The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-07-06
BRAINERD'S
RECOVERY.
Being q Complication In Q
Love Affair Which Was
Very Embarrassing.
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g Very Embarrassing. =
Observation-Disclosures
"Say. isn't this sad about poor
Brainerd % said Bog Cobb, meeting me
in the hall at the Fishers the night
they gave fancy dress party.
Both Cobb and had been. dancing.
and had Just left our partners to be re-
freshed in the supper room at the
back. where there was no room for gal
lants to stand behind chairs.
SLOW do you mean, sadY' asked
"He seems well enough. In fact,
was thinking Just now that he had
much more color In his face than he
used to before he started for Colorado
Got back this afternoon, didn't her
Eyes. But have you talked to himY'
"Only a passing word" said.
"WhyT
"Whyf Why. because it's clear
case Of paresis," said Cobb, speaking
In grave undertone.
"And the symptomsr
symptoms enough. He's forgotten
everybody's name almost. I'm aw-
fully sorry for poor Jennie Fisher. I
must say"
"But," said, "Brainerd's been away
from here quite two months, hasn't
he? Well, and he's been having q
busy time out there. don't see any
thing so wonderful in his forgetting a
few names. Remember, he hasn't
lived here all bis life, as you have"
1Nonsense, man." Cobb insisted.
"You haven't talked to him. Do you
suppose man In his senses could for
+ get the name Of the girl he's engaged
tot"
.pad n forset Jennie Fishers
Manner
.1fixed her up with her honztn
Elsie;" mid Cobb. And y6u know
those two girls are not q bit alike"
This certainly did sseem conclusive.
AS I had always liked Jack Brainerd,
ever since he came to live and to make
money in our city, FIVE years before, it
troubled me good deal to think that
anything 80 sad as mental alteration
should come upon him 80 early in life.
He was not 80, felt sure. And, then,
Jennie Fisher, the girl to whom he was
supposed to be engaged, the daughter
Of our hostess that evening, was as
sweet girl as any in our community,
and that is saying much. 1t would be
terrible stroke of i'll luck If her life
! should be blasted by this affection, all
the more so at this time, when she must
have been looking forward with the
keenest delight to her fiance's return.
While I stood thinking sadly over
what Cobb had been telling me-he
had left me to go back to the supper
room Mrs. Fisher, in gray silk and Jet,
came sweeping through the double
doors Of the room where we had been
| dancing.
81 want to talk to you" she said
1.-THE others are eating and drinking
Come in here"
/ We went back to the dressing room
and sat between grand piano and q
big palm that stood In the bay window.
NOW tell me-" she went on what
have you noticed about Mr.. Brainerd p
'srhis EVENING"
Eyes. Or any time since his return
| from Colorado"
"But he only reached this city at 4
this afternoon, as understand"
"And you had not seen anything Of
him until you came herew
mo-" said "And since then have
only noticed that be looks rather the
better for his trip"
Rather more than trip, wasn't it?
Two months? But how betterY'
WELL" said, stronger better COM
plexion- and then there's swing and
a. way Of carrying his shoulders, as il
he'd been drilling out there Perhaps
it's just western 'breeziness.'"
Him." she said. That's all, is 1t r
Nothing more than that haven't
said more than passing word to him.
"Oh, you haven't talked to him, thenf
Did he know your
II think he did. WhyT
did he know your
"He seemed to. Come to think OF It,
he didn't cali me by name. But why
do you ask r
Simply because he seems to be Cd
ther crazyor intoxicated Ito md"
Impossible" j said. 'Brainerd
doesn't drink. you know, Mrs Fisher.
And as for crazy
Well. Ehe interrupted me- tmpar
tiently, e:he seems to have fnrgcttan
poor Jennie or ..figoften mat they
were engaged. He has attached him
self Al the evening to Etsie."
! tEied to smile ct Mrs. FisheIs anx-
ietfes and talked commonplace Of PHI
losophy to her, telling her that these
little eccentr1c1ties Of lowers should not
D dWUls upon TOO seriously. ~ You