The Newtown bee., 1880-11-10

our nnal college {" to gain such word from Carver Smith.
 And now, my fair readers, if you will turn to the clinical report of this cele- somewhere about March, IS-, you will find it stated that "after this point the case presents no features of special in terest; convalescence was rapid, and the patient was discharged cured on the forty-seventh day after admission" ], therefore. give you fair notice that you may lay down this record here and not read any further, unless you like.
 Yes; she recovered rapidly; and pret- tier and prettier she g CIV as she got better. She talked very little, and said nothing at all to help her identification Inquiry was fruitless, even though the case got into the newspapers. The in- tesest among the students increased heiress who had quarreled with her guardian; that Adams was madly in love with her; that she was waiting for him to propose, and then would marry off hand; that Adams knew all about her, but kept it snug. And the men got to chaffing him in 8 mild sort of way, wanting to know the state of the heart" and the chances of union by first intention" But Adams was i'm penetrable. Personally, I am inclin d to think that whatever the condition of bis patients heart might be, he was little affected in that region. She was evidently very fond of him, and liked no one but him to dress the wound. Still the mystery increased.
 At last one afternoon I wss sitting in Adams room, in leisure interval, when lady's card was brought in. It hoI ba inscription: Mrs. Stead, The Cedars. She wished tosee Mir. Adams. 1mmedi- ately afterward, the lady was shown in. 8 fine, tall woman of fifty, dressed in deep mourning, with hair just turning gray, firm mouth, soft keen gray eyes, and 8 face copl bining intellect and kind ness
 "Have the pleasure of speaking to Mir. Adamsp" she said.
 He bowed.
 She then produced paper which gave an account of our famous case and of the part Adams had played in it.
 May inquire whether this patient is still in the hospitalP Can see her?''
 '' Yes; certainly. Would it not be better for the patient to sec the card first, to avoid sudden excitement; that lS, II LIlS ldu S fISlL wGLS Uo excitementp"
 |" Perhaps it would be better to take up the card. and say that Mrs, Stead de- sired to see her."
 Wonderfully calm and self-possessed the lady seemed to us; and yet she could not entirely suppress some signs of emotion or excitement. She said that illness in her family had prevented her from seeing the papers for some time, or she would probably have been here before.
 I took the card up and showed 1t to the patient. She turned very pale, then buried her face in her pillow and burst into tears.
 "Shal the lady come upp'' said.
 I thought she sobbed ous 's Yes"
 The visitor came up. Slowly and calmly she walked up the ward. The news had somehow got about and sev- eral of the men found that they had business in that part of the hospital just then. The la6y stood by the bed, and said softly:
 6 Elizabethp'
 The girl looked up, and their eyes met. One glance at the face was enough.
 "Yes," "said the lady; 1 can identify her."
 "Is it your daughterp" asked Adams.
 'It is my cook" said the lady. Elizabeth Saunders"
 I think I said that only once saw Adams considerably discomposed, and that was on the present occasion.
 "I-I-thought her name was Stead, he said, and his eyes rested on poeke1 handkerchief lying on the pillow. Tbt lady's eyes followed his, and slight smile played on her features
 ( onufn tific observer, the farsi ightei young surgeon, famed for his diagnostic acu men, had seen through this case, but had not seen through bis patient. Il turned out that the girl, being remark ably good loo king, and having acquired from a previous situation in noble mans family, very e1rrect way O. speaking and some very ladyish man ners, and frequenting places of public amusment, where she usually attracted good deal of attention. Her mistress 1 having been called away from home tt nurse a sick relative, had allowed hel servant to go, as she thought, to vlsi I her parents in the country; but the glrl 1 having her wages in her pocket, hat preferred to remain with an acqualnG ance in Londay, where she enjoyed he Christmas holidays very much to hel own satisfaction, until her accident pu stop to her maneuvers, or rathe changed her field of action. Finding as she recovered, that she was beinI addressed as Miss Stead, and that sn I was the object of much interest and at 1 tention, it seems to me-judgIng D. what experience of human nature on 1t | female side have since acq tired mo very remarkable that she preferred t keep up the delusion; golden silenc being her main line of tactics. And tair readers, do you think it very con trary to your experience of humal nature on it's male side, that an other
 wise exceedingly acute young ma
 should be the subject of delusion ( this particular kind.
 The lady spoke very kindly to tn girl, and guessing, fancy, how matter stood, said some very graceful things hapS be glad to hear, she proved yer
 kind friend to him, and her induenc
 was of no small assistance to him in hi future professional advancement. Sh
 became, in fact. quite mother to hin though not a mother-in-law. I I really do not know what befell tn girl, except that, at her own desire, th lady obtained for her "a situation
 the country, out of the way of tempt
 ation,n and that she proved to be faithful servant. am sorry to have to state that put
 lie interest in this case at St. Michael somewhat rapidly declined after Mir
 Stead's visit; perhaps because, as tt
 Ld,scet said, the interesting symptom
 had all disappeared. But I said thel ! say now, and always will say. that
 was, from all points of view, " A Real
 Good Case"
 Y. M. G. A.
 II or the 972 Young Mems Christis
 associations in the United States ar