The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-07-31
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IOE HOdis llc grew IDeDIeF anu DdIer.
1T seemed to him rs if his limbs were
lead, as if his head were too heavy
to bear. He dragged himself heaV-
lily from the sofa to the chair, from
the chair to the sofa. When pain in
the back seized him he called a ply
sician.
"You are going to have a severe
Sickness" was his decision. @
"Of what kind? BE perfectly frank.
l am alone in the world, and must
make my arrangements"
"Well the symptoms look like
typhus."
Hartman's face became even paler
than before; his eyes started with the
expression of horror upon the speak
er. ..-- .- !
"a slow fever, in which one does
not lose consciousness; is it not SO,
doctor? Certainly SOP"
"If my fears are likely to be realized
] woald wish the contrary. The
fever begins violently, you are deliri.
Gus at the crisis, and the worst is
over, when you recover conscious
ness"
To be deliriousI Hartman shud-
dered. To be delirious, not to be
master of his thoughts and words,
to betray his secret motives, in spite
of himself to reveal that with which
his mind had incessantly occupied it.
self-no, for heavens sake, anything
but that!-"I want no Sister of
Mercy, no attendant: look after me
at intervals of several hours" he
said turning to the physician.
He smiled at the notion.
Hartman determined not to fall
sick; he struggled terribly, and
fought with all the strength he had
left against the approaching foe,
There he lay shaken by the fever,
but still conscious.
That's the nurse, that's the chair.
now O stretching out my hand. I
know exactly what l am doing" he
repeated ten times every hour.
''And if it turns out otherwise
would they give any weight to fever
lsh dreams? Nurses, who have to
hear SO many things, will not notice
it at all. Il have not committed the
theft; know nothing OF it. That L
will keep repeating to myself contin-
ually; perhaps that will influence the
delirium. They say the mind runs
usually on things that are the fartAest
removed from the normal thinking,
but my thoughts are still perfectly
! clear"
Then veil fell over rthereality. In
stead of the Sister of Mercy, the at
torney, in his black gown and cap
stepped into the room, took a chair
and sat down be ore the bed.
Through the sharp glasses the still
| sharper looks were incessantly di-
rected upon him. Likeglowing steel,
they bored themselves into his brain.
You will be delirious my boy"
said the attorney and nodded his
head.
81 shall not" Thought, the sick
youth and clun9 d his Ned.
Day after day the tormentor sat
there, staring at him, and listened.
Then more and more OF his colleagues
came, also Judges in their robes,
and all seated themselves in long
rows before his bed. Breathless they
listened; one gentleman, old and
hard OF hearing, always kept his hand
at his ear. ''Now he will be delirious,"
they whispered at times. There was
a deatening ringing in Hartman's
ears.
He felt terrible rage against the
black assembly.
He had mind to put out his
tongue at them aud to call: "Wait,
if you will, you tools, you will not
hear one syllable from me; shall re-
main mute as the grave" But he
controlled himself and remained
quietly lying.
The faces, in close array, drew near
er and rearer to him. Now the near
est were already sitting on the edge
ofthe bed, and now even on his body.
They put heavy ice cold law books
on his head, heaping them I'D to a
crushing burden. One kept striking
him with an invisible hammer on his
forehead and crying out madly.
won't you rave now, won't your"
1t became insupportable> He
struck out and shrieked so that the
landlord came hurrying up the stairs
and looked through the chink of the
door, and the attendant drew back
in terror. and the physician stood
helping for moment.
With the greatest effort the teverish
patieItraised himselfand cried loudly
and distinctly: "Wretehes, you would
think l would reveal and betray INV
self. Now,. Just to defy you / shall
not do it, See, with u clear mind, to
spoil your pleasure, / say it frankly:
] stole the money from the merchant
Helwig in his Office the 25th OF March,
4. Conrad Hartman.
As if relieved, Ire ss on ms 6ilfow.
From this moment "a sensible i'm
provement was noticed.
The nurse told Incidentally about
the strange occurrence, the landlord
spoke ofit. and so it haPpened that
the young attorney had the satisfac-
ton, before the expiration of the De-
riod of limitation, of redeeming MS
previous failure,
! The first caller which the con-
valesceRt received was the attorney.
Without surprise, cold and quiet, he
received him aud made ehiSeoniession.
Afterwards he tried several times
TO drink off his medicine with Ok /.
draught, but he was prevented iron
doing SO.
So he was able, after q few weeks,
to exchange the sick chamber for
the prison cell. .sr, -~.
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