Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-27

She was leaning back in the corner with her
eyes closed, and the tears streaming down
her checks.
"Come, my DEAR" he said. putting his
arm under hers, "let us be moving. Thank
God it has all ended right"
Thank God indeed, Doctor" she mur-
INJURED. 81 had hardly hoped it, and yet
have prayed so much that it might be so."
The Doctor found that though able to
stand while supported by the wall, Ruth
| was unable to walk. With the aid of a DO
liceman he supported her from the court,
| placed her in vehicle and took her to
/ hotel.
"There, nv dear" he said, when Ruth
| had been assisted up to bedroom by two
| of the maids, NOW you go to bed and lie
! there till tomorrow morning. I will have
basin of strong broth sent you up present
| ly. It's quite out of the question your
| thinking Of going home tonight. I have
several friends in the town, and am glad of
the excuse to stay over the night. I will
call for you at 10 o'clock in the morning;
the train goes at 1890; will have your
breakfast sent up here. will 60 down to
the station now. There are lots of people
over here from Carnesford. and will send
a message back to your mother, saying that
you have got through it better than I ex-
pected, but wanted you to have a nights
rest, and you will be home in the morning."
'Thank you, doctor; that is kind of you,"
Ruth murmured.
"Help her into bed, girls. She has been
i'll, and has had very trying day. Don't
ask her any questions, but just get her into
bed as soon as you can"
Then the doctor went downstairs, ordered
the broth and glass of sherry for Ruth and
a bedroom for himself, and then went of to
see his friends. In the morning he was sur
prised, when Ruth came downstairs, to see
how much better she looked.
, MY prescription has done you good,
Ruth. am glad to see you look wonder
fully better and brighter"
81 feel so, sir. I went to sleep directly
had taken the broth and wine you sent me
up, and did not sake until they called me
at $50. 1 have not slept for an hour to-
gether for weeks. 1 feel as if there were such
a load taken off my mind"
"Why, Ruth, you didn't know Captain
Mervyn to speak to, did you, that you should
feel such an interest in him?" the doctor
sard, looking at her sharply.
mo, sir; have never once spoken to
him that know Of"
"Then why did you care so much about
his being acquitted?"
"It would have been dreadful if he had
been found guilty when he was innocent all
the time"
'But then no one knew he was innocent
for certain" the doctor said.
81 felt sure he was innocent" Ruth re-
piled.
'.Butwhy did you feel sure, Ruth?''
II can't exactly say, sir, but I did feel
that he was innocent"
) The doctor looked puzzled, but at this
moment the cab arrived at the station, and
the subject was not renewed, but the doctor
atterward wondered to himself more than
once whether Ruth could have had any par
ticular reason for her assurance of Ronald
Mervyn's innocence.
For fnother ten days the Mervyn trial
was the great topic of conversation through
out the county, and the verdict was can
vassed with almost as much keenness and
heat as the crime had been before the trial.
hazard Of his life. the feeling Of pity which