Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-11-10
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firm mouth, soft, keen, gray eyes, and d
face combining Intellect and kindness.
Have I the pleasure of speaking to
Mr.. Adams?" she said. He bowed.
She then produced q paper which gave
an account of our famous case and of the
part Adams had played in it.
INLAY I inquire whether this patient
is still in the hospital? Can I see her?''
=" Yes; certainly. Would the lady be
able to identify her? Would it not be
better for the patient to see tho card
first, to avoid sudden excitement; that is,
if the ladys visit were likely to cause ex-
"Perhaps it would be better to take
up the card, and say that Mrs. Stead de-
sires to see her."
Wonderfully calm and self-possessed
the lady seemed to lis; and yet she could
not entirely suppress some signs of emo
ton or excitement. She said that i'll
ness in her family had prevented her
from seeing the papers for some time; OF
she would probably have been here be-
fore.
[ took the card up and showed it to the
patient. She turned very pale, then
buried her face in her pillow and burst
into tears.
t'Shall the lady come up?" I said.
| thought she sobbed out eyes,
The visitor came up. Slowly and
calmly she walked up the ward. The
news had somehow got about. and sew
eral Of the men found that they had bust
ness in that part OF the hospital just
then. The lady stood by the bed, and
said softly. elizabeth %
The girl looked up, and their eyes met.
One glance at that face was enough.
eyes" said the lady; 81 can identify
her."
1T is your daughter ?" asked Adams.
ut is my cook, said the lady-Eiza-
beth Saunders. ~
1 think I said that I only once saw
Adams considerably discomposed, and
that was on the present occasion.
"I--thought-her name was Stead, :"
he said, and his eyes rested on pocket
handkerchief lying on the pillow. The
lady's eyes followed his, and slight
smile played on her features.
Yes it was even so. The acute scien-
tific observer; the far sighted young
surgeon, famed for his dia gnostic acu-
men, had seen through his case; but not
through his patient. It turned out that
the girl, being remarkably good-looking.
and having acquired, from a previous
situation in a nobleman's family, a very
correct way of speaking and some very
lady1sh manners, was fond of dressing
up in her holidays, and frequenting
places OF amusement, where she usually
attracted good deal of attention. Her
mistress having been called away from
home to nurse sick relative, had al
lowed her servant to go, as she thought,
to visit her parents in the country; but
the girl, having her wages in her pocket,
preferred to remain with an acquaintance
IN London, where she EN- oyed her
Christmas holidays very much to her
own satisfaction, until her accident put
q stop to her man9uvres, or rather
changed her field of action. Finding.
as she recovered, that she was being adj
dressed as "Miss Stead" and that she
was the object Of much interest and at
tentlon, it seems to me-judging by what
experience OF human nature on its female
side [ have since acquired-not very re-
that she preferred to keep up
the delusion; golden silence being her
main line Of tactics. And, fair readers
10 you think it very contrary to your
experience of human nature on its male
side, than al otherwise exceedingly acute
Young man should be the subject Of
lelusion of this particular kind?
The lady spoke very kindly to the
girl; and guessing, I fancy, how matters
stood, said some very graceful things to
Adams. subsequently, you will per-
laps be glad to hear, she proved very
Kind friend to him, and her influence
vas OF no small assistance to him in his
ut1re professional advancement. She
became, in fact, quite mother to him,
hough not mother-in law.
| really do not know what befell the
,irl, except that. at her own 1esiro, tho
udy obtained for her ga situation in the
ountry, out Of the way Of temptation;"
nd that she proved to be faithful SER
ant.
am sorry to have to state that public
interest in this case at St. NIichael's
omewhat rapidly declined after Mrs.
'tead's visit; perhaps because, as the
lancet said, the interesting symptoms
lad all disappeared. But I said then,
ay now, and always will say, that it was,
rom all points Of view, ga very good
ase."