Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-12-14

"On the conditions / have named,
you have, but remember il I die the
money goes to the hospitals" answer
ed Silas.
"You will not die" returned tho Doc
tor. Mind and eat nothing which IL
not prepared by tho young lady"
80 L have done 30 for some weeks" re-
piled Silas, with grim simplicity, "and
yet am dying By inches"
III.
! am now going to translate the notes
OF Matthew Wenlock, which were placed
In my hands by An old friend Of mine,
Or. Warrington. 1t appeared that there
was an old gentlemen living in lodgings
IN Monarch's square, Bloomsbury, who
had made MP his mind that he was being
slowly poisoned. which was rather q re-
Election on the doctor who was attending
him professionally. Most medical men
would have chucked up the case, but the
old gentleman, you see, had a pretty niece
and doctors are men like the rest OF us.
/ was little slack at the time and the
offer made by Mr.. Ranford was hand
some one. l made myself up bit in
the mounseer line and knocked at the
door
Have you to let shsmber ?" says
70 the slipshod wench who answered my
knock.
She stared at me as if I had spoken
double Dutch upside down.
GA sbamber-a sleeping room, says
I.
"Ah," answered she, "now l under
stand you want bedroom"
Then she marches me 10 the top Of the
house, but that didn't suit me bit, for
the old gentleman lived in the parlor.
mon ange," says ], "I mean my
little angel, have you not a shamber lower
down? For all i am proud amateur
OF pretty girls. yet, see you, my legs are
old and cannot walk up the high
| escalier, 20 starecas, as you call up.
have not 20 grace and re agility OF a
ieune file, mean of re handsome girl. y
She did not quite comprehend me, but
/ she saw | meant to be civil, and faint
smile played round her mouth, which
was marked with streak OF backing,
for she had evidently been cleaning the
boots when Knocked. Then she took
me down TO little hole of room
/ off the staircase, which / took ut once,
! for it commanded a view of the parlor-
door and also of tho one leading
into another room, occupied by the only
other lodger, an ivory-turner. j took
possession in about a couple of hours,
/ telling the landladv, who wanted a week
in advance, that | was a COPPER OF music,
and should be at home oil day, but | did
not want any cooking done. L may say
she took me at my word, and l have
taken q dislike to cook shop beef and
saveloys, upon which l had to live all
the time was conducting my investiga-
| ton.
i managed TO be in and about the
staircase a good deal and caught more
than one glimpse Of the old gents
niece, and | must say that / applaudcd
the Doctors taste, for she was fine
figure of girl, with q face like an
angels. I felt rather sorry for him,
however, as I generally have found that
the more like an angel n woman is out
wardly the more OF the devil there is in
her, and ] began to wonder whether,
after all, she might not be helping na-
ture TO put the old gent out of the world
little sooner than had been originally
intended. For the first few days i only
caught back view OF tho ivory-turner,
but at last L met him face to face on the
doorstep. Not O bad-loo2ing chap at
all, but with n sullen expression of face
which marred it all.
"I beg your pardon, if that | incom-
mode you, sare, =" says /, taking of my
hat and making way for him. He was
decidedly an unpublished young man, for
all he said WAS 60 your gibber-
ish, and pushed by me. l used to hear
the old gent coughing away as If he
would bust, and one day, pretending 70
be i'll. | got the Doctor up to my room.
" How is Mr.. Ranford ?" ! asked.
"About as bad as can be-" answered
he. 81 say, Wenlock, if there is any
secret You had better find it out at once
or it will be too late and l shall lose
Hesba."
"What does the young lady want in
the itory-turners room ?" says |. al
see her 90 in there two or three times q
day. 1t strikes me that / have seen him
somewhere, but for the life of me can I
say where
IL you have never seen q man turn
green, you should have been ia my room
when / said this.
"In the ivory-turner's ROOM" gasped
he; "wby, I'll go and twist the fellow s
neck.
"We'll leave that for the regular Of
fetal to do. Doctor" says !. Look
here i am poor, benighted foreigner,
and can't make myself properly under
stood. | don't think this little dog
kennel suits my complaint. There is an
empty room next to my ivory friend.
Can't YOU make arrangements for me to
move down if you can, I'll promise TO
settle the matter in two days. You can
pay week in advance +; the old gal OF
the house likes that kind Of business"