The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-05-12

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over the floor, knocking over chairs
and furniture. He had rammed
my head up against the wall, and
was about to choke me to death,
when the woman, who had recov-
cred, thrust bottle in my right
hand, which was free, but bent un-
der me, saying: For Gods sake,
take this quick = / saw it was la
beled 'chloroform.' With a quick
movement l rushed it egainst his
nostrils and held it there. / had
my left arm partly around his neck.
He was compelled to get some Of
the vapor to his lungs. / held him
hard, and in very short time he
loosed his hold and fell on the floor.
I made a moose in a towel, put a
little of the drug on it and put it
OH his nose.
"Oh, sir" said the woman, you
have saved my life and his, but
there's no time to be lost. Force
this down his throat pouring out
some dark-looking liquid from a
bottle into glass.
"'What do you want to do-kill
him2"
"Oh, no. He's my brother he's
a raving lunatic, and if you don't
give him this he'll recover in five
minutes and kill us both; it's been
given to him a dozen times"
81 opened his lips and poured the
liquid down his throat without de-
lay.
SIN ten minutes he was in a deep
stupor, and we managed to get him
on the bed and cover him up. Both
of us were very bloody from a
wound on my ear, where he had
used his teeth on me.
"The lady told me she and her
brother travelled a great deal. 1t
was the only thing that seemed to
do him any good. At college he
had learned to play cards, and the
habit had grown on him SO strong
that in two or three years he had
spent fortune, though she said, he
was still rich. His father had in
duced him to give up business in
New York and see some of the
world, and with his sister they had
been nearly all over the globe. The
brother never drank drop, and
was apparently sane on every sub
Iject except cards. In Europe one
winter he had made all sorts Of
Iplans, alleging ill-health, to get tc
Monte Carlo, but the sister kept
him away.
That night he and his sister were
talking in her room, which adjoined
his, and everything went well till
some men in the next room got
boisterous over a game of euchre
and quarrel followed, in which
there was a dispute about who had
the 'joker." Instantly, she said
her brothers intense desire to play
came back to him, and he made
every effort to get into the room.
She locked the door leading to the
hall, and it was in his attempt to
get out through his own room that
the struggle with her took place
which aroused me. She told me
she had somewhat similar expe.
rience with him once in Chicago
and in London. He was very much
attached to his sister, and she could
control him when no one else had
any influence over him. She in
sisted on watching by him that
night, and l went to bed, ready, o
course, to get up if l should bt
wanted. Next morning at 8 O'Clock
he was awake and weak but hii
mind was blank. He seemed tt
me helpless maniac. brough
two doctors here, and they said the
same thing, advised that he be car
ried to hospital, saying that ht
was liable to get violent at any time
His sister told me there never haC
been a case of insanity in the fam
lily before, as far back as any on,
: could go. We took him in a car
| riage to one of the hospitals here
/ don't know which one. The grie
; of his sister was something pitifu
to see. In week we carried hin
, to New York, where he died in less
than three months, didn't sell an,
goods that week, and the firm a
| home couldn't understand it.
: made up a story, and they dom
| know the truth yet. One day wa
5 over head and ears in business il
= Chicago, when l got letter from
/. the lady saying that her brothe
/ was dead, and thanking me fo
7 what ! had done. When I wen
s East a month later, / called on hel
3 She seemed almost completed
: crushed. l went on to Boston an
/ made my returns, but someho'
e her face haunted me-"
"Did you ever hear what becam
G of her2"
i "Here are two letters for yor
|, SIR" said a waiter.
J, "Excuse me moment, please.
After a minute or two he said
: "Well, well, how forgetful we are
i It's my birthday, and l wouldn
h have thought of it if my wife hadn
e reminded me of it. She has ser
| me present, too"
S "You didn't tell me what becam
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