The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-05-09

Judge Sands and his family were
very, dear to the people of the sec
ton, but his misfortune had threat
ened such widespread ruin that the
unlooked-for. recovery of million
and half was q 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
| Sands, uncles, aunts and cousins had
arranged to welcome her and to try 7
/ 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 not be a 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 vine-covered, white
| pillared portico. Bob's agony must
have been awful when his wife clap
ped her hands in childish JOY as she
exclaimed, ooh, Bob, what a pretty
| HAoSN' AAAS S1S~ AO oA6AA SA1e>S oAAN
had ever seen the great entrance,
through which she had come and gone
from her babyhood. Bob took her to
| 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
| foster-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 puz-
zled 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 1t was plain to all that
the Sands home meant nothing to the
last of the Judges family.
4 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 to trans
nit. All agreed that the woman-child
wife would never grow older unless
through some mental eruption beyond
human power to produce. Some of
the medical men pointed to one posi-
bility, but that one was too terrible
4 for Bob to entertain.
| The first anniversary of their mar
riage found Bob and his wife settled
in their new Fish avenue mansion
He had bought and torn down two
old houses between Forty-second and
Forty third streets and had erected a
palace, the inside of which was unique
among all New York's unusual struc--
/ tires, The first and second floors.
were all that refined taste and unlim-
tied expenditure of money could pro-
duce. Nothing on those splendid
floors told of the strange things above
A sedate luxury pervaded the drawing
rooms, library, and dining-room-
Bob said to me, in taking me through
them, Some day., Jim, Beulah may
recover, may come back to me, and l
want to have everything as she would
wish, everything as she would have
had it If the curse had never come"
The third floor was Beulah's A child's
dainty bedroom; two nurses rooms
adjoining; a nursery, with a child's
small schoolroom and big playroom,
with dolls and doll houses, child's
toys of every description in abandon,
as though their owner were in fact
but few years old. Across the hall
were three Offices, exact duplicates of
mine, Bob's, and Beulah Sands at
Randolph & Randolph's. When I first
saw them it was with difficulty that l
brought myself to realize that I was
|
of year before had taken place. Bob
| had reproduced to the minutest de-
tails our downtown Workshop Stand
ing in the door of Beulah Sands Of
fee faced the fiat desk at which she
had sat the afternoon when l first saw
that hideous result of the work of the
System I could almost see the lit
| tie gray figure holding the afternoon
paper. In horror my eyes sought the
floor at the side of the chair in search
of Bob's agonized face and uplifted
hands. AS l stood for the first time
in the middle of Bob's handiwork, 1
seemed to hear again those awful
-a3;-
| ing idea that some day Beulah will
wake and look around and think she
has been but few minutes asleep.
IF she sh0111d she must havn tnoth;no