Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-04-24
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ing when Lucy, Millicent's maid, rushed sobbing into Mrs. Brands bedroom.
 "Oh, ma'ml Oh, my young ladyl Oh, mann! Oh! poor Miss MillicentI''
 "What! What is it? Speak, girlr' commands Mrs. Brand, her face grow ing pale with nervous expectation.
 "Oh, mann! that I should live to see Her as was fond of Her as never said a word unkind to mortal soul. To see her now, and to think that only yester- day''-
 "What do you mean, girl9" cries Mrs. Brand, ringing the bell frantically. "Good heavens! What has happened to Miss Grey?''
 "Oh, to only look nt her, ma'm-I thought I'd have dropped at her feet knowing why it was so hard to open and she lying against it, with her poor head"-
 'The woman will drive me madp' cries Mrs. Brand in choked tone, and, hurry ing past her, made her way to Millicent's bedroom.
 Already two or three servants have gathered there. The door is open, and they are stopping over something lying on the floor almost immediately beyond the threshold.
 1AIS. W1Gu d uIU1o cry, duU pale and trembling, rushes forward, the ser wants part involuntarily, and there lying upon the ground, to all appearance life less, lies Millicent. Her head is thrown backward, and one hand is tightly clinched.
 "She is fainting. It is only faintr' cried Mrs. Brand, with an anguish in her tone that bellies the meaning of her words. sWhat are you all standing idle there fNvsS35 f11,,v "Has no one thought of sending for a doctor?''
 She is down on her knees now beside the pale still form, and has raised the cold head on her arm.
 "Yes, mann; James has gone for a doctor,'' sobs the housemaid nervously. "Help me to lift her. So! Oh! be gen tie, girl! Thereon her bed. Pull up the bEnds-what are they down for at this hour?-one would think she was deadr'
 She says this vehemently, with sort of defiance. But the awful word is too much for her-it has hardly passed her lips when her fictitious anger gives way, she bursts into tears, and, falling on her knees beside the bed, she stretches out her arms to the unconscious body.
 "Ohl my child! My pretty girl! What is it? What has happened to you? OhI Mlu1ceuU, SpedK to meI'
 The doctor entering at this moment, she calms herself by supreme effort, for in truth the poor woman is terribly un- nerved-no smallest suspicion of tragedy having ever come near her before, in all her calm, easy, luxurious life.
 "H'm! hal" says Dr. Thesby, sniffing about him suspiciously as he walks lightly to the bedside and stoops over Mil icent. "Young lady been playing pranzs with chloroform?''
 "Oh, no! Impossible" exclaims Mrs. Brand. "Indeed, hardly think there is any in the house. Certainly none that is not under lock and key in my own room"
 Nevertheless, there is chloroform here, or has been," says the doctor, sniff f1ng again. He has been examining Mili- cent while speaking, and now calls for certain things to be brought him by the attending servants. Seeing Mrs. Brands distress, he turns kindly to her. "I can't quite make it out yet, but pray compose yourself, my dear madame. Your niece is by no means beyond the power of man yet"
 And, indeed, at the expiration of half an hour or so Millicent is so far recov- cred as to be able to smile upon them, and whisper word or two to her aunt. "No whispering, I think-no con- hdenCeS Just yet, says LIT. IneSDy, ruD- ping his hands "Though agree with you, my dear lady, that no time should be lost about seeing into this-er-truly extraordinary affair. What dye say, my good woman" turning sharply to one of the maids.
 "A handkerchief, ehP Picked up by you? Lying on Miss Grey's face-or partly SO? eh? eh? Think what you are saying now, my good girl, as dare say you will have to repeat it pretty often later on.
 Yes. The girl had picked it up when first she stopped over Miss Grey. It was not exactly on her face, but looked as if it had slipped off it. The doctor, folding it neatly, puts it in his breast pocket. Important evidence, madame! If you will permit me, will take charge of it. Heavily saturated with chloroform, should say, from the strength of the aroma that still clings to itn
 ssLet me see it,'' says Millicent sud- denly, in a voice so much stronger and with such excitement on her pale face that the doctor thinks it better to accede l to her request, while still entreating her | to uBe calm!-be calml and above all l things to be calmv'
 GAS if," said Millicent afterward to Nadine, ssany ono could be expected to