The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-03-25
BY DOCTORS ORDERS
ey GEORGE BREWSTER.

| Young wayne GllDert nau CuFFleu
out an enterprise in real estate that
had taken nerve and hard work, and
Inf its conclusion he found himself
shaky. His appetite was gone, he had
q touch of insomnia, and every ac-
louaintance 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-
Itinued. an fact, look Ike a tramp,
feel like a tramp and be tramp for
the time being"
Mr.. Gilbert left the Office sneerlng at
the advice given him, but after a day
or two he came to look at 1t in diff
Iferent 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 1t after a couple of days, and set
forth.
One summers afternoon a girl of
twenty and her mother and aunt sat
on the yeranda of q farmhouse front
ing on prominent highway. The
girl was readlng-the others were sew
ing. OF a 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, | guess"
"But don't you encourage him to
come in here" protested the aunt. IL
dreamed the other night that tramp
to whom was kind rewarded me by
cutting my throat, and don't want
it 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, / 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 1t. 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 a girl suddenly APP
peared before him.
"Are you ill?" she asked.
81 fear l am going to be-" he an
swered.
"You-you don't look like most Of
the tramps that come along here"
Because l am not Il tramp. l have
been walking the highways by doc
tors advice. l have money and pa
pers that will identify me. l am go
ing to try to reach the railroad. If l
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 a 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 1t exclaimed
the aunt, who was a visitor there.
eve had better get this farmer to
take him to town, where he can be
cared for" whispered the mother.
"We shall do no such thing He
shall be cared for in our own house.
He Is not a tramp. He told me that
he had money and papers"
The patient was put to bed, and 1t
was the opinion Of the doctor that he
would have to stay there a couple OF
weeks. In reply to the query as to
whether he thought the young man u
tramp, he laughingly replied:
"NCt any more than l am. The
chances are that he lives in a city, and
was recommended by 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.
"Well break 1t up in three or four
days." he said to Miss Dora, "and then
you will come In with your chicken
soup and kind words and help him to
get well. Last night telegraphed to
some of the addresses given In his pa
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 Rteed and
sword and lance, don't theyW she
laughed.
mot always. / have known them
to be stumbled over in the blackberry
bushes. The lad doesn't look much
like a hero now, but give him II
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, l believe those two are
lin love-"
$50 do l." was replied.
"You dow
"Yes and so does John"
"And what are you going to do
about it?"
Nothing"
swell, / am"
And she walked out and gave Mr.,
colbert her hand and said:
my brother-in-law, Jake Sharp,