Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1904-07-28
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0'ie gray and gloomy afternoon, late
III, October. Dunstan Buraage was
seated i'm a great chain beside n wood
fire in one of the smaller rooms of Had
( ley Manor.
Throughout his illness. while his
harassed mind Wondered over the
events of the past. from his childhood
upward, and rested with asnnizins per-
sstence Oh t'ae l;,e tragedy he ii;il
been carefully watched and tended hs'
Neneto and his servant Mattcc. AS he
4 had boosted, the Italian was skilled in
medicine and understood his patient S
case: and to his knowledge of herbs,
unknown to, or ignored by, the English
medical faculty. the fevcr-striclcn man
probably owed his life
/ And not only did Nenetn fail to sum
mon "A doctor. hut lie likewise neglected
to announce Dunstan's Illness to the
inmates of Knowlesw"rth Halt
So taking il i'm turns by night and
day. Neneto and his confidential sep
Want nlirsed Dunstan. and they alone
listened ia the rawlings ci II mind
haunted by the rccollcrtions of ter
ib!e tragedy. and by the horrors of u
prison cell. II WAS only when reason
had established itself and he lay Lam
guild and tranquil that Roma was all
lowed To enter his room and sit by his
bedside
However, she felt some satisfaction.
some outlet for her tenderness toward
him. in sitting watchfully by while he
slept in bringing him the food she had
prepared, or in talking or reading 10
him
They had often talked of her country,
whose people he had learned To know
and love during the year on so he had
lived among them, while studying
chemistry in the laboratory of am
Italian chemist famous i'm the scientific
world.
Roma had one day. when he was Well
on his way to recovery, suggested that
she should give him brief lessons, and
that they should read together the
pages of their favori;e poet. Dante.
When Roma put away her copy of
Dante there was silence between them
for some seconds From where she sat
she could see through the high window
the discordad clouds scurrying before
the wind like II routed army flying In
front of the enemy. The battlefield
was limitless In size and of Il dull lead
! color. and NOW and then came sounds
4 like The faint echoes of trumpets and
/ the cries of the pursued, as the breeze
distraetedly tore along the common or
rushed through the tangled woods.
From the wild Sky, the frghted
clouds, aud the sombie earth she turned
TO look at the occupant OF the chair
beside her, whose sharp profile and col
orless face We're distinctly seen in the
red glow of the wood fire, and She was
struck by his expression of brooding
melancholy, and the alert apprehen-
sivencss of his stare, like that of q man
fearful of a sight unseen by Others of
some pictured fate that rose before him
wildly and appallingly from out the
gloom and cast its melancholy upon
! him.
! AS with dim eyes she turned again
to watch the intertninable ranks OF the
routed army I'm the sky, she told her
self that although he had been de-
clared innocent and vet at liberty. Il
man whose nature was so sensitive as
his would never believe himself free
from doubt of guilt In the eyes of the
world at large until the murderer of
Richard Goffc had been discovered.
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