The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-20
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having met Captain Warburton and
never failed to remark that he seemed
TO be ILL., My process OR. rather. at
tempted process of cure was neces-
sarily slow one, and by hurrying l
feared 10 spoil all. Indeed, l was not
willing 10 take any risk by haste on
nv own account as we'll as the ladys s.
When L began my course of treatment
/ simply desired to enable her to get
rid of the image she was creating of
her former lover. Before | had known
her a month I hoped to put myself in
his place.
AS soon as | dared act decidedly
wrote her a note stating that | had a
very important communication to
make to her and l hoped she would
nerve herself TO endure separation.
I would call the same evening.
T called aud found her anXiGusly ex
pectiEg ice.
Mrs. Warburton," ] began at once,
''your husband yesterday called at my
office 10 consult me on the matter OF
his health | found him suffering from
heart trouble which, should he re-
ceive The slightest shock, might carry
him off. I have told him that absolute
quiet is essential and have advised
him to go away from the city. from
every one he knows or who knows
him, and to live absolutely alone. not
communicating with any one. He has
taken my advice and asked me to i'm
part the news to you"
By this act / gave my patient tenn
porary backset but this L expected. /
saw that she WAS going through the
strain she had suffered at receiving
the news of Warburton's death. I did
all 1 could to comfort her, but would
not say that l believed the course /
recommended would restore her hus-
band to health 1 left her. promising
to return the next evening and give
her more news.
When / saw be-, again she told me
that the captain had been to see her
before his depIrture-that he looked
very badly. and she was very much
troubled about him. This was an I'M
welcome surprise to me. for / feared
the wrath world See her occasionally
without my permission. l told her to
tell him if he saw her again that the
excitement attending the meeting
might kill him.
1t was evident that Miss Beale would
not very long bear The strain l
was giving her She couldn't sleep,
suffered from nervous paroXysms and
was rapidly losing flesh. I must kill
Captain Warburton as soon as posi-
BILE | dreaded to announce his death
to her, but was forced to choose be-
tween doing so and restoring him to
health. L caOGe the former course.
Fortifying myself with restOratives, |
went to see her one afternoon, and
when she came into the room where ]
was 1 showed her by my sympathetic
and melancholy expression that 1 had
bad news for her.
''He is dead.n' she walled
'I'tOok her hand and pressed it. but
said nothing. ] drew her to a sofa
and, sitting by her side. told her as
briefly as possible that one evening
while the captain was. sitting in his
lonely abode some one had fired
shot outside. Even SO slight shock
had arrested the beating of his heart.
1 was greatly surprised at the resig-
nation with which she received the
melancholy news. She asked me about
the funeral But I had prepared my
self for this. / told her that / had al
ready directed that the captain be
buried at his retreat I confessed TO
have deceived her in many things
about him for his and her good.
left Miss Beale without having had
occasion to use the restoratives. had
to health, and these hopes were full.
filled She improved rapidly after
this and, SO far as l or others could
discover, did not see the figure of her
former lover though she told me she
dreamed Of him. and sometimes these
dreams were so realistic that she was
not sure but that she was awake
when she dreamed them, l told her
that the vision was simply the result
Of a nervous strain.
AS hoped, even these symptoms in
time faded away, and within six
weeks after had killed Captain War
burton ! felt sure that l had put a
Quietus on him forever
I believed now all that remained to
be done was TO give my patient a
strong tonic. But instead of drugs I
gave her trip. I sent her abroad,
and she remained abroad for six
months. Shortly before she was to re-
turn wrote her that needed an out
ing and would meet her at Nice,
where she was getting rid Of the win
ter. I found a great change in her.
She had gained twenty pounds in
flesh and gave every indication of Wig
orous health
But a surprise was in store for me.
Grasping my hand with fervent graft
tude. she said:
doctor, l know the obliga ton I am
under TO you for curing me Of my
Authorization. I myself at times sus-
pected what 1t was. but I could never
get rid of it,
A considerable part Of my treatment
have not mentioned It was inter
esting Miss Beale in myself Before
our return to America we were mar
rid