Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-28

$40 hand and long. low parapet wall
on the other, the stone coping OF
wfcll-an indolen might sit and watch the trout,
head against current, body motoness with tail gently
waving as it Law near the jungle of eahery weeds
over which flowed water lambert as air.
1t seems unaccountabe that this rural Eden should
have been chosen the of OF the strangest
tragedies that had ever taken place in England; for
Barton Simnel village where heretofore nothing
dramatic had ever happened.
After the aged rector no man was more respected
and liked than William Samson NJ. D., NJ. R. {. S.
For more than thrtyve years he had been sole physl-
clan to that district Rich and poor alike had been his
well cared for patients. Although living in such back
water of life Dr. Samson had allowed himself to fall
behind the progress of his age When, at one OF the
country houses he socially titled doctor from
London whose familiar everywhere, the cele-
brated man always found himself interested by Or.
Samson and returned to London with unwonted respect
for the country practitioner. Dr. Samson occupied
house of his own whose ample garden down to the
margin of the trout stream, which he loved A veneer
able housekeeper looked after his needs in kindly tyran
meal fashion, and it seemed if the evening OF his lite
was to be pacidy spent among people whom he loved
and who loved him. lt.was not Dr. Samson academic
requirements alone that caused his great success as
physician. There something almost apostolic
about his minstrations. benefcent personal mag
netsrn radiated from the kindly that, permeating
the patients consciousness, made illness absurd.
The very touch of his soft and gentle fingers brought
soothing relief and his CHEEKY confidence somehow
inocuated the invalid with belief in recovery.
Some young men, fresh from the schools, de-
lighted with Barton Sirnnel, thought that the dis
trict was SO large with but physician, there was
here ideal opportunity for another and 50 sat down
to begin life in this ideal spot To these young inter
lopers as the village called them, 50 kind
as the man they had come to supplant. He was al
ways the first to call them, and the last to believe
their case hopeless But though he spoke well OF them
the inhabitants of Barton Smnel would rather be i'll
under the care of William Samson than through
the efforts of stranger and one by these young
doctors faded away and became successful elsewhere.
t last, however, man who did not leave.
DR. Richard Mizare was his name; and it
missed that he did not lack private means, for he had
taken the old Manor House that had stood long va
can't The estate agent did not conceal the fact that
he had let the Manor House for term OF years.
so it was evident that DR.. Mizare had to stay.
The rector was the first to call upon him, and char
liable as this good was he left the Manor House
with an uneasy feeling of dislike for its occupant
Mizare had received the clergyman cody but with the
air of who wishes get dsagreeabe necessity
and done with
Il am glad YOU called he said to the Rev. Mr.. John
son. "You considered it your duty do SO, and your
visit enables to make certain explanations that may
save me from unnecessary frendness in future have
not come here in any competitor to Dr. San
son. because the cases with which he is competent to
deal should think of accepting. know nothing
of his qualifications but l imagine that my science
begins where his terminates. am called in not by the
patient the patients friends, but by his physician.
When the ordinary practitioner reaches the end OF his
tether then take charge of and do my best for
it. sometimes falling sometimes succeeding, but first
of ALL sure of my fee shall be sent for several times
year London Paris to Vienna and each of these
trims will net me money enough to enable live