The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-08-06
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her In sanitarium where she would
be treated for her defect. She was
taken to retreat in the country and
placed under the care Of Or. Downing
Bowers, specialist in such cases.
Mrs. Quincy was a beautiful woman,
and there was nothing in the impair
ment of her memory To detract from
her mental or physical charms. DR..
Bowers was bachelor. He had con
slant access to her, and day by day,
month by month, he felt himself yield
ING to a fascination for her which was
irresistible. Then the possibilities or
the situation occurred to him. The
woman he loved did not know that she
was married AS her physician, he
had great power over her.
At first this was a mere flash IN MS
brain. Then there were times when II
would obtrude itself upon him as a
temptation. Finally when his love be-
came great power, absorbing ms
whole soul. he resolved to put his plan
into practice. His patient had been
told that she was II wife and a mother
He gave her to understand that cure
could be best effected by travel lie
would leave his practice and take her
away with him.
The spark of love for her physician
had not entered Mrs. Gurney's breast,
But she was delighted at the prospect
Of being released from her confinement
and seeing the world. She believed
him when he told her that he was her
husband, but since new marriage
would satisfy any mlsgivngs she
might have in the matter she proposed
that the nuptal knot be tied again.
Perhaps there was something in the
doctors evident conflicting emotions
that induced her to decline his PROPOSE
ton without taking this precaution,
The doctor consented, but 1t was
some time before he began TO make
preparations for wedding and their
departure He shrank from the crime
he was about to commit But Satan,
though he permits US to pause in Grim
inal intent, sharply watches us to see
that we do not forsake it, The doctor
finally began to make certain prepara-
tions of which he alone need be coSni-
zant. From these he haltingly took up
others TIL ut last he had everything IN
readiness to secretly steal away with
the woman he coveted
One morning when he visited his pa
tent he found her highly excited.
ooh DOCTOR she exclaimed Last
night | went to bed with a headache
and dreamed all night. | dreamed OF
our little boy 1t seemed that he had
been familiar TO me from his birth. !
remember him now. and can see his
face plainly in my minds eye. !
dreamed of you, his father; but your
features were not the same. They were
some one had long loved oh, doctor
what does 1t mean? Am | getting
worse or better"
The doctor was visibly agtdted. lie
put his hand on her wrist-from force
of habit or to gain time TO compose him
self-then said.
IL think your recovery Is near
Then bring me my boy. must see
him at once"
For some time the physician did not
reply He was trembling.
yes" he said at last Il think II
viii be safe for you TO see him. | VIII
send for him"
Imprinting kiss on her cheek,
something he had never done before,
he left the room.
All that day the patient chafed Ia
her room. waiting for the boy who had
been restored to her memory and
thinking Of the face of the man she
had seen In her dream. She sent Tor
DR.. Bowers, but was told that he had
driven away, leaving word that ne
was going to see patient ut a dis
lance and would be long gone. Night
came, and he did not return. II was
during the next morning that ear
rage drove up to the house, aud Ia a
few minutes the door to Mrs Gurncy's
room opened. and the man and boy Of
her dream stood before her.
Mamma
The woman to whom memory was
slowly returning saw a vision OF a
child she indistlnctly remembered with
reawakenng love dying toward her
his eyes wild with delight his blond
locks dancing over his shoulders. his
whole body alive with motion. He
few into her arms and. claspiug his
own about her neck, covered her face
with kisses
And Eho is the tall man looking at
this childish ebullition eagerly. between
hope aud fearg Memory struggles for
moment like a bird endeayoring to
escape from a cage. then one word
sets ii free.
"Alice"
She starts up. wondering. fearing
The poison instilled 10y her physician
troubles. retards. her returning mem
ory. She had not doubted that he was
her husband. but this man she dimly
remembered - such Stepping FOR.
ward be took her. dazed expression
on her face. to his arms. and father.
mother and child were wrapped ia one
embrace.
Gradually the wife's memory was
restored There was one event ia hei
life that she would have gladly blot
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