Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-08-15

was ms nurse wRen ne was III. she
screened him -apologized for him-she en-
abled him Ia keep his position years after
his own folly would have forfeited it.
They went from station to statiOn-nOw al
home, now abruad-and it was on their
return to that dull old town in the south
of Ireland that the catastrophe occurred
which gave Stuart Mackenzie's name "A
criminal notOriety."
Il remember. 1t was Mt MalIow the
murder occurred"
The crime was hardly to be called a
murder, for the wretch was mad when il
happened He had been laid up for q
week with an attack of delirium tremens
which was little worse than any pre-
vious experience in the same line. His or
derly was a good fellow, young, stalwart,
plucky, and Glare and the orderly con-
trived between them to nurse him and to
keep everything dark, though his parox-
ysms were at times so violent as to need
all the orderly's strength and all Clare's
courage TO grapple with him Things
went on like this for a week, by which
time both servant and mistress were
fairly worn out, while there were no signs
Of improvement in the patient. The doc
tor knew what the complaint was, but
did not know half the violence Of the at
tack, so careful was Glare to conceal the
worst symptoms-a mistake as she dis
covered afterward.
al can understand the look in Lady
Darnel's face now said the colonel medi-
tatively; "the look of a woman who had
suffered intensely in years gone by, and
can never quite forget the old wounds
"Perhaps neither Clare nor the servant
knew how utterly exhausted they both
were by what they had done and gone
through in that dreadful week, for when
Glare left the man on guard one night,
and went to her room for few hours
rest, she had perfect confidence in his
watchfulness. The poor fellow dropped
asleep at his post II was a moonlight night
in summer, and Mackenzie's window
opened on to q balcony. The trooper had
locked the door and put the key in his
pocket. But TO a man of Mackenzie's s
athletic training the descent from that
first floor balcony was nothing He saw
his keeper asleep, saw himself unmatched
for the first time since his malady had
come upon him, and, delighted at the
idea Of freedom, he got up, dressed him
sen 0dSIlly III
Jacket, scaled the balcony, and made for
the gates of the barracks. At the gate he
was challenged by a sentinel, who did not
recognize him Mackenzie did not an
swer him. He wrench1, the gun ont Of
the sentinel's hands, and shot him
through the head The sound of the shot
in the silence OF the night awakened the
men in the quarters nearest the gate.
sfrt- Il. l,., r,.gy
found dead in front of his box. Macken-
zie was not found till late on the following
afternoon, when he was discovered hiding
in the wood five or six miles from the
barracks, with the sentry's gun in his
hand-stark mad. There was a trial,
which resulted in Capt. Mackenzie's de
tention during her maje,ty's pleasure,
but he only lived little more Than a
year after his transference - the
county asylum, where Clare Wis
tied him every week He never recovered
from that shock ana the exposure nI that
night He sunk in state of melancholy
madness in which his nights were haunted
by horrible dreams-alwayS acting over
again that struggle for the gun with the
sentry-always shooting him and seeing
him fall, shot through the brain-not one
sentry but 100 sentries-till he woke In an
agony, stepped in cold sweat which he mis-
took for blood. He used TO tell Clare these
dreams-with an awfully graphic power
which tortured her. He became singularly
mild in those days-driveling and imbectle
in his lunacy, save when he was excited by
the thought of those nightly visions. Glare
asked his keeper if he had those dreadful
dreams every night, and the man told her
he had never known n night to go by with
out his being awakened by that cry of hor-
ror-"the sentry" Death came at last, by
inches, gradual extinction Of mind and
body. Dissolution in its most painful
form"
What martyrtlom for wifep
Eyes, a veritable martyrdom: but her