Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-11-15

IN, ytsp she safd, laying her hand
" her heart Ms IL she suffered the-s
terribly" pulns me
she seemed 10 be desperately mi
saw little Of Westhuyen fr.r dav. 80.
TINS. II fs possible that INV manner ~
nm may not have been cordial. / conid
NOT neip certain restraint. and / am
surg tnat ior awhile he avoided me. This
| n Time wore away, and we resumed onr
former pleasant relations, there being
no,nlng 70 excite even further curiosity
IN his domestic affairs.
Mrs. Westhayen steadily drooped. To-
| ing nesh and color, which Miss Carlyon
- steadiiy gained. The winter was
nearly over. Westhaven and had dis.
| cussed the change In his wife. INT q
came 80 gradually that he seemed not r.,
notice Y a. did. One night he came IL
my door. IS - 4
Doctor" he said, II wish You wouId
come and zee Mrs. Westhayen. She 4
not at all WE'LL, - 8
rose hurrfedly and went upstairs
with him. He seemed greatly distressed
ana quite unneryed, scarcely answerfn0
the questions ! put to him concerning the
nature Of the attack. found MISC Car
lyon attending beside the the bed mon
which Mrs. Westheyen lay, white. linn.
utterly unlike herself She smiled
1aintiy when addressed her, but could
not induce her to speak to me. she
looked to me Like person who had re-
ceived sudden and severe shock. /
asked Miss Carly0n where Mrs. West
maven mad passed the afternoon. She re-
and returned Just before dfnner. annar.
emily very much exhausted; she Ina hcen
IN this condition all the evening. Mics
Carlyon's voice was cold and strained.
ana her restless eyes Travelled the room
over as she spoke to me.
Westnayen watched her every word
anxi0usly. had not believed him cana
PIE 81 such deep feeling for his unloyed
VIE. administered sleeping drauoht
and left the room, followed by West
haven. I turned to speak to him. He
stood before me like desperate, hunted
animal, and there flashed across me q
sudden, horrible suspicion that he was In
some way connected with his wifc's III
ness. An fnstant's swift reflection con-
WINGED me Of my injustice her symptoms
were not those Of person to whom an
injurious drug has been given, and the
remorse felt colored my manner to him
with even greater kindness.
30 gave him an opinion which was
the result more of weeks of observation
than OF my visit that evening to the ma
tient. Frankly, will tell you,' . 1 said.
that think Mrs. Wcsthaven will event
ualiy snccumb to the same illness which
attacked her sister. Three months AGO
would have refuted this theory as unten-
able IN view Of her superintendent vital
ity, put 10 the eyes OF q stranger it is DOS
siDly more apparent than to her family,
70 yon, that she is very much changed in
health and appearance" paused.
Westhaven drew his breath In short, dry
gasps His hands moved restlessly along
the back of chair before him.
do you think my wife will dies"
l scarcely recognized his voice. Ire
piled gently:
Not necessarily SO. A change of cli-
mate has effected much in the case of
Miss Carlyon; she is certainly different
person from what she was when I first
saw her. In fact added refiectively,
Miss Carlyon has gained in almost ex-
act proportion to Mrs. Westhaven's loss. -
Westhayen started violently His face
grew hyid. He regarded me with
a strange expression, one which l could
not fathom. continued quietly:
Il should give Mrs. Westhaven no
medicines. If she does not improve you
must take her back to the east Miss
Carlyon need not be considered; be-
heve her to be quite restored to health.n
think no one ever impressed me so
disagreeably as Miss Carlyon st this
period. She had recovered her health in
most extraordinary way, but it seemed
to bring her neither happiness nor good
temper. 1t was impossible to converse
M nm ft1
Her capricious temperament was weari-
some in the extreme and her indifference
to her sister utterly repulsiye West
haven was obliyious to it. Whatever was
the fascination she exerted over him. he
was quite subservient to the spell. She
chung persistently to his side and monopo-
lized the time and attention which
should have been given for humanity's
sake to his wife
avoided Westhaven. He was a great
disappointment to me, and l had entirely
lost respect for him, though l firmly be-
ieved his greatest sin to be weakness in
the hands of an INSCRIPTIONS woman.
One day he came to me quite beside HIM
self. Miss Carlyon was ill-in the old way
he had believed her entirely recovered
he was in despair. His wife, be said,
was much better. l did not know what
to advise. was not a practicing physi-
clan, and l had come to the firm conclu-
sion that had best not NEEDLE with .
complicated and perplexing hereditary
trouble which promised no successful
cure. preferred not to advise at all, |
but promised to see them in the evening.
Westhaven left me dejectedly
] saw nothing of him through the day
and toward 3 o'clock in the afternoon 7
reproached myself for what might seem
to him an objectionable Indifference on
my part, and, on an impulse, went di-
rectly to his rooms. The day was insuffer-
ably hot. There were few guests in the |
hotel, the season was well over and no
one was visible in the corridors. There |
was not a sound save the splashing of |
fountain which played in the court be-
low, cooling the air deliciously. 1 walked |
lazily along the gallery, gazing upward |
at the bit of blue sky above the open |
court, intensely blue as only tropical sky |
can be.
l suddenly paused, transfxed, incapa-
BILE of further motion. I stood before q !
door leading into an inner sitting room |
of Westhaven's, room which had en-
tered but once, which believed he used !
for study. The large glass ventilator |
above the door was swung partially open,
and tipped at such an angle that the in |
terror of the room, glowing in the fierce |
sunlight which poured into it through |
the open window, was reflected with the |
fatal detailed reproduction of photog- |
raphy, upon the surface of the glass.
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