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“ Published Wecklv by the Springfield Publishing'Co., 57 Hillman Street. Springfield, Mass.-$5 aycar.
.’ "Entered at the post-office at Spnngtield, Mass., as second class mailer.
VOL. KIVX, No 8,
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FEBIIUARY 22, 1894.
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Single Copies, 19 Cents.
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“The Doctor's Secret,” “Like Dz‘un’s Kiss,” “Gretcl2ea,” etc.
, CHAPTER I.
THE rmsr noon. ' ’
“,1 TAKE them for rheumatic gout,” said a slight,
dark-haired woman to her neighbor, as she leaned
back in a. low lounging-chair, and sipped-some water
an attendant had just brought her. “ You would not
suppose I suffered from such a complaint, would
' you?”-and she held up a small arched foot, with a
scarcely perceptible swelling in the larger joint. She
laughed somewhat affectedly,.and the neighbor, who
was fat and coarse, and had decided gouty symptoms
herself, looked at her with something of the con-
temptjan invalid elephant might be supposed to bestow
on a buzzing fly. ’ -
“You. made that remark the last time you were
here,” she ‘said: “and I told you, it‘ you suffered
from a suppressed form of the disease, it would be
‘all the worse for you. Much better for it to come out
‘-my doctor says.” ' i‘ ‘
There was no doubt about the disease "having
“come oL‘1L”‘.'1”n the person‘ at the speaker. It had
“ come out” in her face, wliiclrwas brilliantly rubi-
cund; in her hands and ankles and feet, which
were a distressful spectacle of “ knobs” and “bumps"
of an exaggerated phrenological type-perhaps also
in her temper, which was fierce and fiery as her com-
plexion, as most of the frequcnters of the baths knew, ,
and the attendants also, to their cost.
The small, dark lady, with the arched feet, lapsed '
into sulky silence, and let her eyes wander over the
room to see if any one she knew was there. V
The bathsiwere of an extensive and sumptuous
description-efitted up with almost Oriental < luxury
and comfort, and attached to a. monster hotel, hull;
by an enterprising company of speculators, at an En-
glish winter resort, in H-shire. I -
The company had proudly hoped that lavish ex-
penditure, a beautiful situation, and the disinterested‘
recommendation of fashionable physicians, would in-
duce English peopleito discover that there were spots
and places in their own land as healthyand conve-
nient as Auvergne, or “'icsbaden, or the Riviera.
But though. the coast views were line, and the scen-
‘,,h.--.
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