The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-12-31
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"He does, though, and yell find yer
self entirely comfortable. Yell find all
we want and the attention will be per-
feet"
'sBut don't care to stay in this part
of the house.. If Disney has no better
accommodation than this for friend he
hasn't met in three years, I'll get out and
go back to Aberdeen"
''And think you'll conclude to stay
where We are" said Mike with funny
little chuckle.
''Come, now, you'd better begin to
undress quietly, for that bath is waitin
for ye"
1t began to dawn upon me that Mike
really thought he had got new patient,
and laughed out loud at the joke.
"Why, Nike" said, edo you mean
to tell me you don't recognize your old
friend? You surely are not under the
impression that I am patient"
''Oh, that's all right. recognize my
old friend very we'll, and I haven't said
We was patient Only Pm telling you
to hurry out of them clothes and take
ye're BATH"
cit is about time to stop this fooling,"
said. "Now let me pass; want to go
down to your master"
"Ye'll find there's no foolin about it
now, and I want We to understand that
the master on this fure is called Mike
Brady-Mr. Mike Brady, Esq. Now
take off them clothes"
'sNow let me pass; I've had enough Of
this" said quietly, but I was getting
very hot, and I felt myself turning white
in the face with suppressed passion.
The affair was getting beyond the limit
of joke. I stepped forward as though
to push by him.
had been SO absorbed in this little
controversy that | had quite forgotten
the proximity of those two keepers who
had been following us so closely for
some time. AS stepped forward, Mike
stepped back and uttered little sharp
whistle. In one instant felt myself
grabbed from behind and was in the
powerful grasp of the two men.
I struggled and fought like Gagged
tiger, but I was as helpless as a baby,
and there stood that dunderheaded
fiend, Mike Brady, smiling at me in
calm victory and making me more and
more angry and mad.
Madl
Mad? Yes! That was It'll He thought
was mad. and he knew to perfection
how to arouse all the evil passions with
in me. And he meant to do it. The
two keepers knew no better; they were
under his orders.
Now there flashed across my mind the
hundreds of stories I had heard and read
of perfectly sane persons being sent tc
lunatic asylums ''to get them out of the
way" and how, after short spell Of
careful treatment" they had become
literally raving lunatics. Would Mike
Brady drive me out of my mind?
BY big effort l restrained my anger
for moment, and attempted to speak
quietly.
''Now, Mike" I said, 'sthis joke is
about over. Please send one of these
men for DR.. Disney, and he will tell you
what a mistake you are making. I am
his old friend and have come to stay
with him as his guest. He will be wait.
ing dinner for me-"
''Now don't let's have any more OF
that talk. | know all about you-oi
course, you're the doctors guest. You're
all his guests. It is little way he has.
And yell be going to stay quite a long
while acceptin his hospitality. You're
going to begin at once. Are we going to
take that bathT'
81 am not"
"Then we'll have to give it to you"
In moment l was thrown onto the
bed on my back, and while the two
keepers held me Mike commenced to
disrobe me. Then l began to struggle
desperately and shout at the top of my
voice.
"We'll have to gag We if We shout, my
FRIEND" said Mike. But struggled all
the more and shouted louder. "There's
no one will hear We, and We'll soon put
stop to that struggling" He stepped
out of the room and returned in min
ute with an armful of straps.
They were going to strap me down!
The horror of the moment was almost
worse than the agony of the thought
that was in the hands of three igno-
rant brutes to whom every sane effort
made was further proof of my insan-
ity. was becoming weak from exertion
and want of food. Then I understood
Mikes object in taking me the long
walk over the building. He had been
firing me out. Still kept up my
struggles and shouting.
With wonderful rapidity, showing
how well and thoroughly Mike had &C
quired his duties, strap was thrown
across my legs and buckled tight to the
bed, and another across my chest hold
ing my arms to my side and almost
choking me.
"He'll settle down directly" heard
one of the keepers say, and in truth /
had almost exhausted myself.
/ began to feel the room swimming
around me.
Would help never come?
My throat was parched with terror
and my tongue almost Glove to the roof
of my mouth. l managed to gasp a
prayer for "Water! For Gods sake,
waterl" And then forgot my troubles.
When I came to myself was lying on
a. comfortable he'd in an alepant1v fur-