The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-04-11


went back to the estate again be-
fore daylight. and found my patient
raving In delirium. administered
oplate after opiate, and long time
passed before the medicine produced
the slightest effect The servants
said he had not spoken nationally
since the shot. not even during his
quiet moments, and this gave me
small hopes OF pulling him through.
The next morning Steve Morgan
was arrested on susicion. This dll
not astonish me after what the pig.
headed constable had said the night
before, Nobody believed the young
man guilty though he did not express
any sympathy for Durivage, and after
a hearing he was discharged. He was
strangely non-eommittal during the OK.
animation. and when it was over he
came into my office and took char.
Doctor" said he. leaning toward
me with a smile. they didn't ask me
to tell what / saw, did they?"
Il believe they dia not, Steve"
answered, wondering what he knew.
II saw the man that did it,"
/ looked strangely at him. wonder
ing If he was not losing his wits
Il saw him, but not till after the
shot, Steve went on. Il was up to
the house last night l went there to
ask Brant Durivage to listen TO me
for minute, though l don't expect
he'd have done it. Just as | was en-
tering the garden, for ! knew l would
find him in the library with the win
dow up, | heard a sharp cry. and the
next moment there passed a little man
carrying in one hand a Cox. This is
as true as gospel, doctor! He never
saw me though l could have touched
him while he waO passing; but !
would not because l thought he had
finished Durivage.
Morgan then weNt on and describ I'd
the man with a minuteness that as
tonished me. He did it so well |
thought I could see him before me.
and at the end o. his story he declared
his intention Of repeating his adven-
ture to no one else, not even in the
interests of justice.
eff he gets well, he'll marry An.
ME" said Morgan, sayagely "and II
he dies, let him rot without being
ayenged!p
watched Durivage closely for ten
days. l could see that the secret
poison was at work, and the case was
queer study that opened up to me
a new fielG for investigation During
those ten days the wounded man
seemed to suffer a thousand deaths.
On the afternoon of the eleventh
day l wa.s hurried over to the house
by the butler who said that Durivage
was writing on the wall before his
cot At the foot of the stair we were
met by the nurse, who with blanchet
face cried that all was over.
Bounding up the flight two step.
at time, l rushed into the bedroom
and found Duriyage lying on his face
on the floor
You should have seen and hearC
him." said the frightened servant
He awoke and called at the top o
his voice for pencil. l ran and go
him one, thrusting it into his hanC
when came back. AS his fingers
closed on it he laughed like a fiend
ana rising in bed, wrote what you Sc,
on the wall yonder, and then fell bacl
AID writhed till he pitched out upol
the floor.
Before this l was at the cot and will
burning eyes was looking-nay stan
ing-at the writing on the wall.
"KAA-K'AA-K'AA."
Here was another mystery.
What did he say after that?"
asked, turning to the two servants
while l pointed to the writing on tn
| wall
lie pronounced three times some
thing that sounded like 'kile' or 'Kal
haetlwe, was the nurses answer
Before could reach him he wa
dead"
was more than ever mystifed.
have never heard of the written c
spoken words. They were all Greek
to me, but / felt that they were COZ
nected with the awful death Brar
Durivage had died. During the ne,
few days there ran through my min
nothing but "Kaa, Kaa,. K'aa"
had the nurse repeat 'Kala haetlwe
until had mastered it, and until le
the Shropshire village and located
London, an event in my career whic
took place a year later, | did not l.
The singular words escape me.
During this period Steve Morgan di
not go back to Annie. He wrote n
that he would not do so until the my