The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-09-04

| / dozed of again, and as is often the
case when tossing restlessly about
seeking for sleep, l sat up ana
| tried to read, and gave 1t up,
| looked over my book, wrote
/ few lines and lay down again,
oppressed by q feeling of WEAKNESS
words cannot express. My thoughts
woild dwell. in a dreamy way, on my
new nafient. Where had l seen my
annt5 how account for her odd man
Nor to me apparently so contradicto-
~ to her reserved manner; and could
She have been reading In Taylor?
Did she think was going to believe
she had not read him? Did Lob,
what was that?-that awful pain that
shot through me and passed away IN
a minute. 1t took my breath away,
and for some time / sat on the sofa
and wiped the perspiratien from my
face. Again, again 1t came; my throat
felt as If on fire, my eyes as If cayenne
pepper had been busted into them,
and all accompanied by such fearful
nausea as utterly deprived me Of what
is termed vulgarly PLUCK" Death
seemed to stare me in the face; / felt
the seriousness of solitude in earnest
then. The gray light of morning
came in at last, and found me lying
more dead than alive on the carpet,
with my head on the sofa, but NY
pains were less severe. How | re-
joiced when / heard the carts going
about the street, and some move
ments down stairs told me that my
trusty John was making his toilet,
and would soon be up stairs. All my
efforts to reach the belligerents had
only ended in cramps and poWerless-
ness.
As soon as [ could l sent John for
DIR. g -, who was quickly with me.
He questioned me as to what [ had
eaten, and we both concluded that
during my country visit had taken
something to disagree with me. He
administered some remedies, and
kindly sat BY my bedside for time
and diverted my thoughts by CONVEX
sation. By-the-way, Jones, if you
are we'll enough, you must come
around to my place to see some of
that friend of yours tested.
" What have you found? "
What have we not found ?-arsen-
ic and anthony in every organ of the
body, especially anthony. How he
could have lived an hour with so
much even in his blood, I can scarcely
say, unless he took it little by little.
Blythe way, have you got Taylor?'
1t you have, | want to look at it a
moment"
/" It's in the next room, ring the
bell"
He rang, and John fetched the
h1nt@ uHsuh 81 20.
tent at - Hotel, so John was sent
up with an apology for my not being
able to make the promised visit. On
his return DIR. O. was gone, and
was glad to have even John to talk
to, as my eyes were still too sore to
read. taIf
" l gave your message, sir, and to
whom do you think ?-to the old one,
and she knew me, she did, and she
asked how you was, sir, and if you
were better. Who told her you had
been ill2" ( may here mention that
doctors illnesses are always kept a
secret).
John?" 5al @
(" The old one, sir, as made me give
up the piece mould last Winter in the
cemetery. '.a.a aah lts
Now, the whole story flashed back
upon me, and horrible doubts and
terrors possessed me as | thought of
my own escape, and the fair girl In
that dreadful woman's power.
crawled out of bed as we'll as / could,
and with Johns help dressed and
sent for a cab. We drove up to -
Hotel The old lady was out, and my
patient was In bed. The hotel serV-
ants knew and at once admitted me.
The poor girl was lying back with her
pale face hathed in perspiratiOn, and
her long hair lying in dark masses on
the pillow. Her eyes were even more
glistening and restless that on my
last VISIT, aud occasionally an ex-
preston of assay she strove in vain
to conceal passed across her face. BY
her side was a table, on which were a
wine glass half full Of what seemed
pure water, and a saucer Of currant
jelly.
ooh, DOCTOR" she said, aunt
thought you weren't coming. Your
medicines are here, l haven't begun
them yet. Aunt left me this to take,
but it always makes me so sick, I'm
putting it off as long as possible"
Your aunt has no business to give
any medicines which [ have not or
dered. Chambermaid, tell my servant
to speak to me. John, take this note
to its address as quick as you can"
/ pencilled:
Dear c.: Come at once with
John, and bring the handiest thing
you've got for testing anthony and
arsenic in solution. j.
calculated on having at least an
hour to ourselves In the sitting groom
before the aunt could return from the
distant suburb she had gone to. In
an Incredibly short space of tins
& was sitting at her writing table,
while l, pretending the fidgetiness of
an invalid, kept prowling about in
search Of drugs, taking an occasional
anxious look at G., who was pa
tiently examining the water in the
wine-glass.
He had placed few drops on a slip
Of glass, and was allowing it slowly
to evaporate. Some more of it he
poured into a test-tube, cautiously
dropping into the latter dilute nitric
acid as he did so a white cloud ap-
peared in the previously limpid fluid,
which sank to the bottom of the tube.
He continued to add the acid, and the
fluid becams as limpid as before.
What was that?" l asked.
m not sure, bat l think subni-
trate of anthony" said the cautious
man. lets try again. Give me
that bottle of dilute tartaric acid. He
now added some of the tartaric acid.
and the preeipitate disapneared