The Story of a Doctor's Telephone—Told by His Wife

e doctor had not returned. Mary, a drowsiness beginning to steal

to bed-that i

n the wife to wait f

drapery of her

wn to plea

perchanc

sleep to end

other ills that

tion of a w

of sleep on p

on devoutly

ce to sleep!-aye,

mnolence what

pause. There i

calamity of

not have come

she, his wife,

reathless from

knees on inter

head on a h

finally all

eceiver down a

estion: "Is the

y now to her

vely, she mus

as called out

t him now a

hould be held

tors that ma

so brusque and s

es an old fr

s ever ready

need of many,

n, the message

f some strick

oice trembles wi

listener ear

him! Get someone

in the messag

re and death

stens, tho' wit

mayed and knows

knowledge

e he there, wou

o about much

se anticip

through fanc

ather choose t

fly to others

tle longer fo

last she does

mewhat surer

s there waitin

anying clearin

d know were sh

he comes and

slumber till t