The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1859-05-05
PART III.

The next day Mrs Chetwynde and
Nurse Bradshaw found themselves, by
eleven o'clock in the morning, in the
waiting-room of an eminent physician
They had discovered that this gentle
man had begun practice there at the re-
quired date, and had patients mentally
afflicted under his care in that place,
but that he had not remained in it
long, After waiting for nearly halfan-
hour, DR.. Urliug made his appearance.
Mrs, Chetwynde put her questions with
straightforwardness and simplicity; the
physician replied concisely.
He remembered Of Sir Jasper Carg-
hill placing under his care a young wo-
man named Alice Bell, afflicted with
certain delusions. She was allowed to
have her child with her Sir Jasper
had represented her as his eldest broth
er's mistress; and her delusions were
that she had been married TO Sir Rupert
Carghill, in Scotland, and that the pres
ent 'baronet was tho author of q conspir-
aoy to deprive her child Of it's legal
rights She was fretful, but never vio-
lent, and it had never been necessary to
place her under personal restraint
She was very handsome, naturally in
telligent and amiable, and passionately
fond Of her child Dr. Urling had
more than once wished to discharge hel
as perfectly capable of managing her
self and hOr affairs; but she had such q
terror Of Sir Jasper that she begged
him TO keep her safe with her child from
his Vaccinations.
"Then she died in your house?" sait
Mrs. Chetwynde.
"No, " replied DR., Urling, rather hes
itating. "She began at last not TO fee
herself secure with me. Her delusionr
returned as strongly as ever, aud, ont
night, after a short absence of mine il
the country, she left the house, an,
neither Sir Jasper nor / ever succoede,
in obtaining the slightest trace of he
afterwards" F"
! Mrs Chotwynde shuddered. "Dr
i Urling, that poor woman was my moth
erl Had 1 been taken from her befor
she fed? Was it in search of me sh
cast herself loose upon the world2"
'I fear it was. Sir Jasper had beer
there thet day, and removed you in m.
doctor Urling, my mother was nj
more mad than / am. Her so-callo,
delusion was the truth Sir Jasper hat
his own interests TO serve in proving
her dishonored aud insane. Tell me al
you remember Of her escape"
! "When / returned home, my house
keeper informed me that early in th
day Sir Jasper Carghill had Ieen to Sc
Alice Bell; that's had heard high al
} tercatiou going on in the room between
them, mingled with the child's cries
that, when she attempted to enter, sh
found the door fastened. When 81
! Jasper left the nurse went into Ga
room, aud found Alice raving and cry
ing over her child, saying She had do
, stroyed her own and lis good name for
, ever by some concession she had made
) that she could not bear It's presence, 70
, IL reproached her, and she sent IL out o
the room While she was ia this con
} dition, Sir Jasper returned, aud, 4
spite Of the mothers frenzy, and ~
j servants resistance, he forced the lil
I DE girl from the house. Tho same eve
; ming Alice herself escaped aud all sut
; sequent Ghosts 10 trace her. living q
. dead, proved vain
3 "Sir Jasper told me always that sh
, Twas dead, =" oaid Mrs 0hetWyude.-