The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-02-03

also ont constantly, but he had met
with no success Ia his search aud at
the end of two weeks / determined to
sound n general alarm, 50 to speak,
and givo the story to the newspapers,
When. on one OF my expeditions, /
unexpectedly found him in remote
little town, where there were very fow
summer visitors He had been there
since his departure from homo, and I
soon discovered that he was on excel.
lent terms with everybody. He was
very glad to see me at first, aud took
me around to meet his now friends.
or course. 1t wasn't customary for
lady to call first. but 1 was thinking
about George. and not social usage,
and would have done anything he
asked me.
"The townspeople were extremely
fond Of him, and he had been so gen.
erous in his charities that he was
looked upon rs public beuefactor.
To have told them that George was n
lunatic, however mild, would have re.
suited in my being thought one, and
during the afternoon OF my arrival I
kept my own counsel and telcgraphod
at once for the physician and attend.
ant No train was duo until next
morning, and all could do was to
wait and keep quiet There was no
trouble with George until just after
we had taken our supper at tho littlo
hotel where he stopped, and had gone
to his room. There is something l
said must have indicated to him in
some way that l had some design
against his liberty, or something, l
don't know what, and he began to net
queerly aud show that ho was suspi.
cious of me.
81 had been under such u dreadful
strain for 80 long thatI was completely
unnerved, and now that I had found
him I felt myself relaxing and verg.
ing upon Mysteries. tried to con.
troll myself and get him to thinking
about something else, but suddenly
and without any warning, he caught
mo and began to choke me. OF
course, ] screamed, aud screamed with
all my might, and in minute or two
people came rushing to tho room, in
quiring what was tho matter. As they
came in George held me struggling in
his arms, but he was cooler than any
one in the party, and was talking to
me like mother to fretful or fright.
ened child, aud doing all hc could to
soothe me. But by this time was so
wrought up that ] could not keep still,
and when George very quietly told
them that l was demented, aud be-
came extremely violent at times, last
ing for months, they believed him and
asked what could be done.
"He asked that physician and q
| poiiOoh"H w scut ioI, huu uesscn-
ger went flying, and soon came back
with them. Thoy held a council over
me. and upon Georges suggestion
that l be put in safe place for tho
night, was taken to the woman's
cell in the town prison aud locked up
in charge OF woman nurse, who had
volunteered her services, as she had
had experience with lunatics. Wasn't
that perfectly awful? I,a sane woman,
to be locked up on charge of lunacy,
brought by lunatic?'
The major was anxious to say that
he had never heard OF such an out.
rage pcrpetrated in n civilized land,
but tho widow ran over him aud wont
on.
"Well, it was awful, and tho more
l tried to convince the woman that it
wasImy husband who was crazy, the
more she shook her hend kindly and
told me sho knew it, and that / was
put in their only to protect mo from
him. That mado mo worse, and /
would go of into Mysteries again, aud
l never slept wink all night. When
morning came I was more nearly
raving maniac than the real lunatic
was, and when George came to SEQ
me, his emotions wero painful to see,
and he cried like baby over me, the
nurse oil the time trying to cheer
him up by telling him that had been
quiet most Of the night, and would
soon recover from the fit
"He shook his head sadly and went
away to return in an hour with the
physician. They talked over me as il
\ / could not understand ANYTHING they