# Hystereo

Author: Baudin, Maurice, 1892-; Adkins, Dan, 1937-2013 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: Short Stories

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73296

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Hystereo+Baudin&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Daytimes, Woodard wasted little speech on the other guests at the summer hotel. Biddies and garrulous men--fools one and all, he told himself. They had come to be with nature, they said; but the clear, deep lake with its rocks and pointed firs, and the mountains beyond were merely a backdrop for their inane gabble. They had come for health and renewal, clucking of the ravages of city life. Yet scarcely a one but had acquired some absurd malady. They had turned the small hotel into a hospital for twitches and bor-borygms. As if, because they were paying their way, they must give the climate work to do. As if, thought Woodard, they were hiring the warm sunlight, the cool, sweet air, to mend...

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/hystereo-73296/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/hystereo-73296/chapters/2/index.md)