The advocate., 1894-05-16

Graham bit his lips, frowned, walked
up and down the room hastily, and
finally stopped and said:
Elena, you will become insane by
encouraging this TheOsophy nonsense.
Stop it, for Gods sake, before it ruins
you. 1t will wreck your mind"
"Then you will not need to put me
into an asylum for nothing. But, will
you here, in my mothers presence,
deny you had such dream?"
"Ln her presence" What do you
mean, Lena, you are already insane"
But he turned pale, looked uneasily
about him, and was extremely nervous.
~ mean that mother is there at
your side. Her hand is on your
shoulder now, and she is looking-oh,
so sadly! at you, while she smiles on
me-"
Graham had been twisting about un-
easily, glancing at his shoulder, and
looking around with much anxiety.
"This is unendurable. You are
making fool of me. Stop such nom
sense. You -. Yes, did have such
dream. But what Of itY What do
dreams amount to? (He glanced nerV-
OuSly at his right shoulder upon which
Lena's gaze seemed fixed.) OF course
oh, damn It'll We'll, i have an engagement
and must 60" And he bolted.
Early that afternoon Lena started
for Ruble's, saying she wished to have
good visit with Kate, but when Ma
son and Mrs. Delorme drove out in the
evening, they learned with dismay that
she had not been there. Kate explained
to John that the doctor did not wish
Lena to see him till next day. Lena
did not return to Mrs. Delorme's that
night, and Graham was greatly ex-
cited. He went down town to set the
police to searching, although he could
just as well have telephoned the chief
to come to the house. Hedroye out to
Ruble's at late hour to make anxious
inquiries, and, generally, made such a
stir that the morning paper was full Of
Lena Graham's mysterious Disap-
pearance."
Besides Major Delorme, not human
being but the participants knew ought
of that interview in the library, nor Of
the general managers threat. But,
next morning, OVertOn and his wife
and Mason left the house and went to
the hotel. Why, no one knew but
Mrs. Delorme, who made such expla-
nation as she could.
AS the days passed and Lena came
no more, John knew something was
wrong, that something other than her
own will was keeping her away. Fin
ally, the doctor invented the fiction
that she was ill-not dangerously i'll,
but so as to make it imprudent for her
to leave the house. They had refrained
from telling him till now, but he had
better know the truth, and so on.
John felt that this was a falsehoOd,
and his skeptical look convinced the
physician that his patient was 'calling
him a liar internally" But, so far
from retarding his recovery, Johns
firm suspicion that 'Graham's
thugs" were responsible for Lena's dis
appearance, and his conviction that
she needed his assistance, nerVed him
for determined conflict with death;
and his rapid improvement from that
hour astOnished his physician, who de-
clared that, although he had said moth
ing about it before, it was marvellous
that man should recover from such
wound; that but one such recovery was
recorded in all the previous annals Of
surgery.
John was soon able to be taken
home, and he speedily got well, al
though, as DIR. Darlington kindly in
formed him, his days as blacksmith
were over.
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