Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-02
The Doctors Revenge.

TL( 0hoOI Ol Seullelueu were en-
N\ joying their after dinner cigars
SSin the smoking-room. Pereira,
the Jewish director of the theater, stood
before the fireplace.
81 am not a dramatist," remarked
the tall Maurice, an attache of the en-
bassy. Nevertheless, If you wish,
Pereira, 1 will tell you a story of which,
1t seems to me, a professional might
make USE"
go ahead"
''The story went the round of the
Viennese salons during my Austrian
service. There was, in Vienna, ply
sician who was famous for his sue
cessful treatment of heart disease. His
name-I change the names naturally,
for the affair was tragic one-was DR..
Arnold. Although scarcely 40 years old,
he had a splendid practice. He was a
handsome man, with regular features
and fair whiskers-the true Austrian
type-but with pair of eyes blue and
cold as steel. A Russian family resid-
ing at Vienna-we will call them, if you
please, the Skebeloffs-called the doc
tor in consultation concerning their
daughter, in whom the specialist recog-
nized at first glance the commencement
of aneurism.
although received in good society,
these Skebeloffs were regarded with
suspicion. They lived in style at a
hotel, and maintained a large train of
servants, but their diamonds We're said
by some to be false.
But the doctor was infatuated with
Mile. Macha, and asked her hand in
marriage. He was accepted, and the
wedding took place in three months,
and then the Skebeloff family, sudden
ly firing of Vienna, fed to more agree
able surroundings. The doctors wife
made very favorable impression upon
Viennese society. The couple We're
very interesting. The doctor loved
Macha as his wife and his patient-he
adored her and he prescribed for her.
The young wife seemed so well that
her husband allowed her a turn of the
waltz, now and again, as a medicine
but think from motives of jealousy he
would have forbidden it. For Capt
Blazewitz-an Apollo in a white uni
form-was always the first to write his
name on Nine. Arnold's card, and he
used to hold her in his arms very ten
terly"
Good" said Pereira. "There, Maui
rice, your scene is set and your char
acters in place. Now for the action %
$50 be it. One day the doctor dis
covered a package of letters
"A package of letters? oh, that's
oldv'
'Pereira, you are aggravating. In
your plays you may put in what you
choose. But in reality there was a
package of letters"
(which gave the husband proof that
his wife was in loveT'
apparently"
And which caused him to conceive
q plot for vengeance"
You know the story, Pereira? Then
tell it yourself"
mo, my friend, but 1 guess, that's
all; then the husband had his re-
venge-"
by one of those crimes that ever re-
main unexplained"
liz" uO SOu hAOH
because the doctor has spoken. Yes,
the culprit himself afterward yielded
to that irresistible and fatal need of
confidence which dwells within every
one."
1.-The husband"
"Conceived a horrible revenge, but
one specially reserved to a member of
his profession. Macha, as he we'll knew,
was not completely cured of that heart
trouble for which he had attended her
with so much zeal and love during two
yeacs. Controlling his anger, he forced
himself to play the role of a restless
and suspicious husband, and thus Gre
ate fear and agony in the mind Of his
guilty wife. He knew, by the letters
which he had found, Of the passion
which consumed the two lovers, and he
was sure they would endeavor to meet
even in the midst of dangers and diff
culties This domestic Machiavelli
profted by the situation. From that
moment mysterious power placed all
sorts of obstacles between Macha and
M. de Blazewftz. Without entirely sep
arating them, it caused them to miss
their meetings, interrupted their CORE
spon lence and poisoned their love; and
In this life, filed with keen and sor-