Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-10-02
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FLORENCE WARDEN
Continued.

awakened interest; it was plain from
the eagerness with which he vel
coined his visitors proposal that he
awaited the result with some
curiosity: and when a neat and pretty
maid-servant, who answered the sum-
mons of the bell, showed manifest
CONSERVATION at the order to prepare
the Dolly Warden room, Armathwaite
felt a little pleasurable excitement at
the adventure. If it were only rat
behind the wainscoting that he was
going to discover after this exciting
prelude of masculine curiosity and
feminine terrors, it would be at least
a satisfaction to set at rest the
mind of his beautiful and interesting
hostess. While Mr. Crosmont walked
away from the fireplace to chaff the
maid on her evident reluctance to
fulfill his order, his wife turned to
Armathwaite with a serious face.
"You are very strong-minded, She
said. "All doctors are, | suppose.
Do you know, | think If were forced
to sleep alone in that room with the
door locked on the outside, | shoulu
be found in the morning a raviIg
lunatic. Even the sound of Goa
dropping out of the fire in the draw
ing-room, underneath my room, makes
me start up and tremble, although
know perfectly we'll what it is. You
think this nonsense, of course; a..
though, equally of course, you are too
courteous to tell me So
mo doctor would presume to call
It nonsense. If it were nonsense, s~
would every symptom of every dis
order be-"
Disorder"
Certainly. It proves an entirely
unhealthy state of the nervous sy 3
TEN, the result probably of sor;e
shock or over-strain Tell me, does
your own doctor think you are in
robust health?"
Moo, don't think he does. BIT 1
don't know" Her tone changed, end
she spoke with some sadness. II
never see DR.. Peele now"
But you are wrong. Don't yoT
feel yourself that you are wrong
You have not always trembled at III
sound of a coal falling out of tn
fire7"
moo"
"You probably know yourself 10Y
long 1t is since you began to sufre
Ike this-for 1t is suffering
No that Is just what | d1u'
know, what / cannot understand. /
has come upon me so gradually ina
can't remember beginning to IL
but 1t is since the winter came "
that | have become conscious of villa
seems like weakening of the powe
OF my mind. I do things withou
wishing to do them, without eve
knowing why: | seem to be losinl
touch of the things which exits
around me, and to start back ill.,.
actual life with a painful shock q
any cali for an effort of my own " il
Perhaps you understand now m
strange conduct towards you. and In
babbling loquacity with which | al
tell all this to a stranger"
She seemed at that moment to cal
herself abruptly back into reality, an
cast at him, blushing, a quick, sn
glance, to see whether he had re
ceived her confessions with an
astonishment, But the grave. one,
and kindly gaze of his eyes reass ne
her.
docs your husband know" h
asked
Yes, he has been very kind an,
anxious about me- You haven't see,
MIN at his best" she continued hur
riedly. as at that moment, the SCUM
of his voice in the hall. scolding tn,
servants, broke upon their ears. Ii,
is hasty-tempered man. but he IA,
many good qualities. You must no
Judge a man when you see min
harassed with his work. as I'm SIR,
ne is at present though he ne.
complains"
Armathwaite murmured in suitab,,
terms his admiration for his hos
exquisite qualities, and the lad,
spoke again.
Tell me- she said. "You ha,
seen other people in the nerv1,;s
state in which | now ann"
Armathwaite considered. az 70,
only remember one" he said, whose
symptoms We're exactly the same =,
you describe yours to be. 1t was :
very singular case, but the cause he
nothing in common with yours"
What was the cause?"
"A professor. as he called himself
OF splrltualism. or spiritism. an i'm
pudent charlatan enough. but with
some undoubted powers which I con
slder purely physical, had employed
as what they call a medium. a youns
girl of extremely sensitive ant
nervous temperament, who, after hav
ing assisted him at these seances 70
some months, became so utterly un
hinged in mind ana body that she wa!
Obliged to put herself under medica
advice. Her symptoms were yer,
much like yours. But II certainl
cannot be mesmerism which"
She interrupted him with a QuicI
movement of her head as her huS
band was heard approaching the roor
again. Not word of mesmerisr
hnF ~ 4.