The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-09

moment. Aimee was now IN troubled
sleep; her face was an ashen-gray hue.
and looked set and sharpenei. The doctor
echoed the nurses words internally.
though his sympathy with poor Godfrey
would not allow him TO say 50.
he said, encouragingly. Miracles have
been worked before now, and where there
is life there Is hope" But in reality he
still considered the German doctors eX-
pertinent.
But Godfrey stopped over the sleeping
form of his wife, and whispered in her
ear; Jose has heard your cry. my All
meel He has sent help for YOU and for
mel"
The pale lips made answer. though the
eyes remained closed.
Il know IL, GOdfrey-he has been with
me-and promised" .
"Well, Wilton" said Sir Darlington next
morning your Herr doctor was no fool
after all. I could believe in magic after
this. Last night did not give your wife
many hours 10 live-now / would not say
she will pot outlive us both-its a mira
Gle, and nothing short of it, / have never
seen anything like this IN the whole course
of my professional caree-. Whatever mo-
tive Offenheim could have In conceal
ing"
Here Godfrey Wilton interrupted him.
you and Offenheim may think just what
you choose, Cullen: but Aimee's brother
prescribed for Aimee and none other.
There might be more such miracles were
there more faith"
Sir Darlington made no comment upon
this speech but simply expressed his
happiness al the turn things had taken,
and said he would go back 10 his hotel,
and return In the course OF the day.
Scarcely had he left the Villa Rubens
than DR.. Offenheim presented himself
al the door, curiosity having gained the
mastery over professional feeling
80" began the Herr doctor. Madame
still lives after your Engishman's eN-
periment2"
Wilton smiled. He would discuss this
Vexed question no more. she is herself
she will recover!' he said joyousiy.
And after a visit 10 the patient, the
doctor found 1t impossible TO contradict
the fact.
THAT alkaloid in combination seems
TO have worked a charm Mr.. Wilton"
he observed, with a SLOW shake of the
mead; but the conduct OF your English
physician was not professionally no
means professional"
Aimee Wilton's recovery became an as
sured fact, end before Sir Darlington lift
Coblenz for London, he heard her story
from her own lips.
been a beloved pupil of her brothers, and
had been sent by her to find an artist
who would rapidly sketch the dead fea-
lures Of poor Jose, without conveying the
idea of death, as a photograph must do.
They were In Paris at that time, and
Heinrich, whose love for art (Which was
alma stering in spite of his forced study
Of chemistry led him to the Louvre in
leisure moments, made him acquainted
with Godfrey Wilton, who was then en-
gagged In copying that surprisingly fine
picture La Mort d'Atala." 1t was to Will
ton, whose address in the Rue d'Amster-
dam was known to him, that he went
Wilton made the sketch. After the in
terment of poor Jose IN Pere la Chaise
Aimee, with her faithful bonnie left
Paris, to be followed and eventually found
by Wilton In the household of Anna S
brother in Normandy.
1t had not been so very difficult to per-
suade Aimee to marty the man who had
loved her well enough to seek her out
IN her obscurity. She had, moreover, cast
many a tender thought to the English ar
fist who had shown her such tender yet
respectful sympathy. 1t was a strange CO.
incidence that Sir Darlington mad actually
seen her under the wayside crucifiX when
she was on her way to her old nurses
had died at the last village, and to get
her body removed
Very soon after Godfrey Wilton had
sought out and married her, her strange,
inexpllcable Illness had set in.
Aimee Wilton is alive and well to-day
and is the mother of two sturdy boys.
Sir Darlington Cullen and Herr Won Of
enheim still continue to regard each other
as the agent of this remarkable recovery.
equally convinced that Jose alone saved
his sister.
Whoever was right, one thing Is certain
that Aimee Wilton owed her recovery to
THE Mysterious Prescription"
1.-THE End0