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Here, at last, lay the Rocky Mountains. Leaving behind the Medicine Hills, we descended into the plain and held our way until sunset towards the west. It was a calm and beautiful evening; far away objects stood out sharp and distinct in the pure atmosphere of these elevated regions.
"Well, he is rather cut up, and you rather rubbed it into him, you know," I said, for I thought Moore a little hard. "Did I say anything untrue?" "Well, not untrue, perhaps; but truth is like medicine not always good to take." At which Moore was silent till his patient needed him again. It was a weary day.
"Well, sir, we few, that really meant medicine, made inquiries, and heard of a famous old school in the south of France, where women had graduated of old; and two of us went there to try an Italian lady and myself. We carried good testimonials from Zurich, and, not to frighten the Frenchmen at starting, I attacked them alone. Cornelia was my elder, and my superior in attainments.
"You haven't been drinking!" she gasped. "No," he drawled lazily, "I wouldn't say drinking I just took one big swallow last night makes you sleep good when you're tired. Good medicine! I always carry a little with me." A sickening wave went over her. Not that she felt that he was going to be a drunkard.
"Are these the two Americans who have recently arrived, and who were concerned in that duel with Burley?" "Of coorse they is; and haven't they been giving a number of us poor divils medicine and good advice? O, by the powers, let me say the man that wants to hurt 'em, that's all!"
And if we claimed a bein' sick, they'd give us a dose of castah oil and tu'pentine. That was the principal medicine cullud folks had to take, and sometimes salts. But nevah no whiskey that was not allowed. And if we was real sick, they had the Doctah fo' us. "We had very bad eatin'. Bread, meat, water. And they fed it to us in a trough, jes' like the hogs.
That feeling was not new to them: they knew that they had to be together to enjoy anything wholly. But they always loved to hear it said. His tender words did Antoinette more good than any medicine. She smiled now, languidly, happily.
Martha, stay with Electra till I come back; leave her on no account. If you notice any change, send for Dr. Whitmore. Here is my watch; count her pulse carefully, and as long as it is over one hundred, give her, every two hours, a spoonful of the medicine in that square vial on the table. I trust to you, Martha, to take care of her.
Had an opportunity offered, he would have acted as her physician, and administered a medicine that would have laid her under the necessity of staying at home. But his acquaintance with her being too slight to furnish him with the means of executing this expedient, he devised another, which was practised with all imaginable success.
She remembered him as one of the two sick boys she had nursed at the hospital. The other one had died. "Me take 'm plenty fella medicine too much," Aroa was saying. "Well, and you all right now," she answered. "Me want 'm tobacco, plenty fella tobacco; me want 'm calico; me want 'm porpoise teeth; me want 'm one fella belt."
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