Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-28

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the prescriptions of your DOCTOR"
Sne looked at me, with her large black
pupils dilated by surprise, and answered J:
"Tis curious Nabal and GARNER have
spoken to me in the same way. All!
see; you must have a good heart, too All
who really like me don't speak to me like
to other girls. Here / am, like a male
comrade, only smaller and weaker than the
others. am never afraid to leave my key
in the door"
Mile. Eva had rehearsed the role of Kes-
trel for eight days.
She was 30 intelligent, docile, and pains
taking that I had added several lengths to
the part, and the stage manager seriously
thought of promoting her to be the princi.
pal fairy in the piece.
| At the fourth rehearsal he doubled her
salary, STIMULATING that there should be a
forfeit of 5000 francs in case she failed in
her engagement for he already OWNED
that he had caught coming star, and was
taking his precautions.
As passed one night about ten o'clock
through the Rue Monsieur lie Prince, saw
a light behind the window curtain of the
future Dejszst. Having few alterations of
her role in my pocket, determined to call
upon her in spite of the lateness of the
hour.
Mile. Eva had not returned but dis.
covered the Great Green Guzzier STOPPING
over the chimney, and putting with all his
might at bundle of fagots, which smoked
but would not be coaxed into flames. He
was go absorbed in his occupation that he
did not hear me coming in. As soon as be
perceived me, he stood up quickly, and
said, by way of excuse:
"Mlle. Eva hasn't too much money to
spend. you gee and sooner than let her
fire burn away at a loss, only light it at
the hour she is expected home"
These two poor creatures had in their
hearts the springs of that modest charity
which wells its face when it opens its
hands.
l promised myself the satisfaction of
searching and finding the opportunity OF
repaying Nabal hundred-fold the value
OF the wood he had saved.
| / had mind-I cannot tell why-to ask
him certain questions about his neighbor,
but l was rather embarrassed how to open
the subject.
l suppose he OWNED my intention, for
his countenance suddenly darkened, and he
wished me goodnight in a voice curt and
significantly sharp.
held him by the arm as he was about
to pass the threshold of the room and said,
as handed him a packet of paper:
My dear NJ. NaDal, as have not the
pleasure of finding Mile. Eva at home, will
you kindly take charge of this manuscript !?
1t is her role, in which have made a few
alterations to-day"
His features relaxed, and could see, by
the light Of the candle be h Id to show me
| down stairs, that his cheeks were crimson.
Humph y said to myself in the street,
sit looks as il the Great Green Guzzler
were Jealous OF the kestrel"
The following day Mile. Eva was absent
at call and in the evening | read letter
from NJ. GARNER, the inferno at the Charlie,
saying that the poor girl had been suffer-
! ing Tor months from an aneurism Of the
aorta, and that she had lust had an acct.
deu5 go serious that DR.. Nelaton, who had
examined her in the morning, considered
the case hopeless. He prayed me to come
round at once TO cheer up the poor child
little, and added that he should like to
have talk with me before l went up to
/ her. HIS room was exactly beneath.
The news gave me such a shock that l
could not sleep wink that night.
The following day, at 10 in rhe morning,
l was with NJ GARNER.
Two Of his friends, medical students like
himself, stretched on Otsomans, blew big
| clouds OF tobacco smoke aloft as they in.
dolently loungei,
Nj, GARNER gave me such clear-I
might say such a MISUNDERSTANDING
OF the ailmert OF his young neighbor that
l could not but see he countersigned the
sentence of death pronounced by Nelaton.
While he was speaking one of the stu
dents, the youngest, listened with half
closed eyes, and, when he had finished his
remarks, he took up the tale in his turn,
and, in the strident, jerky style of the
Gironde, like that OF a brass wire made to
vibrate by toolhpick, he proceeded to give
his opinions thus
g l can't make out, 1 can't, why they
don't make puncture between two ribs
exploratory, you kuo~-and inject twenty
drops of perchloride of iron, you know.
Dsmation Operators successful on
aneurism of the limbs; don't see why it
shouldn't be all round I-Imyself would
undertake it I; don't see why L shouidn't
succeed !"
The inferno sent back this conceited bore
to his pipe and his beer-jug in very quick
time indeed.
NJ. GARNER, to whom the kestrel had ap-
parently disclosed my platonic profession
OF love, made plain to me then why she had
mona but friends in the hotel. For all of
them she was an innocent being uader the
capital sentence shadow, which might,
from one minute to another, fade from the
floor leaf trembling to its fall-a blade
of corn under the reaper's keen, inevitable
sickle. Betwixt her soft black eyes and
their hot you.hfulness rose, like chiseled
doom on a churchyard slab, the grim words,
"AueuIism of the aorsa."
''She is enamored OF the stage" con.
tinued GARNER, and the thought that
she will have to give up her part to another
is fretting her soul out. That's why l
wanted to see you. You must tell her a
little story; tell her you're waiting till
she's recovered in short, humor her with
the idea that she must and shsl, play
Kestrel. She won't go down to see the
posters, poor child, and l shall pass the
word to our comrades. While she thinks
like that she will die easy. Come, let US
90 up to her." As we were on the stair
case he whispered, "Won't poor Great
Green Guzzler be afflicted ?"
When We entered the sick.room the
| Ueu-CuTbdlnS were uIdWn Mite. Iva was
asleep.
Nabal was stepping about on tiptoe, and
busting the table and shelves.
Cheap as the furniture was, its cleanli
ness was Dutch.
Camped on perch stuck into the rim of
the looking glass, Joliceur preened his
wings.
While NJ CARRIER lent an ear to the
breatbings of the patient through slit in
the curtains, went over to Nabal, and
said to him in mufiled voice, as l slipped
into his palm the purse had brought with
me.
1.-The manager of the theater desires
that the new member OF his company should
not want anything in her illness here are
three hundred francs he charged me to give
her. =" Pressing his hand added, Dent
be so economical with other things as you
are with-the firing"
As he stammsred an awkward thanks,
he took the money and locked it up in a
walnut drawer, which was completely
empty.
a colored Autograph, fastened near the
glass, inspired me with the happy thought
to prepare a surprise for the poor child on
her awakening. l told NJ. GARNER and
Nabal L was going as far as the theater,
and would be back in two hours at the
latest. | left the place as quickly as l
J