The Portland daily press., 1874-05-23
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CHAPTER FOURTH.

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CHAPTER FOURTH.
What secret recesses has the heart? Prob
ing it with the scalpel one mus only some
nerves a snongy tissue, four cavities, the
whole enyeloped in a membranous sac, the
pericardium But by what phenomena can
moral9pain affect particularly this organ?
In truth had always tenderly loved the lit
tie Evornia; at first for her prattle, her ro-
guishness, her love of froc; afterwards for
her grace, and for the interest she manifested
in my work. Even after her marriage she
never passed my door without giving me a
call. Evening or morning, at the moment
when was thinking least OF her, saw her
pretty head appearing. A finger upon her
lips, She came slowly, lightly, soberly, up to
my chair, made me beautiful courtesy and
playfully threw herself laughing upon my
papers, overturning them.
IA discovery lostp' she would cry, then,
raising her arms and initiating my voice.
Then presenting her red velvety cheek, say,
s'strike Senor." / grumbled, but embraced
her. Two minutes later sitting near me,
her hand on my shoulder, she made me ex-
plain nay work. She wished to know every
thing that interested me, listened patiently
to the reading of the memoirs was writing,
scolded me for working so late. 1t seemed to
me perfectly natural 10 See her so familiar.
The grief which overwhelmed her was nee
essary to reveal to me, how dear this child
grown up at my side, was to me; to teach me
that she was a part Of myself, that my heart
was attached to her by love almost mater
nal.
lost sleep and appetite on account of these
events. left Evornia only to visit my pa
tlents. The cries of the young woman en-
ervated me. forgot science.
Leaning over her pale face, holding in my
own her little hands rendered criminal by
love, watched each symptom of the fever
prompt to combat it. l would snatch from
death this being that 1 loved, and sue
ceeded.
Fifteen days after the conformation, the re-
suit of which had been SO unexpected, Evor-
mia was out of danger. One morning, at the
moment when the sun appeared on the hor
lzon, she turned towards me her grand eyes
in astonishment. The window of her cham.
Der was open, the light rosy clouds fioated
upon the azure of the sky. She watched me
for long time silently. My dress was in dis
order, my beard unshaven, nv face thin. She
pronounced my name, reached out her hand
/ would have spoken and could only SIAM
mer.
A week later the invalid was able to sit up.
As soon as possible she must learn the death
of her son; task in which her confessor
aided me, The grief of Evornia Was mute.
What had he done on the earth?" she said
to me, while the great tears rolled over her
cheeks; then she added, 81 was not worthy
to be mother. Gods will be donep'
Morning and evening at the hour of my
visits found Evornia sitting near the win
dow OF her chamber. ImmovaDle, absorbed,
she passed entire hours watching the clouds
passing over the sky, or following the fight of
the eagles, lowering above the SUBMITS Of
the Cordilleras, describing great circles and
losing themselves slowly in the heights.
But what had become of all my expert
ments? Alas! 1 had neither the leisure nor
the courage to make any. One morning
saw Evornia eating with an Appetite re-
turned home satisfied, my spirit free from
care.
busted my workable, upon which my
housckeeper had no right to place her hands
was full of life, and the coming evening ]
proposed to recommence my studies and my
work, On my return from my visits in the
afternoon, then, when I considered myself
free, thep brought me a letter from the judge,
in which he begged me to come to his house.
For three weeks / had forgotten men, their
passions, their jealousies, their courts. Evor-
mia was saved; my heart beat with pride ev
cry time l thought of it. l smiled at the
judge when he congratulated me on this
cure, that he called marvellous; but grew
pale, on hearing him thank me in the name
OF society for preserving culprit for justice,
and punishment. Wrath, surprise, stupor,
indignation, the most violent and opposite sem
timents, overwhelmed my soul at this declara-
ton. l merely bowed. had an hundred
things to say, but was not master of myself
regained my dwelling in haste, and fell,
oppressed, before my table, so joyously pre-
pared in the morning. What! during fifteen
days and nights, 1 had watched over Evornia
spying all the ruses Of delirium, and death, to
combat them, to counterfeit and to conquer
them and that, in order that man in the
name OF justice, of society should declare to
me that this life conquered by science belong
ed to him.
Evornia, the Evornia of that fearful night,
OF jealous passion, of crime, if one wishes,
was dead from the blow that she had uncon-
sciOusly struck. blow from the effects of
which her child had died. The one whom 1
saw some hours before pale, langud, repentant,
subdued, was my property, my conquest. l
had restored the pulsation to her heart, the
thought to her brain, movement to her body.
Eyornia was my work, my creation, daughter
and the Judge coOlly, with an air almost
amiable, thanked me for having preserved
victim for the scaffold.
From nine O'Clock in the evening until five
in morning walked back and forth in my
cabinet, heaping one upon another the most
extravagant projects. / thought 1 would
carry Evornia to my home. My door was
barred with iron, my windows as heavily
grated as any in the city. / could sustain
siege.
Tha people in general had no love for the
police and would take my part, if they at
tempted to force my dwelling, but what
need?
The idea of returning to Europe, came to
me. Besides, nothing was easier than to car
ry Evornia away. Once on board foreign
vessel, even merchant ship, Mexican JUS
tice wonld shut its eyes and society would do
the same.
To these violent, impracticable expedients,
succeeded little by little in my mind, sensible
resolutions, the result of reflection. 1 knew
the president of the republic, the upright
Comonfort. He was kind humane man, who,
even at his advent to power, had been known
to pardon his enemies. He knew my labors.
ne would accord my request at my supplica-
tlons-pardon to Evornia. would have my
petition endorsed by the ministers of France,
England, Spain, the minister of Guatemala,
an old man OF s5. The archbishops of Mexi-
CO to whom had dedicated a paper upon the
sugar cane, would present, if need be. my re-
quest. His house would be ar asylum,a at the
last extremity could take Evornia there.
l returned to the house of the judge. There,
without revealing my plans, invoking the deli
cate health of my patient, 1 asked that she
might remain prisoner in her own house I'M
I'LL the end of the month. The judge who
was determined to see in her only common
criminal, was very 10th to yield to my wish
but at last he yielded.
=, In the evening Evornia seemed more sad
IMAM usual. 1t may have been instinct, it
may have been some indiscretion of the guard
AZ the door had made known to her the in
t tn1ions OF the judge; she spoke to me of the
'ii an wished to the change conversation.
~ No, she said, 1--WE must speak of it soon
ei W ta'er' it is better that we speak to-day"
oxan;no = SSooiness which surprised me, she