Dodge City times., 1884-06-19

| gentlemen very richly dressed, but
| whose countenances were wholly con
| cealed by masks of black silk. having
deep fringes of the same material. One
gentlemen hastened to inform him that
| he must submit to have his ewes band
aged, as the person in whose presence
| they were about to conduct him was a
lady of rank, whose name and place OF
abode it was imperatively necessary
to conceal. AS he pulled the bandage
out of his pocket and proceeded very
adroitly TO adjust it to The Doctor
ewes, his companion took occasion to
remark that he and the other gentlemen
were fully armed, and should the Doc
tor. at this or at any other stage of the
proceedings. offer the slightest resist
ancc to any request which was proffered
to him, he would be Immediately
stabbed to death. Upon this a!monitiou
DIR. Eneas Macbride determined, like
the canay Scot he was, to hold his
tongue and see-when he was permit
ted to use his eyesight again what
caIne of it.
1t seemed to him that the carriage
was continually turning and was being
driven through a great variety OF
streets, possibly with the view to pre-
vent his forming any accurate idea as
to the part OF the city to which he was
being conducted. The coach at length
stopped and the door was opened for
him. His two companions took him
each under one arm, assisted him to
alight and conducted him up narrow
staircase into a room where, after a
moments pause, the bandagc was re-
moved from his eyes. He found him
self i'm small drawing room or bOu-
doir, dimly lighted ny wax tapers, and
richly furnished, although sheets and
pieces of tapestry had been thrown over
some OF the chairs or placed in front OF
the picturc-frames, as though for the
purpose of preventing stranger from
too closely identifying the contents of
the room. There was flask of wine
on the table and one of the gentlemen
filled a large bumper of Bohemian glass
and offered it to DR.. Macbride.
Il want no wine," he said, coolly;
at MAJ be poison for aught | know.
The gentleman who had offered him
the wine, and who was very tall, and
clad in Il suit of dark blue paduaSOy,
richly laced with gold. for all reply put
the goblet to his lips and tossed Oil the
contents at a draught. Then his COM
paniOn, who was shorter and stOuter
neither had removed his masks and
who wore a green doublet and coat
laced with silver, filled another glass
with wine and offered it to the doctor,
saying: "You had better drink it. Re-
member what told you in the carriage.
We allow 40 tril'ing in this house: and,
besides, you have need to nerve your
self for what YOU have t. dol"
81 don't like Dutch couragen re-
piled DIR. Macbride, land an not used
to dram-drinking to nerve me for my
work. However, as l have not the
slightest wish to have my throat cut,
and you appear to be prepared to cut
it''-both gentlemen nodded their heads
signticantly-"ata a moments notice, if
things do not 90 as you W sh them to
90, / will drink. '.And now," he re-
sumcd, after very moderate potation,
''what is it that you desire m, to do?"
ITO perform surgical operation.
"When?n
This Instant
"Whose?"
''You shall see."
AS the taller of the two masked men
made this reply, he took the do ;tor by
the arm and led him forward. The
shorter person lifted a heavy velvet
yelling an oren portal, and the three
passed into vast bedchamber. Here
everything in the way of furniture, and
even the ceiling and the curtains and
the countcrpane of huge four-post bed
in the center OF the room, had been
shrouded in white sheetine. At the
foot of the bed there sat, or rather there
was half reclining in large chair COW
cred with crimson velvet. a young lady
she could not scarcely been more than
nineteen exceedingly beautiful, and
with golden hair that rippled over her
shoulders. He hands were tightly
clasped, and she was deathly pale.
Size was clad in a long, loosely flowing
undress robe of some white, silky ma
ter:al; and DIR. Macbride could see that
her little feet were bare.
You see this woman--this most
guilty and unhappy woman?" said in
harsh voice the taller of the two gentle
men. "She has disgraced the noble
family to which she belongs, and it is
necessary that she should be deprived
Of life. Here is a case of lancets, and
you will instantly proceed to bleed her
to death"
''She is prepared to submit to her
fate, added the shorter gentleman in
green and silver, land you will make
the greatest possible expedition. L
need scarcely say that you will be am
ply recompensed for your pains"
Il will do no such horrible and I'M
manly thing cried DIR. EDeas Mae
bride. ''Do you think that I, a phv-
siciar, whose bounden duty is to do ev-
erything that he possibly can to save
human life be it that of the newborn
infant or of the dotard of ninety
would consent to put to cruel death
poor lady who should be enjoying all
the happiness that earth can give? Do
your butchery work yourself; I'll have
no hand in it.
1T is precisely" replied the latter
"because we are desirous
that this indispensable work should not
be done in butcherly manner that we
have brought you here. You are
known to be the skilfulest surgeon in
Rome, and you will perform the opera
ton at once by opening the veins in her
ankles: if you refuse. swear that and
my bro"-he checked himself before
he cOnld wholly nropounoo ~, ,,,o,,I /