El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-20

but 1t could not be SC Sery late, for the
pavement was throngrd with people,
all going the same way, oddly enough,
as it occurred to her after moment
There were SO many of them that pres
emily the carriage was blocked and
obliged to go slowly. She beat her little
hands on the seat in her impotence
and looked out again.
A policeman appeared, shouting in
audible directions, and pressing forward
through the crowd, which gave way
reluctantly on either side. In her un-
governable impotence she let down the
window and beckoned him to come
nearer.
Cant we get on?'' she cried. 81 am
in a hurry. What is the meaning of
this crowd?'
"They have come to see the fire.
ma am" the policeman answered civil
ly. "I'm afraid you will have to go
round.
"But we are almost there-the Ran
gun olubr' she cried.
cts the club that is on fire, ma am,
the policeman answered. Then, as she
turned white, he added kindly, Don't
be frightened, ma am; they've got the
one is out. -
Cali safe?' Mrs. Trelawney gasped
"WeIl, a few broken bones and such
like" said the policeman cheerfully
Nothing to speak of, ma am-only
one gentleman killed. A sad business
that
"Who?''
'The gentleman who did such great
things out in Burma few years ago
Major Trelawney."
"My husbandp'
It seemed to her that she had known
it all the time. She saw, as if in
dream, the sudden pity and respect iii
the policeman 8 face, and then she GOV
cred her own and sank back in the car
riage.
The long agony of the drive seemed
interminable, and yet when at last the
carriage stopped she sat quite still for
moment, unable to nerve herself for tie
next move Then the door was opened,
and, as if in a dream, she passed up the
steps, walking firmly, her face white
and her eyes set and hard. Her appar
emit heartiessness was silently noted at
the time and afterward freely com
mented on in the servants hall
Had they brought him-it-home:
she wondered with long shudder. She
was in the ball now and some one was
hurrying to meet her-the doctor. She
was not surprised to see him there. lii
her dreamlike state nothing seemed
strange any more.
81 have bad news for you, Mrs. Ire
lawney."
II know knowr she answered
petulantly. In her unreasoning misery
she was annoyed by his hushed tone
Her own voice was unnaturally sbrIli
and strained, and the doctor raised his
hand in protest.
"What heartless creatures these pref
ty women are!" he was thinking-an
echo of the servants opin
ion.
81 must beg of you to control your
self, he said sternIy Everything de
ponds on quiet His life is hanging Oil
a thread -
His life? Oh. Godl Then he is not
dead?"
She had brushed past the doctor, deaf
to his remonstrances. With noiseless
flying feet, she was up the staircase and
a moment later kneeling by her bus
band S bedside.
The doctor, following rapidly, stood
arrested at the door, look ing in at the
darkened room, the kneeling white ifs
ure. with clasped hands and large, fixed
eyes, the swathed wreck of IMAM Lynn
very still on the bed
One hand lay outside the coverlet
Her own stole ont slowly, hungrily. to-
ward it, as if her own daring scared
her. She bowed her head over the band
aged hand at last and knelt on motion
less. The doctor, watching and quite
his scathing condemnation OF
a moment before, thought with swift
contempt of certain reports concerning
the Trelawneys' domestic happiness
which had reached his ears.
Something came before his shrewd,
keen eyes which blurred the picture be
fore him. He turned aside for a mo-
ment and then was recalled by swift
low cry: Horace! Oh, Horace!"
The doctor sprang forward and then
drew back. The injured mans eyes
had opened and were fixed Oh the SHIN
mering white figure with IN expression
of mingled awe, unbelief, bliss.
"Ciara!' said the faintest whisper in
the world.
The doctor could scarcely hear it. He
never been used for years. London
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