, now--came on here with some money and
provisions for the sufferers. He would insist on lending me a few
dollars. He's a good fellow: I used to like him at college. Well, he
told me of a place near Keokuk where a good physician and surgeon is
needed--none there except a raw young man. It has no railroad, but
it's all the better for a doctor on that account."

"No railroad! How in the world do the folks get anywhere?"

"It's on the Mississippi River, and boats are passing the town every
few hours."

"The idea of going from Chicago to where there isn't even a railroad!
What place is it?"

"Nauvoo."

"Nauvoo! That miserable Mormon place?"

"Harrison says there is only an occasional Mormon there now--that it's
largely settled by Germans engaged in wine-making."

"Grapes?" asked Napoleon.

"That boy never comes out of his dreaming except for something to eat.
Dear me! the idea of living among a lot of Germans!" said Mrs. Lively,
returning to the subject.

"There's a French element there, the remnants of the Icarians--a
colony of Communists under Cabet," the doctor explained.

"What! those horrid Communists that turned Paris upside down?" Mrs.
Lively exclaimed.

"Oh no," said the doctor. "They settled in Nauvoo some twenty years
ago, I believe."

"Dear! dear! dear! it's very hard," said the lady.

"My dear, I think we are very fortunate. Harrison says there's plenty
of work there, though it's hard work--riding over bad roads. He
promises me letters of introduction to merchants there, so that I can
get credit for the household goods we shall need to begin with and
for our pressing necessities. He has already written to a man there
to rent us a house, and put up a kitchen stove and a couple of plain
beds, and to have a few provisions on hand when we arrive. I purpose
leaving here to-morrow, or the day after at farthest."

"But how are we ever to get there without money?"

"We can get passes out of the city. So, my dear, please try to feel
grateful. Think of the thousands here who can't turn round, who are
utterly helpless."

"Well, it never did help me to feel better to know that somebody was
worse off than I. It doesn't cure my headache to be told that somebody
else has a raging toothache. Grateful! when I haven't even a change of
clothes!"

"Go to the relief-rooms and get a change of under garments," Dr.
Lively advised.

"I won't go there and wait round like a beggar, and have them ask me a
million