Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1907-01-17
THE BURIED WILL
BY IDA M. sHEpLER
lCoDyrigh1. By Daily story Pub. o.,

The hypnotist holding forth for th
last few nights In Broadway hall ha
a done wonderful things in the way {
= malting the subjects of his power to
strange secrets in their own lives @
: that Of some other person. Two pei
a sons had come forward that last nigh
Q Not Of the will or wish Of either. The
. came because the hypnotist, fixing hi
: great, black eyes on their eyes, CON
} PEELED their presence on the stage
Both were nurses. One fair, sal
faced girl. the other a bold, over
| dressed, middle aged woman.
The professor first made passel
over the girls eyes. Presently she be
gan to humble, then to talk of hel
hard life, her WEAKNESS. Her parents
were dead, sister and brother she had
none, but there was a lover, young
physician, handicapped in his start fol
place by an old grandfather and a
weakly mother to support. She could
not marry her love at present.
The professor had known pitifuI
love, perhaps poverty. He quickly
awakened her. He could not have her
babbling In sleepy way Of her sweet,
love story.
The older woman had come upon
the stage at his compelling gaze, but
there was trouble In getting her suf-
ficiently hypnotized that she would
talk. She went of into contrary tant-
runs Of gesture, but her lips re-
manned 30 long tightly closed that the
audience despaired and became un-
easy, intimating loudly that this was
scant show for the money invested to
get into the hall. The professor nodded
for quiet, and the woman began to
speak:
I'm nurse by profession. | never
married. II hate, no, no, love him!"
Her lips came to with a snap.
mo, you don't love him. You know
you don't Now tell this audience why
you hate him; why he never married
you. Such handsome woman. Tell
1t your story" the professor coaxed in
strangely insinuating tone.
YES" she spoke now clear and
sharp, II was beautiful. l am yet.
Ugh! How hated nursing. How
yet hate 1t. was going to marry such |
a rich old man that had nursed when |
l first met the man l loved-that l
yet"
mo, you don't. You hate him. Go
on!" compelled the professor, ''for at
the word love her tongue had faltered.
"That l hate, yes, that's 1t. He
came for me to nurse his sickly wife.
He had no money to pay me, but what
did care. She was soon to die. That
| knew, and even before she died he
made love to me. The wretch. He
was gambler. Down in his luck at
that time, I found out. He was most
ly down in his luck. When she died
he promised to marry me soon. Did
he? No. He put HIMSELF where did
not hear of him for five years. The
I'D rich man that was to marry had
lied, and not another so rich present
ID himself to my favor until five years
lfter, and this time the man was
than l and, half witted, sure.
y. Going through stupendous for
une as fast as ever fool went. / was
yetting ready for a share Of 1t as his
wife when q letter came from the man !
:" Hate" put In the professor.
Yes, hate, telling me where to come.
Ie wanted me Immediately. He was 9
wing with his old cousin, Rhoda," he I
aid; such rich woman. He was her
earest relative, he went on. She had q
aised her niece, but the niece, who i
vas to heir all his Cousin Rhody's for
lne, had disobeyed her, and ran away Il
nth some man her aunt despised. ii
Cousin Rhody is not WE'LL he wrote.
She needs a nurse. She has come to 3
mink that l am Indispensable to her d
omfort. She has made will in my
lvor. Remember, you come just as
ired nurse, and not as the woman / "
I've, the woman who will be my wife G.
hen Cousin Rhody's fortune gets in
, my hands, "
II left the man I was to marry. l a
emit at the bidding of the other. l &c
,und Cousin Rhody q cross, fright
ned old woman. She was sick, d
lough her cousin declared to her she IN
as not, and forced me to tell her how
ell and young she looked, and that ia
le was good for rs years yet. She M
,nsulted all manner Of doctors, took 70
l manner Of medicine, and / could II
70 got worse all the time. RI
AT first she seemed to cling des- tn
srately to her cousin. but as the end W
preached she turned more to me, m
I'd would speak OF her niece Mariory, 10
I'd order that she be sent for; but al
IT cousin saw to It that Marjory new. as
received the messages. 10
Then, at the last. she became dis. ia
ustful Of her cousin. She declared tn
at Marjory had done right to marry
e man she loved best She confided
me that she had secretly sent for q or
wyer to draw up . new viii, and ~