Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1856-11-28

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The II week he lost what ghostly.
cheerful IS. he had ever possessed the
second Lex he lost his appetite /; the
third vi he lost his pulse (the doctor
could d il only after a long search. -
Slowly It surely he descended into the
before lntioned Valley of Death, and
wrappshimselfsin the generosity of its
atmospre, That is to say. he made his
will. =
And pwit wanted but twenty-fOnrs
| of the eis:i .s2ssfls @Sa 81
| Mrs {elford Was in agony !: Mr.. Wei
ford pId and prepared. There was NO
decieT him. He had clock some
where his bosom which beat the min-
utes Of hour with unfailing precision.
1t had dwenty. four hours only to run.
You N nt play tricks with it as much as
yon lik > but you could not make it go
an hou uonger.
No g felt more interested in this
strangs sase than Mr.. Wexford himself.
He fel certain kind of pride in deceiy-
ing thDoctor, aud was in every respect
under personal obligation to die. at that
speci6 hour, He refused all kind Of
medic D. and even food. He became a
snail b skeleton, dragging coffin about
with h instead of a house. -.
It 5 at this crisis that DR.. Pillogus
shoots head.
q" hs man viii die. Nothing I can do
will 20 him."
w these things were going on at the
Lakele House, other events transpired
III thSillage hard by which had some re-
latioi % them.
Aranger had arrived at brakes =
The SPECULATIVE ready will Immediately
suppe that this is the name Of the viii.
age question. Nothing Of the Sort
Dras was the name of a hotel. or of an
Iindaual who kept it. ! was never
able make out which. Al one time
had sarly make up my mind that brakes
was man, but a painter whom after
waponyersed with toppled over thisithe'
orypy telling me that he was going to
pail Brakes, Now / submit that
Dres', even il he were an Indian. and
acdtomed to paint, would scarcely re-
qui five hundred weight Of white>lead
antwo forty foot ladders for his toilet.
flight of steps leading to a wilderness
Of Pzza was the principal architectural
feare Of brakes. It resembled a Connec
tici pie, and appealed to the eye. If you
4 We inside, there was not much to please
yo, Still Drakes' was great instiLu'
Iio,-a nucleus round which the citizens
revived. You could get anything you
wa led there-at least there was a tradi
toto that effect. In word. brakes
pudown everything short of New York
wbh was perhaps its equal.
| gentleman stood on brakes piazzi
sinking cigar. He had a cane in hi
hal, and managed it so severely that th,
inttiye guessed Immediately the'ownei
wi military man. If,that was not suf
font, other things were. The Militar.
.Ckftain scorned silence and hated re
pe. When he brought his foot to th'
grlnd the tafters trembled. If he wan
IeIto sit down, he seized chair ant
dsled,it to- the ground. and then sunl
I'M is heavily and crankily. II he wan
te TO place his feet on the ballustrade, b.
ftg them into the air first, and thei
bmght them down with a swoop. Whei
hcoughed, you could hear him on tn
otsr side OF the lake he did it disdain
fuy, and detiantly, not meekly and pain
fuy. 1 am afraid this military chieftai
ws oyerbearing too, for some Of the h0
Dies of brakes were scared by his sto
n look. He had only been there cou
o of hours. bat the place belonged I
| i'm as much as though he had paid for
| iihard cash, and hired the help himself
The only man the Military Ghieftai
endescended to notice was DR.. Pillogus
I no dropped in as he was passing on, hi
ay homeward. He had once had
kyonet thrust into his bowels in Mexico
nd respected science for having stitche
p the hole.
They had friendly conversation te
ether this is to say, DR.. Pillogus trie
Ip pump the stranger. and succeeded
ringing up few dry sounds. The Dot
Tor then poured in a bucketful of b
pwn conversation. to make Il go easier.-
He related all the particulars ofa remaI
sable medical case in which patient n
fused to take medicine, and yet was d!
Ing; thus, as it were. cheating the hor
sst practitioner out of his privileges. tt
Military Ghieftain was interested, and ii
quired the uame of the patient.
Wexford" "-~s.--.---,.-.---
Wexford !"
The Chieftain elevated his eyebrow
curled his mustaches, stiffened his bac
knocked the ashes of his cigar, and gel
orally looked about as surprised as lart
snail when you hit It on the head.
know the family?"
"slightly."
ga sad case. Sir"
The Military Chieftsin made cayall
cut with his cane. and replied,
Very"
Enlarging on this admission, he sfte
ward exclaimed: