Locomotive, Volume 45, Number 9, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 July 1858 — Page 1

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TAUL DRAYTON'S CHARM. It was a very warm day in July. The streets -wore quiet, parched, deserted ; the city was out of town ; only those whose business or poverty was imperative dared admit, by personal presence, that they were not at Newport, Niagara, or Saratoga. ., j i , Among the last was Taul Drayton, a young physician, struggling his way to that doubtful fortune that sometimes, after many years of toil and deprivation in the midst of a great city, rewards the skilful practitioner., ,1 ,,.,'t . Paul Drayton was twenty-seven. Five years had he fought his battle against poverty and bigotry, Slowly, year by year, fie had added to the number of Jus menus and patients; but not among that class who could pour wealth and fame into his hands ; blessings and praises were his in abundance, but Paul Drayton remained poor. .Night after night had he plotted and planned with his young wife. They had built castles together, and with a laugh had watched them topple over on their heads. They were brave hearts; but the years swept away and there came no change, and Paul viewed with an unquiet gaze his increasing family and stationary income. 'I doubt, Lizzie," he would say to his wife, "my ability to rise, when I see all those who started with me now above me those whom I know in my own heart are my inferiors. How should I feel but as a fatalist, who looks upon himjelf as one of the foredoomed ?" ., ..... , "No, no, Paull not so hardunon the f?re at Wisdom: let us rather look upon the world as the fools, who are more easily lea Dy ignorance than by good sense. Courage, Paul ; the years will soon fly over, and I shall yet see you ProfessorDravton. sum-nine anv thine less than a hundred dollar fee." The little wife laughed, and Paul smiled for sympathy. Over their frugal breakfast had they been talking; and now Paul rose "Away, again," said he, "to sit like a spider in my web and watch for flies. Good-by, Lazzie, i hope one oi those hundred-dollar customers will come along to-day. Good-by, babies" and Paul strode away to his office. . Ho sat over his desk, pen in hand : , ....... ."Sixty-five dollars for the month of June. I am growing rich. . Tifteen dollars per week, of which six only goes lor house ana otlice rent, leaving the princely sum of nine dollars to feed and clothe five persons. How long will it be till I save enough to retire ? Five years of my life have gone, and I am so much nearer the mark than before" and Drayton took from his pocket ten little golden dollars, and spread them over the desk. "Ten dollars, which is exactly two dollars per annum!" t ,. "For the love of God, young gentleman, give me something to buy food !" . ,. ., . ,. Drayton turned quickly, to sec a tall, gaunt woman, of apparently seventy, standing by his side. Her large, bony hand grasped a stick, and hair, almost of a silvery whiteness, straggled out from under a woolen hood. Drayton gathered up the coin he had so lavishly displayed, and replaced it in his pocket. There was a greedy glare in the eye of the old woman, and a look of physical strength about her, that naturally hastened such an act. lie turned his chair and looked upon her. "Here," thought he, "is a real case of poverty, to whom my sixty-five dollars per month would be wealth ; to her the pittance that lies in my pocket would bring weeks of happiness. Why should I not . give it to her ? Will not her blessing bring to me more than I can receive in its outlay ?" The woman stood motionless, gazing into his eyes as though she read every thought, and Dut waited the realization. . : "But no," argued Drayton ; "should I give her such a sum it would but lead her to extravagance more money, perhaps, than she has possessed for years. I will give her part. . .' 1 With this he placed in her hand a golden dollar. The eyes of the woman glistened. For a moment she looked doubtingly; then, closing her hand quickly, found some mysterious opening in her dress as a receptacle for it. Without a word of thanks she hurried away, followed by the astonished eyes of Paul Drayton, who expected a shower of blessings for bis liberality. : :-.!.:....;:. - 1 1- ' It was plain enough. The woman believed she had received the coin in mistake ; and in her anxiety to get away before discovery forgot her thanks. . It was, as I have said, a very warm day, and Paul Drayton sat by his desk and thought. . He thought time was slipping away, and ho was wearing into the best years of his life ; he thought of his educated tastes, which every day were to be smothered, because poverty forbade their indulgence ; he thought of the sweet wile at home, toiling , and uncomplaining ; and he thought, why should he not better himself by some bold, even if unprofessional, step ? Why should he not se his name at the head f an advertisement of "Drayton's Invigorator and Dying Man's Preservative," or "Drayton's Life Pill?" Why should he care whether the Academy approved, as long as wealth resulted. He saw the sellers of "Magnetic Pills," and the " retired physicians, whose sands of life had nearly run out," riding in their carriages and building palaces. Could he not do the same ? If the people wanted cannabis indicus,' opium, and chloroform, lot the people have it ; and Paul took from his desk the material to compound a medicine that should astonish a world, and bring him wealth boundless as his desires. ' "A stimulant ! All the world wants stimulating.--Mankind knoweth not half his powers. Stimulants will call it out," said Paul, as he mixed the opium and cannabis indicus. "Chloroform for dilution ; it is revivifying," and he poured in the liquid ether. . "Drayton's Revivifying Elixir. One Dollar per Bottle The very smell will raise the dead," and Paul, with pestle and mortar, rubbed together the ingredients that were to form his wonder-working compound. As the aroma of the chloroform rose about him and filled the room, Paul rubbed away, making ,. " the gruel thick and slab;" and with every rub rubbed away his dread of the Academy of Medicine. Visions of gold danced through his head, lie would be a second Swaim.or Brandreth, tho patron of the press, the spender of half a million per annum in advertising. The name of Drayton should be heard over the earth. How delicious the perfume of the chloroform! How the compounder ii ji A nnwo nL his p.lhow made would DO uiesseui ."6..v ; , u ki him turn ; and again the old woman stood by him. I "Good gendeman," said she, "you gave me tins mo ' ment a com of gold." . ' ' ' . "I thought," she went on, "that you might have giv1 en it in mistake. My nrst impulse was u this error; my secondto return and ask if you knew the value of your guV- (lT, w "It is yours," answereu .v h Sn's eve wandered from Drayton about ,he "ou do not look as though y ou were rich " she sTd as if the remark were more to herself than to hi'o" he answered, smiling; "I am not rich. I jNo, ne dnsc ,: t0 rnv wants, than am perhaps poorer, in proportion , yourself." .grange; the millionaire, cZaith, refuses me copper; the poor laborer gives me goUT , ;n , "There is nothing Jtranee, my gooa rf a I So goes all the woria. . , j have ten thousand, I shall wish to make it ten , when , I shall struggle for a hunctre"i "Yes. most true. You are, I see, hilosophe She spoke as though she ' student of human nature.'

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was alone. "Why should I not ? He is a physician ; to me it has only brought sorrow and trouble. Why should I not ? - Am I not accursed before God and man? , Lookl" slie continued, staring vacantly at Drayton, and stripping her long arm to the shoulder. He started. Before him stood a most terrible case of leprosy ! Never before had ho seen the disease, but in a moment he knew it- ; ."Yes," she said, "start ! I am one of those wretches : for whom your skill has no healing. . I have wandered over the broad earth for aid ; I have spent wealth which would have made my age luxurious in seeking it; but here I stand seventy-eight years are upon me and your dollar all I possess in the world." : ., . Drayton slipped the other nine into her hand. - "This, is madness I" she muttered. "Madness, surety! , No sane man would act thus!" She turned the coin over, looking at Drayton, and biting her lip till the blood started. , .... ., .. . ., "Did you not say you were poor ?" answered he. "Do I not see you are unable to labor ? You have now my earnings for five years. Take them you are welcome. I have health and strength ; J owe nothing. They are yours, freely." ' The woman walked backward and forward across the room for a few minutes. A smile of triumph came over her face. "Yes," she said, "I will take them; they will save me. I can be healed yet I" She made a sudden movement to the door, but stopped and looked toward Drayton. "Yes ! yes I he should have it ; it is for him. Ilere !" she continued, coming forward, and unfastening her shawl, "I shall give you what is greater than all wealth; to me it is nothing to you it is wealth, fame, and happiness." . While speaking she drew from her neck a little bag, made, apparently, from a scrap of oiled silk, whore it had hung by a black cord. "Take this" she said, "take tins ! My father was' a Norwegian ; this was given him by a drange, a midnight spectre, on the peak of the Hallingskare. It will cure all disease when placed in the right hand of the sick or dying. While there is life you can save. It will only be powerless upon yourself. Take it !" . . ; Drayton looked smilingly upon the little dirty bag that lay upon his desk, and turning to it, undrew the mouth, and commenced to examine its contents. A single bit of parchment of about four inches was all. This was scrawled over with a number of irregular characters, written in red, and a seal in the centre, of the same color, looking as though it had been impress ed with tho end ot the naked finger. "Runic, I suppose ?" lie said, aloud, and turned to the woman for response. She was gone ! . i Drayton threw the bag carelessly into a drawer of the desk, with, "(Jrazy 1 1 thought she had something wild-looking about her. However," he continued, opening the drawer, "I shall take the bag home ; it will be a droll story to tell Liizzio, and she must see the charm." With this he put the oil-silk bag in his pocket ' 1 Over his supper Paul told the story of the old woman, and displayed the bag. Lizzie took it very un willingly in her fingers, giving it a suspicious look not on account of the charm, but a reasonable doubt as to its cleanliness. She turned it about, and, look ing inquiringly1 at Paul, nodded toward the window, which was significant to saying " Ihrow it m the street! . :: - - "Oh no," said Paul, "I must keep it to show ; it will be an illustration ot my story. "Your story, Sir," responded Lizzie, "I think will tell bad that a poor fellow, with a wife and three children, gave ten dollars, the List he had in the world, to a traveling beggar woman. That ten dollars would almost have bought me the silk dress you have been promising these three years. Paul pocketed the bag and the reproof together, and stopped Lizzie s mouth with a kiss. "I do not know," she said,, going to the bed-side, "what is the matter with Jennie to-day. She has not seemed well; she would eat no supper. . ' ; . ... , The father approached the bedside and looked at little Jennie,' a fair, blue-eyed child of three years. She was feverish. ' He felt her pulse. "She has eaten something that has disagreed with her. She will be well in the morning." In an hour or two Jennie began to toss restlessly in bed, and soon she was seized with violent retchings. An attack of infant cholera morbus that rapid and fatal summer enemy ot cluldren was upon her. iliY ery thing that the father's skill could suggest was tried ; the aid of another physician was called at the last mo ment he could do nothing better than had been done and the first dawn of morning saw the weeping parents standing by their little one, watching, every moment i--. i .i . expecting its last oream. ,, Oh, Superstition I where hast thou not thy votaries? Who is there can stand before the world and say he is not, in some one thing, thy slave ? Drayton thought of the old woman s gift, the bag. No 1 no 1 It was horrible, in such a moment, to dream of the thing ; that which he viewed only as a joke as .the lunacy or craft of an old beggar ; he would not think of it ! And yet what harm could arise Irom it I He knew it could not save his darling, but it could not iniure her. He looked at Lizzie. Did she divine his thought ? No, he would not use the bag ; he would not disgrace himself before her. Disgrace ! what was disgrace if he could save his child ? Lizzie knelt by the side of the bed, and buried her face in her hands. Yes, she knew his thoughts, and had taken this mode to save his feelings, and give him a chance to try the charm. Ho would ! In a moment the little bag was in the child's right hand. In the agonies of her sick ness the hand was tightly shut, and Paul felt' as he forced it open as though he were violating the sanctity of death. He kissed the pale forehead of his child, and aoain resumed his chair by the bedside. ; In a few minutes Jennie stirred. He sprang to his feet. She opened her eyes. A deadly, choking sensation of hope for an instant paralyzed him. No, it could not be ! It was only the revival before death The little one's eyes turned from father to mother. " Papa mamma," she murmured, ' Jennie's very dry. Both sprang for the drink Paul, with an entire pray er uttered in the words, " O God !" and Lizzie, with a strange cry of joy. . ' - Jennie was raised, and took a good drink, and then pushing away the bowl, said, " Jennie s very tired. In a few moments she had dropped away, in a sweet sleep. All had gone, save the weakness consequent on the attack ; and the mother and father mingled together their tears. Paul covered little Jennie, and in doing so removed the oil-silk bag from the bed, where she had dropped it on rising to drink. Paul carried it to a far window of the room, and looked upon it in the gray morning light. What strange mystery was this ' Was it merely chance, or did this bit of parch.nient possess the mighty power claimed for it by the old woman ? Oh, slu.me, Paul Drayton, he thought. You, the man of mind and education, rejecting the mercies of Heaven, and offering for a moment to believe in the unnatural tales of an old leprous beggar ! Open the window and sling the accursed thing away from you ! No, urged Superstition ! Perhaps, yes. Perhaps what ? Perhaps there may be something in it I shall give it another trial 1 Paul returned to the bed. Jennie was sleeping sweetly ; Lizzie was watching by her side ; and Paul put the bag in his pocket Reason goes but little way against facts. Paul knew that his child was dying, and that no skill of man could raise her, and yet in a few moments she had struggled out of the very arms of death, and now only wanted rest to be the same as ever; and each time as he thoufht of this he would cjuietly draw the charm from his pocket and look upon it ,

Tho breakfast was late next morning, fur Lizzie lay long sleeping, with little Jennie in her arms; and great was the joy of the parents when they saw their sick babe of the night before propped up in her high chair, nibbling at a bit of toast. Almost was Paul about to make it a holiday, but the thought of the charm, and his anxiety to try it, took him away. It was almost mid-day as he left for his oflice ; the sun poured down its hottest rays, and Paul luxuriated in an umbrella, and pitied a stout gentleman plodding along in front of him without one. ; The stout gentleman stopped to remove his hat and wipe the perspiration from the bald

ipot on the top ot his head. YY hue engaged in this iperation the stout gentleman seemed to stagger, lapped his hand to his eyes, and down he went before 'aul could reach him. lie was rather too heavy for Paul to pick up by himself; he was, therefore, obliged to remain content with holding the umbrella over his head, and calling for aid, which soon came in the shape of a couple of sturdy Irishmen, from a building just being erected close by. They took up the old gentleman and boro him to a drug-store on the corner, where, Paul announcing himself as a .physician, every thing ras offered and used for the old gentleman's benefit It was useless ; he had received a severe stroke of the sun, and, being of a heavy habit, could not rally. 1 he druggist looked at the old gentleman, then at Paul, and said, " Dead!" '. ' " No, said Paul ; " not yet, the artery beats. Good Heavens," he thought, " the charm ! Why did I not think ?" In a moment he had the little back room, where the old gentleman was carried, cleared. And astily scratching a prescription which he pretended wished to try, sent the druggist out to compound He then slipped the bag into the old gentleman's hand. Tho druggist was back in a minute with the mixture, and Paul dropped a trifle between the lips of the dying man. In a very lew moments he opened his eyes, and setting them on the now frightened druggist, asked where he was. That gentleman responded by handing his card, which the old gentleman sat up and took, dropping at tho same time the bag, which Paul very quietly pocketed, rather doubtful himself whether he was not possessed ot some ot the works of the devil, : . " I believe I am indebted to you for my life," said the old gentleman to the druggist ' ' "' : ' " " JSo, no r said that not yet composed person ; " not to me ; there is the one who saved you ; and a most extraordinary thing too, to bring a-dcad man to life with a few drops ot aqua ammonia and aqua purae." The old gentleman by this time had got upon his feet, and advanced toward Drayton with hand outstretched, which Paul heartily grasped.r In a few mo ments a carriage was called, and, handing Jt'aul a card bearing the name of one of tho wealthiest merchants in the city, invited him to extend his atttentions so much farther as to accompany him to his house. As it was in a professional light, Paul readily consented, and escorted his patient safely to his home, where he advised his immediate retirement to rest and sleep. The old gentleman shook his hand affectionately at parting, charging him to call next day, and by the same praso translerrinp- a bank-note to Dravton's palm. When he reached the street he opened the deposit, and found the first of the hundred-dollar fees that Lizzie had promised him. Paul was astounded. Here was an investment' .Ten dollars one day returning a hundred the next. He hurried through tho street, clutching his hand tightly over the pocket which con tained the bag. At last he had something to lose, some thing to guard, v lsions of wealth, boundless as the sea, rolled in on him ; his lancy already had ensconced Lizzie and the children in a double brown stone house ; in a few minutes more he had settled the style of his liveries, and concluded in what banks he should keep account He would not waste time, he must now make money ; five years of his life were gone for nothing ; every day must tell its story ; and he drew from his pocket the hundred-dollar bill and gazed again upon it with admiring eyes. All that day sat Paul in the office dreaming over what should be his course in his newly-acquired power. Me bad yet to tell afl to liz zie. Ah I there s the point ; should he tetl all t lie would not be in a hurry about it Wait a little. Woman are fickle ; women love to talk ; women women well, what are women ? Why, women are women. . True ; so Paul concluded he would wait It was the first thing he had ever concealed from Lizzie and that evening when he went home there was a guilty feeling about him which he had never experienced be fore. YV hen he told Lizzie the story ot the hundreddollar fee he did not tell her the great secret of it, and her womanly msttct told her there was something wrong but she said nothing. . Though notwithstanding the knowledge of possessing more money than they had been in control ot at one time since they had been married, and that Paul had told her, " Now she should have that silk dress right away, to-morrow, yet Lizzie was not happy. And though Paul walked about the room and whistled, and tried to persuade himself that it was better to have it so for a while just for a while yet Paul was not happy. Paul thought it must be the weather, it was so oppressively hot And then when Lizzie came to mm, with just the least bit ot a tear struggling in her eye, and throwing her arms about his neck, kissed him, and, looking in his face, seemed to say, " Dear Paul, tell me every thing," then his resolution was staggered, and he thought he would make a clean breast of it ; but Lizzie did not say the very words, and so Paul made no confession. Oh, this first fatal error of those who are sworn to love and confidence ! It is like the first step in crime, it gathers force as it proceeds, and is only checked by total ruin, or bv disgrace and distrust, that years of truth and probity scarcely fail to remove. No perma nent trouble can exist between husband and wife where there has been entire confidence on both sides. Love is ever forgiving, and though they err for the hundredth time, yet will the heart be open to receive, and the answer to the confession, " No matter for the past. lot the future retrieve it . There was more about this charm than merely its healing properties. So thought Paul Drayton as he sat in his office next day, when a breathless servant en tered to summon him to immediate attendance on her lady a lady whom the young physician knew imme diately, on hearing the name, to be one of the most aristocratic leaders ot ton. lier house was near, and, as the eervant explained, " She had been took very bad with bleeding, and the whole room was covered with blood." When Paul arrived, he found a young and beautiful woman, in the last effort of life, bleeding from a ruptured blood-vessel. Paul saw at once there was no hope, and saying so to her weeping friends, ad vised them to send immediately for their family physician. He had been sent for, but the messenger had not yet returned. Paul stood painfully affected, holding the pulse of the dying lady, and asking the circum stances of the occurrence. A flood of passion and anger at an erring servant was the cause, boon came the regular medical attendant of the family, who advanced to the lady, merely glancing at Paul, and, taking her pulse, pronouueed it too late nothing could be clone " Do you give her up, doctor ?" said Paul, respect fully. The doctor was one of the magnates of the professihn, whom Paul in his most triumphant visions of success never thought of meeting in consultation. " Ah ! yes, yes," said the great man, looking at Paul through his glasses as though he was looking at some casual picture to which he was obliged to give attention ; " I don't see that any thing can be done." " I will try," said Paul quietly, " to stop the bleed ing.- ; ' The p-reat nhvsician merely looked again at Paul through his glasses, with an expression that seemed to say, YV nat impudent rascal is tnis wno dares put nis

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opinion in opposition to mine ?" So tyrannical is the force of habit,that Paul, to the moment of making this observation to the great doctor, had forgotten the possession of the bag that which for hours previous had absorbed every thought Now that ho was brought into the chamber of the sick, tho old practice came back upon him, and only the remedies that education suggested came to his mind. The charm was forgotten. Now it flashed upon his mind. If in this case it was successful, no longer could he be a doubter. , Tho last spark of life was trembling in the fair lady's frame when Paul stepped to her side and raised her listless hand. The great doctor walked about the room, holding his handkerchief, and seeming to say to it, " What is to become of the profession when such quiet, plain-dressed men as this are suffered to come into great families and give an opinion V" Paul, unnoticed, held the bag in the lady's palm, Eretending to examine her pulse. Scarce ten minutes ad elapsed when the blood ceased to pass from her mouth, and she opened her eyes. In a few minutes more she looked at Drayton, and said, "Doctor, I dreamed I was dead." ' The great doctor started ; it was the first intimation he had received of her recovery. lie had been too busily conversing with his handkerchief to notice any thing else. "Good Heavens! what a wonderful recovery I" he ejaculated. "Extraordinary constitution, to recover from such an attack !" Paul held up his finger for silence. The great doc

tor strode away in disgust In a short time the charm was softly withdrawn, and the lady lifted by Paul to the bed, where she soon dropped away to a comfortable sleep. The young physician then withdrew, after seeing the great doctor away before him, and charging the attendants to let nobody interfere with his patient, or give her any thing until he returned. In the afternoon Drayton was with her agnin, when she awakened from her sleep. She blessed him with s her eyes. He had forbidden her to speak. She took his hand, and before Faul was aware of her intention r Taised it to her lips, and drawing from her finger a valuable ring slipped it on his. This was a style of professional fee he had never yet received, and he scarcely knew what to do, but on the first appearance of an attempt on his part to replace it on its original finger, the look of the lady deterred him and he retained the costly gift. ....... J...R As Paul went home that evening he glanced again and again at the magnificent ring and thought ot the lady. . He thought how beautiful she was. "Ahl -why did I marry so early in life ? If I had -waited until now, wealth and position would have followed my marriage. I could have chosen from the highest and the proudest" And then how his heart chid bim ; it , was his first treasonable thought toward Lizzie, that sweet wife who had struggled with him through poverty and humbleness. Why should he now wish to deny her reward, when he saw before him wealth and greatness ? Again Paul entered his home with constraint He felt when giving the ring to Lizzie as though it were dishonestly obtained. And when Lizzie looked in his eyes, burst into tears, and returned him the gem, saying, "Keep it, Paul, wear it yourself!" Paul de- -termined next day to settle the matter by selling the bauble, and using the money for her and the children's benefit Never before had Drayton spent such an . evening at home never before had he felt that what lay heaviest on his own mind could not be transferred to Lizzie's, that they might bear the load between them. He walked nervously about the room, and finally took his hat and hurried away into the street Paul felt the cool air upon his heated face, but it could not quench the fire in his heart There was but one thought in his brain money, money! He must be rich ho must be rich, and why should he tell any one how he acquired his wealth was not his profession a cloak to . this? "Oh dear I oh dear !" cried a little weak voice at his side. ; , . " What is the matter," said Paul, rather sternly, turning to see a little barefoot child running by him. "Oh dear! oh dear!" was the answer. - "Why don't you speak ?" shouted Paul. He knew he was not speaking in his natural way, but then he was nervous. " And why didn't the child answer him?" "Oh father, father !" sobbed the child. ' "AVhere ?" said Paul ; "what's the matter with your father?" . "Dying !" gasped the girl, pointing down the street. tt T! j V 1 .,T -ii -.1 m

-toine, saiu jraui, "i win go witu you. "I was sent for a doctor," answered the child. "I am a doctor," replied Paul, and for the first time he thought, "This does not seem like a very promising patient" ' JLhv, child trotted on belore and ushered i'aul into a cellar, where, upon the floor, his head supported by a straw pillow, lay a man, bloated and blue-faced, in a fit Iroin drunkenness ; the other inmates of the cellar were a pale-faced, consumptive-looking woman and three crying cliildrcn. Paul looked a moment at the man, and then turning to the woman, bade her silence the children and he would do what he could: he gave him the proper remedies and stood waiting to see their effects. The woman, who had quieted the children, returned to faze upon her beastly husband, and Paul drew from er the following particulars of her life i She had married this man while she was very young, in opposition to all her friends. He was then wild and dissipated, and had grown worse each year, until he had reduced himself to the present degraded slate. She had lost all care for him, but feared to leave him, as he had threatened in case she did so to kill her on the first opportunity, and she declared in a flood of tears that she knew he would. Could she leave him, her parents, who were still living, would again receive her and her children ; but as long as she remained with him they could not In truth, she would not ask their assistance. It would only aggravate her position. This was the woman's story. And now, Paul Drayton, where is your charm ? The bloated drunkard, the felse father, the brutal husband, lies there dying on the floor, and all the skill of your craft can not save him. You know it too, Paul Drayton. You know ho can not be saved but by the charm.-1-Why should you not ? Is one human life more valuable than another ? Is this drunkard less in the eye of God than the beautiful lady or the wealthy merchant? Who made thee, Paul Drayton, the arbiter, of life and death ? Do you remember the oath of Hippocrates ? Save this dying wretchv -""No," said Paul Drayton, "let him die"!" ' ,: : , ,. And he died! ' '' l . s Paul Drayton went forth that night from the cellar and looked again upon the stars a different man. He had taken in his own hands that which the Great Power hath said belongeth only to him. Reason and argument could not acquit him in his own conscience. And he returned to his home only to feel that if he had concealed from Lizzie a portion of his secret he must now conceal from her all. The gulf widened between them. .. . Doctor Drayton was attaining reputation. His cures did not long remain hidden. ; They were in the mouths of the great. And soon he emerged from his little shabby office in a by-street to a brilliant suit of rooms upon a great and fashionable thoroughfare. Lizzie chin" to ner humble home as long as possible, but the famfly of the rapidly rising physician could not remain in obscurity. They must go into society. No lack now of silk dresses. Paul has a carriage, we were about to sav a brougham, and the brilliant young doc tor is sought beyond his power of reciprocation. s CONTINUED ON THE FOURTH FACE.