San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-11-03

uLne ana time agaln-;Trs. CIuE 4..or-
vile and her family physician brought
back these incidents and these names to
awaken what they believed to be slug
gish memory-is it any wonder, | say,
that under such circumstances ne should
have mistaken the things which were
last in his mind for actual occurrences?
Why, they told him in SO many words
that these things were a part of his
former life, and that he would be
laughed out of his set if he went back to
:. ew York with an intellect too stupid
to recollect old scenes and cid friends.
With all Of his own early life blotted
out by diseased brain, is it any Won
der that he believed all they said, and
laid hold of the fragments of the life
that had belonged to Richard Melville?
| would like to know Just how many of
the recoileCtions of that early life were
learned, word by word, from the lips of
Mrs. Melville?
| was Il servant in the Melville house
before he had been back from the armv
three months, and knew how he acted
then. He wandered from room 70 room
handling and examining the many
dainty things with which the house is
crowded with the air OF mla who had
never seen the like before. Maurice
Green came from tn bacSwools and
ate with his knife. The new RicA:-l
Melville ave with his knife! | remember
how shocked Mrs. Melville was at first,
but she laid it to the army.
| remember how, for days AMI day
Mrs. Melville sat with him il position
to see callers before they entered the
house. That is why he was ablo to cal
them by name when they took him by
the hand. Was Mrs. Melville honest in
all this: am certain that she was. You
see he remembered the things Richard
Melville was telling when the explosion
came. That was enough for ftal
mother to start on, wasn't it? And then
she did not know what WIS taking place
When ner SON was l.Aleu.
One thing puzzled her. The old Richard
Melville's temper was completely under
control. The new Richard Melville fire.
quently INDUCED in bursts of passion
which were sometimes more than brutal.
| admit that Maurice Green had that
kind of temper, but he never allowed
it to affect me. 1t was in ono of these
attacks of insanity that my brother was
killed, | know, because | was in the
carriage house and heard the wo.dS and
the blow.
1t is said that there were murderers in
the earlier generations of my husbands
family, and that bad blood will tell. l
don't believe it. The act my husband
committed would have been committed
by the most gentle of pasons under the
same circumstances. The army surgeon
| ought to be held responsible for them.
Send man into the world-ard a new
| and false world at that-with an irri-
tatei and diseased brain, and what won't
he do?
depend upon the evidence of medical
experts to acquit my husband. If he
dies | shall die with him. A thousand
hells could not he more unbearable than
the life have lived for years.
mean to have my picture-just as |
looked when we were married-shown
to him tomorrow. | wonder if he will
recognize it? He did not know it when
showed it to him after he came back
from the hospital Think Of that. His
own wife's picture, and taken in her
wedding dress! But then he recollectel
nothing about Clifton or his friends
there. When l called the place by name
and described it to him-even the place
where he had lived-he paid no more at
tention to it than he would had his at
tention been called to place in China.
But that, thank God is all past now.
The condition of mind that made him
for the time being Richard Melville,
in the end brought him back to me as
Maurice Green!