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Doc Etheredge, out here, is his cousin, and old man Etheredge owned nearly a hundred and fifty negroes at one time. But when that girl stands up at the altar to marry some one else, they will find me there putting in my protest." When we reached home I found Guinea sitting under a tree, reading, and I had joined her when the old man called me.
Maida could see that he was ashamed of being caught in tears, that he was trying hard to control himself. “It’s something I heard,” he replied at last. “What?” Maida asked. “Last night after I got to bed, Doc O’Brien came here to get his bill paid. Mother thought I was asleep and asked him a whole lot of questions. He told her that I wasn’t any better and I never would be any better.
Doc stayed after it was over and had a talk with Gilson, and of course he got converted, like he always did. He told ma so. "I hadn't been havin' much talk with Doc one way or another, but when ma told me he had jined the spiritualists I eased up a litt, and one day I made bold to say, 'Well, Doc, I s'pose now you have give up that Shakespeare foolishness, ain't you?
They are all here, by the way Parker, McKay, Mellen, Sheldon, 'Doc' Gray he has the hospital, you know." "And Mr. Slater?" "Oh, we couldn't exist without 'Happy Tom'! No, the only miracle about all this is the loyalty that has made it possible.
"You'll know when you are really fit," he said, smiling, "because your back will tell you better than I can. You're a mighty fortunate young man!" "You sure fixed me up fine, Doc. You was sayin' I could leave here next week?" "Yes, if you keep on improving and I can't see why you should not. And I don't have to tell you to thank Miss Gray for what she has done for you.
And after they tole how he had up and sassed pop, and him a directer yet! And Nathaniel he tole how Absalom had heard off the Doc how Teacher he was a' UNbeliever and says musin' is the same to him as prayin'! Now think! Such conwictions as them!
"Doc, I'm looking for the place where the ice cream flows," Reade hinted. "Can I tempt you?" "Without half trying," laughed Dr. Furniss the young physician who had gone out to camp to attend the Man-killer victim. As they were seated together over their ice cream, Dr. Furniss inquired: "By the way, do you ever see my one-time patient nowadays?" "The fellow we exhumed from the Man-killer?"
Busy days for Doc Tripp who, unhampered, trusted, aided at every turn by his employer, was from dawn until dark among the ranch live stock, all but feeling pulse and taking temperature of horses, cows, colts, calves, hogs, and mules. He stopped the calf sickness; effected cures in every case excepting one. And the rest of the stock he finally gave a clean bill of health. Busy days for Carson.
Somewhere, far away, there was the muffled rumble of engines. Doc whirled to the viewscreen. Greg and Johnny looked at the same instant, and Johnny groaned. Below them, the Scavenger's jets were flaring. First the pale starter flame, then a long stream of fire, growing longer as the engines developed thrust. Doc slammed down a switch, roared into a speaker. "That scout ship ... stop it!
If Doc jines in with spiritualists, it will be better'n what he believes in now, and if he begins changin' religions, mebby I can keep him changin', and change him into a churchgoer." And so, jist to see what Doc was like to be, I coaxed ma to go, an' I went, too. It wasn't near so sinful as I expected.
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