The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-08-20
EBENSBURG. PA. FRIDAY, AUGUST 20. 1885,

and the road is not overlooked / answered
&c No, nor this corner of the garden where
we are-no, it's too much shut in by trees
and its getting too dark
'Whilst speaking, he was looking around
to assure himself that he was unobserved,
and, seeming satisfied, began to further eN-
anime the contents of the young mans pOck-
cts and to transfer the portemonnaie, a letter
or two. a handsome gold watch and chain
and a scarf pin, to his own.
"NNhat are you doing?' 1 timidly asked.
''AIind your own business he said do
as l tell you and hold your tongue, I'll 90
for the doctor myself; but first Of all we must
get him into the house. Here catch hold of
his feet
''Then, without listening to my protests,
my husband raised in his arms the slim, help
less form Of the young man, and, with my
assistance, carried him along the path, under
the shadow of the high wall and trees, into
the house and laid him ON a sofa in the little
brealIfast-parlOr.
GO Light a candle and pull down the blind,
get some water and brandy, he is not quite
dead said my husband, whilst examining
the dead mans pOcket-handkerchief. NO
initials. Nothing to identify him by. Good!
Now I will go for the doctor you stay with
him. Put little more brandy to his lips
from time to time, loosen his necktie-so,
and now, mind, when I return with the doc
tor, if there have been any signs Of conscious
ness, or if the poor fellow speaks at all, keep
it to yourself don't say word, you can tell
me when the doctor is gone. The man is not
dead, but he win die, I think. and If ne does
die without speaking-weH, we shall lose
nothing for OuU hospitality; it's worth risk
ing. Mind, now, what I tell YOU he added,
with fierce look at me; IF you don't I'll be
the death Of YOU
''Theu he went out through the front door
andagate, ostentatiously in a bury, and I
heard him running down the silent road 1
turned to my patient and found him still
breathing, but quite unconscious.
Terrified and bewildered 1 hardly know
how long it was before heard hurrying foot
steps again on the road; and presently, hav-
ing let himself in by the latch-key, my hus-
band appeared with q stranger, the doctor, a
seedy, Eecdg-looking man.
"RapitIy examining the patient, he said,
with his finger on the pulse:
I "'About twenty minutes since he was
2 seized ell? I'm, your younger brother, You
j say?'
] Yes answered ny husband, promptly
with a significant look at me as I started al
his reply.
f ''Thc doctor had his car on the mans chest
:, whilst my husband continued with assumed
+ emotion:
2 My youngest, my favorite brother, deal
, sir, pray tell me-Ah, fear by your face
t but say, is there 10 hope
e ''The doctor shook his head.
n " oh, will he die 2'
5 'sThe doctor bowed his head and my hus
+ band buried his face in his hands for a mo
t meut
n 81 was aghast, perpIexed beyond measure
= and was ABOUT to speak, when another ferc
d look checked me
T ''When the doctor had moistened the pa
l. TENTS lips once more with brandy, he said
3; with professional gravity
/, 1T Is my painful duty to tell you that yo1
v must prepare for the worst
J., "'Ah, I feared 81" said my husband
It My poor brother was supposed to have dis
ease Of the heart it was the opinion express
It ed by physician two years ago
l. " This L. not the heart said the doctor
e feeling the pulse again. This is cere5ra
c hemorrhage-apopIeXy in fact. lie is al
~ BJO -ttlN lliitilttl-s Sct-t iC ittli--
q ''Then there was a slight cCnvUlsiOn. an,
e the doctor continued:
d ''I fear I can be Of no further use profes
a sionally; but can l help You to do what
it necessary now, or do you know any
Is Z" 40, we know no one in this neigh50I
IS hood, we are strangers here Interrupted III.
1t husband. we are from Cornwall, and ar
e come to live in London, and have only bee
lie in the house three days. Ny dear bUothe
came TO STAY with US Yesterday. lie has bee
1t out all day. The moment he came in b
& tainted, and then-and then I ran for YOU
y VIII there be any need for an Inquest?
l- Indeed said the doctor I'm afrai
t. there will
lie g. oh, how very distressing !! went on N
J.: husband Can we not be spared this pain.
t. "The other paused, and then said, sow'y
ie with peculiar expression ON his face:
s. wei, surely, surely, with what you te
: me, and with what have seen Of the case,
" might perhaps certify, and SO spare you Oh
4, distress Of an inquiry.
r "'Thank you, thank you a thousand times
ID said my husband earnestly, as | saw hii
ID press couple of the soyereigns ha had iatai
d taken from tie dead man pocket into tl
" doctors hand
Ie every well, then,' answered that tun'
to tionary 4 VIII manage it, and DO all that
a necessary. l will send some ore immediate
Id Iy. Good night
OF ''Nhen he was gone I summoned up c0u
ct age to ask the meaning of what had hear,
.''What are your intentions? Pray te
re me, / said.
''You always were an idiot he answere
'but I will try and make you understand f
5h once in way. ANY woman who was not
1d fool, and had been a loving wife and alive
Ju her husbands welfare, could have seen vii
- half an eye what my game is. It's Vel
simple one, and mind you DO not spoil It,
lie It win be the worse for you and that yc
on may have no excuse for doing so I'll tell y
Iv plainly what it is. There was something il
six hundred pounds sterling in notes and 90
ist IN that poor fellows pocket book. There
rot nothing to show who he was 20 anybody b
Iy, me, who luckily can keep secret, so l sh'
ell not tell YOU his name besides it does ID
signify. Not a SOU but our two selves knOr
nd cow he came onto my premises he can nev
be traced there Ipass him OF rs my broth
lis and bury him accordingly. No one he'
NJ, a5outs knows who we are, 50 who Is to s.
he he Is not my brother? Had not good lu
brought him up to our loSPjtable gate ut
re, critical moment, and had you not been {
far-seejng w0many son are, and not iet him
hc Why he would have fallen down dead in T.
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