The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1904-05-03

be before | can come back. / will leave
some magazines on the bed, and pencil
and some paper. But don't use your
arms too much. dear. Now" holding the
spoon to his grimly closed lips, please.
Harold. I've only got about ten minutes
more"
But he shook his head. his deep. sunk
en- eyes staring stesdfastly-despairin
ly. IL seemed to her-at the ceiling.
Harold" she whispered. a frightened
sob in her voice." arn't you glad at
what the doctor said. that you will get
well?'"
Her eyes grew pitiful as she looked
at the long. cadaverous face. grown
rough and hairy through months of uE-
familiarity with a razor. Shortly the
the ceiling to her face.
Glad" harshly. when my one
thought. my one hope through all these
months has been that this would be the
end. that you could go back to your peo-
pie in the east and live part of your life
as 1t should be lived"
But we will go together" eagerly.
That is the only way / would care to
live. We will commence again, and be
so happy"
Your people would not accept me, you
know that; and l would not in their
place. When a man aims so high as
have. and falls so low, the only way is
TO have his light put out or to put it out
himself. There is no middle course
But | tried to save you from part of IL,
Molly" ring Of peeling sofening the
grimness Of his despair. You know
that. When | went to Alaska to retrieve
! myself and failed. and then came here
with some wild companions, I thought 1
was buried for all time I sent you what
money had, with no trace of the sender,
and then set about making an end of
myself as rapidly as possible. | would
not live as failure IL II had not been
| for that wretched affair of the stage
| coach. you would never have known
You would have thought / died In
| Alaska"
Blessed stage coach" she exclaimed
| fervently. even IL you-you-" She
| stopped suddenly. a flush coming to her
| face But he understood. She believed
| he had helped In the hold-up. and his
| face again became grim. She caught her
breath a. little. then looked at him
squarely. Even II you did have some
| thing to do with II, dear" she went on
i bravely. for that was what brought me
to you. l saw an item in a paper stat
ing that several men had been hurt ir
a stage coach hold-up. and your name
was among them. My people objected:
but had the money you sent. and came
straight here. Now you will get well
and we VIII go away somewhere and
Il -
DR.. Max Schlosser has made n sim
gular collection of fossil teeth from
drug stores in various parts of China.
| where they are sold under the name OF
/ dragons teeth. and are valued for their
supposed curative powers. Upon exam
lining them DIR. Schlosser found that they
/ are the remains of many species of ex-
tinct animals such as the ancestral
forms of camels. saber-toothed tigers.
three-toed horses. and other creatures OF
ancient times. some of which. like the
ancestral forms of camels and ante
lopes. were supposed to have had their
original home in America and In Africa
Judging from the quantities of these
teeth sold. Dr. Schlosser thinks they
must exist In enormous numbers in
some parts OF the Chinese empire.