Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-07-12
CHAPTER VIII.

They made an armchair of themselves
by interlocking their hands and arms,
Maxey and DR.. Lamar, to carry her up
the long flights of stairs to her new
home, this pale, shy girl whom the care
fully driven carriage had just brought
to the door of the house at the end of the
quiet street.
How different from the ominous roll
of the departing ambulance was tine COM
ing of this jaunty carriage! When Miss
Maxey had listened to the first from the
parlor window, high above the street,
her sympathetic heart felt as if chill
breath from the icy river had touched it.
Now she waited at the top of the stairs
with rose in her hair
Modern science had alone made this ar
rival possible. For the second time with
in the short period of a few weeks brain
surgery had won another brilliant vic
tory. But there was that about this Sec
Ond and more recent miracle which not
even Lamar himself could explain. That
the result had exceeded his n.oat daring
hopes he had acknowledged, at least to
Maxey. To rescue from the grave trem-
bling paralytic victim, who realizes full
well his doom, and himself gives the
word which authorizes the dangerous
operation as his last fearful chance, is
great indeed, but to pour q flood of
fullest, freest light into the darkness
worse than death that enshrouds an in
tellect is something so far greater that it
rises at once out of the region of human
achievement into that unfathomed realm
of natures mysteries where the wisest
are as children. No Lamar was too
scientific man to believe this triumph
all his own, too honest to claim it as his
own, but nevertheless the world would
count it his. Henceforth he would be
great among his fellows
The victim of the cliff road was still
in very sensitive and precarious state
Her memory of even recent events
might fail her at times in the most
alarming manner, but her pulse was
normal, her appetite good, and every
day would show change for the better
every day away from the hospital,
surrounded by sympathetic faces kind
voices and the quiet of home. So they
all believed. So had the carriage come
This was scarcely the same being who
once before had been carried by these
four strong arms from the street to the
artists rooms. That form had been sub
missiye and leaden. This shrank in
maiden modesty from undue contact.
That face had been distorted with the
hideous nightmare of perpetual fear
This glowed with all the sweet, shy,
womanly emotions that rise in the breast
of a young girl whom necessity compels
to cling in this bold fashion to strangers
Of the other sex. She obeyed their in
structions to put her arms about their
necks with trembling reluctance that
was too spontaneous to be counterfeit
I know not what philosophic DR.. Lamar
thought, but to Julian Maxey the trem-
ulous touch of that almost transparent
little hand was vague revelation of the
possibility Of joy to come greater than
any he had ever known.
1t was toilsome, climbing the long
flights of stairs in this slow, steady fash
ion, but it seemed to Maxey in his pres
ent ecstatic frame of mind, with bur-
den such as this to carry, he would
willingly have kept on mounting for
yer. AS for the palpitating burden her
self, she was troubled with more senti-
ments than one. This removal, her des-
tination, her new friends, were SO many
mysteries to her The truth had purpose
ly been kept from her for a specific rea-
son, and she had been informed only
that she was to be taken to a more Sc
cluded place than the hospital, where
she would be surrounded by brighter in
fluences and would get well the quicker.
Notwithstanding her weakness and
her trepidation at finding herself in the
arms of the strange men, she was seen
to glance with an expression of interest
and curiosity upon the house and the
entrance into which she was being tax
en-. In spite of DR. Lamar's assurance
to the contrary, Maxey hoped that she
would recognize the place and its in
mates without word to aid her This
was the object of his silence to her. 1t
partook of the nature of an experiment.
Miss Maxey, waiting for them in the
corridor, held the door open for them to
pass in. The girl looked at her in q
mute, questioning manner without a
shadow Of recognition, that thoroughly
disappointed the artists sister. The
doctors strong tones We're the first to
break the silence.
..These are your new friends, Miss
Dye. Here your home is to be as long as
vou care to rlalSa it. From the time ven