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Bellefonte, Pa., April 30, 1915. |
THE MOVING FINGER
By HAROLD CARTER.
“No, sir, I won't let you look at my ,
eyes, nor I won’t have you round here
neither,” snarled “Pop” Hendon to
young Docter Gray.
The young physician had only spent
three months in Greenville, but that
was quite long enough to convince him
that “Pop” Hendon was, as the neigh-
bors said, the crankiest old man in
Bretton county.
Doctor Gray did not mind the old
fellow’s moods. Before he had gone
blind, five years before, Hendon had
been a good neighbor and citizen.
Since his blindness he had become
morose and suspicious. The worst
feature of the situation, so far as the
doctor was concerned, was that “Pop”
suspected the young man’s love for
his only child, Alice, and took a ma-
licious pleasure in taunting him about
it.
* The young fellow was not yet in a
position to marry. Alice would have
waited for him; but she could not
leave her father. She was all he had. |
The young doctor had a last inter-
view with his sweetheart that after-
noon.
“Dearest, I will wait for you as long
as is necessary,” she said. “But so
long as my father lives we must be
just good friends and nothing more. If
he were not blind I would leave all
and come to you.”
Gray understood. He kissed her
fondly and went back to his office, re-
solved to throw himself with all his
energy into his work and try to forget,
until the time came to claim her. !
And so a year passed by. Rarely, |
when Gray had occasion to pass the |
house, he would see the old man, im- |
placable as ever, seated upon his |
porch, spelling out the Braille words !
with his right forefinger. He seemed |
conscious of the doctor’s presence, and |
would look up and scowl heavily when |
Gray went by.
One day Gray had an urgent call on |
the telephone. It was from Alice.
“Wont’ you come up at once?’ she |
begged. “Doctor Clifden is away and |
father has had a bad accident.”
A medical man knows no enmities
where his profession is concerned.
Half an hour later Gray was at the
house and being shown into the old
man’s sick room.
Hendon had been knocked down by ,
an automobile while trying to cross
the street. He had taken malicious
delight in running away from his
daughter, and had been struck fairly
by the machine. He was badly bruised;
but, what was worse, the tendons of
his right hand had been crushed.
Gray saw at a glance that, while the
hand could be made serviceable, Hen-
don would never again be able to
straighten the fingers completely.
“You're the young fellow who used
to be sweet on Alice, ain’t you?’ he
snarled. “I thought you’d drop her as
soon as you learned there wasn’t any
money coming with her.”
“Let me see that hand, please,” an-
swered Gray.
A week later “Pop” Hendon learned
{ “Pop”
the truth. His hand would be useful
for all purposes except one;
again would he be able sufficiently to
flex the forefinger so as to feel the
raised type with the delicate nerve
tissue underneath the first joint.
When the news was broken to him
the old man’s agony was painful to
witness. He lay still without speaking
for days together, interspersing these
periods of moroseness, however, with
- outbreaks of maniacal fury. At such
times only Gray could restrain him
from flinging himself out of the win-
dow. Somehow the young doctor
seemed to have acquired a certain in-
fluence over the morose old man,
It was after one of these maniacal
spells that Gray addressed Hendon,
who was lying exhausted upon his
bed.
“Mr. Hendon,” he said, “I may as
well tell you that I took the occasion
just now to examine your eyes.”
Hendon lay on the bed in dogged
silence.
“I believe your trouble is nothing
but cataract,” he continued. “I have
been to the doctors who examined you
before and seen their records. What
they told you. was that your case was
incurable at present, but might be al-
leviated later.”
“Yes, trying to fool me into spend-
ing more money on ’em,” snarled
“Pop” Hendon.
“No, sir,” answered Doctor Gray de-
cisively. “A cataract cannot be op-
erated upon until it has reached a cer-
tain stage of hardness, about a year
after it begins. You were the victim
of your own suspicions. ' You could
have been cured years ago. You can
be cured now.”
“Will you do it, Doc?” gasped old
Hendon, turning his face upon Gray’s
with a look of wistful hope in his
eyes.
Two weeks later “Pop”
seated in the dining room, waited for
the bandage to be lifted. The morose
old man had been strangely silent dur-
ing the period of waiting.
Doctor Gray took off the bandages.
“Well, sir?” he demanded.
“Pop” Hendon leaped out of his
chair.
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“I can see!” he screamed, clasping ;
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was in entire sympathy, as he drew
Alice toward him and kissed her. And
Hendon beamed on them
through his heavy lenses.
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