The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-14


II am afraid you must be prepared FOL
that, my lady. She answered me at random
once or twice just now, and talked excitedll
poor girl! L will send her quietins
draught, but when the temperature is 81
high the brain is always at work, and sht
will talk wildly. lam afraid"
when they are in that state do thei
minds run on the past?
Generally" he replied. Anything tina
has troubled them lately they rave over, ant
distort-"
80 that they might give false impress
sion to an outsider" she put in.
''Of course"
THANK you," she said, and as she seemed
to have no more questions to ask him, n
took his leave.
CHAPTER VIII
Lady Lesson remained by her daughter
bedside all night, but though the girls hea(
wandered terribly, she never once mentioned
the duke that episode of the past. l
was of Lord Rothbury, she raved, Away
beseeching him to come back to her. swearing
that she loved him. only him, always, him.
She did not want diamonds, she cried, onl.
one rose if he would pluck it for her.
Il flung them away when they were faded
because had plenty then" she sobbed out
but [ would keep them now, till the last lea
had rotted, because he gives me none now.
She ended always with a cry that seemed
to freeze the blood in Lady Lessons veins.
Why had he left her? Why had he lef
her? Why had he left her? she would
shrek, and even if Lady Lesson had caret
to tell her the truth she could not have mad
her understand.
Lady Lesson was so far treasured that she
as soon as DR.. Stacke had made his visit
allowed the housekeeper to take her plac
at the bedside, and went to lie down. Sh
slept heavily for four hours being quit
worn out by two bad nights, and after lunch
con she relieved Mrs. Somers for a while
But she took care to get a walk afterwards
and saved herself as much as she could il
order to make her strength last out. What
ever happened no one must take her place a
night when the fever ran so high.
For more than week Dorothy lay be
tween life and death, and then the crisi
came Lady Lesson had released guard oc
casiorally in the interval, seeing that evel
in the height of her delirium Dorothy's mine
seemed to dwell on one theme only, and thi
Mrs SomerS might hear Therefore she of
ten gave up her place in the daytime to tn
housekeeper who loved the poor sick cir
dearly, and was very tender with her, w
may be sure.
But when the crisis came they watched to
getEer, one on each side of the bed, thei
the pillow. Dorothy talked and tossed Wildl,
all the first part of the night, but they CAV
her nourishment at short intervals, and KEEP
up her strenth as we'll as they. could.
At about 2oelock-the darkest and eerieS
hou- of the night-she became suddenly 81
lent, and they held their breath for fear. TIL
fever-fiush had faded, and she was deathl
white and STILL pulseless already they be
lieved, and sinking fast.
Lady Lesson had never realized, perhaps
before how dear her daughter was to her, bu
! she knew now. and she prayed wildly, pas
sior ately, that the girl might be spared t
make new start, and redeem all the sin an
folly of the last miserable weeks.
| Hush, my lady, said Mrs. Somers; sic
her die in peace, If you rouse her it will b
| to suffer, and you can see she is passing yer
peacefully
| Lady Lesson gulped down her sobs at thi
admonition, but she prayed on despairingly
An hour passed thus-in trenulous suspense
! That she still breathed was the only hop
! they had They moistened her lips wit
brandy every now and then and sponged he
damp face and hands with the same, glad t
be able to do something for her still, useles
| as it seemed, and so another two hour
passed without any apparent change.
Dawn was breaking now, throwing pal
Shafts of light across the pillow and tn
girls pallid face and heavy white lids
Suddenly Mrs. Somers gave start, an
nlotioned agitatedly to Lady Lesson. Bead
OF perspiration had gathered on Dorothy
forehead, and she was breathing softly an
regularly now like one in a tranquil Sleep
| She was saved.
Saved in answer to my prayers" mur
INJURED Lady Lesson to herself, and she swor
in the thankfuIness of her heart to be a bel
ter woman, and a tenderer mother in the fu
ture than she had been in the past and tr
and gain by love what she had hilbert
found impossible to gain by duplicity-th
girls confidence.
LET the dead past bury it's dead" Doroth
would have had time to think, and make goo
resolutions during her convalescence, and tn
Duke" would no longer be able to tempt he1
| Softened now, Lady Lesson could recall he
own sins and follies, and make allowances flo
the poor child, who had just come back t
her from the very border of the unseen LAND