The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-01-11
HIS LOST LOVE
A Story of
Marvellous Cure.
BY KATE M. CLEARY.


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, dsheartened,
suddenly ilumined 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
that ran far below. BY narrowing his
eyelids he could fancy it a strip of mar
row, black and turbulent river. Much
was as he remembered it, much changed
He had changed lie was not the boy Of
exquisite ideals who had made one of the
State street throng. He was not the
science loving lad who had striven and
struggled and almost starved He was
not the studious and self denying indi
vidual who had sacrificed the neccssaries
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 boyr cried a rich and
heartsome voice. rs it you-is it really
you" Then the hand which had crash
ed down on his shoulder gripped his hand
hard, and the men stood looking into
each others eyes as only friends between
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
be a proud prophet to be honored here"
~ exclaimed DR.. Griscom. 81! Luck
has come my way, but | refuse to be
complmented by the American oculst
whom Europe has delighted to extol!
Come into my office. We can't talk
here" He turned to the young woman
N charge of the suit. 81 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 recolect," said the other
quietly, that | was engaged to Margaret
world of finance The social and intel
lectual supremacy of the family was new
er questioned. The engagement was n
tremendous mistake. had nothing ex-
cept my ambition. When | came to my
senses after my insane declaration.
realized the culpability of which | had
been guilty-the advantage | had taken
of her frank and grlsh affection. | went
to her. | 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 | have come back
circumstanced beyond all probability of
poverty, distinguished in my chosen pro
fesson, if | may say so, | cannot find
the only woman | ever loved--will ever
love we'll enough to make my wife"
There was brief a sympathetic 81
lence.
81 know" said Griscom. He did not
look up "I'he father failed. The moth
er went to live with her elder son in
Montana The younger boy-well. he
went the pace that kills. shattered
mind was the elimination of brief and
brilliant career AS for Margaret
You" in tense tone, know nothing
of her."
The surgeon hesitated. Then he said in
a voice of decision, Nothing"
Carnivert arose. walked down the of
fee between the fanking cases of plate
glass filled with glittering surgical and
scientific paraphcrnalia, then slowly back
again. Griscom sprang to his feet.
Come he cried I'm be with YOU in
a few minutes. You shall not 90 back to
your hotel What nonsense! Do you
think You shall escape us as easily MS
that? You are coming home with me
coming to see Jennie and your name
sake. Dress-dinner? oh, we are Eoi
SO formal as all that at our house.
At the Griscom residence CarnivPrt
found warm welcome. Griscom' $ wife
was the kind Of n woman who can make
a guest feel that his coming brings pleas
ure; that his departure causes regret
1t was q happy little household, neither
monotonously duh nor so painstakinalN
gay as to be wearsome. The oculisi of
wide and enviable reputation was made
TO understand that he was well liked per
sonaly and not merely admired profe"
sionaly. So he found himself often n
the genial hearthstone of the Griscnms
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 terNi
mated at blank wall. All his inquiries
brought replies negative and unsatisfao
tory.
One bitter midwnter night. coming
into the familiar warmth and comfort Of
che Griscom establishment he was star
tied by the alarmed impetuosity with
which the wife of his friend accosted
him.
"Dr Carnivert. you will 90 at once u
find Harry! Little Eustace is i'll diph-
iberia. | fear. have a physician here,
b':t, 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 a dinner
there-perhaps he has dropped into the
club Bring him home!"
Carnvert did not find his friend at the
hotel. Neither was he at the club But
he had been there. A telephone message
had come for him an hour before H.
had FASTENED to the hospital where he
re-smpiq attended. The oculist followed
+ many
H town,