Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1890-08-29
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HE was still sleeping profoundly" said
the nurse.
"You are sure that he was sleeping and
not dead?" asked Fanny, sharply.
"Mademoiselle, / have been nurse for
many years. / know my duties. The
moment the doctor left me I verified his
statements. proved that the patient was
sleeping by feeling his pulse and observ-
Ing his breath"
Fanny made no reply. She could hardly
remind this respectable person that after
the doctor left her she employed herself
first in examining...he cupboards, drawers.
armotre, and other things: that she then
found book with pictures, in which
she read for quarter of an hour or SO;
that she then grew sleepy and dropped the
book
IL then" continued the widow. made
arrangements against his waking-that is
to say. drew back the curtains and turn.
cd over the sheet TO air the bed"-O, Mad
anne! Madamei Surely this was needlessi
SHOOK up the pillows, and occupied my
self in the cares of conscientious nurss
until the time came TO administer the FIRST
awaken NV patient. Figure YOURSELF
He whom had left TRANQUILITY breathing,
with the regularity of con valescent rath-
er than dying man, was dead. He was
dead!''
"You arc sure he was dead,"
las il ! had never seen a dead body be-
torel called the doctor, but it was for
duty only, for knew that he was deadr'
And then,''
''Then the doctor-who must also have
known that he was dead-felt his pulse and
his heart, and looked at his eyes and de-
elared that be was dead"
And them"
What then' II a man Is dead he IS
dead. You cannot restore him to life.
Yet one thing the doctor did. He brought
camera and took a photograph of the
dead man for the sake of his friends"
"Ohl He took q photograph of-of-
Lord Harry Norland What did he do
that for."
II tell you for the sake of his friends"
Fanny was more bewildered than ever.
Why on earth should the doctor want a
photograph of the Dane Oxbys to show
the friends OF Lord Harry, Could he have
made blunder us stupid as it was uncali-
ed forf No one could possibly mistake the
dead face of that poor Dane for the dead
fRce of Lord Harry
She had got all the information she
wanted-all, in fact, that was of any use
see the grave.
The cemetery OF Auteutl Is nok SO large
- Pere Ia Chaise. nor does il contain SC
many celebrated persons as the lat:er---
perhaps the greatest cemetery, as REGARDS
its illustrious dead, in the whole world.
tombs are not those Of Immortals bzs OF
Respectables.
Among them Fanny easily found, fol-
lowing the directions given to her, the
tomb she was searching after.
Or it was written in English, Sacred to
the Memory of Lord Harry Norland, sec
ond son OF the Marquis OF Malven." Then
followed the date aud the age, and moth
ing more.
Fanny sat down on a bench, and con-
t. niated this mendacious stone
The Dane Oxbye," she said, "was
growing better fast when l went away
That was the reason why was sent away.
The very next day the doctor. thinking me
Tar away, poisoned him. 1 saw him do it.
The nurse was told that he was asleep,
and being left alone presently discovered
that he was dead. She had been told
that the sick man is young Irish gen
tleman. He is buried under the name OF
Lord Harry. That is the reason l found
the doctor alone. And my ladyf Where
Is shesv