The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1912-07-20

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of the rooms upstairs tay Katharine,
still unconscious, with d-ctcr and a
nurse constantly at her side. Tho h-5i.
let had been removed. and VIII i
had penetrated the brain some slight
distance, Doctor Wilcox said there was
just chance-the barest chance-that
she might recover It might, however,
be hours. he explained, before she re-
gained eenseiousness-if she ever did.
In another of the rooms lay General
Parrish. more dead than alive. Paraly-
sis had deadened his limbs and tied
his tongue Only his eyes seemed
alert. Most of the tine since he
stroke had felled him he h i been
slumbering heavily, not with the sleep
of health or wea riness but with the
coma of disease. In the moments
when he was awake and seemed cor
scioGs his eyes still he'd the look Of
terror thai We had seen just before he
WIS stricken. Coupled with this look
of fear was n indefinable expression
OF entreaty as if there vas something
he would ask and could not Anxioua
as Louise and | were to learn what il
was that Was troubling him. the doeter
/ forbade our making any effort to do
i so, and made us leave the room,
where he had put a second nurse in
charge.
While the hustle of caring fer the
two stricken ores lasted there was
little time for thought and was glad
for the activity that kept Louise's
mind distracted Just at the moment
when it seemed that eYerything> had
been done and there was nothing left
but the anxious waiting-waiting for
the worst-the butler had tiptoed in to
summon lis to dinner Bravely. at
first. Louise and ! made pretense of
eating, each trying to encourage the
other. but the unforgetable events of
/ the afternoon, the missing faces at the
table and the sorrow that filed us both
made food impossible. Drawing onr
chairs together, we discussed in whis-
pers the battling mystery of Kath-
arines attempted suicide and her ia
theirs strange terror.
On the table before us lay the scrap
of yellow paper, the sight of which
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own rooms had fastened to rescue II
from the floor. | felt that, insignili cant
as it appeared, it must have some i'm
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the fragment. II was eouallv certain
that it had been her pnrnose TO do.
stroy II On tho othar hand General
Parrish. too. must have known of tbe
existence of this letter else why did
/ he show such terror AT the mere sight
of a scrap of if? Il must have been
part of some document that had made
a vivid IMPRESSION on his mind More
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Ter was. If had plaved some mart in
the ouarrel between Katharine aud
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