Doctor Zay Author:Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ' DOCTOR ZAT. " To my nephew, Waldo Yorke, of Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts, all such properties of mine as are vested in shipping, timber, or lumbe... more »r, in the town of Sherman, in this State." This was vague, but the more stimulating. What can compare with the bewitchment of arduous pursuit for uncertain privilege? There is an Orphean power well known to reside in testamentary documents, whereby the most insignificant legacy will draw the most imposing fortune to dance attendance upon its possession. But it is doubtful if Waldo Yorke, of Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts, would have found himself inspired to a personal investigation of his departed relative's kind intentions concerning himself, but for a certain constitutional sensitiveness to this allurement attending the pursuit of unknown re- alia. 194295 "Send a lawyer, Waldo." His mother fhad said this over the coffee for which she delicately prescribed the proper Yorke admixture from the Se'vres creamer. She spoke with the slightly peremptory accent which certain mothers retain either from force of habit or from intrinsic deligrt in the sound, long after the expectation of filial submission has become a myth of the Golden Age. Mrs. Yorke was a handsome woman, who wore point appliquS. She was lame. Her son had reminded her that in sending Waldo Yorke he realH was not far from doing the precise, if remarkable, thing of which she spoke. " Quite true," said .the lady. " I had forgotten. 5Tour having a profession so seldom occurs to one, Waldo. And cousin Don would have been glad to go, now the season is over at the Club. He has nothing else to do." " I am somewhat overborne with that calamity myself, mother," the young man had said, coloring slightly. " I don't think we will discuss the thing; I a...« less