Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-12

sort. somewhat weather-beaten and anxious
about the times-a man who would take ad-
vantage of everv drop in the rate of wages.
In tact he was Beatrice's father and clergy
man.
Bv his side. and leaning over him, was
Flizabeth. her elder sister. There were five
wears between them. She was a poor copy
of Beatrice, or, to be more accurate,
Beatrice was grand development of Eliza.
beth. They both had brown hair, but
Elizabeth's was straighter and faint
colored-not rich and ruddyiug into gold.
Eli1abeth's eyes were also gray, but it was
4 cold, washed-out gray like that of Feb
ruarv sky. And so with feature after feat
ure. and with the expression also. Beatrice q
was noble and open, if at times defiant.
Looking at her, you knew that she might be
q mistaken woman, or a headstrong woman,
or both; but she could never be mean
woman. Whichever of the ten command
mepts she might choose to break, it would
not be that which torbids US to bear false
witness against our neighbor. Anybody
might read it in her eyes But IN
her sisters he might read her fathers
shifty hardness watered by womans
weaker will into something like cum
ming. For the rest Elizabeth had very
11lr 0Qure, DuE ldCkcO uCI oAobOA ASoANSN
Ioveliness, though the two were so curlously
alike that at distance you might well mis-
take the one for the other. One might al
most fancy that nature had experimental
upop Elizabeth before she made up her mind
to produce Beatrice, just TO get the lines
and distances The one sister was to the
other what the pale, unfinished model of
clay is to the polished statue IN ivory and
gold. >,
"Oh. nv Godi my Godl'' grosned the old
man; f'look, they have got them on the
stretchers. They are both dead. Oh, Bea-
trice! Beatricel and only this morning L
spoke hurshly to her"
"Don't be SO foolish. father" said Eliza
beth sharply. "They may only be insensl-
ble."
"Ah. all" he answered; "it doesn't mat
ter to you; YOU don't care about your sister.
You're Jealous of her. But I love her,
though we don't understand each other.
Here they come Don't stand staring there.
Go and see that the blankets and things are
hot. Stop, doctor, tell me, is she dead?'
How can l tell till I've seen her?" the
doctor answered, roughly shaking him off
and entering the door.
Brvngelly vicarage was very simply con-
srructed house. On entering the door the
visitor Iound himself in passage with doors
to the right and left. That to the right led
to the sitting room, that to the left to the
dining room, both of them long, low and
narrow chambers. Following the passage
down for some five paces it terminated in
another which ran at right angles to 1t for
the entire length OF the house. On the fur
ther side of this passage were several bed
room doors and room at each end. That at
the end of the right was occupied by Beat
rice and Der sister, the next was empty,
the third was Mr.. Granger, and the fourth
the spare room. This, with the exception of
the Kitchen and the servants sleeping place,
which were beyond the dining room, made
up the house.
Fires had been lit in both the sitting
rooms. Geoffrey was taken Into the dining
room and attended BY the doctors assistant,
and Beatrice into the sitting-room and at
tended bv the doctor himself In few Sec
onds the rooms had been cleared of all eX-
cept the helpers, and the work began. The
doctor looked at Beatrice's cold, shrunken
form, and at the foam upon her lips. He
lifted the eyelid, and held light before the
contracted pupil. Then he shook his head
and set to work with will. We need not
follow him through the course of his dread
ful labors, with which most people will have
some acquaintance. Hopeless as they
seemed, he continued them for hour after
hour.
Meanwhile the assistant and some helpers
were doing the same service for Geoffrey
Bingham, the doctor himself, thin, clever
looking man, occasionally stepping across
the passage to direct them and see how
things were getting on. Now, although
Geofrey had been in the water the longest,
his was by far the best case, for when he
was immersed be was already insensible,
and a person in this condition is very hard
TO drown. It is your struggling, fighting,
breathing creature who is soonest made an
end of in deep waters. Therefore it came
TO pass. thas when the scrubbing with hot
cloths and the artificial respiration bad gone
on for somewhere about 20 minutes Geoffrey
suddenly crooked finger. The doctors as
sistant, a buoyant youth fresh from the hos
pital, gave yell of exultation and scrubbed
and pushed away with ever-increasing
energy Presently the subject coughed, and
minute later, as the agony of returning
life made itself felt, he swore most heartily
rHe's all right now" called the assistant
to his employer. Hes swearing beauti-
fully"
DR.. Chambers, pursuing his melancholy
and unpromising task in the other room,
smiled sadly and called to the assistant to
continue the treatment, which he did with
much Tigor.
Presently Geofrey came partially to life,
still suffering torments. The first thing he
grew aware OF was that tall, elegant wom-
an was standing over him, looking at him
with a halfpuzzled and half-horrifed air.
Vaguely he wondered who it was. The tall
form and cold, handsome face were so fami-
liar to him, and yet he could not recall the
name. 1t was not till she spoke that his
numbed brain realized that he was looking
on his own wife.
"Well, DEAR" she said, ''Im glad that
you are better. You frightened me out of
my wits. thought you were drowned"
''Thank you" he said family, and then
groaned as a fresh attack Of tingling pain
shook him through and through.
''I hope nobody said anything to Effe, I"
he said presently.
eyes, the child wouldn't 90 to bed be-
cause YOU were not back, and when the Do
lieeman came she heard him tell Mrs. Jones
that you were drowned, and she has been al
most in a fit ever since. They had to hold
her to prevent her from running here
Geofrey's white face assumed an air Of
the deepest distress. "How could YOU
frighten the child SOP" he murmured.
''Please go and tell her that am all right. 4"
''It wasn't my fault, said Lady HoEoria,
with shrug of her shapely shoulders. "Be-
sides, can do nothing with Efie. She
goes on like wild thing about you"
''Please 90 and tell her, Honoria," said
her husband.
"oh, yes, I'll g" she answered. "Really
shan't be sorry to get out of this; begin
to ieel as though 1 had been drowned nv
self;'' and she looked at the steaming cloths
and shuddered. 'Goodby, Geofrey It's an
immense relief to find you all right That
policeman made me feel quite queer. !
can't get down to give you a kiss, or ]
would. Well, goodby for the present, my
dear"
"GOodby, Honoria," said her husband
with faint smile.
The medical assistant looked little sur
prised. BE had never, it is true, happened
to be present at a meeting between husband
and wife, when one of the pair had just been
rescued by q hair's-breath from violent
and sudden death, and therefore wanted ex-
perience to 90 on. But it struck him that
there was something missing. The lady did
not seem to him quite to fill the part oil the
DEMONSTRATING spouse. 1t puzzled him
Very nnuch perhanS he showed this in his