The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-07-24

'ioS INC Pdel, uluef shadow OF the high
wall and trees, into the house and laid
hlm on sofa In the little breakfast
4 parlor that gave upon the lawn by an
open sash window.
Light candle and pull down the
pnhd, get some water and brandy: he is
not quite dead, said my husband, whilst
examining the mans pocket-handker-
cmef. No initials, nothing to identify
HIM by. Goodl Now | will go for the
doctor; you stay with him. Put a little
more brandy to his lips from time to
time, loosen his necktie-so. and now.
mind, when L return with the doctor. if
/ there have been any signs of conscious
ness, or II the poor fellow speaks at all
keep 1t to yourself; don't say a word
you can tell me when the doctor is gone.
The man Is not dead, but he will die. [
THINK, and II he does die without speak
lng-well, we shall lose nothing for our
hospitality; it's worth risking Mind,
now, what | tell you, he added with
fierce look at me; If you don't III be
the death Of you.
Then he went out through the front
door ana gate, ostentatiouslv in a bury,
and heard him running down the silent
/ road [ turned to my patient, and found
him still breathing, but quite uncon-
sCious
Terrified and bewildered [ hardly
know how long it was before [ heard
hlrrying footsteps again on the road:
and presently, having let himself in by
the latch-key, my husband appeared with
a stranger, the doctor, a seedy, needy
looking man.
Rapidly examining the patient, he
said, with his finger on the pulse:
About twenty minutes since he was
seized, eh? HIM, yonr younger brother,
you say?
eyes, answered my husband prompt
ly, with a significant look at me as [
started at his reply.
1.-The doctor had his ear on the mans
chest, while my husband continued with
assumed emotion:
My youngest, my favortc brother
Dear sir, pray tell me-ah. | fear by
your face; but say, is there no hope?'
The doctor shook his head.
'''Oh, willie die p
"The doctor bowed his head and my
husband buried his face in his hands for
a moment.
4 was aghast, perplexed beyond mea-
sure; and was about to speak when an
other fierce look checked me.
"Wheu the doctor had moistened the
patients lips once more with brandy, he
said with professional gravity:
SO 1T IS my painful duty to tell You
that YOU must prepare for the worst
'Ah, | feared SO ? said my husband.
My poor brother was supposed to have
disease Of the heart; it was the opinion
expressed by a physician two wears ago
"'Ihis Is not the heart, said the doc
tor, feeling the pulse again. This is
cerebral hemorrhagc-apoplexy. in fact
He Is all but gone, nothing can he done
"Thon there was a slight convulsion.
and the doctor continued:
80 | fear | can be ONO further use pro-
fessionally; but can | help you to 90
what is necessary now, or do you know
any
'''No, We know no one IN the neigh
borhood; we are strangers here, inter
rupted my husband. We are from
Cornwall aud have come to live in Lon
don; and have only been in the house
three days. My dear brother came to
stay with us Yesterday He has been
out all day. The moment he came in he
tainted, and then-and then | ran for
you. Viii there be amy need for an in
quest 2
'"' Indeed, saidthe doctor, I'm afraid
there will
'''Oh, how very distressing = went on
my husband. Can we not be spared
this pain?'
1.-The other paused, and then said
slowly, with a peculiar expression OF
his face:
'"'Wcll, surely, surely with what you
tell me- and with what | have seen OF
the case, might perhaps certify, and SO
spare you the distress of an inquiry.
- Thank you thank you a thousand
times, said my husband earnestly, as |
saw him press couple Of the sovereigns
he had lately taken from the dead mans
pocket INTO the doctors hand.
every well, then, answered that
fJmctionary; / will manage it, and do
I'LL that is necessary. | will send some
one Immediately. Good night.
When he was gone | summoned up
courage to ask the meaning of what [
had heard
""What are your intentions? Pray
tell me, | said
''' You always were an IDIOT, he an
swered, &" but | Will try and make you
understand for once IN way. Any
woman who was not a fool, and had been
a loving wife and alive 70 her husbands
welfare, could have seen with half an
eye what my game is. It's a very sim
pie one, and mind You do not spoil it, or
II Will he worse for You; and that You
may have no excuse for doing so I'll tell
Won plainly what it is. There was some
thing like 5000 in notes and gold in that
poor devils pocketbook. There is moth
ing show who he was to anybody but
me, who luckily can keep secret, so |
shall not tell you his name; besides it
does not signify. Not a soul but our two
selves knows how he came on to my
premises: he can never be traced there.
| pass him off as my brother, and bury
HIM accordingly. No one hereabouts
knows who we are, 50 who is to say he is
not my brother? Had not good luck
brought him up to our hOspitable gate
Mt the critical moment, had You been the
far-seeing clever woman youare, and not
let him in, why he would have fallen
down dead in the public highway and
his property have been at the mercy OF
of the first person who found him. They
might have been honest or not. He
would have been taken to the hospital
and. of course, his friends would have
been duly informed of the sad loss they
had sustained Now, as 1t is, they will
be spared this sorrow, because they will
never know what has become OF him. He
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