The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-04-29
SOMERSET PA, WEDNESDAY. APRIL 20. 1896

cnance oil her being familiar with the
language. AS opposed to the certainty
of English there was no choice in the
matter. / went to work at once, and
the necessary words came to me with
surprisingly small effort, considering /
had allowed years TO pass without any
attempt at furnishing up my old col
lege studies. My completed prescrip-
ton read like this:
To SATTERLEE & FINK, DRUGGISTS.
For Mr.. Wimon's residence Hanson place.
South road:
In nomlne Del, drehms.
Statim mite auxilium, ounces.
Homo mortuus est, 10 ounces.
Uxor furiosa, me, ? draehms.
Tenens cum pistole, 3drchms.
ABRAM EDWARDS, NJ. d.
''It was very hard Latin; so bad that
expect the soul of my old professor
up in heaven grew heavy with indigna-
ton, but if the right man got hold oft,
its purport was plain. Translated it
meant: In the name of God send help
Immediately. A man is dead; his wife
insane, holding me with a pistol /
put signs of drachms and ounces at the
end of each line to add to the prescrip-
tion-like appearance of the whole.
When | had finished said:
1.-The prescription is ready. You
can call the servant
''She struck a little ornamental gong
upon the table and the negro who had
come with me came into the room.
His eyes opened wide and his face
turned ashy as he saw how things
were. But he was already in and
dared not retreat. l knew his type too
well to count upon any assistance from
him save in his capacity as a messen-
ger.
"She made the negro take the paper
from me and hand it to her. ] felt my
heart beat dull and heavy with anxiety
as she attempted to read it. She gave
no sign, but handed the message to the
darky, telling him to go to town at
once and procure what it called for.
He left the room. Soon / heard the
sound of horses hoofs over the grav-
eled pathway in the yard, the slam ofa
gale and knew my call was on its
way.
"AlOne there in that room with that
crazy woman and the dead man could
do nothing but sit and wait aud think.
As the morlents passed with leaden
slowness, possibly long before it could
in reason be expected, my nerves grew
tense with anxiety and every sense
keenly alert for signs of approaching
rescue. My brain grew sick with ap-
prehensions of probable miscarriages
of the message. Again my mind be-
gan to call up visions Of all the bloody,
mangled wounds I had ever seen or
imagined. 4 double sense seemed to
possess mo, fsolines Of anxians hope
and a sickening impression of evil all
around and about ready to close in and
destroy me.
'Time and again l thought / heard
the longed for sounds of rescuers ap-
preaching, to find it was but the rising
wind, the first breath OF fresh north
err agitating the trees or rattling
window sash.
AT last the welcome sound came in
fact and not in fancy, with unexpected
suddenness, breaking upon me near at
hand without prior announcement. |
heard the front door of the house open
suddenly with a crash and a noise of
hurrying people in the hall. She heard
it at the same instant, look of start
ling questioning crossed her face and
then the fury of a demoniae possessed
her as she screamed at me:
" so villain, they come to help you,
They may bury my husband, but you
will go with him.
~ saw her finger contract upon the
trigger. / covered my face with my
hands, expecting the explosion, the
pain, the dreadful crash. What | did
hear was sharp click, rush, half
smothered CALCULATIONS, noise of strug-
Cling and something that was heavy
which fell upon the floor. looked up.
1.-TWO men had hold of her. She was
trying to free herself, wild-eyed but
silent. Another man picked up her
pistol from the floor, looked at it
moment, pointed it downward, snap
ped it six times and said:
as Why, Doc, there amt thing in
the gum '"-S. Louis Globe Democrat.