Wichita eagle., 1888-01-14

"Where was it then9' and this time the
dreaminess of tone seemed gone
~Oh," he said, 81 don't quite know; indeed
there has been an entire mistake, and We
must try and find ont"
What more he might have said was staid
when he saw the look Of despair that spread
over the young girls countensnce. lie hur-
ried her away, called q cab, and drove OF
once more to the station. Now his only wish
was to get her home in safety His anxiety
was not without ground, for even before they
reached the north she sank into half uncon-
scious condition, and when they got her to
her room it was only too evident that the ex-
citement of the past days had induced Sc
we're attack Of brain fever. or course she
could not be left, so the doctor, determined 70
get the mystery solved as soon as possible,
went TO his brother, who lived in the Same
town, and asked him tn so up to London and
make inquiries III his stead.
The next few days were chiefly marked by
the increase OF anxiety and the absence Of
news Only one letter had been received.
and that letter intima5ed that nothing had
Vet been discovered of the smallest import
ance Meantime everything betokened So
verify in the illness that had overtakeD Olive.
There was little hope of her recovery. thought
the doctor. as be stood by her bedside that
very evening after the receipt OF TINS note;
yet even he did not know how near to her
was an end of the weary series OF disappont-
nients and trials that had been crowded into
SO brief time. As he turned to quit the
room be heard her mUr.nur the name
Henry" and when he glanced round in
haste he sped the new stiffness that had como
over her face. She had died with the name
of her lover on Ter fps
By his plate on the morrow he found q
fresh dispatch from his brother. AS he
opened the envelope to take out the letter an
inclosed slip of paper fiuttered to his feet. He
did not stay TO pick it Up, but began reading
at once:
@THE CLARENCE, Wednesday.
"MY DEAR DOUGLAS: Please read this let
Ter when you are by yourself, as the news
which it CONTAINS is, am sorry to say, any
thing but pleasing When | wrote to you
this morning lad not made up my mind as
to the course Of action for the day, but the
letter was hardly posted when determined
to go to the newspaper Office and see il could
get any clew as to the place from which the
advertisement Of Mr. Brnton's death had
been sent Accordingly I went in They
were very polite when ! told them the reason
Of my errand, and the manager of the depart
ment came TO me ut once. He sent for the
original Of the advertisement, which came
througa their country agent Now must
ask you to take heed to yourself, for here
comes the terrible revelation: Tho announce
ment of death was written il Olives hand
writing, Of this | bave no doubt whatever.
On further inquiry we found that it had been
paid for by postal order drawn az your own
postoflice-a fact impressed on the mind Of
the clerk who opened the note because be had
lived not far from there when a child fear
the whole thing was an illusion
Enclosed is the original of the announce
ment Your atfectionate brother,
az A. CAMPBELL"
lie read the letter twice over, for be scarce
ly caught its purport in the first pernsal,
then stopped and read through the paper
that had fallen to the ground. The news was
only too true. For a moment he sat quiet: ::
then, and not till then, did it strike him that
Olive, and Olive only. had taken in the
foreign letters from the postman -Cornhill
Magazine.