The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-07-12
BY DOCTORS ORDERS
BY GEORGE BREWSTER.

had taken nerve and hard work, and
Mt it's conclusion he found himself
shaky. His appetite was gone, he had
touch of insomnia, and every ac-
quaintance he met gave him the same
advice:
eco TO a doctor and then follow his
advice"
The doctor advised tramp over
country highways.
'"Take little or no money!" he con-
tinued. "In fact, look like tramp,
feel like tramp and be tramp for
the time being"
Mr.. Gilbert left the office sneering Mt
the advice given him, but after day
or two he came to look ut it in diff
ferent light.
Oh, yes, there is romance in tramp
ing, and when it is recommended by a
doctor, his advice should be followed.
Young Gilbert came to take this view
of 1t after couple Of days, and set
forth.
One summers afternoon girl Of
twenty and her mother and aunt sat
on the veranda Of farmhouse 'front.'
ing on q prominent highway. The
girl was reading-the others were sew
ing. OF sudden the reader laid aside
her book, rose, and shaded her eyes
to look down the road.
Looking for anybody, Dora?" quer-
led the mother.
'It's tramp coming, I guess"
"But don't you encourage him to
come in here" protested the aunt. II
dreamed the other night that tramp
TO whom was kind rewarded me by
cutting my throat, and don't want
1t to prove q true dream"
"Dora always pities every tramp
that comes along" apologized the
mother.
"But she shouldn't. Every tramp is
ready to rob and murder. Is he going
to stop here, Dora?'
"He is sitting down to, rest. I be-
lieve he is ILL.,"
That tramp was Wayne Gilbert. He
had given the Doctors prescription q
fair trial, and he was more than ready
to abandon it. While limping along
he had been overcome with dizziness
and realized that he was going to be
Ill. He sat on the grass with his back
to the fence when girl suddenly up
peared before him.
"Are you ill?" she asked.
II fear am going to be-" he an
swered.
"You-you don't look like most of
the tramps that come along here"
Because am not tramp. have
been walking the highways by a doc
tors advice. have money and pa
pers that will identify me. am 60.
Ing to try to reach the railroad. If
can't do it"
And the world whirled around him
and he tainted away.
The mother and aunt came running
down in response to Miss Dora's cries,
and q farmer who had been to town
stopped his team.
1--WE must get him to the house,"
said the girl.
IF you do, I'll leave it," exclaimed
the aunt, who was u visitor there.
"We had better get this farmer to
take him to town, VIII re he can be
cared for" whispered the mother.
1--WE shall do no such thing! He
shall be cared for in our own house.
lie is not tramp. He told me that
he had money and papers"
The patient was put to bed, and ii
was the opinion Of the doctor that he
would have to stay there couple of
weeks. In reply to the query as to
WhstLer he tlleught the young man
trump, he laughingly replied:
!"Not any more than 1 am. The
chances are that he lives in city, and
was recommended by a doctor to try
tramping to build himself up"
Miss Dora searched the clothing and
found money and papers. She and
her father and mother were satisfied.
AS was to have been expected, the
fever was much higher the next morn
ing. but the doctor was not worried.
"We'll break it up in three or four
days." he said to Miss Dora, land then
you will come in with Your chicken
soup and kind words and help him to
get well. Last night telegruphcd to
some of the addresses given in his PAL
pers, and the replies say that he is a
fine young man, and charge me to give
him every attention. He will be my
patient and your hero"
'But heroes come with steed and
sword and lance, don't they?" she
laughed.
"Not always. I have known them
to be stumbled over in the blackberry
bushes. The lad doesn't look much
like hero now, but give him a
chance"
1t was two weeks before Wayne could
sit on the veranda, and careful nurse
Sat with him. 1t was only when he
was able to walk in the orchard that
the aunt said to her sister:
Josephine, believe those two are
In love-"
$50 do l." was replied.
"You do"
eyes, and so does John.'
"And what are you going to do
about it?"
Nothing"