The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1901-03-22
HIS LOST LOVE
A Story OF q
Marvellous Cure.
BY KATE M. ClEARY.

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After ten years spent abroad Eustace
Carnivert found it pleasant to be back in
Chicago Here centered all memories of
his ambitious boyhood, his laborious
youth, his disappointed, disheartened,
suddenly illumined manhood. AS he
stood awaiting his friend In the reception
room of the latter he looked down on the
congested sidewalks Of the great street
eyelids he could fancy 1t a strip of mar
row, black and turbulent river. Much
was as he remembered it, much changed.
He had changed. He was not the boy Of
exquisite ideals who had made one Of the
State street throng. He was not the
science loving lad who haf striven and
struggled and almost starved. He was
not the studious and self denying indi-
vidual who had sacrificed the necessaries
of the body for the rapture Of the mind
and the sustenance of the soul. No. The
man who had come back was not the
man, who had gone away. "Save for one
thing" he said to himself softly; "for
one only"
"Old boy, old boy!" cried a rich and
~
your" Then the hand which had crash
ed down on his shoulder gripped his hand
hard, and the men stood looking into
whom an indissoluble bond exists look at
each other after a parting Of years.
"You haven't changed. Harry. And your
fame as a surgeon is as great across the
ocean as in your own land. You should
10 hot 10 no hnnaroA har
"Iw exclaimed DR.. Griscom. II! Luck
has come my way, but | refuse to be
complimented by the American oculist
Come into my Office. We can't talk
in charge of the suit. II shall not be at
liberty until notify YOU" he said.
They had a good half hour together,
the old friends who had been aspiring
and determined and to whom repute and
consequent wealth had come. They talk
ed of many people, many things.
"You are married, hear, Harry" Car
nivert said.
Long ago. There are three young
sters. The boy is called after you"
"You must recollect," said the other
quietly, that was engaged to Margaret
a
world of finance. The social and intel
lectual supremacy of the family was new
er questioned. The engagement was a
tremendous mistake. l had nothing ex-
cept my ambition. When l came to my
senses after my insane declaration, l
realized the culpability of which l had
been guilty-the advantage had taken
of her frank and girlish affection. went
to her. l released her. She assented al
most in absolute silence to the breaking
of our betrothal. A few weeks later that
windfall came to me-that undreamed Of
and mysterious legacy which enabled me
to go abroad to study. | studied hard.
Occasion offered; opportunities present
ed themselves. ! took instant advantage
of them, with what result you know.
And now-now that l have come back
circumstanced beyond all probability Of
poverty. distinguished in my chosen pro-
fession. if ! may say so, l cannot find
the only woman | ever loved-will ever
love well enough to make my wife,"
There was brief. a sympathetic si-
fence.
81 know" said Griscom. He did not
look up 1.-THE father failed. The moth
er went to live with her elder son in
Montana. The younger boy-well, he
went the pace that kills. A shattered
mind was the elimination Of brief and
brilliant career. AS for Margaret
"You," in tense tone. know nothing
of herr"
The surgeon hesitated. Then he said in
n voice of decision, Nothing"
Carnivert arose, walked down the Of
fee between the thanking cases of plate
glass filed with glittering surgical and
scientific paraphcrnalia. then slowly back
again. Griscom sprang to his feet.
"Come!" he cried. I'll be with you in
q few minutes. You shall not go back to
your hotel. What NONSENSE! Do you
think you shall escape us as easily as
that? You are coming home with ME
coming to see Jennie and your name
sake. Dress-dinncr? Oh, we are not
so formal as all that at our house."
At the Griscom residence Carnivert
found a warm welcome. Griscom's wife
was the kind of a woman who can make
a guest feel that his coming brings pleas
ure; that his departure causes regret.
1t was happy little household, neither
monotonously dull nor so painstakingly
gay as to be wearisome. The oculist Of
wide and enviable reputation was made
to understand that he was well liked per-
sonally and not merely admired profess
sionally. So he found himself often at
the genial hearthstone of the Griscoms.
Sometimes he sadly needed the serenity
Of atmosphere which there prevailed.
For the search which he had come across
the Atlantic to prosecute was void of re-
suit. All his following of clews termi
mated at a blank wall. All his inquiries
brought replies negative and unsatisfac-
tory.
One bitter midwinter night, coming
into the familiar warmth and comfort of
the Griscom establishment, he was star
tied by the alarmed impctuosity with
which the wife of his friend accosted
him.
"Dr. Carnivert. you will go at once to
find Harry! Little Eustace Is ill-diph-
iberia. fear | have q physician here,
but. OF course. the child must have his
father | do not know where he may be
found just now. Perhaps at the Audito-
rium-he spoke of attending dinner
there-perhaps he has dropped into the
club. Bring him homer
Carnivert did not find his friend at the
hotel. Neither was he at the club. But
he had been there. telephone message
had come for him an hour before. He