The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1861-04-10
be allowed to ask questions Does it give
you any pain ?''

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you any pain 9''
"None--none at ALL
The doctor looked graver still.
"There is looking. glass nearly opposite
Please to look and see fit has not increased
in size"
The lady, halffrightened, complied. eyes
it has indeed--it is almost four times as
large as it was !; almost as large as a pea
how tiresome p
.'One more question" said the DOCTOR
"Have you any idea what brought it p
"None," answered Mrs. G.. "George,
love, think would rather CO."
"Think again" pressed the doctor "Has
! any reptile--any insect ?''
eyes, DR.. Rogers answered the now fast
paling beauty yes, but no that could not
be it, and was silly to think twice of so
tri6ng thing as the bite Of a fy."
"a fly! What sort of fly? exclaimed
the doctor.
"One of those black flies that were in the
verandah, a tiresome buzzing thing it stung
me very sharply just there on the left cheek
where the spot is. ! thought nothing of it
when the pain went of. TWAS a long sort
of fly, with shining body and glistening
greeenish wings"
"The Baal-Tse the Black Jupiter fly ! |
knew it. Ching knew it," said hoarse
grumb!ing voice close behind.
1t was the old comprador, half horror
struck, half vain of his sagacity Hastily
they drew her from the room, wrapped her
shawl around her. and hurried her home
The music struck cheerily up, the dance
went on, supper succeeded Ga very sump-
tuous affair." and then followed more dances,
but by degrees the mirth languished. and a
sort of uncomfortable feeling of apprehension
and gloom rervaded the guests. Strange
whispers, muttered hints, went round the
very Chinese servants had an ominous look.
By degrees almost everybody became aware
that some mischance bad befallen the fair
English woman whom they had just welcom-
ed among them. Two or three officers went
to seek the doctor in his quarters, late as it
was, to learn the truth. The doctor was
absent. He was at Captain G.'s bungalow,
his servant said. He had sent for his porta-
ble medicine chest. Also the physician to
the forces, and the marine surgeon had been
called up. The next morning when. most
of the officers were at breakfast in the bar
rack mess room, q subaltern entered some
what hastily.
"Have you heard about poor Mrs. G. ?'
"What Dead -
II was even so. She had been cut down
in the very pride Of her beauty, like some
queenly flower. 1t was awfully sudden. 1t
broke her husbands life and hope at blow.
He never was seen to smile after her loss :;
he shrunk away from his old friends; he left
the Rifles, exchanged into regiment that
was serving in Upper India, and died of
fever in the Terai.
Now, to clear up the seeming mystery of
the Black Spot There is fly which, for
the mischief it does, is known and feared
throughout the East, and which is usually
called the Baal-ly, or Jupiter f1y It's bite
is generally most fatal to cattle This fly is
seldom very hurtfnl to the human race, ex-
cept when it has lately been feeding on car
rion, and thus communicates the morbid Vi
rus of decomposed animal matter to the veins
Of living being This occasionally happens
even in Europe, and in the case of the COM
mon house-fly, and the buzz, or greenish
carrion fly. But this is rare indeed, and
only three or four cases Of death ensuing
from such bites are recorded within the last
six or seven years, on the continent Of Eu.
rope. In the East, with sun peculiarly
adapted to the Fastening Of disease, the
deaths from this insidiously administered
poison are more frequent, and the poison
itselfis more yirulent and rapid. 1t was in
this manner that Mrs. G. met her DEATH
The black spot, unnoted, at first, by all eyes
save her own, and neglected by herself was
the mark Of incipient modification, the GEN.
ter Of the gangrene that spread and spread,
painlessly and inevitably, until what had
been scarce-seen speok, proved sufficient
to cut short that fair young life. The doc
tor took blame to himself for not having in
sisted, in defiance Of ordinary rules, on the
young lady's quitting the ballroom at once;
but the hope that he might be mistaken, and
q wish to spare G. as much as possible, made
him hesitate in speaking out. But it was
the opinion Of all the medical men on the is
land, that when the comprador first called
the doctors attention to the mark of death
on the face Of the doomed beauty, the mis-
chief was beyond remedy.
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