The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-09-09
b. BISTOURY'S NIGHT.WATCH-
su lE3sseN MANrePri.T Sra 9ss.i

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A 4TelI you what, Doctor; you'll be
xfpg robbed and murdered one of
& days; ayou will, upon my word!,,'
B Hardly, my boy. You ought to
lsx.hB this time that its the province
IDS doctors to kill other people, not
b be killed aourselves.''s ,AndSwith a
Thick chuckle at his own wit, DR.. John
Hmtsx@ @Ristepry settled himself COM
rtably IN his chair and began to peel
athrd orange rs carefully as if he were
&aking off a limb. :.
lean assure you, my dear Harry"
8NRsd the genial Doctor, g that, it's
RsIIgly ilattering to flfe to find my
sa considered worth robbing at all.
No thief would have thought me worth
acentre-bit in the days when your poor
1hther7ras fine a fellow. Harry, as ever
resthed--used to come and sur. with
9ne uf0nabiscuit and toasted cheese in
1ng little snuggery down town. And
/ IGan, Is surely as the time came to 90,
/ he'd turn to me and say: Now, Jack,
|aa boyssVsp,t YOU think better of it
land let me Write you d checkAjust to
gve you fair start, you know?' But
|atlsushsA hsAkpewwel enough that he'd
have been only toe, glad to do it, I had
10 refuse; for my motto Is, Heaven
|islps these who Help 4hemselyesp,'
"A motto which you'll find some
|aack-masked gentleman exemplifying
n this very house one of these nights
|Fowed Harry Everett. "Look here,
DgOcsqs Nnnet Joking not indeed!
knows you're a rich man;
na It's abroad that there's room IN
!oaf house which is always shut up; the
Fey thing to make people, think there
must oe something very valuable slowed
~ tAA; IND yet aftersaH that. you
sssllytpg in this big house without
'oHl near you except the cook and old
Sam yonaef, Whot Svonldn,t be worth a
'snt in in real serimmage,''
'aA vekoas smile, .%oaid I'D ia DSHsUn, srsn,
Ill year nlindsif I,were to engage
aght-watchmanpn ,SS]A1N "
! q aesh ,s|aa s4,as @s2 FAas would lsya Ds
: very good. Consider it done."l
ihis room, 4 Of \, which Harry had
1oken as being always shut up, was
sanding puzzle to the Doctors few
Inmates. Not d man ofthem had ever
ossed its threshold; and its master,
hem 4uestioned . om fhe subject. an
'sred only by some joking evasion.
whispered that one adventurous
'ntlemah, rendered desperate BY Ms
10 sthratt0zgive him no peace till
'isund out 'swhat DR.. Bistoury kept
IN thatsroom of hist had actually
tempted "a burglarious entrance; but
attempt, if ever made had been
successful lis needless to say that
antless conjectures, and not few
sVyr bets likewise, were being con-
'htly made respecting the contents of
Bluebeard chamber. Many de-
ned that the Doctor had fitted it up
. private laboratory, in the hope of
covering the Philosophers Stone.
aers were equally positive that it |
atalned the hoardings of his whole
n American gold, his opinions be-
Hetefiously of the sharll-moneyr
ler. A rival practitioner, of some
as y cynical turn, suggested that it
s. contain the remains Of the unfor-
nfients wheshad perished under
sst |, teilow Bistoury's'1' ministrations;
aone imaginative lady, deeply read
sane Eyre" stoutly maintained
y !. the Doctor, in imitation of the hero
mat famous work, had immured his
= m this mysterious oubliette, in order
sn)pI nnchecked the freedom of a
,nelor life. Against this Ingenious
sIxtsers vasF only one thing to. be
a-Ilhe Doctor had never had a wife
I'M. ..mmure. This fragrant treason
M athe sex wasethes more anpar-
iaoie, inasmuch as he had had abun-
! opportunities of changing his con-
ION. had be but chosen TO avail HIM
y y them. To most of those who
= sao1ed . Inn On. the esabject, lie re-
y taat ne was welded to his profess
! anu That any other union would be
~ amy but to his friend Harry
'ss s n ~ moment of after dinner +
ruence, he told a very different
sell@edical cousin Alice was the
nan VINO ought to have been Mrs.
soa! and an admirable fellow /
sSsa,1oner .1s she would have made for
z. !. tnle way in which she once cut . |
- ser out of my thumb, did equal
wi 70 her hand and haart. and uyhon |