People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1893 — Got His Fee. [ARTICLE]

Got His Fee.

A good story is told of » late doctor, famous for his skill and also his great love of money. He had a constant and enriching patient in an old shopkeeper. This old lady was terribly rheumatic and unable to leave her sofa. During the doctor’s visits she kept a five-dollar note in her hand, which duly went into Dr. C.’s pocket. One morning he found her lying dead on the sofa. Sighing deeply, the doctor approached, and taking her hand in his he saw the two fingers closed on his fee: “Poor thing,” he said, as he pocketed it; “sensible to the last!”