Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1873-07-19

sSAiltt nf De44t Heia tiy~Io tLtt oars, anu
!, dill not Speak again iinfii they rounded
the point at the landing.
''If l5oalH aeAy,. Leslie said, look
ing back with a perpleXed, troubled
face.
-. Dfa you Aspeak to me-, sir2 I" Hugh
asked, looking up.
g No; it's nothing that you could tell
me. Perhaps it's only one of my fan
cies-l hope so, God knows! T" shudder-
ing and shutting his eyes to the long
line. OF black, Jagged rocks just dfsGerni-
BILE be heath tie surface of the water.
Doctor Dinsmore coming back from
Marblehead found Lena looking better
and happier than she had for a long
time. He was greatly pleased, for though
he had said nothing, he had watched
the pretty face he loved SO well more
closely than she fad thought, aud noted
the listless look and the unnatural calm
ness it, wore sometimes. He had All inn
! preston that her liver wasn't Just right
l-nobody's hardly is-fhat b ing pet
disease With most physicians or most
patients, } don't know exactly which
ibnt he knew besides. that. she needed
! more company and more change. 1t
was impossible for him TO be at home
much, with his practice, and SO he en-
couraged her going to Mrs. Hargrave's
often, urging her when she seemed re-
4 ltttidAl vi CRtittilsS iouhu III lllo eafE l.
age and taking Mrs. Hargrave home
with him, if he could not prevail on Lee
IA to 20 out. After Leslie WolcOtt came
back ne eistiifcohfihtled the practice, and
was delighted to see the roses coming
baekte her cheek, and the brightness to
her eve. Sometimes, when Mrs. Har-
grave was engaged, Leslie came alone;
indeed after IA few weeks, he came
mostly alone, and the doctor congratu-
lated himself Oh securing such charm
ing companion for Lena in his absence,
and felt very grateful to him for devot-
ing Il portion of his time to relieving the
tedium OF the long, duh daysat the old
| horse.
| As far as Lena 7WaS> concerned, She
teniys kifewSthft She was strangely eX
alted. She telt half the time as il she
was ont OF the body, sailing through
some superior air. She was never con-
Iscioils OF feeling lonely and nervous
/ now, only II little restless somatimes
| when he did not come. She was better
Acquainted with his moods, aud when
the winds and the elements ana the
storm were ont, she did not expect him
bat she grew TO watching for him as he
paced back and forth in the long drive,
walking off the excitement induced by
the elemental strife, with an almost ir-
resistible desire to fly to him, She got
4 the i.lea intll- her ni4iI that il she could
sit by him, and touch his pulses, she
could calm them. A feeling of pity Tor
his strange impressfbility sprang up in
her heart, and unconsciousiy her man-
ner towards him grew geatler and ten
dercr. And yet all of This time she had
never thought OF him other than a
| brother. She was conscious of vague
feeling of funrest-sometimeS of eXhaus-
itienn-during his absence, but she was
too innocent in intent to attribute it to
anything save the natural pleasure re
sulting from intercourse with Il congo
| nial mind.
There was no disputing the fact that
| Leslie WOlcQtt was a fascinating COM
panion. orhcre Was something about
his fine, sensitive nature that affected
one like rare old wine7-it was stimulat
ing and eXhi1irating, and stirred all the
subtler chords of the soul This was the
first influence which his presence exert
ed over Lena. and if it grew daily
stronger and deeper, she was still un-
conscious of it.
Doctor Dinsmore was undoubtedly
very wise man, after his way. He never
failed in the accnrateness of his diagno-
sis, and he could scent Il fever as far as
any one, and treat it as skilfully, too.
He was the most careful and wary of
men against the. insidious approach of
any and all diseases, and yet he made a
sad and fatal mistake when, seeing that
his Young wife was provided with an
agreeable companion, he gradually
WithdseW 4lmseui frem her rtsoaety. and
devoted ms ieisnre hours 10 Studying
acnte qiseaseS ana perloHc epidemics,
with Their possible remote causes, and
left more fearful and insidious disease
. 10 ueVeiolI atseiI IN MS own nome hhmo-
Tested.
But this was the one weak point in
Doctor Dinsmore's character. lie had
the most perfect faith in those he loved
net th:t jealousy and distrnst are viz
tues, but he had a sort of unacknowl-
edged theory that his idols were per-
feet, and. out of his own strong true
heart he invested them with all beauty,
and AL. strength, and all 'perfectiiess.
The first feeling of nheasiness that
Lena experienced was vague consci-
eushessF-whetAer porn outsef a tear OF
her own weakness do not know-of
feeling AFRAID, or rather, IN awe of her
husband. She Wlshed--sflli vaguely
that lie Wasnot quite so grave and wise
and goel;. and, with a little regretful
f'asts ehaesshe 'siletf bo~sttfie, quite SO
Old. MOI that She ever thought OF him
! as LOOKING oid.oniy as sne iancled that
10 was that, ahded TO MS wisdom ana
. / taA -
qnlet aiwaYs& DO hot think, up to this
time, that she was conscious now strong
, an ihtefest res. mao @ grown up IN her heart
) Ion Leslie Wolcotte' or how OFTEN. she
vi wlsnea lhat hef husband tnad just iit,
. tie OF ms ease ana grace or man ler anu
] faaaptahasssy2 2eeaa seeaet7taf's. But esthefe
came a days eI sfeyeaimahtT-one OF those
little cnances that nlrn the boits OF fate.
! She had "a, neea fo fhe Blum spending the
. tiayst fAise Epoctef iiad taken hef.aP III
Ihea MoG4lngsln, ms schalse, and was to
| come ior her IN the evening. Late in
! the afternoon he was caHea away now
! ever and had only time to ride up and
ASH WQlectts II he Wonld SO lar oblige
I, MN as 10 take a boat ana GO over after
] ms wHe, as ne shotlla nor PROBABLY
: reach heme before midnight.
= MOTHS Sterne had not outgrown her
2 olden theory about Wolcott, ana more
4 ftiith-evef~fffaea hfght aief@sf4e feel the
i stEihge gepreseltanent,a ass she looked. N
Il the bright, glowing hees touched with
. that strange, supernatural beauty thai
= came into it sometimes. lending it All