The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1909-06-04
Late q, memory cleared away.

7 plate OF memory cleared away.
by Jove!" he said. ITO be sure,
I do remember IL all nowl"
We'll, then" the doctor answered,
'ff o will, come and tell me all
about it-but not here. 1t ~ill do you
good 10 walk a few yards. Come into
NV own room, and / will have some
bouillon with a little brandy In 1t
brought for you. OF course" he add
ed. in a slightly different tone-"of
course, | know you very well by
name, Capt. Marriott. And I have had
! the pleasure Of meeting Sir Hercules
Together, the nurse and the doctor
assisted Basil 70 rise. A dressing
gown was found for him, for his coat
and shirt had been taken away ana
he was assisted down a corridor, pass
ed through a green baize door, an
other one Of wood, and found himself
! in the doctors sanctum. he sat down
in an armchair Of green leather ana
looked round him.
"Now, you Just be quiet for a mo-
ment," said the doctor, and | will see
about a corpse reviver for ye.'
Once more, for a moment, the
sailors grip Of what had happened
seemed q little ~Ioosened.
He looked round him idly, taking
I'm the mise en- scene. The walls OF
the room were papered with a floral
Dattorn of light green. The carpet
was of a dull crimson, and scrupulous-
" swept. Round the walls hung the
photographs of famous English ana
continental surgeons, "reminiscences or
he clinics which the doctor had at
tended. Here was the keen, bearded
face of Pozi, there the benevolent as
pect of HuIke: while above, Timothy
Holmes himself smiled benignly IN
his doctors robes. At one end Of the
room was a large gIass-fronted cabl-
net, lined with cedar wood. Suspend
ed from hooks at the back and lying
on each shelf was an array of shining
steel instruments, forceps, scissors,
bistouries. probes, bone augers and
p~erforators.
The sun was shining in through a
long French window hung with biscuit
colored curtains, while a telephone
stood upon a leather-topped writing
table.
How TRANCE it was to be suddenly
translated thus from ordinary life into
an entirely new environment. Was
-t thus that people f5it whc2 t5cT dc
and wake in a new world? He Won
iered idly, and as he did so the doc
or returned, followed by a pleasant
nurse carrying a steaming bowl
bouillon upon a tray.
Now, then, / won't ask you a
said the doctor, until you
put yourself outside this. He
;at down and lit a cigarette, watching
Basil keenly the while, but with OBJ
rious satisfaction in his alert Irish
yes. When some few minutes had
he said, Now, then, what
happened, Capt. MARRIOTT"
81 don't know how I came by my
Basil answered. by the way,
what time Is it,"
81 don't know at all why / should
been struck down. Somebody
aust have got behind me and dealt
a blow which left me unconscious
IN the pavement"
Have you any enemies that you
Know of"
"As far as I know, I have not
single enemy in the world"
THAT Is odd be cause, you see, you
we're not robbed Of any OF your posses
,ions. I've got 'em all here safe for
II 1t was an ordinary case of
I should have understood 1t.
Is there nothing else that occurred
which would cou for it,"
Suddenly Basil remembered a great,
black. swinging bag In the air a
huge black thing that swung in the
middle air. flung and falling, while the
no~ney-colored sickle of the noe was
it, falling. swinging, fallingl
ITO Be continued.)