Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-16
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CHAPTER VIII.

& Gt1Ak EN- WILL
THm DIFFICULTIES Q FLEEING A
BROTHER.
What was the doctor like to look
=? ~ / interrupted the girl. impulsive-
s.oh. & wonderful old man, with hair
ana beard as white as silver. and al
most as shining The only color about
him, his red lips and his black eyes.
why do you ask me?"
4 have seen that silver frame. those
lips, and those eyes," said dryly.
aBut forgive me, and go on"
Il was too i'll to be moved, the doc
tor said. He had already telegraphed
+ to Mrs. Norton, at the Hotel Cecil, and
no doubt she would be there as soon
as possible, If were better, she could
take me away, but meanwhile, he
would be very glad to entertain us
both. I
aOf course, that sounded very kind
but still / wasn't at all happy, and l
had q curious feeling that somthing
dreadful was going to happen. l was
Ill. too. and could hardly keep from
crying, but didn't want Sc seem I'M
grateful, and tried to keep the tears
back.
Hours, passed, and still Mrs. Norton
didn't come. / suspected nothing
wrong Vet, however, and only fancied
that her head must be very bad in
deed. The doctor apologiZed for not
sending woman to me, saying he had
would WALTON me himself. He brought
me chicken soup, and insisted on my
eating it, but it made me no better;
was even worse afterwards, and had to
give up the idea of going back to the
hotel alone, as / had been making up
my mind would do.
s.The doctor said that 1 must I'M
dress, and go to bed,, and that there
were clothes of his dead daughters
which he had always kept, which
might at me well enough, and they
were at my service. So he gave me
night Things, and the white stockings
and the blue shoes, and the dressing
gown you,saw.
Suddenly / had grown very sleepy
and dull; and must have slept till
late next day. thought at first that l
felt little better, and sprang up in
p r ier1t lhaf1 o
get away. But my clothes were gone,
except those the horrible cd man
had given me, and as l looked for
them he was knocking at the door.
ran and peeped out through a crevice,
asking If any message had come from
the hotel. His face was very grave,
and he answered that there was news
for me, but that, as it was rather dis
turbing, and l was still weak, / must
drink some medicine which he had
prepared before should be allowed to
hear it.
Il begged him not to delay for that,
but he was firm, and in desperation
took the glass which he pushed through
the door, and drank down the horrid
brown stuff of which it was half full
Now said he, as soon as you call
out that you feel quite strong and
able to bear anything 1 will come back
and tell you what has prevented your
friends sending for you
with that, he was gone, and the
door was shut. l tried to open it, but
could not And as l stood there, rat
Ting the handle helplessly to and fro,
feeling so helpless and miserable,
wearing those borrowed clothes in
which I could not go out into the
street, the whole room whirled round
with me, as it had the night before, and
had hardly staggered across the floor
to throw myself on the bed when 1
seemed to collapse under a great wave
OF sleep can't .expresset in any other
way.
Sometimes would half wake up,
Just enough to know that there was
me, but not enough to care what was
happening. Once heard voices, but !
could not have opened my eyes or lift-
ed finger to save my life; and the two
persons who were talking either felt
absolutely certain that l was uncon-
scious or else they thought that, as
was never to go out of that house alive,
1t did not matter whether heard any
thing or not.
The doctor said: I shall use him for
q different purpose when he comes, for
this is more urgent than ALL
Somebody else answered: But how
can you be sure he will Gomez
Don't they all come" asked the
doctor, these men from the dark?' and
then he chuckled. They're like flies
that drop buzzing into a spiders web
1T sounded strange and horrible.
though / could not tell what it might
mean, but thought it must be l was
dreaming, and would wake up at the
Hotel Cecil, in my own bed, by-and-by
foA ,k% hoo