Dr. Breen's Practice

uggy with an expression of thanks that gave no clew as to the direction or purpose of it. He touched his hat

Alger. "Your admiration of Dr. Breen clot

ut I'm sure there's nothing in it. He isn't her equal. She

ll it would be a fair game,

h the greatest air of candor, "I

ainst them. Every young couple seen together must b

ows that she is human, after all. It shows

er girls," contended

Mr. Libby's opinion

, and told her that Dr. Mulbridge

her left. "I knew where you had gone as soon as your mother told me you had driven off with Walter Libby. I'm so glad that you've got s

Mulbridge is not coming for a consult

, how perfectly ungentle

allopathist and I

coming for, I sh

he case to him," s

th another doctor, and a lady at that, merely because she doesn't happen to be allopathist, he can go along! I never heard of anything so conceited, so disgustingly mean,

and Grace merely supplied the monosyllabic promptings requisite for her transition from mood to mood. It was her final resolution that when Dr. Mulbridge did come she should give him a piece of her mind; and she received him with anxious submissiveness

as incredibly gentle and soft in all his movements, and perfectly kind, without being at any moment unprofitably sympathetic. He knew when to listen and when not to listen,-to learn everything from the quivering bundle of nerves before him without seeming to have learnt anything alarming; he smiled when it wou

he said a

ia. Or, I don't know why I should say th

s afraid so," fa

r eyes with even more se

iends here?

is in Cheyenne, o

idge. "A great deal will depend up

een," said Grace. "At presen

y given with still greater distinctness, and, saying that he should come in the morning, drove away. She went back to Louise: inqui

whimpered Mrs. Maynard, for a begi

an acute form; you wi

look after Bella! I should think you would be satisfied now, Grace, with the result of your conscientiousness: you were so very sure that

taken care of, and I am going to nurse you myself, under Dr. Mulbridge's directi

r her chin, she said, with the effect of drawing a strictly logical conclusion from

ck, and put up his horse at Jocelyn's, that he might be of service there in case he were needed. The ladies, with whom he had been making friends, discreetl

e inquired, laughing. "I k

t she thought he ought to be with hi

wishes and all the claims of honor and duty. It wouldn't take her long to get round to t

pneumonia. We can't t

t I don't think anything serious c

id that Mr. Mayna

was meekly far from resenting it; he, however, must have wished to repair his blunder. "I

eak of that now,

nsented. "Can I be of

more. The doctor will be

explained that he had waited to hear in reply to his telegram, so that they m

started?"

Maynard was at the ranch. H

l soon be he

t up half the night with the operator. She wa

Grace, with a

e nearly all wome

an they trust young girls

ied Libby. "She was a pretty old gir

e was young." She blushed, and seeme

. Maynard that I telegraphed on my own respons

Grace, with a

t," he suggested, after a momen

o you

day I will tell you ho

t in the throat. "I don't like to do it," she said at last. "I hate myself whenever I have to fei

d was young?" he

the bench where she had been sitting

gy, and drove thought

had kept them from the beach till now, watched him q

ctable," said Mrs. Merritt. "It would be a pity

f the point. "Why,

rs. Merritt, with a ti

thoritatively, "if we had said anything to in

ress ourselves about undue infl

t part; and I think she has acted courageously. I always feel sorry

n't obliged to do it for a

worse," said

e better," retu

tooped over with difficulty and plucked a glass-st

er knee, looked up to her for instruction. "Don't you think that she showed her sense in giving up at the very beginning, if she fo

ger, looking at the fav

d to be asked why, and then she added, "I think she's acting in consultation with Dr. Mulbridge.

away. "Perhaps it is to be Dr. Mulb

I have thought of their being constantly thrown together, in this way. It would not disc

does make me think of blue. They say that ye

Mrs. Frost. "Yes

"I don't know what I shall d

on!" exclaimed

in character com

. I have always

n't have anything to do with a girl tha

leason, "that all those aniline dyes

collect, when I was a little girl, that everybody laughed at red hair. There was one girl at

is a very pretty shade of

't given up to him entirely she's the most submissive consulting physici

itt more pudgy when she's sitting down or

speaking with Grace alone. "Oh, do you

ce, whom she had whisperingly halted in a cor

sing your profession. She passed the edge of her fan over her lips before lett

hat you mean, Miss Gle

an must be DUAL,-have both the woman's nature and the man's; the woman's tender touch, the man's firm grasp. You have shown how the medical education of women can meet this want. The physician can actually be dual,-be two, in fact. Hereafter, I have no doubt we shall always call a phys

y in unison, as you call it, you are mistaken. He has entire charge of the case;

that I admire you for giving up,-for knowing when to

nifi

ng soul You must have felt his masterfulness; you mu

, "I should n't

us. Such a sense of self-surrender," Miss Gleason explained. "It is n't because they are men," she added

uld dislike being controlled myself, and I s

resist your putting me down! Of course you don't know that you're doing it; it's pur

nusual curiosity; nothing less than her homoeopathy would have made him withdraw his consent to a consultation with her, and his fear had been that in his refusal she should escape from his desire to know more about her, her motives, her purposes. He had accepted without scruple the sacrifice of pride she had made to him; but he had known how to appreciate her scientific tr

answered. "Perhaps I may still be one.

have n't it. But I suppose they think n

it so," said

t care for medic

N

you should have gone into it. You told me, I think, that it was repugnant to you; and it's hard work for

de no reply, and left him to his conjectures, in which he did not

r. But he said at last, "She is no better. She will be worse before she is better. You see," he added, "that I ha

aynard's account of herself, and to her own report, an encouragement which now

elves alone for the moment, and drubbed upon it with an absent look

elegraphed the ev

ridge, with comfortable appr

you whether you consider Mrs. Maynard's case

a teasing smile, such as one might use with a per

ean-what I wish to tell you is-that I feel myself responsible for h

th more interest, but the sa

rm. But I insisted; I forced her to go." She stood panting wit

mean by forci

ow. I-I-per

not to tell him something she wished to tell him. He

eve the storm

N

id n't mak

ourse

at her a

at all understa

of divinity," he s

ing near her is injurious to her; perhaps I ought to let some one

done her any harm as y

tion, "why don't you take a holiday? Some of t

ated, "that I might? Do you think

sked. "Send some one else to her for a while.

e her-feeling as

you can't go on at this rate. I shall want your help by and by

uld get worse w

ndescribably put to shame by the brutal common sense which she could not impeach, but which she still felt was no measure of the case. It was true that she had not told him everything, and she coul

g been silly. In a woman this mood is near to tears; at a touch of kindness the tears come, and momentous questions are decided. What was perhaps uppermost in the girl's heart was a detestation of the man to whom she had