Bisbee daily review., 1913-11-02
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to me before he and Mrs. Sam left. l hated to see him go, after all we had been through together, and I sup pose he saw it in my face. for he came over close and. stood looking down at me, and smiling. You saved us, Minnie" he said. land needn't tell you we're grateful; but do you know what I think?' he asked. pointing his long foreffnser at me. T think you've enjoyed it even when you were suffering most Red-haired wou- en are born to intrigue, as the sparks fly upward"
 Enjoyed it." snapped. "I'm an old woman before my time. Mir. Sam. What with trailing back and forward through the snow to the shelter-house, and not getting to bed at all some nights, and my heart going by fits and starts, as you may say, and half the time my spinal marrow fairly chilled, not to mention putting on my over shoes every morning from force of habit and having to take them of again, I'm about all in."
 Its been the making Of you, Min nie." he said, eyeing me, with his hands in his pockets. Look at your eheeksi Look at your disposition! I don't believe you'd stab anybody in the back noy!"
 (Which was a joke, of course; I never stabbed anybody in the back)
 He opened the door and a blast of February wind rattled the window frames Mir. Sam threw out bis chest under his sweater and waved me aR- other good-by.
 Well, I'm of, Minnie.' he said. Take care of yourself and don't sit too tight on the job; learn to rise a bit ia the saddle"
 "Good-by, Mir SamI" called, put ting down Miss Patty's dolly and fol- lowing him to the door; "good-by; bet ter have something before you start to keep you warm"
 He turned at the corner of the path and grinned back at me.
 "En right he called 'Tll go down to the bar and get a lettuce sand vich!"
 Then he was gone. and happy as was. knew I would miss him terribly.
 
 It began when the old doctor died. I suppose you have heard of Hope san .atorium and the mineral spring that made it famous.
 have been spring-hOuse girl at Hope Sanatorium for fourteen years, For the first year or so I nearly went crazy. Then l found things were com ing my way I've got the kind of mind that never forgets a name or face and can combine them properly. which isn't common. And when folks came back l could cali them at once. The old doctor used to say my memory was an asset to the sanatorium.
 He was in the habit of coming to the spriRg-house every day to get his morning glass Of water and read the papers. For a good many years 1t had been his custom 10 sit there, in the winter blythe wood fire and in summer just inside the open door. and to read off the headings aloud while I cleaned around the spring and polished glasses.
 All that winter. with the papers full of rumUrs that Miss Patty Jea- niags was going to marry a prince. we'd followed it by the spring house fire, the old doctor and I, getting an gry at the Austrian emperor for oppos- ing it when we knew how much too good Miss Patty was for any foreign CT, and then getting nervous and fussed when we read that the pr,nce's mother was in favor of the match and ! it might go through. Miss Patty and her father came every winter to Hope ! Springs and couldn't have been more anxious about it if she had been my ! own sister
 We'll, as I say, it all began the very day the old doctor died. He stamped out to the spring house with the morn ! ing paper about nine o'clock. and the | wedding seemed to be all oT. The ! paper said the emperor had definitely ! refused his consent and had sent the ! prince, who was his cousin, for Jap : aness cruise, while the Jennings fam fly was going to Mexico in their Pri vate car. The old doctor was indig- naut, and remember how he tramped up and down the spring-house. nut ! tering that the girl had had a lucky escape. and what did the emperor ] expect if beauty and youth and wealth ! weren't enough. But he calmed down. and soon he was reading that the pa- i pers were predicting an early spring and he said we'd better begin 10 in- i crease our sulphur percentage in the water.
 By the way" he remarked, "Mr. Richard will be along in Gay or SC. Minnie. You'd better break 1t 10 Mrs. Wiggins."
 Since the summer be-ore we'd had to break Mr. Dicks coming to Mrs. Wiggins, the housekeeper. owing to his finding her false front where lt had blown out of the window, having been hung up to dry. and issss , e lszs.s t to luncheon as whiskess was the old doctors grandsons z E
 sHumphis l said ard he sssrasd around and looked square at me
 Hes a socd boy at heart, Minnie.