Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-02
'owful emotions, Mime. Arnold's health

again changed rapidly. Inc doctor Kill
ed his wife with as much skill as he
| had formerly exercised in curing her.
The adroit man would cause an hour of
wild terror, which gives a morbid ac-
tiyity to the circulation, to be followed
| by long days of sadness, which con-
tracted the heart and withheld the
| blood. Then he would suddenly seem
to have 40 suspicious or jealousy, and
would appear deeply touched by his
wife's sufferings. Why, what is the
matter, my poor Macha?' he would say.
My diagnosis can discover nothing, yet
you seem to be dying of grief. Are you
not happy with me:' And at the same
time he would observe with diabolical
pleasure the progress of the disease,
and would torture his victim with his
| hypocritical despair. At the end of six
months her syncopes were more fire.
quent, her palpitations more rapid; the
most distressing symptoms of aneurism
had appeared. All, ah, Pereira, you
don't interrupt me nowv'
''Ah, yes, that's the second act, the
kernel of the piece. But the catastrophe
the catastrophe!''
''The catastrophe Is called for; here it
is. One evening the doctor strobe into
his wife's room in a tempest. Mad
anne, l know all. NJ. de BIazewitz is
your lover Poor Macha became as
white as a sheet, and her lips assumed
the blush tint of a corpse. Kill me,
she said.
81 will not raise my hand against a
| woman continued Arnold. Your lover
has paid the debt for both of you. 1
have just fought duel with NJ. Blaze
witt and 1 killed him. Macha fell
senseless to the floor. But the doctor
lied. He would not have dared to lay
his finger upon the handsome captain,
who enjoyed the reputation of-being
the best shot in Vienna. He knelt be-
side his wife and took her hand. The
pulse still beat; she lived. Then the
assassin gave his care and resuscitated
her.
Put on your ball dress and all your
diamonds,' he ordered, and come with
me to the ball of the French embassy.
We are invited
"'Never!. l could not
"'Go and dress Immediately! /
fought the duel with NJ. de BlaZewitz
under the pretext of a quarrel over
game of cards. But you were compro-
missed, so you must show yourself with
me tonight, or ! shall be disgraced
Dress-I command you!
''The unhappy woman was obliged to
obey. How could she resist the man
whom she had so cruelty deceived? She
made her toilet and accompanied her
husband to the ball. There she sank
into a chair in the first salon, where
the hussar announced the names of the
arrivals.
1.-The doctor was in full dress, with
all his medals and decora tons upon his
breast. He stood behind his wife's
chair. Suddenly, after quick glance
into the ante-chamber, he leaned over
the chair as if to whisper an endearing
phrase in Macha's ear.
Your pain has not killed you, mis-
cradle woman"
Alas not yet she murmured in
reply.
Very well, then, look here he add
ed, pointing to the door, and die with
joy At that moment the hussar an
nounced Capt. Baron de Blazewitzv
The handsome officer entered with
smile upon his lips and looked about
for Nine. Arnold, but he scarcely rec
ognized her. She had just arisen from
her seat as though moved by a spring.
Her countenance was livid. She glanced
at him with strange, wild light burn
ing in her eye, raised her hand to her
throat and fell heavily to the floor
this time dead. The doctor threw him.
self by her side, uttering wild cries of
grief, and the despair of NJ. de Blaze
witz would have provoked scandal
had his friends not led him away. The
guests retired, the walters devoured the
supper, and the ambassadors wife was
in rage, for she had designed an espe-
cial figure for the cotillon, which she
hoped would make a great sensation"
"Well, and what became of the doc
tor?'
LAS 1 told you, in an unguarded mo-
ment he boasted of his crime, which of
course escaped punishment. But
residence at Vienna became impossible.
To-day he is at Varsovie, where he has
a large practice, and his constant ad-
monition to his patients is Avoid ex-
element! Avoid excitementv