Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-28
Let me 90 to HIM.


The doctor looked at her. "Do you
wish to see him alone?' he asked.
YES" she replied, firmly.
The doctor called an attendant, with
whom Minette left the room.
1t was nearly two hours before STAN
brough joined her. He found Minette
looking calm, hopeful, and inexpressibIy
relieved. There was also a significant
tenderness in her voice as she babe NAL
vern goodbye. Malvern himself was a
very happy-looking sick man. Late in
the afternoon Scarborough called on Mi
nette in haste. He had seen the doctor.
Malvern was sitting up. There had been
mistake in the diagnosis-the ball had
been wrongly located. His prostration
had been due rather to the shock which
his nervous system had sustained than to
the serious nature of the wound. The
doctor had ordered him to be kept per-
fectly quiet until the next afternoon.
He might then be able to take a short
drive or walk in the open air. Minette
demanded to be taken to him at once,
but Scarborough quoted the doctors O.
ders again, and she yielded. He left her
overioyed at the unexpected good news,
and, after dining, he had a conference
with Malvern and the doctor.
Ten o'clock found him hurrying to the
Cafe TucOherent. Before he returned
Bebe, enraged at what she called his ne
elect, and consumed with jealousy, had
accused him in very high-keyed voice
of Glowing another woman" The quar-
rel terminated with the usual reooncilia-
ton.
The next afternoon a cab containing a
party of three might have been seen
driving slowly toward one of the quiet
environs of Paris. Minette and Malvern
were sitting together. Facing them, and
on the low seat behind the driver, sat
Scarborough. Malvern had mended won
derfully. He referred to his wound as
"mere scratch" but when Scarborough
reminded him that the doctor had said
that if it had been quarter of an inch
the other way instant death would have
resulted, Minette looked very solemn.
They were in the vicinity of Pere-Lach-
aise, and Malvern proposed that they
brough We're astOnished at the idea, and
labored earnestly to dissuade him from
it. But Malvern insisted that he wanted
to see the place once more for the last
time, and they yielded finally to what
Scarborough called a sick mans whim.
'Strange," said Malvern; as they stood
again by Abelard's tomb, ''that I should
have thrown that rose near which yours
fell"
"What rose?' demanded Scarborough.
"Why the one that was on the tomb
when she threw hers that day. was
telling her about it yesterday. I left
here just before you came, and happen
ing to have flower which had picked
up, tossed it over there. But there's a
/ sequel to all that. Shall we tel him
now, Minette" said Malvern. taking her
hand. They have seated themselves on
step hard by; Scarborough was standing
in front of them.
s'You needn't mind telling me the Sc
quel," said Scarborough, with a bitter
smile. 81 know what it is. The sequel
is that-that-that," he continued, ap-
parently unable to proceed. Having
stepped back little, he had turned his
head and CHANGED to look down narrow
vista between the tombs. At the end of
it stood Bebe beside grave, with flow
ers in her hand. She had caught sight
of Scarborough, and was reckoning to
him frantically to join her. Her attitude
and movements indicated that if he did
not she would speedily join him. STAN
down hard on the gravel. To Minette
and Malvern the gesture served IN lieu
of the remainder of his unfinished sem
tence. To Bebe it was warning. Then
he cast pitifully appealing look at Mi
nette, tried to say something, failed mis-
erably, turned suddenly with a half
choked "good-bye," and fastened away.
Greatly astonished, Minette and Malvern
watched him until he disappeared around
the corner of q tomb.
"Poor fellow" said Minette. sympa-
thetically, ''we must have told him too
soon"
eyes, I suppose So" said Malvern.
slowly, with a desperately perpiexed
look on his face.-F. WGdis0n Lurued.