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"I wonder why some of us are born with brains and some are born just plain damned fools!" He went on again, arrived at the Congress Hotel, and, discovering through the window that the leading citizens of Needley were still in session, negotiated the back entrance. On the way upstairs he stumbled quite inadvertently and stopped to listen.
Needley, perforce, had become a vast boarding house, as it were there were few homes indeed that did not harbor their quota of those who sought the "cure." But there were others too who came who were not sick who had not faith who came to laugh and peer and peek.
I happened to ask a man in Portland if he knew of a quiet place. He meant to be humorous, I imagine. He said Needley was the quietest place he knew of. I took him at his word." "But how do you account for these miraculous cures?" they asked. "You have seen them the results," Madison replied. "You know the cures to be living, vital, irrefutable facts don't you?" "Yes," they agreed.
With the reporters, as far as Madison was concerned, it was simple enough; he had but to let them go their way, to let them revel in the stories that were on every tongue, to let them view with their own eyes facts, while he, modestly and diffidently, full of quiet earnestness, effaced himself, never thrusting himself forward, talking to them only when they pressed him but the handling of the sufferers who would flock to Needley in response to a newspaper publicity and endorsement that had been beyond his wildest dreams, was quite another matter.
I start for Needley as soon as I can get away. When I'm ready for the support, you three will hear from me and in the meantime you lay low. Nothing doing understand?
"Listen," said Doc Madison, his voice lowered a little. "I found this tucked away as a filler in a corner of the newspaper this evening. It's headed, 'A New Cult, with an interrogation mark after it. Now listen, while I read it:" Needley, Maine, offers no attraction for aspiring young medical men.
True of men, it is, in one instance at least, true of places Needley, from an unheard of, modest, innocuous and unassuming little hamlet, leaped in a flash into the focus of the world's eyes. In huge headlines the papers in every city of every State carried it on their front pages.
That air of awed hush and solemnity, morning, noon and night, without anything to relieve it, was just a trifle too drastic and sudden a change in life for her to accept calmly and swallow in one dose without feeling any effects from it! If she could be transported now for an hour, say, to the Roost, or Heligman's and the turkey trot, or the Rivoli, or any old place except Needley, Maine!
Here Helena barred their way they were free to enter the cottage, to copy the names, the record of gifts inscribed in the book, already a long list for Needley had required no other incentive to give than the example that had been set but that was all.
Besides, if this Coogan has got faith enough to crawl that mile, who knows what might happen make him crawl." Mr. Higgins, with a grim nod, headed a determined exodus from the hotel office and Madison strolled out onto the veranda. Needley was in a furor. The news spread like an oil-fed conflagration.
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