Sunshine in Shadowed Lives; Or, the Royal Secret of Morg. Bayne (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1892 Excerpt: ... VI. THE ROYAL SECRET MADE KNOWN. As we have already noted, Eldone Falls was infused with a new life when Crown Hill began to improve. A new addition was one of the results, and it in turn was subdivided and sold into town lots. A wonderful and permanent boom had reached the place, and the town was alive with strangers who were constantly coming and going, many of them to remain when they came and become permanent residents. Among the new-comers was the new doctor, as Mrs. Gabble-tongue had called him, who had been summoned immediately at the accident on Crown Hill. He had come a perfect stranger, and for a time it looked as though he would never have a patient. He became almost hopeless, as he waited day after day, spending what little he had heretofore earned; but the disaster to Winslow Deane was to be the stone upon which Dr. Marloring was to step up to a large practice, to places of prominence, and ultimately into great wealth. This was his first call, and though a critical case he was equal to the 51 emergency. His genial quiet ways pleased many; his sympathetic nature pleased more, and his skill and promptness drew to him those who were in need. His successful treatment of this case gave him a renown that a hundred ordinary cases could not have given him. He rapidly grew into favor with all, save the men of like cloth but less ability, and they, as in all cases of such jealousy, only disliked him because they, like others, recognized, but unlike others would not acknowledge his ability. Weeks and months rolled by before Winslow Deane was able to do much, but while and w hen he did recover, he and his physician were the talk of the city, for all acknowledged that it was a wonder that he lived at all, and all sympathized with h im the more because when ...