New-York tribune., 1906-04-22
Her Dream1and Tryst
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from Burlingame, he said posted at
Alexandra lust in by the late mail.
utes ago. as it was handed to me at the
desk" He laid the volume and letter on his
knee, and focused the cleaning bulb of the
lantern upon them. You have told me a
than | have ever heard. | am going to add
a chapter to it, which | think will exercise
the terror of Your dream forever.
She looked up, puzzled, for his face was grave
to reverence yet softened and glowing as II
from some brilliance within
Your first dream" he went on, came last
November. What am going TO read you now
IS the closing page OF Burllngame's letter
Listen:
u inclose you a clipping from 'Galignanis S
to the effect that one NicOlini, a discredIted
medlcO here has been arrested for manslaugh-
ter. 1t seems that when irreSponsibly drunk
he doSed a poor tourist with something deadly
ipecac- ApropOs this interesting Italian,
am going to confess here something YOU never
knew Do YOU remember last November
when a certain COmrade of mine was down
sick on the yacht with a touch of Mediter-
ranean fever? Well the first dav he got off
his head, | sent for doctor. and by some evil
luck drew this same rascal. He hadn't made
his bad name then, and my ignorance was
complete; SO told him to leave some medicine.
You remember my hatred for the magnolia
SCenta Well, the idiot used some such perfume.
He left the cabin positively reeking with 1t; and
when | came IN | was SO ill-tempered as TO up
set the glass and spill all the medicine he had
left. II the clipping and my tale OF this acci-
dent, combined, do not convince YOU that some
patients bear charmed lives. the word of the
consulate surgeon whom | got an hour later.
may do so. He took oath that the glass had
held enough laudanu1n to kill the entire crew,
including your friend and eX-commander.
"BURLINGAME."
She had not spoken, and the shade held her
face: but her hands were claSping his arm with
an almost hysterical pressure. He had read
slowly and distinctly. while the beam from the
lens wavered on the cracking white paper like
huge glOw-wOrn. He laid down the letter
now, and turned to the thin morocco volume.
Your second dream" he said. was on the
night of the twelfth of February This book
is my diary. At that date-he turned the
leaves rapidly-the yacht lay at Assuan. in
Upper Egypt" He broke off a moment 70
pencil some figures on the margin. AT dawn
here, on the day of your dream, it was then.
let us say, sunset, eight O'c clock IN the evening
at AsSuan. You see what | am coming tOs'
Yes. yes" she cried. her breath coming
faster her pulses beating 70 riot. Go on"
He turned TO a folded leaf and read:
"AssUAN, February IA dull day Bur
lingame and | had an unpleasant row this
morning with couple OF the servants or Aman
PaSha. over the beating of a slave-bov He
threshed one and | was obliged TO ditto the
other. 1t seems the beating was by the pasha's
order.
"LArER,-Burly is going to make it all right
with the old hypocrite by giving him an
American dinner at the local Sherry s'-dress-
suits, champagne and carte blanche TO Sidi
as to courses.
"AssUAN, February 12.-A dull day. Bur-
lingame's dinner TO Aman Pasha in the even
ing ended with fireworks.
She looked up. startled, into his smiling
face. That is all the entry he said. This
diary You see. is for my mothers ewes. What
really happened that night in Assuan, Bur
lingame. the British Consul and | agreed 10 be
silent about. But | know now, sweetheart,
what | should never have guessed but for Your
story-a knowledge that makes me very
humble. | know now, and his voice shook,
. that Your love has twice sent Your spirit to
me in a moment of deadly peril once to snatch
my life from a hate that failed only bv a
fraction of a second. Dearest, don't YOU
understand | am the comrade Burlingame
speaks of IN his letter-the sick man YOU loved
who lay in his berth that third of November
am the man YOU loved, who stood in the sun
set shadow that evening with the chair Ii
WAS Burlinqame who SMILED the Ia,,IaD,,r,, 9+