The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-04-21

understand all about them. Come along
home with me- I'm on the Blessington
lower road. ,"
To my intense delight the rickshaw,
instead of waiting for us, kept about
30 yards ahead-and this, too, whether
we walked, trotted or cantered. In the
course Of chat long night ride l had
told my companion almost as much as I
have told you here.
"Well, you spoiled one of the best
tales I've ever laid tongue to, - said he,
"but III forgive you for the sake of
what you've gone through. Now, come
home and do what l tell you, and when
I've cured you. young man, let this be
lesson to you to steer clear of women
and indigestible food till the day of
your death.
The rickshaw kept steady in front,
and my red whiskered friend seemed to
derive great pleasure from my account
of its exact whereabouts.
"Eyes. Pansay-all eyes, brain and
stomach. And the greatest of these
three is stomach. You We too much CON
ceited brain, too little stomach and
thoroughly unhealthy eyes. Get your
stomach straight and the rest follows.
And all that's French for a liver pill
I'll take sole medical charge of you
from this hour, for you re too interest
ing phenomenon to be passed over
By this time we were deep in the
shadow of the Blessington lower road,
and the rickshaw came to dead stop
under pine clad, overhanging shale
cliff. lnstinctively l halted, too, giving
my reason. Heatherlegh raped out an
oath.
ssNow, if you think I'm going to
spend cold night on the hillside for
the sake of stomach-cum- brain-cum-
eye illusion Lord. ha mercyl What's
that?'
There was a mufl1ed report. blind
ing smother of dust just in front of u.s.
crack, the noise of rent boughs, and
about ten yards of the cliffside-p pines
underground and all-slid down into
the road below, completely blocking it
up The uprooted trees swayed and tot
tered for moment like drunken giants
in the gloom and then fell prone among
their fellows with thunderous crash.
Our two horses stood motionless and
sweating with fear AS soon as the rat
tie of falling earth and stone had sub.
sided my companion muttered: "Man,
if we'd gone forward we should have
been ten feet deep in our graves by
now. There are more things in heaven
and earth. "s+ Come home, Pansay,
and thank God. I want peg badly"
We retraced our way over the church
ridge, and / arrived at DR.. Heather
leigh house shortly after midnight.
His attempts toward my cure COM
menced almost Immediately, and for
week never left his sight. Many
time in the course of that week did /
bless the good fortune which had thrown
me in contact with Simia's best and
kindest doctor. Day by day my spirits
grew lighter and more equable. Day by
day, too, became more and more in
clined to fall in with Heatherlegh's
Spectral illusion" theory, duplicating
eyes, brain and stomach. l wrote to
Kitty, telling her that slight sprain
caused by fall from my horse kept me
indoors for few days, and that
should be recovered before she had time
to regret my absence.
Heatherlegh's treatment was simple
to degree. 1t consisted of liver pills,
cold water baths and strong exercise,
taken in the dusk OF at early dawn, for,
as he sagely observed, "a man with a
sprained ankle doesn't walk a dozen
miles day, and your young woman
might be wondering if she saw you.
At the end of the week, after much
examination of pupil and pulse and
strict injunctions as to diet and pedes-
trianism, Heatherlegh dismissed me as
brusquely as he had taken charge of
me. Here is his parting benediction.
'sMan, certify to your mental cure,
and that's as much as to say I've cured
most of your bodily ailments. Now, get
your traps out of this as soon as you
can anu 10 of to make love to Miss
Kitty.
I was endeavoring to express my
thanks for his kindness He cut me
short.
JOA Cu1Ah NlO Ull4S OCCduS6 i llh6
you. gather that you We behaved like
BLACKBOARD all through. But. all the
same. you're phenomenon and as
queer phenomenon as you are a black
guard. No." checking me a second.
time, 'not rupee, please. Go out and
see if you can find the eyes, brain and
stomach business again. I'll give you a
lac for each time you see it. .
Half an hour later was in the Man
nerings' drawing room with Kitty.
drunk with the intoxication of present
happiness and the foreknowledge that
should never more be troubled with its
hideous presence. Strong in the sense
of my new found security, proposed a
ride at once and by preference canter
round Jakko.
Never had felt so well, so overladan
with vitality and mere animal spirits,
as did on the afternoon of the 30th of
April Kitty was delighted at the