Where There's a Will

e he saw it in my face, for he came over close and stood looking down at me, and smiling. "You saved us, Minnie," he said, "and I needn't tell you we're grateful; but do you know what

se, and not getting to bed at all some nights, and my heart going by fits and starts, as you may say, and half the time my spinal marrow fa

his hands in his pockets. "Look at your cheeks! Look at your di

course; I never stabbe

, but the thing was frozen up and refused to work. I've seen the time whe

ie, but I haven't got used to putting my foot on the brass rail of the bar and ordering a nut sun

ttled the window-frames. Mr. Sam threw out his che

re of yourself and don't sit too tight on

's doily and following him to the door; "good-by; bet

rner of the path an

I'll go down to the bar a

bly. I got a wire hairpin and went over to the slot-machine, but wh

f the spring-house on it, and me handing the old doctor a glass of mineral water, and wearing the embroidered linen waist that Miss Patty Jennings gave me that winter. The blotters were a great succ

for health"

rheumatism, and as the old doctor said, it was bad business policy to spend thousands of dollars in advertising that Hope Spr

advice the day he turned t

ob's a snap to this. I'd like to know how a barkeeper would make out if his customers came back only once a year and he had to remember whether they wanted their drinks cold or hot or 'chill off'. And another thing: if

been his career, you may say, and I like to think that perhaps even now he is sitting by some everlasting spring measuring out water with a golden goblet instead of the old

is stomach from the free bar in the state house at the capital, enter the spring-house where everybody is playing cards and drinking water and not caring a rap whether he's the man that cleans the windows or the secretary of the navy. If he's been there before, in sixty seconds I have his name on my tongue and a glass of wat

nly seventy, but he'd got in the habit of making it eighty to show that the mineral water kept

. For a good many years it had been his custom to sit there, in the winter by the wood fire and in the summer jus

"Airbrake is up to 133; I wish I'd bought it that time I dr

at the Austrian emperor for opposing it when we knew how much too good Miss Patty was for any foreigner, and then getting nervous and fussed when we read that the prince's mother was

he prince, who was his cousin, for a Japanese cruise, while the Jennings family was going to Mexico in their private car. The old doctor was indignant, and I remember how he tramped up and down the spring-house, muttering that the girl had had a lucky esc

wing, but when he got up to go back to the sanatorium and I reached him his cane, it seemed to m

will be along in a day or so, Minnie.

owing to his finding her false front where it had blown out of a window, having been hung u

he turned around an

d. "We've had our troubles with him, you a

aged, but he had a fine way of keeping on un

uiet, hasn't i

ion!" And I went down the steps to the spring. I heard the tap

ed, "if I could get along without

n the last year," I retorted. "I'm not objecting to Mr. Dick coming here, am I? Only d

polish glasses and get the card-tables ready,

ybe more head than heart, but that's well enough. And with

en up to now?" I aske

an old man, Minnie

f saying in the advertising that you are eighty-to show what the springs have done fo

nie, I'm counting on you to do what you can for the o

trembling. "I wouldn't be at home any place else, unless it would be in an aquarium. But don't ask

e old doctor grimly. "All I wan

Somebody'll have to look after the spring; I reckon Mr. Dick thinks it com

a joint on my right foot that throbs when it is going to rain or I am going to ha