The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-13
"WHEN / GIVE UP YOU, SHALL ST

the fact that Mr.. Jevons was out Of town.
Probably he was still pursuing the in
qury he had so actively taken up. New
ertheless. was dissatisfied that he should
leave me so entirely in the dark as to his
intention and discoveries.
Ethelwynn came to town for the day,
and / spent several hours shopping with
her. She was strangely nervous, and all
the old spontaneous gaiety seemed to
have left her She had read in the
papers Of the curious connection between
the death of the man Lane and that OF her
unfortunate sister, and our conversation
was mainly upon the river mystery
Sometimes she seemed i'll at ease with me,
as though she feared some discovery.
Perha ps however, 1t was merely my
fancy.
| loved her. She was all the world to
me- and. yet in her eyes l seemed to
read some hidden secret which she was
endeavoring with all the power at her
command to conceal; In such c1rcum-
stances there was bound to arise between
us a. certain reserve. that we, had not be-
fore known Her conversation was car
ried on in mecha nical ,manner,, as
though distracted by her inner. thoughts;
and when, after having tea together IN
Bond street, we drove to the station, and
I saw her off ON her return to Nenetord,
my mind was full of dark apprehensions.
I'll
more than ever that she was in some
manner cognizant~ Of, the truth. The
secret existence of old Mr. Courtenay, the
man whom myself had pronounced dead
was the. crowning point of the strange
affair; and yet felt by some inward in
tuition that this fact was. not unknown
to her.
All the Remarkable events of that moon
lit night when l had followed husband
and wife along the river bank came back
to me, and I saw vividly the old mans
| face. ,haggard and drawn, Just as it hao
| been in life. Surely there could be nc
stranger current of events than those
which formed tile Seven Secrets: EIheS
were beyond explanat tion-all of them. ]
knew nothing. I had seen results but
/ knew not their cause: T.. +
Nitrate Of amyl was mot drug swhicl
costermonger would select%:Wlth a Ele7
to committing suicide. Indeed | daresa
few Of my readers unless they are doctor
/ or chemists. have ever. before heard OF s1t
| There fore my own conclusion, fully en-
I dorsed by the erratic, Amber. was tina
| the poor fellow had been secretly, poi
/ 'soned. -. .'--..eE5S q,
| Nearly a fortnight passed, and I-hear
/ nothing Of Amber. He was still, ''out Q
town. - ? Day By day passed, But nothin
of note trafspired. Sir Bernard was sti
| suffering from a slight touch Of sciatic
| at home, and on visiting MIN one 0ullQd
| / found him confined to his bed, grumblln
and peevish. He was somewhat eccentrl
| in his miscrly habits and his hatred c
4 society. beyond doubt; and the aiosurditie
! which his enemies attributed to him wer
not altogether unfounded. But he had a
| all events the rare quality Of professin
! for his profession a respect, nearly akl
| to enthusiasm. Indeed, according to hi
! views, the faculty possessed almost lnta
| lble qualities. In confidence he had mor
than once admitted to me that certain {
1 his colleagues practicing in Harley stree
4 were anazine. aonkeys; but he would ney
i er have allowed any one else to say s.
1 From the moment a man acquired ths
! diploma which gave him the right ovc
life and death. that man became in h
4 ewes an august parsonage for the world Z
large. It-swas a crime, he thought. for
patient not to submit to his decision, an
certainly it must be admitted that h
success in the treatment Of nervous di:
orders had been most remarkable.
II You We're at that lecture by Debouti
; Of Paris, the other day!'' he exclaimed 4
, me suddenly. while L was seated at h
: bedside describing the work I had bee
doing for him in London. Why Sdidn
: you tell me you were going there ~ .'.k
slfg.I went quite expected1y--with
+ friend"
i with whom? s# as
tsAnlbIer j evons. Is
IIa'. g Oh, that detective feilow.' laughed II
s Old physician. We'll ..Slle added. 1T wa
$ all very Interesting wa sn; it s,ss F is,
@ ''yery-espe your own demonstr,