Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 16, 1913, Page 2

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To spring from the eulky and along with good laundry week is what you are looking for as¢ [ poise of the head. | one day. ! cussing me before. Now that they ]seek it. He could accept of no invita- THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAK ELAND, FLA,, APliIL 16, 1913, KE KA THE NERVE And That Is Way the Young wad- | ico Built Up Practice Among girl. No, not driven, be- uuse the drlver had lost the lines and ; they were squirming under the pony's (eet. while she was clinging to the se..: like grim death. f No screaming with terror! No calls ! for help! Just a pale-faced girl, with tight-shut teeth—just Nina Gilbert! | ‘ There was time for the doctor to Strangers. turn cut and leave the runaway & ' clear road, but there was the bridge BY MAL DE J. PERXINS. he had ju:st crossed. If the wny Old Doctor tice and good- Hll to a young M. D, ! struck the bndgo therc must be a it. The people for five miles around ' poise to juwmp out on the runaway for | had come to believe thai the old doctor | a bridle-hold meant taking a lmudnd was infallible. Where one of his pa- | chances to one. The doctor threw up | tients had died he had saved a score. i- hand to tell the girlto brace ber | He was a fatherly, sympathetic man, | self, and then wheeled his rig square mklng hu ullo no matter what him very bright.” Mr. Royal Preston fully realized | ling wood, and the pony cart needed what he had to meet, and that it would | hundreds of repairs. It.slowly dawned | take time to remove the prejudice. He |on the doctor that there was somo! must do the best he could and hope | thing else. He had no broken bones, to be lucky with his first few patients. | though he had been badly jolted. He “If you get a call from the Gilberts, | got to his feet, staggered around to the rest of the people will follow,” sald | gee Miss Nina Gilbert lying uncon: : Doctor Bliss. “The Gilberts are rich | scious in the road. The sight aroused ! and sort o' run things in this com- munity. Have you seen Nina Gilbert yet?” | “Not to know her.” i “Charming, handsome girl and an shall be here to help him out if he | horses and vehicles were mixed up. l him and gave him strength. After a' ,‘ | brief examination he sald to himself: | “Left arm broken; sculp wound; { right cheek gashed; prebably half a | dozen bad bruises; unconscious, bu!l i | heiress. | must get her to champlon | not so badly hurt.” ” your cause. Don't fall in love wlth! A farmer came driving along in & |y wer, for she is not for you. She can ! buggy. & have her choice of several rich men's sons.” That evening Doctor Preston attend- ed a lecture in the town hall. In front' “Ag vou ree.” of him sat two voung la'ies. and as = “Who {8 the gal?" ihe lecture didn: interest them much | “\iiss Giltert of the village.” hey presently L.;ua talkii.g tu eaci *then you don'i borrow uo rig of other, leading off with: {mine! Bhe's a high-fiyer. She drives . “Mollie, have you heard about the ! apound the country crowding humble new doctor?” folks like m2 into ihe ditch.” “Yes, Nina.” Doctor Dieston had to thrash the | Doctor Preston pricked up his ears. | far-)or to gnin his point, but it was It was possible, but not probable, that | weil and cheerfully done. Then he | hm was the Nina Gilbert the old doc- | threatened to do it over again unless . r referred to. Yes, good-looking so | he lent a hand to lift the patient up. m as he could judge, witha haughty : Miss Nina regained consclousness : barely five minutes before reaching ! “Isn't it a shame?” she queried of | home. Her first words after recognis- “I've got to borrow your ri3 to get this patient home,” said the doctor. (& » “Runaway?” was queried. Mollle. ing the doctor were: i “What? “l—I thought you'd surely h “Why, Doctor Bliss stepping out and | kitted!” leaving us to the mercy of a fledg:| *“Only a few bruises. Yolpflll ling.” worst of 1t.” “He is pretty young. [ understand| “Am I badly hurt?” he's only about twenty-four.” “A broken arm is the worst. You “And never had a case. He's sure- | will want to send to the city for & ly some quack that has deceived the gdoctor, 1 suppose?” good old doctor.” ' “No, sir, I won't!” was the spirited “But if we are ailing?” reply. “It's your case, and you'll tend “It it's any one in our family, we'll to it.” send to the city for some one that, “But—" knows beans from putty. Mrs. Davis | “That’s all, please,” and then to her says anybody would know the young father and mother, who came rushing man was a quack to look at him" out of the house: A doctor must have nerve. Doctor “Don’t make such a fuss over it Preston had it. If he had been a fail- please. Poor Rilly raw a tramp asleep ure 28 to nerve he would have jumped by the rcadside and bolted with me. out of one of the open windows, or at ‘I lost the lines the very first thing.” least stood up and taught those young “I will telephone at once to—" be- Indies how to swear in three different gan the father. but he was halted by: languages. He may have blushed a “I have already arranged with Doc- little, but his nerve held him fast. Of tor Preston to attend my case.” all the 200 people makingup the audi-' It was while the doctor was at his ence he appeared to be paying the 'office to get the things needed to work most attention to the words of the with that Miss Nina, despite her suf- lecturer. ferings, told the briet but thrlllln( The young ladies had just ceased to story. That was why the young med- | discuss him when his landlord came fico found two hands stretched out m down the aisle and halted and said: him on his return. “Guess I'll have to take & seat with The broken arm was set, the scalp you, Doctor Preston.” wound sewed up, and next day when “That's right—sit down.” old Doctor Bliss accompanied the “Doctor Preston!” gasped Miss young doctor to inspect the work, he Nina. sald to the parents: “Doctor Preston!” gasped Miss Mol “Couldn’t have been done better by He. any city surgeon.” There he was right behind them, and The villagers did not hear of Doctor must have heard their comments and Preston’s quick wit and heroista from criticlems. They hadn't merve. No 'his own lips, but when it was kmown young lady has need of it. Their best he was kept very busy shaking hands. | plan was to rise up and walk out doors In & day or two another horse and ' as carelessly as if old Doctor Bliss was sulky wefe driven around to replace only forty years old. looked at them in surprise, and the hands with him and said: lecturer got #o muddled up that he “My boy, you are beginning far bet- got it that Eve was created before tem than where I left off. Will you do Adam, and that she was disagreeably something for me"‘ surpriced when he came loafing along “Anything I can” “Then marry Nina Gilbert!™ 1713, by the MeClure News- paper Syndicate.) Didn't Like the Signature, ’ A Chicago woman whose husband gave her a checking account decided, § “Well, that ccoks me” mused Doc- (Copyrisht, tor Preston as he walked home after Moenske the lecture. “They were simply dis know I overheard them they can nev- er see anv good in me. It's surely a ¥ the other day., to save a two cent good by to the Gilberts for me.” stamp by persuading the grocer’'s boy Doctor Preston was fit for the best to carry a check to his employer. society in the village, but he did not ywhen he returned later with a supply | of household necessaries he handed tions without meeting the two young paek her check. i ladies who had a grievance, and it “\hat's the matter with 1t? she | | would be embarrassing to both sides. ggyed. “Doesn't Mr. Dobbson know He had three or four patients and ef- ¢pat it's just as good as the cash?" fected epeedy cures, when there came - gon't know.” the boy replied. “He ' a lazy duy and he got out the horse pever said not'n’ to me about it, ex- | and sulky for a makebelieve call t0 oopt he would like to signed | some farmer’s house. Of course, you gome other way.” _— know that this is a little trick prac She had signed it: and the ice wagon were passing on u public highway, bound in opposite ‘I-‘ ] i Will fernish and or very sick” remarked a dozen peo; plans aposifications or will fllow any plans and ! Lot 1he tine 1o weve 1o mmhu.wluathdogmuzmu‘ sposifieations furnished. | ing the borse Is being pulled down 1 Sog the anto shidacs 1o oeT ® Wheel : ! a walk, half @ mile away. , au T-“Mmhm.u..' SUNGALOWS A SPECIALTY | _ Doctor Preston had joseed along for roared aad came dora o Tor, O™ | i wh on the auto.! , three or four miles to kill time, and using injuries for which the H Lod B0 show you seme Lakelond homes [ have bl ‘was thinking that the blacksmith's of tpe dog was sued. The trial judge | imwut::muuu-m Bedd et (e dog wes the by OROIOROFOFOHO BONQ BOD OO DO O QBOBOH A Gp) ! 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