The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1873-04-03

another, you must answer me severa
questions
Go on he said.
When YOU consulted those doc
tors, old you tell them all that yoI
have told me o
"'NO. I did not dare. I said tha
/ I had horrible thoughts and cravings
but without entering into details a:
to what they were. Once I went :,
far as to say 1 feared I was becoming
dangerous, and the fools smiled
"'GoOd. Did they ever speak o
searching for that ball -
"Yes, they said il might De tn,
cause Of my sufferings, supposiug il
had lodged near the brain, but thai
no one would take the responsibility
of searching for it, so to speak, in the
dark
"'They were right-the operation
might kill you, and the ball be not
found after ALL
'He looked up, and the dull defect.
ed look that had become habltual
passed from his face
"'And even if it were found, Invent
on, its extraction might cause YOU
death all the same.'
"He laid his hand on my arm, and
tried to speak, but he could not.
"'Still iJ would give you chance
Just chance gilmore than life.' His
grasp frightened. I could feel his heart
beating. 'And submitting to such an
operation, almost hopeless though it
be, would not be quite suicide
ale fell on his knees and sobbed
like a child. You'll do it p he cried ;
Cod Almighty bless you! You'll do
it?
''Weu," said my friend, lighting a
fresa cigar, "to make my story short,
I did it, with the assistance Of a
young surgeon whose nerve l could
I trust. We found that miserable piece
/ of lead near where l had suspected it
to be. It was Just a case Of touch and
90. Had my knife wavered twice the
breadth of its own edge-had the as
sistant been unsteady with the fOrceps
it would have been fatal. I don't
want to appear vain of my success, so
! Pill say no more than this-he recOv-
ered.r
"And hasn't killed anybody ,"
"NO, and doesn't want to-"
SPY Jove L wouldn't be too sure 0i
that. And so the girl he wanted to
murder married the Major?"
"She did"
'"Then if 1 were her hubsand, I'D
take precious good care that your in
teresting patient didn't come into the
same state with he's"
"My dear fellow, if you were heI
husband, you'd do exactly as her hus-
band does"
"Does he know ?"
"NOne better"
"And doesn't carem
mot Bit"
"Then he's bruteni
"You'd better tell him so-here he
comes"
"Does she knOw?"
"She does"
"Aud she's not afraid?"
"No."
"One other question. Does your in
teresting patient still livei this eoun'
try?"
'"He does"
"In what State?
'This State"
"Near here.n
every near"
'rThen, with all possible Difference
for our friend, the Major, 1 think he
is very foolish. Were l in his place, [
should say: My good sir, 1 admit
| that the ball from which you suffered
so long cannot get back into youI
brains, but 1 am by no means sure
that the ideas it engendered may not
return. At any rate, your presence
near my wife is likely to make her
nervous, and 1 appeal to you as gen.
tleman, to locate yourself in some
other part of the country. II you do
so, shall have the highest respect
for you; if you do not, and even have
the misfortune to pass within mile
of my house, the interior of your skull
will become more intimately acquain-
ted than ever with lead in the usual
fOrm.n
every neatly put" said the Doctor,
Hbut our friend does not think ol
committing suicide nOw."
"Mercy, DOCTOR" 1 cried, ''you don't
mean to say that the man who want
ed to murder the Majors wife is-i;
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