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He told Anna so himself. What was the good Anna now to do? Dr. Shonjen wanted her of course to stay. Anna was so sad with all these troubles. She knew here in the Doctor's house it would be bad when he was married, but she had not the strength now to be firm and go away. She said at last that she would try and stay. Doctor got married now very soon.
I go there now. Good by Mrs. Lehntman, I hope you don't get no bad luck doin' what it ain't right for you to do." "My, Miss Annie is real mad now," Julia said, as the house shook, as the good Anna shut the outside door with a concentrated shattering slam. It was some months now that Anna had been intimate with Mrs. Drehten. Mrs. Drehten had had a tumor and had come to Dr. Shonjen to be treated.
Shonjen were very happy days with the good Anna. All of Anna's spare hours in these early days she spent with her friend, the widow Mrs. Lehntman. Mrs. Lehntman lived with her two children in a small house in the same part of the town as Dr. Shonjen. The older of these two children was a girl named Julia and was now about thirteen years of age.
Now it was not only other girls and the colored man, and dogs, and cats, and horses and her parrot, but her cheery master, jolly Dr. Shonjen, whom she could guide and constantly rebuke to his own good. The doctor really loved her scoldings as she loved his wickednesses and his merry joking ways. These days were happy days with Anna.
Lehntman was the only one who had any power over Anna. She induced her to let Dr. Shonjen take her in his care. No one but a Dr. Shonjen could have brought a good and german Anna first to stop her work and then submit herself to operation, but he knew so well how to deal with german and poor people.
Her habits were as firm fixed as before, but it always was with Anna that things that had been done once with her enjoyment and consent could always happen any time again, such as her getting up at any hour of the night to make a supper and cook hot chops and chicken fry for Dr. Shonjen and his bachelor friends. Anna loved to work for men, for they could eat so much and with such joy.
Drehten was always getting worse, and now the doctor thought it would be best to take the tumor out. It was no longer Dr. Shonjen who treated Mrs. Drehten. They all went now to a good old german doctor they all knew. "You see, Miss Mathilda," Anna said, "All the old german patients don't go no more now to Doctor.
Anna made the house all beautiful and clean and she really hoped that she might stay. But this was not for long. Mrs. Shonjen was a proud, unpleasant woman. She wanted constant service and attention and never even a thank you to a servant. Soon all Doctor's old people went away. Anna went to Doctor and explained. She told him what all the servants thought of his new wife.
And so through this new friend Anna led a wider and more entertaining life, and often she used up her savings in helping Mrs. Lehntman through those times when she was giving very much more than she got. It was through Mrs. Lehntman that Anna met Dr. Shonjen who employed her when at last it had to be that she must go away from her Miss Mary Wadsmith.
Lehntman was diffuse and careless in her ways, but she never worked such things for her own ends, and she was too sure of Anna to be jealous of her other friends. All this time Anna was leading her happy life with Dr. Shonjen. She had every day her busy time. She cooked and saved and sewed and scrubbed and scolded.
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