The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-04-10

me. I want TO have talk with you,
old man. he said.
The preliminary of the talk was an
account of what had happened the
night before over the advent of the
thing with the spectacles, for he and
! Thornycroft were even as Damon and
Pythias in the olden time.
Now for the sequel. my boy he
sad. as he drew his chair closer to
Thornycroft, and then 1 want you to
tell what is the matter with me-
Ihornycroft shot a suspicious pro-
fessional look over the physical map
OF his friends exterior. searching for
touches Of liver sun" "Burmail
head, ''pegcitis" or other unique COM
plants indigenous to that land
ITS this. said Herkomer thought
fully. Il woke up about 3 o'clock in
the morning, as near as / can judge,
with "A peculiar tingling sensa ton
through every nerve of my body, as
] though some poison were coursing
through my veins. Sitting in a chair
beside my bed was the figure of a man.
i spoke to it, thinking that the
bearer had fallen asleep there
The figure did not move. | got up
and struck match, lighting a candle
which stood on the table; l dislodged
a bottle of soda in my fumbIing about
for a match and it rolled off, striking
the cement floor and exploding with
report like a gun.
Still the figure did not move. 1t
must be the bearer, | thought. only a
bearer could sleep through such a
jolly row
When l turned the light of the
candle on the face of the sleeper. what
do you suppose l saw, Thornycroft? ~
And Herkomer leaned over until his
troubled, questioning eyes were brought
close into the surgeons face, and he
Sripped Thornycrofts wrist till his
fingers seemed eating into the flesh.
one of the fellows who had tarried
long at the gym. and lost the number
of his mess" answered the other care
lessly, knocking the ashes off the end
OF his cheroot
Il saw myself-deadm' continued the
major, taking no notice of his friends
chaff; dead, and Il cobra cIinging TO
my arm
Liver and sun both" sighed
Thornycroft mentally.
HOf course you'll call it d dream"
added Herkomer, but this morning
the soda bottle was in fragments on
the floor, the candle had been lighted
and the sole of M foot was bleeding
where | had stepped on a piece of the
broken glass; besides. | know l was
awake. Now what do you make of
What do you make of it?" queried
the surgeon, as he hunted about for
his helmet, make nothing of it: only
don't let If occur again, and as pre-
tentative is better than cure in this
country, take run up to Darjeeling
ii may save you the expense of a trip
home. There is a little angel sits up
above. in these days of robbery by
ruinous exchange, who sends us these
warnings a I'd
look to :iour liver" So the next
time your chum comes take him up
to Darjeeling, and let the mountain
winds carpet-beat the jungle fever
out of his system
No, I'm quite WE'LL said Herkomer:
quite well. and that's the deuce of it,"
he added plaintively: Il can't make
it out. When a man is we'll and sees
things it's-it's the devil"
Often after that Herkomer had COM
pany of the same sort. always the
same, sitting there in the chair waie
ing. What the thunder is it waiting
for?" Herl1omer used to ask himself
Only he did not bother his friend any
more about tit was no use.
Physically he was all right. He
could put the best man in the regiment
on his back; aye. and hold him there,
too. for ten seconds, with both points
of the shoulders touching the ground.
Neither did he go to Darjeeling. He
was in a happier place. had climed
into heaven. otherwise known as the
haunts of Minora Cont. Not but what
the hot chinook winds which blow up
from hades sometimes withered and
scorched his paradise.
1t WAS Count Rubitino who always
started these hot blasts. He and
MinoIa were unnecessarily too much
together, It seemed to Herkomer, but
then ne was jealous, and consequently
no judge OF such matters.
AS often as Minora assured him that
she cared nothing for the count he
believed her, and us often as he
stumbled upon them in close COM
muniCn over some secret matter did
he feel the hot winds blow, and vow
that h would break away from his
bondage and leave her 10 the count