after a bit it
rather looked as ii Miss Dorothy OK.
pected him about once in so often. but
it was months and months before
grandmother's mind was put at rest.
After saying that she expected tho
next attack of collie to carry her OF
she said:
THAT is. unless We have doctor In
the family"
"He-he asked me today II the fam.
lily would take him I'M" was the whis-
pered reply from behind her chair.
And you said the family would
and We willard oh, dear me, al.
most wish I had the collie again and
was hearing the angels STUNNING on
their harps!"