There are not more than half a dozen streets in Alleghany City, the
principal one being the road along the mountain-side, which, leaving the
village, climbs up over an ancient stream of lava, and crossing the
summit of the mountain plunges down to Forest City. Dr. Lefevre was the
only doctor in the two "cities," and spent much of his time crossing the
high ridge that separates the two. He often wished that the miners, in
pursuit of gold-bearing gravel, had dug a passage-way through the ridge,
as they had done on the opposite side of Kanaka Creek, where there was a
tunnel from Chipp's Flat to Minnesota. But on this side of the creek
they mined for quartz. However, the miners were good patients, and some
day the doctor hoped to return to France with the gold his skill had
earned him.
With a Frenchman's zeal for science and thoroughness, he was a most
excellent physician. By the first of October, Robert Palmer was cured.
To the doctor it seemed almost a miracle; and he cautioned the old miner
kindly:
"Mr. Palmer, one can never tell about this malady. To-day you are well,
thanks to your remarkable constitution and a Frenchman's art.
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