The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-26

TRANSIT asked Thurso.
- Yes but the false claim Of a train
I is very hard to uproot, - said Cochran,
laughing. 1T s. better to go in them,
and save, your energy for the destruc-
ton of other and worse claims.
Thursday back in his big chair after
Cochran had gone, conscious that some
thing else than laudanum had begun to
interest him a little. He felt no tend
ency whatever or leaning towards
Christian Science, but he wanted to
find some weak spot in the theory,
some fatal inconsistency, which must
inyalidate it altogether: There must
ready heard about it. At this moment
Maud entered.
Maud gave me Christian Science
book he said, "l'm going to prove
it's all wrong" 49,.
Maud laughed.
+ !. edo, dear. It is the duty of .
I everybody to expose error and false
hood 3D. Shall ] read it to youe'' X
-: o.. Then suddenly his craving began to
return, growing instantaneously to
: a hideous acuteness His mind was
like some light vehicle, from which the
driver had been upset, galloped away
with by the boiling, furious horses Of
- upou Hill Will ouCu ouOuCuACOos
:. ! "a fine frstfruit of the value of
Christian Science he said to himself.
Yet tho the reaction made him almost
dizzy, he retained his presence of mind
and that cunning which seemed to have
been developed in him since he took
the drug. He mastered his voice COM
pletely, he mastered also that auto
matte swallowing movement of the
throat that always. accompanied one of
e his attacks of desire ~ ..s
cor shall we read after dinner?"
! he said. 'That sleigh drive made me
so sleepy. I think I should drop asleep
at once if you began to read.''
. Maud looked at him one moment
with infinite pity-that was instinc-
laughed again.
t1Oh, what an old bungler!' she
said. You want to 90 to your bed
room, don't you, and forge-yes, forge
that prescription you forged with
such brilliant success on the steamer,
and send it down to the village to get
your nasty, beasttly dT e Thu Thurso.
twice, but you really mustn It make a
practice Of it; it grows on one dread
fully, am told. s:..
. He came toward her, white and shak-
7sThat quack Cochran has been talk
ing to you, has he's" he said.
ooh, yes. Why nots And he isn't
He laid his hand on her arm. -
= "M7ud, just this once,' he said.
"De let me have it this once, I never
wanted it so before.' go s.....
She took his hand. ii -. = -
| r. H'Thurso, promise you I will go and
get it for you myself at IL o'clock to-
! night, if you still crave for it," she
81 for honrc-nnt CO
much, five hours-and then you shall
have real good go at it. Only in the
| interval you must do your best-your
best, mind-not to think about it, and
you must go to bed at II. That s not
much to ask, is itg -,
His eye frightened.
/ t.Why, of course, can watt he
z la5d Ds ff1 te e GoePrsna @s 'ha'
| you aren't really sissny-and you
| don It look tt IL read to y6ae~ It Will
help pass the time till 1927 =
It had required all Maud's faith to
get thru with this, but she had under
! stood and agreed with what Mr.. Coch-
ran had said before he left. He
wanted Thurso to make an effort him
| could hardly do SO, unless he was
| plan, in fact.
"9But if he wants it at 1922 she
I asked.
ooh, but he won IT," he answered.
"He can tn
| All this Thurso had thought over as
he lay in bed next morning, watching
! his valet. put out his things. He had
! gone to bed as he promised, at half
past 10, huggings himself with the
thought that midnight was coming
| closer every minute. And then he had
simply fallen asleep, and when he
awokes the pale winter sunshine was
flooding the room.
| Yet mixed with the .exhilaration of
this cold. bracing air, the memory of
the pleasant day yesterday, the sense
Of regeneration, after his excellent
got up and dressed, turning it all over
in his mind, that he had been tricked.
He had no idea how the trick was
done, or how it was that he could have
gone to sleep when, il he had but kept
awake so short time, he would have