The herald., 1917-08-30
BY DOCTORS ORDERS
ey GEORGE BREWSTER.

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out an enterprise in real estate that
had taken nerve and hard work, and
ot it's conclusion he found himself
shaky. His appetite was gone, he had
n touch of insomnia, and every ac-
ouaintance he met gave him the same
advice:
"Go to a doctor and then follow his
advice"
The doctor advised a tramp over
country highways.
Take little or no money he con-
tinued. "In fact, look like tramp,
feel like a tramp and be tramp for
the time being"
Mr.. Gilbert left the Office sneering at
the advice given him, but after a day
or two he came to look at It in u Diff
ferent light.
Oh, yes, there Is romance in tramp
ing, and when 1t Is recommended by
doctor, his advice should be followed.
Young Gilbert came to take this view
of ii after q couple of days, and set
forth.
One summers afternoon girl Of
twenty and her mother and aunt sat
on the veranda of a farmhouse front
ing on Il 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, DOrai" quer-
led the mother.
"It's a tramp coming. 1 guess"
"But don't you encourage him to
come in here" protested the aunt. II
dreamed the other night that a tramp
to whom l was kind rewarded me by
cutting my throat, and l don't want
1t to prove a true dream"
"Dora always pities every tramp
that comes along" apolOglzed 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. 1 be-
lieve he Is ill.,"
That tramp was Wayne Gilbert. He
had given the doctors prescription a
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
IL. He sat on the grass with his back
% the fence when a girl suddenly ap-
1eared before him.
"Are you ill.," she asked.
Il fear 1 am going to be-" he an
'wered
"You-you don't look like most Of
he tramps that come along here"
Because am not tramp. l have
,een walking the highways by doc
Or's advice. l have money and pa
'ers that will identify me. 1 am GO
ng to try to reach the railroad. If
ant do it"
And the world whirled around him
nd he tainted away.
The mother and aunt came running
own in response to Miss DOra's cries,
nd a farmer who had been to town
topped his team.
1--WE must get him to the house."
aid the girl.
IF you do, I'll leave itw exclaimed
he aunt, who was a visitor there.
'We had better get this farmer to ,
AXE him to town, where he can be ,
AIRED for" whispered the mother. ,
"We shall do no such thing! He .
hall be cared for in our own house.
lie is not a tramp. He told me that .
e had money and papers"
The patient was put to bed, and it =,
as the opinion of the doctor that he
ould have to stay there a couple of 9
eeks. In reply to the query as to =,
neither he thought the young man a !
amp, he laughingly replied: !
"Not any more than 1 am. The
lances are that he lives in city, and
as recommended by doctor to try
amping to build himself up" &
Miss Dora searched the clothing and 2
'und money and papers. She and II
er father and mother were satisfied. S
AS was to have been expected, the s
yer was much higher the next morn p
&, but the doctor was not worried. s.
We'll break it up in three or four o
lys," he said to Miss Dora, land then u
III Will come in with your chicken
up and kind words and help him to n
t well. Last night telegraphed to
me of the addresses given in his pa v
RS, and the replies say that he is a u
lie young man, and charge me TO give m
m every attention. He will be my OF
tient and your hero" IN
But heroes come with steed and pi
ord and lance, don't they?" she p'
nghed. Il
Not always. 1 have known them III
be stumbled over in the blackberry 1t
shes. The lad doesn't look much hi
.e a hero now, but give him a
ance." NJ
1t was two weeks before Wayne could It
on the veranda, and careful nurse
with him. 1t was only when he IN
Is able to walk in the orchard that III
2 aunt said TO her sister: he
Josephine, believe those two are an
love-" m,
$50 do l." was replied. =
you do" no
Yes, and so does john all
And what are you going to do to-