Show A RUSE THAT LOST S sho be was my first love aud and so far ns as I 1 can toll tell she eho may prove to bo be my only duly one sho she is now dow a buxom wife with some four or live five rosy romping children aud and I 1 am kaill a bachelor but bitt time is a great healer and I 1 cau can now tell the story of my luckless suit Buit with dot dora rudgwick without a pang dura dora was the only daughter of a 8 retired london medical mau mali at the time I 1 first made her acquaintance her father had bad retired from practice and was a widower I 1 tell fell head over heels beels iu in love with the girl though I 1 can hardly believe it when I 1 look at her ber today and she consented to marry me if the old doctor gave his coD consent sent she never professed to have any deep affection for me she liked me however and was willing to become my wife if her papa approved but the eccentric old man would not hear of it 1 I remember how dejected I 1 avas after ho be had bad told me with considerable vigor that I 1 could not become his son eon in law and rid how indignant I 1 felt at his declining to give me any reasons for his decision the following day I 1 met nn an old college friend in bond street douglas bligh you ore are not looking very bright he be said what are you worrying about bligh also was a doctor he bad walked the samo same hospital as old rudgwick only many years later A love affair I 1 confessed confes bed with a forced smile ali ahl I 1 I 1 thought something of the coit bot t girl thrown you over no not the girl the father I 1 oil oh nothing if the lady is willing love will find out a way and papa will wi 11 corae come round I 1 ho he is a pigheaded pig headed old doctor I 1 beg your pardon but I 1 suppose a doctor may sometimes be pig headed like the rest of I 1 us undoubtedly do I 1 know him dr gordon rudgwick 11 oh ob yes I 1 am acquainted with him I 1 a also so once met miss rudgwick I 1 congratulate you old fellow A eb charming arming young domig lady pon my word but the old man ha ba I 1 ha ba no wonder he rejected youl 11 wily why you iii uie e too healthy I 1 too healthy I 1 yes you ought to have some interesting te aud d deep seated disease something complicated and lingering I 1 1 I what ou on earth are you vou driving at bligh dont you know het and he touched his forehead with his forefinger you dont mean it yes he is mad ou oil one point he has a bontemp for healthy people and respects only those who tire are suffering buffering irom from homo bottle terrible dibean dibS iio but his daughter never told me bieile he know they have kept it from her and add this is the cause of his want of parental affection there is absolutely sol nothing the matter with the young lady now NN what hat he wants is it a bon boll iu iii law riddled with disease you yoc must get some internal growth or good leavens heavens bligh 1 corno come with me auta and I 1 will coach yon up in all the tha symptoms of a most interesting malady everything will then turnout according to your best wishes it but how did you discover you were mero in possession of this striking disease haid dr rudgwick in a state of ecstasy well I 1 I 1 have had suspicious suspicions for a long time I 1 le ie plied that something was wrong but I 1 kept the he opinion to myself A few days ago however bo weNer I 1 tried to insure ruy my life and the medical officers leers off of half a dozen companies rejected me I 1 then went to a first class man was nas thoroughly overhauled told exactly what was tile the matter with me and informed that I 1 was ono of the most extraordinary tra cases that had ever come under his notice he gives mo me only six eis months in on abs tbs I 1 ali ah I 1 the tha symptoms are most remarkable I 1 have not been so BO interested fora for a long time it is certainly a very curious casp case unprecedented in its complexity it do you really think it is so BO serious oh ob I 1 hope so BO I 1 think I 1 may safely assert that the man you have consulted is abiol absolutely correct in his diagnosis if the symptoms are as you say do you think I 1 ahall survive it not unless you allow the course of the disorder to be interfered with by those quacks who hinder the tha advance of pathological science by seeking cures but six months is very short I 1 said despondently not at ail all with care tho the thing may lie le induced to run its cour courno even more quickly drugs and a low diet may be ba made to do a good deal in accelerating matters what would you advise should I 1 consult sir john no no no nol I 1 dont consult anybody don dont it meddle with it or you may spoil al all I 1 1 I but perhaps n cure cure sirl sir dout dont talk such sickly nonsense or I 1 shall begin to think it possible that you could do such euch a mean and dishonorable thing ns as to rob medical science of one of the most instructive beautiful and striking cases that have ever enriched tho the literature of pathology I 1 what then their is the use of pathology if doctors are not to cure pathology sir jr treats of diseases their causes effects and symptoms it is a ill branch of knowledge an ail interesting abstract study a recreation it has nothing to do with treatment cures cores and such like quackeries quack eries but what may be sport to you is ia death to us why wo must all die and what could be nobler than to die in the ho cause of science by the way you wore speaking to me ine about my dinv daughter the other day I 1 shook my lead head in a melancholy manner well I 1 have been thinking I 1 spoke bati hastily tily she is yours I 1 shall be proud to have you yon as a son sou in law to watch the course of your complaint will be boa a privilege and a delight marry as soon as ever you like 1 I think you will find dora somewhere about tile the lease hoube see her and fix the matter up but dora bora was waa not to be seen that day she had gone to her room indisposed when I 1 called tile the next morning the bouse housekeeper keeper told me that hat miss judg wick had gone on a visit to friends at brighton but had left a note for me I 1 opened it and read as follows 1 I overheard your talk with papa and am so bovery very very sorry for you I 1 do so hope that your state is not so BO bad as you fear and that you will vill not loso lose courage and will soon get well of coulee everything must now be a at t an all end between us it would be mad nesi to talk of marriage mairi age I 1 shall always think of you yon it ai it a very dear friend aud and I 1 want you yon to believe that you will have my most sincere sympathy I 1 put the letter in my lay t and went vent lowe hoffie what a mess 1 I had mado of it I 1 fust I 1 had gained the consent of dora and failed to obtain that of her ber father now I 1 lind obtained tile the doctors docis and lost lle daughter daughters IS fancy her nil all that I 1 said and thinking I 1 was fp caking I 1 the he truth about the diseased i tate rate of my bodyl and yet why should she have supposed Eup posed I 1 was ying one thing hill was certain I 1 must find her out and explain all dr knew the ho name of the friends whom dora had bad gene to but lie ho could not tell me the address do bol and been accustomed to al allow lowber her to go and come pretty much as she pleased A week passed several leveral lays days of which I 1 had bad spent at brighton without anything thing being heard ca of her one morn morning ing I 1 strolled round to dr to learn whet whether lier his daughter had bad written when I 1 an ciupik c cub cab standing nt the door miss dura dora has bas jest iri arrived ived tir bir ill tell her you nic arc hoc I 1 I 1 I 1 stepped into the ahe room and waited in a few uA I 1 aicard the dear girl binning down tile the stairs my heart loarce with jy how do you do the said placing her ber little haud hand in mile mice and ald looking into my eyes with infinite pity 1 I 1 do 10 hope are better you tile me looking pretty ty well my dear clear dora doni I 1 was never better in iii my life ahat lat was it all undue abort in my v illness I 1 am in perfect health untrue all of it I 1 will explain it to you another time then you are aie not going to die in six months 1 I hope not nor dot in six decades are you sorry sorry of course not but 1 I have your fathers consent coni ent to 0 o our marriage darling jag you will now be emilae impossible I 1 1 how so well the fact is I 1 I 1 am in married at I 1 I 1 sprang back amazed yo you ree fee I 1 thought you yiu doomed man I 1 heard beard it from your own lips marriage Mairi age with you would have been mad impossible arid and papas strange talk alarmed met me especially when he gave his consent I 1 was terrified idd and feared his anger so I 1 vent vi act away to friends at brighton there I 1 met captain ainsworth ho he was my first love and I 1 have bave never leally lost my affection for him ile he asked we me to marry him and nd well I 1 did so at once as lie he is going out to india you really cannot blame me can call you no I 1 exactly blame her but I 1 cursed my fate and I 1 told bligh that he be was the biggest fool in his profession for which lie he has never dever thoroughly illy forgiven me though he be says he be has bas london tit bits bite |