The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-12-12
CHAPTER XXvI.

CHAPTER XXVI.
 At supper Mrs. Green was calm, but she would hardly trust herself to look at me. The doctor looked at her apxiously
 "Annie an Barker, here, have been havin' high old time," said MT. Glad we'll. "Been gittin' of dialogues about folks that's been bit by mad dogs an all that sort of thing. Made more fuss than barn full of rats. Annie, what makes your hand trimble that way? Wy, my sskes alive, gal, you'll have the palsy if you keep on"
 "Dan," lid Mrs. Caldwell in a voice of gentle reproof, don't try to skeer the life outen body. There ain't no danger of her havin' the palsy, an you know it."
 "l reckon l know that" the old man rj oined. My goodness, has it come to such pass that man can't say nothin' about the house2 It does look that way, I'll be hanged if it don't"
 "Well, Dan. we won't argy about it."
 "No, 1 reckon not, for there aint no room"
 Immediately after supper went to my cabin. l wanted 10 be alone. knew that was happy, yet fel, misera ,le; knew that was miserable, yet l felt happy. One moment it was enough to know that Annie loved me the next mo- ment it was too much to know that she doubted me. Some one tapped on the door.
 "Come in," said.
 Dr. Hill entered. "Well," said he, how do you find yourself"
 "Oh, cant complain"
 Have much of talk with Annie"
 "Yes, we talked"
 "Uotil you both became excited" he suggested.
 "At times we were excited, but upon the whole, was remarkably calm"
 "Aanie cut up like an actress, didn't she p
 "She was much agitated."
 Did you come to any conclusion P
 "Well, just as thought we had, Annie sprang away from me and declared that she could uot believe me-"
 [" told you of her peculiar disp osition. About her there is so little to be con- jectured-so little necessity of anyone having to exercise faith that she some. times demands too much of others. She is trying her best to believe you. yet can- not, for this reason: She does not see why that anything which is true cannot be proved at once, leaving no possible surmise of doubt. She does not believe that the woman whom Brown intr 3duce d is your wife, and yet, cannot believe that she is not. The great anxiety which she feels and the hope which she has in favor of the truth of your statement, makes her more fearful of disappointment. At times we are all afraid to believe"
 "What you say is doubtless true, doc tor, but being true does not make the per plexity less galling. The question new is, ho~ can convince her? Brown. Cartwright and the woman-whose name have never heard-are the only persons who can establish my truth and iauo. cenoe, but they are the last persons who are likely to come forward an testify. Il would send Cartwright beseeching let. ter, but know that he is Browns slave"
 "Well, don't know what to suggest. Say, if the woman claims to be your wife, why don't you demand q marriage certi6- ca,e2"
 "She has spurious one. She showed it to your sister,"
 "l'n swear, old fellow, things do look little bad, but l am confident that it will all be cleared up sooner or la,er."
 "Later. l am afraid"
 ~We don't know; it may be sooner. AAes Brown discovers that his impostu- mites are vain, and especially aiser he discovers that Annie has lest her money,