Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1889-11-23

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In moment. anu looked under the lounge
This trait he PROBABLY inherited from his
maternal ancestors Of course he did nor
expect TO see any thing under the Lounge,
but { % sxertion relieved his mind and he
arose and wondered why lit" had beun
taken away In broad daylight He went to
see Morton and found him in bed He
called on Prof Cronin, only TO be told
that the professor had not seen any thing
Of ''it"-hadn't been in Denvers room that
morning Then there was a scene. Mo-
body knew any thing of 'it1 but those
three and the two hir assist nts IL was
Improbable that the last mentioned would
have taken tit" for they were profession
ais and depended ON the college for em-
pioyment In their SENT ghoulish calling IL
could hardly be possible that the other
college boys had played Joke The only
thing 10 do was to keep quiet and await
developments OF course IL would turn up
In day or so
But Il didn't Arthur Denver spent that
day in quiet but earnest investigation. Co
such an extent that he forgot Annie Morse
ami her engagement The next day aud
the next and many days passed and no 40
luton 20 the mystery. The affair leaked
out somehow. and the students noticed
with rettcent awe the addened aspect OF
their best-beloyed professor.
w.
Alice Cranston opened her eyes and know
not where she was She was cold, she
knew, and damp 70 the skin, but a vail
seemed 20 hang over her mind Making an
effort to move. she felt an excruciating
pain In every muscle She continued her
exertions however, until she had extri-
Gated herself from the sack. and stood up
In her grave-clothes In the sitting room OF
Prof Arthur Denver Her eyes had In
them wild stare, and showed that, al
though she had been restored to life rea-
son had not yet resumed its full dominion
She seemed 10 be laboring under some
imaginary fear and, with low cry of pain
she darted TO the door. turned the KEY,
opened the door and He'd throueh the hall
Instead of turning TO the eft when she left
the professors door, which would have
taken her ia few steps to the front exit OF
the building, she ran TO the right which led
her into the penetralia of the house On
she flew in her delirium Il suddenly, upon
turning a corner, she rushed into the arms
OF Martin Graeme.
Martin Graame was the ianitor of West
moreland Medical College laboratory He
was what was left OF great physician
been shaken and when soon after this blow
his beloved wife and his only daughter
went to the grave within two weeks OF
each other. old DR. Graems turne from
horrid grief TO silly senility He proved
himself harmless He loved to wander
about the buildings muttering incoherent.
iy to himself. The true courteous gentle-
man survived the wreck ofthe scientist and
scholar. and, treating all the students with
stadious gentility and respect. he In turn
was always the recipient OF their pity and
equally exempt from their joking rude
mesa His venerable aspect helped him In
this we'll His hair was OF peculiar
wilderness and his face bore the marks OF a
learned sage rather than a grooming dot7rd
He had asked for and received the position
OF ianitor OF tho laboratory and amused
himself with childish RS arrangement of It's
paraphernata. He lived by himself in q
small cottage little c stance back OF tho
college grounds-the same little cottage
where he had spent many years before.
the happy days with his wife and daughter.
Miss Cranston stated back from the
rough encounter with new terror In a
moment. however, the serene aspect OF the
bowed old man whom she had almost up-
set changed her terror into confidence
Her distraught mind studied moment his
patriarchnl appearance, a. we'll as that
beneyoience and chivnlry which even he.
confused culties could discern in his face,
and the next instant she threw herself on
him for protection.
20, ave me, sirin she cried ciasping her
arms about him; protect mel Some one
b after rnel Did you not see It. OH there,
therei see It's harrid eyesl-"
so she ran on In an ccstacy of frenzy. A
sane man in the old doctors place would
lavo bean nonplussed; the imbecile
seemed 10 comprehend the whole situation
He caught down a great coat that hung
upon the wall of the hallway by them,
threw It over her shoulders, gave her hts
arm, and together they went out OF the
rear door through the woods-path TO DR.
Graeme's cottage