The Washington times., 1910-01-19
-By-=
ALBERT FAYSON TERHUNE

eight hours may recover his brain
power by little rest, and may be
able 10 I5rITk out a way Of escape or
at Least Of teDporiZins.
I paid tie chauffeur at my mothers
gate lftcd Mark bodily from the cab,
carried hilis- Still asleep, Into the
house and silently Upstairs TO our
room. Then depOsitIng MIN or one
OF the two narrow beds, wrote on
I a sheet OF paper:
we both got hcue very late.
I Please don't have US called IN the
Jiptoed down tha hall to my
mothers room and pinned the paper
to her door Then Invent back TO my
own room and proceeded TO examine
my sleeping brother Tor trace OF the
wound OF wounds that could so have
mbrUed his face and clothes and
hands
To my Grass amazement / found not
q Single cut or abrasion on all his
uoCE- There was a reddish brUiSc on
his shoulder But for that there was
not a mark anywhere.
/ sank back sutO a chair, staring at
nina In weary wonder What had hap
pr1ed- dis garments were torn His
hlUck-cs were skinned He was blood
spat-ered- Yet ne bore no wound
What had he done there on that
black dock at dead OF night2 Who had
been his toe- And why had he gone 20
such q place at aI2
n =
all night Ions p01derins over this Tuz-
zlg and AT last coming 10 some cry
brilliant solution OF 10. As a matte OF
fact I did npt ling Of the sort 1 did
not even fare forth into the silent
streets and there by some prodigy OF
EaUIus-Ialeu VslOr atone for the mis-
takes of the nj ghL
II I had been \ hero I should have
done something OF the sort. But was
rot hero. j was nothing but an IN
lucky, tlicE-Eeaded- otherwise normal
American Of tweuty-eighu-
SO. al risk OF losing your respect and
sympathy hereby confess that 7 did
The most natural thing in the world EX-
rzEstel. Overstralned nature asserted
itself, and I fen into the dream-ass.
dead sleep of utter fatigue
Little by little, n confused fash Z. I
came TO myself. 7 recalled the doc the
challenge from the darkness, the Hash
light blazing across my daZzled eyes
the laTl-5e1t-lt was stu striking
across nay face and
no. 1t was q bar OF golden sunlight
Broad day had come
started up from the deep hoII5Vs OF
the leatEeru chair and blinkeC AZ the
sunshine Ike a beIated owl
Then my gaze fell upon the be-
across the room from me. There la
Mark as had lad MN down CT me
previous night But MS eyes we're
puzzled. heavy fashion
say. cd chap ne began as he saw
. ROW fA4 EaL mere
I've an Internal splitting headache
And 7 ache ali over Have I been siCI-T''
40" I returned. blUutly- You've
been drunk Adding one BY one TO the
pleasant fgl1les by which you seem bent
ol degrading the old Lee name
Drunk he echoed. Drunk You're
U-lU-, HuEE- I've drunk, of and on.
I'm moderation, ever since ] grew Up.
But I've ueter been affected by IT,
And certainly never 10 such an extent
g nor IN know how I GOT tn "A Mace
ana 7 don't know how I got here last
night
7 eyed him uubeEevinE. His eyes were
not the nUHs5. hI0olShot look OF =
6---Ear5-s- Nor was there an alcoholic
r--uor in the hand ne passed over his
aching head again orr gaze met, and
tE.s time there WAS sGiteuiuE IN mine
OF WASN'T drunk be reiterated IT
must ha-e-CuCh---
lie broke of with an involuntary cry
or pain and clauued hand 20 his
bruised shoulder
DO YOU remember how you got that
brEise--r 7 asked
The hrlise1-r no repeated Why
~ Ly- in the fight. OF c0uv@-
The 7Ehr2 What fiE1r2"
The fight last night Wfth-wfth--''
with whom
He knit his brows in effort to concea-
trate his wandering memory Then he
shook his head
''VIth-VauZEG 20 I asked. nv throat
dry al the thr' sh DID Of n new dev lop-
ueD- that 7 co., not understand-that
dreaded TO understand