Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-10-15
THE HAUNTED CONGRESSMAN
BY Hezekiah Butterworth.

load IL nervous failure, and 70 brain
and heart failure. There would come
gone fearful end TO this mans life.
understood the case. Inere are
secrets that 1t is death 70 carry, WIN
ont 4 confession 0f disgrace. Here was
one Of them. He was haunting him-
self.
Doctor, you understand my case,
YOU have studied The subject. ! snail
wish to see you again. You SAID tiiat
YOU had remedies.
"My one remedy now Is change
u will 20 TO Washington tomorrow
7 am a rich man; II do not get better
will YOU come to see me thereT,
yes, l vii study the subject. ! Will
40 everything that / can for you. !
think that the soul can sometimes I'M
press others at distance. Lord by
ron when al Madras dreamed that ne
y,as in London, where he met certain
friends. On his return TO LONDON
these friends told him that they had
aeen him in London on that very day
OF has dreams, on the case was lihe
that You see my meaning.
This man Is guilty Of moral muir
der None could cast stones az MIN
for ii. he would cast stones at MN
SELF. He would fnlall the old jewish
law In himself. A mar who betrays
friend 10 crafty a selfish ambition mas
taken living death into his heart
Ghosts vanish in The eye Of those
who study neurology. An ayenging
law Of hidden wrong doing appears u
their stead | had never met case 10
curious as this, such case OF judas
like betrayal / determined TO follow
IL. not ais moralist, but as q medical
man.
We parted at the Ark As ! stepped
from the carriage the fair girl Helen
came up to me and said
'.Auntie plaeide, his mother, would
like to speaL to you, VIII You come
inn
entered the great rooms. The GUS
tomary meal on rather feast for the
bearers" and those who had rendered
services at the funeral was going on.
There were sounds Of hurry; clatter
OF dishes. old people moving about like
shadows; young people peeping timid-
" into the doors,
Helen led me 20 tho widow
you are the new doctor. said the
latte. In 4 mild beautiful Huguenof,
tone. II wish TO taik to you In prl-
yate. feel that | need your help.
VIII you come with me to my room?
followed her She shut behind us
the door of her ROOM and motioned me
to chair.
Doctor, Helen has eoInforted me
You heard what she said al the grave.
But have something else on my mind.
Perhaps YOU can make II clear. On
the night that my sen died, when we
did not think that he was 80 near his
end | went into his room to see II
could do anything Tor him, and he was
not there. | felt greatly alarmed and
troubled. and went out into the out
houses and fields to see IL could find
him. When returned he was In his
room lying ON his bed. went to
him, and asked lin where he had
been, He did not answer Doctor, he
was deadw
She trembled Doctor, he was dead,
What do you think II was?"
| recalled the strange incident that
the nervous congressman had told me,
Il think, my dear woman, that he
went out into the night, and returned
and laid down, and died
but he had no strength he vas
very wasted"
"a sudden mental impulse Will give
strength I'd the dying.
"But where could ne have gomez lie
was not on the PREMISE when ! was
looking for him.
"He went out ltto the night prob
ably 70 see some place OF person Or
some association of life tlat was near 70
his healt. Tho effort was the immed-
tate cause Of his death"
out into the night, she repeated
after me. "Out into the night 70 see
something near his Leart! II MIR Grant
had been here III town II might have
been him."
My dear WOMAN. lIelen has COM.
forted Won let me- comfort you liz
went ont into the night II 10 some last
noble act | ann sure IT that and that
was the last impulse that caused his
heart 10 fail You may vst sure Iii
this. His death yas somehow mis-
sion
came to Warren Il live How we'll
] recall the beautiful bowery old plaep'
the sunny whayes' the ronisset road'
the rides 10 the M Hope lands III
Bristol. and the shores 81 the North
mems Rock, the Nargaret.s Rocks III
Swansea the Oh churches with Welsh
traattions' tile o'clock hellt the sea
captains homes
again and aeiiH met the sereue
mother of rlacide.
She said 10 me aue evening a. W
parted under the sreat trees that line
the Bristol road
There never ceases q haunt me tile
mystery II the night ef the death ~ MS
dear boy. The outward world seyms