Part 2 (1/2)

”Why, doctor, what is in the wind now?”

The person who thus addressed hi e His dress indicated that he belonged to the wealthier class of citizens, and there was so in his manners and address

”Glad to see you, William,” said the doctor ”I want a crew; come, shi+p for a cruise”

”But where away, doctor?”

”To Holden's island, to visit a wounded man Jump aboard, and tend jib-sheets”

By this ti with the invitation, the little craft was soon under weigh, and rapidly proceeding down the river The distance was only three or four miles, and quickly passed over They were entlemen were both known, but he was unable to inform them of the name of the wounded man As soon as the doctor beheld him, however, he exclaimed:

”It is Mr Pownal God forbid the hurt should be serious”

The countenance of the doctor's conition of the stranger

”So, my poor fellow,” said the doctor, as the sufferer extended a hand, and expressed in a feords his pleasure at the coh, I clai”

He proceeded at once to exareat care and in silence He found, as Holden had said, that the charge had only grazed the surface, tearing the flesh from the side up to the shoulder, pretty deeply, indeed, but erous wound After the task was coes were applied, the doctor sunk with a sigh, as of relief, upon a chair, and assured the young man that he only needed rest for the present, and in a day or two ht return to his friends

”I would rather lose six ordinary patients than you, Tom Pownal,” he said ”Why you are my beau ideal of a merchant, the Ionic capital of the pillar of trade Now, let not your osies with portly sail, Like signiors and rich burghers on the flood; Or, as it were the pageants of the sea, Do overpower the petty traffickers'

Quiet, my dear boy, both of mind and body, are your indispensables I want you to understand that:

'I tell thee what, Antonio-- love thee, and It is my love that speaks'”

Pownal promised to be very obedient, in consideration whereof the doctor guaranteed he should receive great satisfaction from his wound

”You shall see for yourself,” he said, ”how beautifully it will heal

To a scientific eye, and under htful in witnessing the granulations We s of the honey-bee:

'How skillfully she builds her cell, How neat she stores the wax!'

I consider you a fortunate fellow”

The youngthe subject; but he paid little attention to their mirth

”And I will remain, meanwhile, with you,” said Williaentle hiood friend,”--and here he looked at Holden--”has no objection”

The Recluse signified his assent; and Pownal, thanking his friend, the doctor gave his sanction to the arrangement

”It will do you no harht or two, and you will prove yourself thereby of a different stamp from Timon's friends” And here the doctor, who loved to quote poetry, especially Shakspeare's, better than to adain in his favorite habit:

”'As we do turn our backs Frorave, So his familiars, to his buried fortunes, Slink all away; leave their false voith higar to the air'

But, Mr Holden, lend ue, too, if you please, for you must tell me how this happened I do not care to disturb Poith the inquiry”