Up the Hill and Over
mething cool and kind
andkerchief ... the pain had dulled to a slow throbbing ... if he opened his eyes he would know who licked his hand and what it was that lay upon hi
to decide the quest
y comfortably weary, deliciously drowsy. Had he been at home in his own bed he would have turned ove
hion and close beside him, with comforting nose thrust into his open palm, lay a ferocious-looking bull pup. The pup grinned
oor of a white building; neither stoop nor building had he ever seen before. Again the dog barked, loudly, and as if in answer to the bark, the door above the stoop opened and a young girl came out. She cast a casual glance at him as he la
sensation; an almost forgotten feeling to
ion came. He was hungry! But what an unkind, inconside
," he sugge
irl smiled approvingly
ard, sir. Run away
ay. Callandar's sense of injury deepened. The girl had b
r. Tramp?" asked t
I am starving!" Then, as the blissful meaning of this first feeling o
se in the girl's voice. She proceeded
ossession. Money cannot buy it, skill cannot com
such a dear little smile that for a moment its
said warmly, "that
te of the second sandwich, "until now I had always thought that hunger
llandar a little stiff
she was a most unkind and heartless girl, for all that. Never while he lived would he ask her for a san
Jo
pped all his pockets carefully. The pocketbook was in none of them-and he
st place where money would be of use is Coombe, and Coombe is a full mile away. It is a pity that my principles, and t
bitterly, "bu
one if you were to ask prettily and to apologise to me for ma
w-the pump, the avenging angel! (Had this been the avenging an
a boyish sho
hes left," she warned him.
ease!"
he used that tone; a persuasive charm, a trace of
"If I remember rightly I was hardly in a condition to contradict you. Not but t
u fainted I knew.
t e
! And besides-loo
looked, a
" he ve
rceptible reason a tiny blush fluttered across the whiteness of her face like a roseleaf chased
you aren't a tramp. I know what you
come to
re if you hadn't dropped this out of your pocket." Wi
he admitted. "All the same I don't know where it came from. Some one must
ions. You are a doct
are the doctor who i
s's pra
his pillow with a look of de
am!" he
s if you had ju
forgotten it-temporari
suppose you know," she said with quite a motherly air, "
do with a little more of it), "I could hardly manage a big one just now. As you may have noticed, my health is r
mmonds, not Sim
the name with the pr
ch nicer, don
ell-known name is
octor was genui
p? What do
ne you meet," with a mischievous smile, "will say, 'Callandar-ah! no relation to Dr. Henry Callan
idea that the Montreal man would be known up
k brows in a way which expressed
"I must go now. It is time to ring the
ee, the white stoop and the small white building were situated in a little, quiet oasis separated by a low f
a school!"
daintily flicking the crumb
I really must ring the bell." She flicked another invisible cru
live it down. It isn't as if I were just out of college, you know.-In fact," as if the thought
ou," she said. "Young doctors are often no use at all. A great many people prefer doctors to be older! I know, you see, for my father was a doctor. He was Dr. Coom
introduction with a bow an
should take Dr. Spifkin's practice, I hope I may see you so
l. But before you go-" with a gleeful smile she handed him his lost pocketbook-"this fell out of your coat when I pull-helped you under the tree.
omradeship; then with a startled "I really must
iting musingly until a sudden furious