The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-25


York physician. And then Clyde is so
good in matters which man of his profess
sional note might naturally overlook.
He's promised to use his inhuence"-Ger-
aid paused. His brothers. eyelids had
closed, dead-pale against the equal pallor
of his cheeks.
"Well2 He's promised to use his infiu-
ence2"
Dreamily speaking, Sylvan had Enclosed
his eyes, But Gerald did not meet their
look, though he answered, with an off
hand air, certain sentences which were
really no answer at all.
"Oh, mean that in a general sort of
fashion he's so extremely good. He cheers
me up; he makes rue feel as if was not
truly the mere neophyte in medicine that
] am"
A silence came, and then Sylvan queried,
with extreme somberness of tone: "And
what does he say of the manuscript that
father left, Gerald? Didn't you tell me
you were going to consult him about it ?"
L did think of doing 500 returned
Gerald, as he pulled at his yellow NOUS
;ache and cordially hated the lie that
he was acting. But the fact is, Sylvan,
Clyde is so dreadfully busy, don't YOU
Here was a very lame winding-up of
what Gerald believed sentence that
might provoke his brothers keen Curl
osity. But Sylvan only let his eyelids
once more YEARLY droop and his head
sink deeper into the pillow, as he said:
and you yourself have not cared TO study
il out alone. suppose?"
The question was so liStlesslv given
hat oil ha l. :.
safely pass without response He
waited little while, regarding his broth
ers blanched face as though anv new in
slant might bring to it the sudden look
of inquiry which he preferred not to
see. But no such look broke Sylvan's
apathy. After Short time, Gerald felt
the sick mans pulse. This act did not
alter the evident slumber into which he
had fallen, 1t was weak pulse, Gerald
decided, and yet not ahnormally so. The
young man remembered that DR.. CLYDE
had but recently decided Sylvan's latest
condition 10 be one of nervous exhaus-
ton, cerebral in its immediate orr
gin, and yet not of necessity serious.
But his first illness had been serious
Gerald had arrived ut the home of his
brother 10 ind him the prey of BRAIN
fever which threatened his life. 1t was
a wretched shock, that meeting. and il
bore, soon afterwsrd, what 70 this gem
ial young pilgrim from far-away Cam.
bridge proved bitter-tasting fruit
IAN zest and flavor have gone out of
my life," Sylvan soon told his brother
The story which was presently unfoided
had the effect of & tragedy divided into
acts, for il was more than once inter
rupted by either piteous delirium or
sileneing fatigue. Gerald FIRST marveled AZ
the flight Of Lucia, and then caught him
self sympathiRing with her in the course
that she had taken. He came across n
photograph of her which bore her name
and fond phrase written underneath il.
Studying the face with some attention. he
grew convinced that il BETRAYED in mold
ing and lines of feature 4 spirit of strength
and de!icacy strangely mingled Yes he
decided. here was Just the woman 10 re-
sent such imbecility as her husband has
shown and desert him. half through loath-
ing and half through despair. For Ger
aid. having learned from ms brother pre-
CISely with what sort OF opposition he
had met his wife when she desired 10
carry out the wishes of the dead, stood
amazed befose confession OF narrow-
lnlndednesS which past experiences might
have prepared HIM 10 receive. vt first the
whole idea Of an elixir" tinged the men,
CRY of hiS father with sad diSmav Georg-
ina Maynard had never succeeded in cast
ing about the mind of her younger son
that speli 81 horror for his fathers non
coniormIst views which clearly had