Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-05-22
WATERBURY EVENING DEMOCRAT, TUESDAY, MAY 49,

| bright things, Miss Dye, if you must
think of it at all, and let the rest go.
However, I wish to ask you question
or two, if You don't mind In the first
place, were you feeling well and strong
previous to the 9th of December last,
when you made your unfortunate visit
to Somerset?'
"Not really we'll, sir. It had been in
creasing for some months. I think if I
had been we'll I should not have felt so
deeply the lonesomeness of my situation.
Ny head troubled me greatly, and at
times I suffered from an overwhelming
feeling of despair and melancholy, which
I am sure was not natural to my dispo-
sition.'
''Then as to your sight. Could you
not call up the face Of an absent person
most wildly before your mind, and
shutting your eyes sometimes almost
persuade yourself that that person was
standing before you?'
Annette suddenly became very pale.
She looked at the physician, agitated
and amazed.
''Why-why, how could you know
that, sir?'' she stammered. She seemed
everybody uttered an exclamation of
surprise. In a few moments, however,
she had partly recovered, and then she
at once went ON in hurried manner.
much as if she were trying to get away
from dangerous topic as fast as posi-
BILE.
Indeed I never forgot faces nor any
thing else that saw that interested me-
Sometimes such thing would haunt
me for days. I suppose it was my lone
illness and isolation that made me take
so much interest i'll what I saw about
me when I was young I studied over
them till they almost became part of
meat least I fancied so. Sometimes
when anything had impressed itself
strongly on my mind it would come
into my sleep night after night until it
really terrified me with it's vividness.
And really, DR.. Lamar, 1 should like to
know if you consider this part of my
diseaseP'
She put the question anxiously, as if
it were most mOinentOus one.
ooh, no, not at all, not at ALP said
the physician quickly, believing that he
had alarmed her, though the fact seemed
very strange and ineXplicable to him.
81 think perhaps, Miss Dye, we have
talked sufficiently on such topics for one
day. Some time when you are stronger
we will discuss them more fully. Forget
this past that troubles you. You are in
safe hands here, and I can assure you
that your old life is q closed volume if
w., To Oh
earnest advice to you is to keep your
mind free from it. The present and the
future are much more to the point.
''But what can I do?'' sighed An
nette, passing from her former agitation
to an expression Of uneasiness and dis
tress. IT do not, 1 cannot feel happy
here. I know it is wrong but cannot
help seeming to myself burden on my
friends. If I could only earn my own
living!'
"You shall, - cried Maxey, with an
inspired look 'You yourself have al
ready indicated the path. You have
talent for drawing and an admiration
for art. Twill become your teacher, and
you shall be an artist.
"And make your fortune at once.
Artists always do" added Miss Maxey,
with a sly look at her brother.
''But am not sure that I can 1
spoke too much of myself perhaps. l
may not have any talent at all, - stam-
mered Annette.
But the delight and hope i'll her face
as she glanced at Maxey's sketch be-
trayed her real feelings plainly.
''You will not refuse?" the artist
cried.
"Not, not if you really would like to