Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-05-07
CHAPTER XIV.

Iui danger that Frank ArmathWalte
woke and stared about him on the
morning after his exciting vigil.
Very little CT the morning light came
through the green blind that hung
before the window; he had to grope
his way across the room to distinguish
the hands on his watch. He had
scarcely stirred when Lord Kildonan,
in his dressing gown, came in from
the study with a disturbed face.
Armathwaite had just discovered that
it was twenty minutes to eight.
you've had a bad night, I'm afraid"
said the Old Scotchman, in rather a
hard voice.
The doctor felt it was needless to
pretend that his rest had been as I'M
disturbed on hard little sofa as IL
would have been in bed. So he only
said he had had plenty of worse ones.
He was wide awake by this time, for
there was something in his apprehen-
sions. He was not kept long in sus-
pense; for on asking Lord Kildonan
how he felt, he received the follow
ing answer:
lNOi FNiy wen IN my DOhgy anu
very i'll in my mind. DR.. Arma waite,
and I'm not sure that l don't attribute
10th those circumstances to you, and
I'm still less sure that I'm grateful to
we for either of them"
Surely to bc veil In body is a gain,
at all events, your lordship," suggest
ed Frank, very deferentially.
I'm no sac sure of that I'm no sac
sure of that 1t all depends upon
what 1t costs, and when heaven for
the body is gained at the expense of
hell for the mind why then your
physic is too dearly paid for.
''ell me wha, you mean, Lord Kill
DOMAIN. Give mt a chance of redeem
ing my character as a physician"
81 can't tell you what l mean;
hardly know myself But | think you
must have doctored that whisky wi
something to make a mans thoughts
run wild, for the ideas that have pass
ed through my head this night might
well have made sane man think he
was going daft. And then this morn
ing wake up and remember did not
go as usual to my wife's room last
night just to knock at her door and
bid her good night"
"To knock at her doorl" repeated
Armathwate, as If to himself
Lord Kildonan looked at him over
his spectacles. Il always try the
door; il it is locked she is awake, and
| call out good night, and she calls
hail 70 AZ ts unlonlad che ;e In bad
and | open the door and look in. Then
/ am satisfied she is all right But
/ was telling you about this morning,
| went just now to her room; but she
was not there. 1t Is early for her to
be up. | am full of all sorts of fears
about her. Her manner has been di>-
ferent lately; she seems dissatisfied
and restless She is never happy in
doors | don't like the thought of her
wandering about out of doors at this
early hour; 1t is not safe, it is not
right for lady to do so. The coun-
try people would think her mad"
"But why think she was out of
doors?" said Armathwaite, in a clear,
reassuring voice. "Is it not more
likely that she had run into her bou-
doir to fetch a novel?"
mo, It is not so, unfortunately. l
was so uneasy that | took bold step,
and opened the wardrobe where her
shawls hang. Now every trifle which
concerns my wife is of so much inn
portance in my eyes that could make
a catalogue from memory of every
thing she has ever worn in my pres
ence. | missed a SHAWL cloak |
think she calls it.-with fur inside.
I am much disturbed about 1t. In the
country the slightest eccentricity is
thought so much Of"
Frank could not feel sure whether
these remarks were all as ingenious
as they appeared, or whether the old
Scotchman was trying to penetrate
into the depths of his thoughts. He
made cautious answers to the ques-
tions put to him concerning Lady Kill
nonan's health and spirits, and tried
to divert his hosts thoughts to his
studies. These, however had this
morning lost their fascination. After
an unpleasant interview of little
more than half-an-hour. during which
the conversation struggled on. while
over both speakers there seemed to
hang a dread of something to come,
Lord Kildonan rose hastily from his
chair, and with muttered apology,
left the room He returned in ten
minutes with an expression of face in
which bewilderment and doubt per
ceptibly struggled.
well Lord Kildonan. think was
right" said Armathwaite, with a
shrewd guess at the cause of his COM
panion's mystifcation. you found
her ladyship sale in bed, did you not,
reading rovel2''
"She was safe in bed certainly
asleep. / think. but she had been DOT
and ABBOTT. Dr. Armathwaite, as | told
We: for there was her dress lying on
a chair that had been empty when l
want in for the first time. All. well.