Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1907-10-03

Copyright, 1907, Doubleday. Page a oO.I
cHAPrER VII.-contInued.
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SFrsnzied Finance"


Bob left his wife at his mothers
house while he went to Sand Land. |
ing to the funeral. After the old |
Judge and his victims had been laid |
away and the relatives had gathered |
in the library of the great white |
Sands mansion. he explained their
kinswoman's condition and told them |
that abe was his wife. He insisted
upon paying all Judge Sands debts,
over 100000 OF which was owed to
members of the Sands family for
whom he had been trustee. Before
he went back to his mothers, Bob
had turned great calamity into an
occasion for something near rejoicing.
Judge Sands and his family were
very dear TO the people Of the sec
tlon. but his misfortune had threat
ened such widespread ruin that the
unlooked.for recovery of million
and half was a godsend that made
for happiness.
Two days after the funeral Bob's
dearest hope fed. He had ordered all
things at the Sands plantation put in
their everyday condition. Beulah
N1auhot hhGAgsf anu NOAAAho ARN
arranged TO welcome her and to try
by every means In their power to coax
back her lost mind. They assured
Bob that barring the absence of
Beulah's father, mother. and sister,
there would rot be memory.recaller
missing. Bob and his wife landed
from the river packet at the foot OF
the driveway, which led straight from
the landing TO the uncovered, white
pillared portico. Bob's agony must
have been awful when his wife clap
ped her hands in childish Joy as she
exclaimed. "Oh, Bob, what a pretty
place." She gave no sign that she
had ever seen the great entrance,
through which she had come and gone
from her babyhood. Bob took her 10
the library, TO her mothers room. to
her own. to the nursery where were
the dolls and toys of her childhood.
but there came no sign OF recognition,
nothing but childish pleasure. She
looked at her aunts and uncles and
the cousins with whom she had spent
her life, bewildered at finding so many
strangers in the otherwise quiet place
AS last hope they led in her old black
fcster-mother, who had nursed her in
babyhood. who was the companion OF
her childhood and the pet OF her
womanhood There was not dry eye
in the library when she met the old
mammy's outburst OF Joy with the puE-
zied gaze of the child who does not
understand. The grief of the old ne
gress was pitiful as she realized that
she was a stranger TO her honey
bird" The child seemed perplexed
at her grief. II was plain to all that
the Sands home meant nothing TO the
last of the judges family.
Bob brought her back to New York
and besought the aid OF the medical
experts OF America and of the Old
World TO regain that which had been
recalled by its Maker. The doctors
were fascinated with this new phase
of mind blight, for In some particulars
Beulah's case was unlike any known
instances. but none gave hope. All
agreed that some wire connecting
heart and brain had burned out when
the cruel System threw ON voltage
beyond the wires capacity 10 trans
init. All agreed that the woman-child
wife would never grow older unless
through some mental eruption beyond
human power TO produce. Some oil
the medical men pointed to one posi-
eility. but that Aonc was too terrible
tor Bob 10 entertain.
The frat anniversary Of their mar
rage found Bob and his wife settled
In their new Fifth avenue mansion
He had bought and torn down two
old houses between Forty-second and
EoFty-third streets and had erected q
palace. the inside OF which was unique
among al New YoFk's unusual strnc
lures. The FIRST and second floors
were all that refined taste and unlim
1ted expenditure OF money could pro
duee. Nothing on those splendid
doors told OF the strange things above
A sedate luxury pervadod the drawing
looms. library. and dining-room
Bob said to me. In taking me through
them, "somo dAg. Jim. Baulah MAJ
recover, may come hack 70 me. and
want to have everything ~ she would
wish, everything as ahe would havs
aad Il II the curse had never come
The third noor was Beuiah's. A child'i
dainty bedroom: two nurses rooms
adjoining: a nursery. with chlld'l
small schoolroom and q big playroom
with dolls and doll houses. childf
toys Of every description In abandon
a. fhoush their owner Wero n fac
out few years old. Across the bal
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