The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1873-09-12
VOLUME III.


shall like you first-rate."
t'Of course you WILL" said Ellen
proudly.
"Spare your compliments until you
know me better, Doctor. People some
times appear to better advantage upon
first acquaintance than afterwards.
Wait till you see how 1 shall ,Cear."
al wonder who is talking now" said
Ellen, archly. Commend me to q
man for volubility.'
''rrust a woman to get even" was
the Doctors comment, as the trio left
the vessel; and through the dimly
lighted and now deserted wharf they
proceeded and found their way to the
waiting carriage.
The morning star hung low in the
heavens, like a mammoth lamp. The
city lights, in pleasing contrast, climbed
the hills in stately rows like regulated
sentinels, as they were, or quietly set
tied themselves in lowly places to guard
the crowded marts where humanity, in
the race for subsistence or gain, deprived
themselves continually of-the great lux
ury of free, pure air and water, verdant
earth and limpid sunshine.
as it possible, Ellen, that your home
is as grand as this?" said Dr. Goff, as
the carriage rolled up through the
grounds and stopped in front of two
great globes Of light, at whose feet mon
ster marble lions crouched as if guard
ing the portal from intrusion.
"Yes, Doctor, this is the home OF
Ellen Dowd, the farmers wife, whom
you used to take pity upon sometimes
in her lowly cabin and help her wash
and cook"
"Lets not talk to the Doctor any
more tonight, my dear" said her hus-
band. 'Remember you have all winter
to talk to him after he gets rested"
81 can't see any winter about here"
replied the Doctor; "but we all need
sleep, and must try to take it,"
Edgar Worth's mother had grown
much more disordered in her mind OF
late; yet, with the cunning peculiar to
persons of disjointed intellect, and with
a constant overflow of wit and repartee,
which seems always to come ready-made
to the brain of a lunatic, she was 4
source of great amusem ent to Ellen's
household. She fancied that everybody
she met was insane, especially every
visitor, and when, after a few hours
rest, the family assembled in the break
fast parlor and greeted DR. Gof, hearty
as was the greeting between him and
the older children, who well remem-
bered him as their mothers friend, she
outdid them all in expressions of well
come.
''Do you think it is safe to have that
mad man here among your children,
Ellen ?" she whispered, after the greet
ings were over.
Certainly, dear; he's harmless" hu-
moring her delusion as the easiest way
to get rid Of her queries.
"Well, it's my impression that he
needs straight jacket, +" and rising from
the table with a wise, mysterious look
upon her face, she glided from the
room.
"What do you think of her case, Doc
tori" queried her anxious son.
at is a peculiar form of lunacy that
fear is incurable. But is she not some
times furious ?n
80, no. She gets freaks of tempe
once In a while and scolds us roundly
but she is usually so full of practica
jokes and general jollity that we dom
remember other tantrums."
'Tm afraid, my friends, that yol
have summoned me here upon a fruit
less errand. Had I had the case a dozel
years ago, with such surroundings a
these, 1 could have cured her, but l fea
not now.n
While the breakfast party were talk
ing up her case, the lunatic was quit
busy in another direction. SummoninI
a carriage, she hastened to the abode O
a noted physician and employed him T.
come with police force to the house O
Edgar Worth to arrest a madmanl
In few moments the physician an
officers were at the door. The lunatiC
who kept her face closely veiled, opene
door after door and conducted her part,
to the breakfast-room.
"Why, mother, who have we here? p
said Edgar, starting at the sight Of th
. officers.
There he is, therer' pointing stead
lily at DIR. GOff, and speaking in whis
] per. "Be cautious, or he'll murder u
{ all.n
= The great brawny men, without wait
e ing for orders, seized the Doctor by th
, arms, and dextrously slipped straigl
e jacket over his shoulders.
: 'Tt's one of mothers jokes. / unde
j stand it now" said Ellen, who, deepl
/ as she was mortified by the scene, eoul
with difficulty refrain from an outbur
= Of laughter.
D ITO be eontinued.l
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