The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-03-21
NOT ALTOGETHER A HAlLUCl-
NATION OF OLD MAN
SkITE.


county asylum, although the old
man had grown very fiighty in his
talk. When his young son John
came back from Ceylon he was
grieved to hear his father say:
"My dear boy, l wish to tell you
something. You know the pool
yonder. It's paved with gold. I
never can understand why the
ducks don't lay bank notes instead
of eggs"
poor dear old chap" said John.
You'd say poor me, if you had
as much of it to put up with as l
have" remarked young Richard.
Eighty thousand pounds gone, and
not a clew to it. Dorset hoped
he'd come right with care, and
then"
What do you think of Eva's
choice-thN Dorset - Dick?" John
asked.
pretty much the same as you,
expect" said Richard. But Eva'll
have good time as Mrs Dorset:
horses to ride. horses to drive. and
everything else"
John shook his head. He did not
like to think of his merry little sis
ter transformed at 20 into com.
mOnplace money-worshiping young
woman.
| On the first occasion of meeting
DR.. Dorset, John had felt as if that
dark browed gentleman was trying
to do something to him. and he Ger.
tainly seemed to exercise remark.
able influence over Eva.
| At the end of the month John
Skite said "goodby" to England
But he did not steam straight east
A week after his departure his
brother was persuaded by DR.. Dor
sett that his father would be best
in the county asylum.
The old gentleman had been in
the asylum only week when John
returned. Il met a man in Naples "
he said, "a brain specialist, and he
gave me some taboids of a new
drug, urotrOpin, which has done
some wonderful things. shall
have it tried on father"
Eva and Richard looked anxious
They were think of the ire of Dr.
Dorsett.
That evening John rode off to the
asylum. At the lodge he met Ralph
Hampson, the Chittenham curate
whom he would willingly hail as a
brother in law.
II wish you were in Dorsett's
place as regards my sister," he said
abruptly. 81 can't believe my sis.
ter really loves him."
Don't say such things, john
the curate demonstrated. John said
no more then. They proceeded to
the asylum.
The old gentleman trotted out
his old hallucination. There were
tens of millions of dollars in that
old duck pond near his home.
That evening DR.. Dorset was an
nounced. whats this about your
father, gentlemen" he demanded
do | understand you intend to
practice some silly quackeries?
John noticed the hangdog, cowed
look of Richard.
Il shall not permit my patient to
be experimental upon" said DR..
Dorsett.
"You mind your own business and
get out of here" said John.
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myself OUT said the doctor.
He did so, briskly. John Skite
gave him no goodnight in return
and when the brothers were alone
he said:
"I'll see that fellow dead before
let Eva marry him. Understand
that, Dick"
DR.. Dorsett called in the morning
to find that Eva had gone to her
aunt, and John with her. Richard
took care to be away. When the
doctor called in the evening, John
was there.
You may as we'll be informed at
once. DR.. Dorsett," he said, ''that
my sister desires to have nothing
more to do with you"
"All right" sneered the doctor
''but you will hear from me-"
John did hear from him by way
of threatening letter. 1t told him