Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1881-01-22

les, answered my husband prompt
ly, with significant look at me as
start, i NJ his reply.
- IL doctor had his ear on the man
chest. Willie my husband continued will
assumed emotion:
Ilv Youngest. nv favorite brother
Dear sir. pray tell me-Ah, 7 fear b,
your face: but say. is there no hopes'
The doctor shook his head.
ION. will he die .
"The doctor bowed his heal. and m,
husband buried his face in his hands fo,
a moment.
Il was aghast, perplexed beyond mea
snre. and was about TO speak when an.
other fierce look checked me.
when tho doctor had moistened the
patients lips once more with brandy.
and after using the stethoscope for
several minutes, he said with professional
gravity:
st is my painful duty to tell YOU
that You must prepare for tile worst
All. | feared so,' sairl nv husband.
Ny poor brother was supposed to have
disease u the heart; it was the opinion
expressed by physician two years ago.
"'This is not the heart said the
doctor. feeling the pulse again. This is
cerebral hemorrhage-apoplexy, in fact.
He is all hut gone; nothing can be done.
Then there was a slight convuision,
and the doctor continued:
Il fear | can be of no further use
professionally; but can 1 help You to do
what Is necessary now, or do you know
no. We know no one in the neiobbor.
hood; We are strangers here, interrupted
my husband. We are from Cornwall
and are come to live in London. and
Lave only been Ill the Louse three days
Ny dear brother came to stay with us
Yesterday. He has been ont all dav.
The moment he came in he tainted.
u'd then-and then l ran for You. Will
there be any need for an inquest?'
Indeed, said the doctor, I'm afraid
here VIII.
"'Oh. how very distressingr went on
ny husband. Can We not be spared
his yain?
II ne other paused, and then said
SLOWLY, with peculiar expression on his
ace:
"'Well, surely. surely with what YOU
ell me. and with what / have seen of
lie case. | might perhaps certify. and so
,:'are Won the distress Of any inquiry
"'TEank You. thank you a thousand
lmes. said my husband earnestly, as
aw Inn press couple Of the sovereigns
!e hal lately taken from the dead mans
'ockot into tie doctors hand.
Very well. then answered that
unctionary: Il will manage it, and do all
'lat is Necessary. 1 will send some one
Goodnight
when he was gone / summoned up
onraSe TO ask the meaning of what /
lad heard.
"'What arc your intentions? Pray
ell n.c.' said
'You always were an IDIOT he an
wcrcd. hut will try and make you I'M
lerstand for once in way. ANY woman
Who was not fool, and had been living
rife and alive to her husbands wei |
are. cOuld have seen with half an eve |
rhat my game is. It's very simple |
ne. and mind you do not spoil it, or it |
I'll he the worse for You; and that you
nay have no excuse for doing SO, Ill |
Ell you what it is. There was some ,
hing like six hundred pounds in notes
nd gold in that poor DEVILS pocketbook. /
'heress nothing To show who he was to S
nybody but nae. who luckily can keep a |
ecret, SO shall not tell You his name;
esides, it does not signify. Not a soul
mt our two selves know how he came on |
D my premises; he can never be traced |
here. / Ipass him off as my brother, and
ury him accordingly. No one here
bouts knows who we are, SO who is to
ay he is not my brother? Had not good
lex brought him to our hospitable gate
the critical moment. and had You not
cen the far seeing, clever woman you
re, and not let him in, why, he would
ave fallen down dead in the public high
-ay, and his property have been at the
lercy of the first person who found him.
hey might have been honest or not.
Ie would have been taken to the hos
ital, and of course his friends would
ave been duly informed of the sad loss
ley had sustained. Now, as it is, they
i'll he spared this sorrow, because they
i'll never know what has become of him.
[e will only be one more victim added
} the list of mysterious disappearances.
" Well. but 1 broke in, his friends
i'll make inquiries after him. He may
e traced to our gate, and we may be
alled upon to explain
" We may be, continued my husband,
,ut it's sufficiently unlikely. It will be
cursed piece Of i'll luck if he is. Who
to trace him into this God-abandoned
,gion? Under all the circumstances,
ld by your own showing, it is most i'm
robable-nay, it is impossible
Yes, / again interposed; but he will
2 advertised for and described
Every likely he went on; but the
octor and the undertaken are the only
7ople besides ourselves who will have
en him. and they will have nothing to
entity him by even if they ever know
hear anything about the disappear.