Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1873-07-26

iileifsS HAiSit Dc fiotAtuS til IL afteI All !.
bur | don't quite like the way Wolcott
goes to the doctor's."
'sDoes he go there-I mean often 20
We'll, I've seen him go there a good
deal, and Joe Davitt says his girl said
he was. there half the time. You re-
member how it was it was last summer
before Lena was sick:
Yes; and l shall always believe that
ii WAS his accursed beWitchmenG more
Than anything else that allied her. |
DON'T understand such things-and
goodness knows don't want to!-but /
believe there is something about that fell
low which attracts and influences her
whether she will or no. 1 suppose it is
what they call affinity. or mesmerism,
or something of the SORT. o, my little
girl! | must go to her Luke she said.
eXcitcdly.
81 should think it was her husbands
business" he responded. Giles IA doe
tor, lac onght to understand such
Lhings.''
II don't believe ne understands Lena,
or ever did, for that matter. He is TOO
good mean, he is too calm and i'm
passive. He is 50 strong himself he
doesn L understand weakness i'll others.
His passions-if he has any, which l
rather doubt--are under close control,
pie. And nobody knows how my poor
girl has been tempted, and he going
about as blind as a Dat.'
''I0u'Il never say that of me, MOllie,
for | swear I'd shoot the man that came
round you the way Woleott has been
hanging round Lena Diusmore this last
three months, - he said, savagely.
Mollie blashed under the look he bent
upon her, but her heart was too heavy
with apprehension to give back the usual
light ans wer; and she even forgot to
demonstrate when his muscular arm,
which lie had brought down upon the
table to give force to his declaration,
slipped, by some sort of accident, round
her substantial waist.
Don't look SO troubled, little wo-
man." he said, icheerfully, maybe it's
! all right enough, only l thought I'd tell
you what was on my mind, as hold
[ you ID a night TO know. l don't want to
have any secrets from you, MOllie," he
said, honestly.
''But you think it isn't all right,
Luke:"
81 hope Ills. But you see, know the
fellow don't suppose he can help his
| nature, or that she can help hers, or
that either gan help it if they are at
tached to each other; but he knows she
away from her. That's where blame
him. Pve nothing against him person
ally. / rather like him; there's some
thing kind of .wOmanly and af1eetioHate
| about him, and he can make an hour go
| by the pleasantest OF any fellow | ever
see; but | haven't forgot the night she
lay over there" pointing towards Rose
Cottage, looking so like a pretty wax
figure and | saw her the other day, i'll
the garden, when | was going by, and
though she smiled, and said, how do
you do, Luke?' in that pleasant way
of hers, there was something in her
face that / did not like to see there
something that made me think of that
night"
~ shall go over there Tomorrow, ,
Luke, Mollie said, very decidedly. II
think it's my duty TO, and maybe | can
bring her home with me for a few days.
"Yon'll be careful not to hint that |
thought anything wrong?" he said, anX-
iously.
so ain't going to say anything; Pm
only going to see for myself"
''Well, l'll row over in the morning.
1 have got to. go over on some bus
| mess"
The next morning Luke was promptly
on hand ut. eight o'clock, and in just
1'half an hour afterwards Mollie Sterne
stood under the elms III Doctor Dins-
more's front yard She looked up al
the window; the blinds were closed
save in the sitting-room, and there the
windows stood open and the soft mus
lin curtains hung straight and limp as
if the dew had Saturated them. The
doors were closed, and jnst then a boy
came from towards the stable.
ttDo you know where Doctor Dins
. | pn.a, t,, 4 i
Mollfe.
) 81? no. why don't yon ring the bel
and inquire ?" thinking the boy must bt
II sfmpieton hot to know that.
Il have rang the bell half a dozei
!! times, and tried the doors too. bu
they're all fast
Then lie is away visiting his patients
probably"
But the doctor always rides, and hi
horse is in the stable -
= swell, [ don't know; perhaps yol
had better go for some one else" sh
: said, anxious to be rid of the boy, a ter
rible fear of something, She knew no
l what, tugging at her heart.
: ''They didn't want anybody else,
t persisted the boy
'"Will you go?" turning shortly upol
him. 81 will tell him if he comes in
: Where is it?''
a Thomas Ridglev's: his wife has go
: the fever, But | should like to know
how you are going to get in" lie NUT
tered, as he turned rather reluctant
: away.
s II shall wait,'' she said, sitting dow
e on the steps.
e The house was still as DEATH A rObi
$ sat in the elm looking down at her wit
q little sharp: inquisitive eyes, as much "A
I to say, "what are you there for?' Sh
q waited till the boy had turned the col
ner of the street--for he kept glancin
e back--and then she stepped up an
e looked in at the open window. A littl
- roekaway-,,hair stood partly away frol
the window, as il some one had iu
&c risen from. it. A book of poems lay ope
Oh the table, and bit of embroider
had fallen to the floor, as if brushed O
by some ones dress. There was, hel
and there, little evidencee of disorde
such as bnnch Of whithered flowers @
l. the. carpet, a scarf trailing across
e. chair, and a damp, erimpled handke
- chief lying under the window by ii
to rocking chair.
to A vague, terrible fear rose up in h
lg heart; suppose they had been robbie
ne and murdered? She knew they won
ed not go away and leave their rooms opt
like that; besides, the horse was in Il
ly stable. She stepped back to the do
is and turned the knob--it was fast. s.
ar went round and tried two other doc
it with no better success. She went O
~ to the stable; the horse was gnawing
IL the nanger, and reached out his he
lst and gave a pleased whinny when
he saw her. Evidently he had had
breakfast.
X She turned and walked hastily bao
| taking q block of wood in her hand
so she went. There was but one way I
at, it, and that was to get in ut the wi
ed dow, for by this time she was thu
oughly convinced that something W
nis wrong; and not stopping to consider +
nd propriety Of the thing. she placed t
mt block under the window and stepped
lat She opened two or three of the low
led doors, and had just come into the hi
to when a step Oh the landing above
al rested her, sending thrill of awe a
'ry terror to her heart. Involuniarily
try looked up and saw Doctor Dnsm'
ac- holding by the hannisters, and looki
nd down at her with such ii look
in speeclless and unutterable anguish
lch his face, as she never saw before in
face of any human being.