The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-02-01
A MANAGES STORY.
Terrible Penalty Of Ungoverned
Jealousy.

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Or. Hayford was my chum at Har
ward and my most intimate friend a.
well. OF course he was not an NJ D.
then, but such he soon after became
and having more spare time than cash
as moro experienced and better estab
Hshed physicians got all the paying
patients, he was obliged to look around
considerably in order to find favor
location.
tier several changes he finally
tied off out west and then lost all
owledge of him. We had written &C.
ionally for some time, but every
'dy knows how dificultitis to answer
tiers amid the cares of an active life,
1T is not strange that our CORE
2ondence died a natural death at last
few years afterward [. too, went
vest to pay a visit to a favorite uncle,
andin less than week from the time
! arrived at his house came across
VIII Hayford. The surprise and pleas
ure of the meeting was mutual
VIII told me that he had made a
special study of insanity and had beea
so successful in its treatment that he
had opened a small private madhouse
just out of town in order to accommo-
date his wealthy patients At that
time there We're several being treated
there. After a short conversation the
doctor was obliged to leave me, but
ere he went he made me promise to call
at the asylum before | returned east.
II do not usually admit any visitors
except the immediate friends of nv
patients" said he, but in your case
am only too glad to do so. Come any
day and you will be almost certain to
find me in, as devote my whole time
to the afflicted inmates of my house
hold
So it happened that spent the after
noon at the asylum u rev days later.
Will was very glad to see me, and we
had long, pleasant talk about old
times and acquaintances He had a
great many questions to ask about
people and things at the east, and the
time passed by rapidly At length,
however, he invited me to inspect the
institution, thing was exceedingly
anxious to do.
1 saw several interesting patients,
and my friend, the doctor, gave me |
brief accounts of their lives and the |
various hallucinations under which |
they were laboring; but to me the last
one to which we came was the most in |
teresting of all. Pausing before adoor
in an isolated portion of the building,
the doctor said:
Here is a patient l have never al
lowed anyone to see exceps the brother
who brought him here. lie is a young
man of good education and excellent
family, but he is hopelcssly insane.
At times he is violent and single un-
guarded word might serve to make
him wild; hence my precaution in re-
gard to visitors. l have confidence in
you, though, and you can talk with
him as much as you please as he has
been quite rational for some DAYS.
Conversation of the right kind may 60
him good
So saying DR.. Hayford unlocked the
door, and then l saw that there was
another one beyond it made OF grated
ron, through the bars of which looked
put pale, emaciated young man who |
had evidently been strillingly handsome |
when in health Even then there was |
certain devillsh beauty lingering (
lbout his thin but regular features and
Offering eyes, in whose restless ,
iepths glowed the lurid fire of mad
less. ,
"Have you heard from Emma?" he I
alled out to me in a voice of passion q
tie appealing, as soon as he S aw me 4
landing outside. HAS she forgiven b
ne YETI" +,
Talk with him if you like; only hu- o
nor him." said the doctor. Il must 20 Il
nd give No. his medicine now" and
0 saying he departed, leaving me still ii
landing before the door of No. 49, ;,
'urning toward the unfortunate young d
ian | soothingly answered: h,
Eyes; Emma is well and happy, and tc
think she will forgive you soon. But e
on have never told me what she has
} forgive" +,
Don't you know? Then I will tell OF
ou the whole terrible story" said the I'll
ale young man with the burning eyes; n
Id he began at once as follows: OF
II always had longing for the fic