Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1886-04-06

| My father did no, objee, to my shooting
the dog. bu, told me that was "fool
to scare the women" My mother de-
clsred thA, II all came from tha, wicked
practice Of boys carrying revolser. wha,
did | wan, vi,h q revolver. anyhow
And she promptly oonh.ca,ed my cherish
ed weapon. Tim really was sorry Tor
me. but he though, ,ha, ought to have
la..O,d the dog Just as be saw the COW.
boys doing with the buffalo in "wild
Wet" he would have done that way
himself; he always carried rope In hi.
pocket. WAS too detected to remind
him that. In spite Of shying his la''o at
every brute within reach. he had never
succeeded In noosing anything bu, an old
blind horse. which ran away with the
rope.
vas miserable eaoush those days
indeed, % were we all. since Aunt Eliza'
case had become serious Any stray
hopes we nigh, have had OF moving her
Planehe,'s ex,inguished directly.
"No. Remington" she said. solemnly.
TO my father III know better. I've been
warned from on high. That fatal day
consulted Planehe,,e sbo1, sending some
thing. 10 sister Kate In Lexington.
though, the message read, Take a quie,
drayman. You know the writing is =
little indis,inc,. Bu, when ] 20, home
I looked q, IL again. and there !, vas.
plain as day. you're in great danger.
Since ,ha, Eldrd himself has told me
,ha, I'm doomed. Everything i' az.
ranged abou, my worldly affair. I've
seen Mr.. Ray; I've sen, word TO sister
Kate when the funeral is likely 10 be. 30
she can come over and I've engaged
Haicheu for the undertaken - Prince
snifils. and hem, 90 |, would disturb me
In my coffin. | know. And I've bough,
some s,oa, canvas 10 bind me"
"oh Lord bless the woman" father
bur,, out. in fury between rage and
grief. "EliIa. you're JUS, imagining
yourself mad"
"lndeed. I'm not. Remington Prescott
I've read the whole Of 'YouA,, on the
Dog You are righ, cruel to talk 70 TO
dying woman"
"Yoa'r no, dying woman
III am. too." said my Aun, Eliza.
Actually. both growing warm. they
nearly had q quarrel on the spot.
Lyde begged Us in failure not TO argue
With her mother. "You know hos firm
ma TO-" said Lyde.
Firm struck me as tilial word.
Ba, this time the doctor was AZ hi. wits
end Promptly upon the ninth day Aunt
Eliza was seized with .hiverins fi. and
took TO q darken,d room aud 'niihng
chloroform. symptoms described by
.ympa,hiIing friend, appeared in force.
"see. now said the doctor, With q
groan, "I know she hasn't anything bu,
ly..ophobia that's sort Of spurious
rabies, YOU undsr,And-jas, imaginary.
I've watched her. and she hasn't any
hyperr,,he.iA TO speak Of. and there isn'i
the extraordinary reflex 'ensibiliiy OF the
real rabies. No. sir; but she'll kill her.
self Just the same. Why, sir. there are
case. where men have gone ra,ing mad
and died from the bite Of q dog found
af,erward In perfee. health. II !, awful
about Mrs. Presco,, She has ordered a
muIlle as sure as you live. | tell you.
sir. when | heard about that fel, like
crying"
"l, make. me feel like swearing.
srowled my father. "fsrri'. what do
you say"
Basil va. in New York q, the time OF
the accident. A, soon as he heard about
|, he came home be had only been home
a day. IL think" said Basil. "ihAt III
take q walk with Rem over TO the scene.
lie va, very kind and fOrbearins with
me, saying. "You acted for the best,
Rem, and IL the dog bad been mad. the
sooner they knew il the better; times
money with mad dog bites" That was
the way Lyde had talked too, bu, OF
course 1 though, q great deal more OF Il
coming from Basil, Lyde being only
girl. lie looked 80 tall and handsom,
and determined a. he s,rode along.
admired him immensely, aud CLEAN Of
hope lish,ened my heart; perhaps he
Nigh, think Of something IL did not
take long to conduct him TO the pirate
field. There was the fence. not yet
mended, the broken rails. aud tAmpled
gras. Basil examined everything with
frownins attention. Finally he called
me TO him and showed me . shred Of
something black hai,ering from aprojeet'
ing nail.
"Do you see ,ha, ;" said he. pulling It
away.
saw that I, was piece Of black silk,
with a bi, Of Grape on the edge. 81 think
lisa piece Of Aun, Elias dress"
said; ".he mus, have caught Il when
she fell. She had on black silk dress.
III. ,hl, all you see," said Basil. "DC
you see that button. Well, I've seen
the dress; this scrap didn't come from
the skirt; there are no buttons on tho
skir,; IL mus, have come from the waist
somewhere. The position Of the button
shows |, did no, come from the front ol
the waist; |, Is jus, tackled on to the
Grape in the middle. IL mus, have come
from the sleeve little above the wrist,
because
| interrupted him. saying; 81 SEE
what you're driving at. That's Just
where Aunt Eliza was bitten"
"where she wasn't bitten, you mean,
said Basil. "This oonfounded nail ha'
made all the mischief"
"oh. amt 1t q joke on Aunt Eliza
though ?" said !, sad In the relief Ant
the revulsion Of feeling l began to laugh
"Hurah! Aunt Eliza won't die; ant
she will ls, you marry Lyds, cause you
found II out"
Bat Basil remained as unsmiling a
the fence rails. at would be all yer,
well. that, with most people," said b
quietly; "bu, don't you know that wher
Mrs. Prescott takes = notion into be
head, all the logic in the world won
change her, She Is determined that sh'
has hydrophobia, and that devilish Plan
che,,e has 50 turned her head that sh'