The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-10-28

SeVeFal tlNleS OF q Dcaulllut girl who
exerts an odd fascination over him,
but whose face he has never quite
seen. He loses her trail in Cairo,
whore, in the hope OF adventure, lie
Joins a young scientist bound for 1t
remote corner OF the South Seas. The
young scientist, while at a hotel in
Cairo, has found a diary lost by some
girl-a document which reveals an al.
Turing personality, but gives no hint
of the writer's anne
CHAPTER /.
A Fugitive Goddess.
The doctor was SO small and Trail
that his narrow face was rescued
from inconaequence only by 4 trinity
cropped Vandyke with a dignifed
spCinkling of gray. l always felt that,
Should 1 ever see him in a bathing
suit, | would have to seek a new ply
stefan. l could never again think of
him as sufficiently grown up to prac-
tice IN adult %svocation.
Yet, when the doctor spoke, his
mentality issued out of it's small nabi-
tation of flesh and expended to COM
handing proportion.
The little doctor was, in fine, a very
great doctor; and on this occasion he
was bullying me with the large au-
thority of a Bonaparte.
But DOCTOR" l began protesting
ly.
He raised a small hand which sug-
gested the claw of a delicate bird and
fixed me with quiZzical eyes that had
the faculty of biting sharply through
a mans unspoken thoughts.
Don't assume to say but to me-"
he ~sternly enjoined; and since we had
long known each other, not only as
physician and patient, but also as men
who breakfasted at the same hour
and at the same club-table, l m
tarily needed.
"Once upon a time" he continued,
"the German Kaiser presumed to
question a pilot On his imperial yacht.
Do you recall the RESULT"
NO." said l, Il don't, but"
Again the doctor eyed me-, basilisk-
fashion, across the bacon and eggs Of
our belated morning meal as he con-
tinued:
"He very improperly reminded the
emperor that upon a vessel in the
high seas a pilot acknowledges nc SUI
perior this side of eternity. In mat
<oco &c hn,1th 7 <oIyo tho hr;Iro Va,
obey"
"But-" I weakly insisted.
you presume to think because you
house your nerves in a well-muscled
body that they are infallible," he i'm
placably continued. 1--WE seen rot
ten motors in excellent garages. I've
seen unhappy wives immured in pala-
ces, and I've seen finer figures Of men
than you in asylums."
my nerves are simply of the high.
strung type ] argued.
"Those are the kind that snap" re-
torted the sage. IF you were a race
horse, it might be a matter of reason
able pride to you to be bred in the
purple. Being a man with no avoca
ton except the spending of unearned
money, it means that you are peril
ously oversensitized."
what unpleasant pedantry are you
leading up to-" I demanded. "Out
with it,"
II mean to. You have the artistic
temperament which, without genius,
10 vyNrco than ,yca1oco V0,, oh00S0 n
regard yourself a failure and grow
morose because you have found the
law uncongenia1, and because editors
earn their salaries by returning your
manuscripts. The durability of your
nervous system depends entirely on
how you utilize the next five years."
go on" I encouraged him. Don't
mind me. Sentence me to death If it
amuses you"
1T won't be death; but unless you
fortify those nerves." he calmly went
on, there probably will be disaster.
1t may take any n Of several forms"
"As, for instance?" I inquired, with
pardonable curiosity.
"Oh, arteriosclerosis, paralysis, in
sanity-something Of that Sort"
Thank you kindly" I murmured as
I reached for the matches. "Can !
have my choice of the lot
However," went on the big little
doctor, 1T you devote the next five
years to q program of diversified trav-
81, you ought to lay up an account Of
nerve-strength upon which you a
draw I'd lib. for forty or fifty years to
come. You should even have Q suT
plus against the unfortunate e1igency
q living on when you aro old and
useless
hut I have Travelled" ! arSuo6.
Tive been TO-"
He interrupted mo viii . snort An
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