ONE
April 18th, 1908,
Chicago, Illinois
THE ADVENTURES OF A
WOMAN HOBO
ONE
April 18, 1908. Chicago, Illinois.
“Doctor Lynn, you are in the incipient stage of tuberculosis. You should return to California immediately.”
That is what Dr. Graves said to me to-day and he is in a position to know what he is talking about. But I can’t believe it! Why, I can do the work of two women. Haven’t I supported myself since I was fifteen years old, worked my way through Medical College and built up a city practice by my own, unaided efforts? Besides, every one says I am the picture of health. My five feet eight of energised muscle, my high colour, my breadth of shoulder, all seem to give such a diagnosis the lie.
Yet a still voice whispers in my heart, “It is true.” Since that last severe attack of grippe the buoyancy has vanished from my step. Life has become a drag.