Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-12

be more easy for my patient to speak
frankly in the dim light with lazy friend
smoking and listening, than if be had to
face a sharp-eyed doctor, reading every
feature by the help of three gas jets
He took the other arm chair pulled up
for him, and he did not speak for minute
| or two. My arrangements for facilitating
confidential talk had put me at a disad-
vantage, for 1 could not study his ex-
preston as should have liked. AS I re-
marked, 'You wanted to consult me?" I
glanced at him, but could not read his face.
His voice was as clear and cool as possible,
when he replied, eyes, 1 want to consult
you. You know how happy 1 have been
with Mabel? Did it ever occur to you,
Edwin, that she-my wife-is q hypocrite,
beautiful fiend-false to me, and worse
than false?''
Heavens! Cecil! What horrible words.
was all could soy. NY affected Incidence
was gone in moment. 1 dropped my pipe,
sat bolt upright and stared in his face.
Then saw that he was very pale and his
brows were knit together like one who is
putting powerful restraint upon his tenn
per. The working Of his features was in
strong contrast to his voice, which was calm
and measured.
'You are surprised, Of course" he said
Anybody would be; but must repeat that
she is the veriest sham that walks this
earth! And my cousin Amory Rhodes is
the blackguard who has walked the devil in
that beautiful witch"
knew then what rock he had split upon
and exclaimed, 'Ohl Cecil, for Gods sake
don't let the demon of jealousy get aboard
OF you! Because, perhaps, you have seen
your cousins undisguised admiration for
wi oil Cd
and her natural liking for such admiration,
so you have jumped to a conclusion which
is most unworthy of you, and does your
wife ESQ lately your devoted nurse) a
shameful injustice"
spoke hotly, because I believed he was
wrong; but he did not resent my words.
He merely smiled in a melancholy way and
said, II quite expected you to look at it so.
You could not know as do. You have not
had to mark, as have, thousand and one
trifies which 60 to prove that wall of di-
vision has grown up between US You have
not seen us together before last night 1
asked you on purpose, and I know-for 1
watched you-that you noticed more than
one incident which confirms my statement
Is that not so Edwin?"
For the life of me 1 could not deny that
had thought there was something unusual
in the action of those two to each other; but
was emphatic in declaring my conviction
that their secret-if secret there was-was
not that which Harrington affirmed it to be.
'You did not know, OF course" he re-
sumed, ''that Rhodes was very fond of Mabel
Hynde years ago 1t was that which sent
him back to America in such hurry, and I
never supposed he would come here again.
But he has come; and he has aIlured her
from me, although he told me he had got
over his old fancy. D. himP' The last
two words we're spoken as coldly as every
other word, and as had never, during
even the peculiar experience OF doctor,
heard that imprecation spoken without
heat, it made me shudder.
said no word and Harrington went on.
''The wife who can be so lured away is not
worth much-not worth troubling ones
heart about; and yet loved Mabel, and I