The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-10-23

of plate glass set in tle wall gard te Street The
iatcrrc, as c turnei - ~ save glance q the half
turned face 81 The man ;;p0n ilc table instantly ~ ms
dark and brooiing eyes there cleaned rJ bright aad
strange and his set lugubriops lace drew itself into
lines OF sudden astonishnent lie bent and stared FIX
cdly at the features Of Courtney Hills.
THE choroformw said the surgeon sharply; I've
asked you 10 go for the cloroform, DIR. Fremont
"Chlo7oform viii Kill him said the inferno slowly
Ills heart is very weak"
The distinguished surgeon faced swiftly about
Sparks Of anger Shot from his gray eyes They grew
hard and Sharp as his own lancets. His words were
level and rigid with delicate yet deadly contempt
Sir I've asked you to get the chlorofornL VIII you
do so at and administer it :"
Ills heart is very weak. Dr Dwinelle' said the
internc his long ank face made almost grotesque win
some haf-oontroled emotion. Il Know this man
Courtney Hills We went the college together
Once after All accident in the field he almost died from
the effects OF clloroform suggest that ether be used
It was evident that the sudden blood that came into
the pale cheeks Of the surgeon betrayed the inner rage
which his exquisite manners would not suffer him TO
bctray Yet almost b. instinct his hand wandered to
the wrist OF Courtney Hills the slender fingers to the
pulse The next moment he dropped the hand, as i
entirely reassured His icy and supercous eyes mar
rowed and their wrath Slot forth gntng between the
lids the small and sneering mouth shaped and flung
Sir have asked you to get the chloroform. Now
order You to get t--and onceH
For moment the inferno stared helplessly at the
hostile and contemptuous front Of the surgeon, then At
the head nurse whose look OF surprise had suddenly
changed into cold unfrendliness He passed his hand
over his eyes and through his long strands u hair
BY the index OF his features it apparent that
ttimult ragged within him Then he slo,*ched from the
room HIS mind instantly attacked by horde OF
stormy memories. He again the crunpled iIgure
OF Courtney Hills extended on the turf OF football
field in the sunshine heard him bowling doleully as
he lifted limp and broken and shreked for the
doctor to set the bcne-and to chloroform, Well
Fremont remembered how the pulse and respiration OF
Hills had sunk beneath the an2sthetic. how his heart
had almost ceased to beat how they had labored over
him and brought back the life slipping into the shadows
AS he hurried blndly along the corridors toward
the laboratory below stairs another face uprose before
him 1t was a young womans serene and tar ana
wstfu but marked with trace OF ingenious selish-
ness or helplessness It the face that stl stood
between him and the funess Of his life Once It had
been sun to him, but now It had grown cold dead
moon. frozen sphere that would not leave the orbit
81 lis life but ecpsed the vast ambitions he had once
fed SO valiantly with hope This the uiorgettable
face that still feered him, couded bis mind and un-
raveed his lifce very beautiful face oi Mary lraske
Inerring had been the diagnosis of cad-nurse Chal-
mers, Mary Traske had been tbs playmate OF his
youth in their native town later bis h,fothed III the
metropolis which had drawn them both from home
And noN-now she was the joyous and exquisite hancee
Of Courtney Hills
For Hills had no sooner met Mary Trasle tl,h he
bad been cnslaved by her fresh and unusual beu-ty
Ruthless and unscrupuous in love ike his i2'acf n
finance. the young wealthy and debonair Hills ia
different to the lie that bound the girl ard his former
classmate had besicgcd her with steady tumultuous
address and the most aattering attentions Sae Wao
had been bred simply half in comfort halt IN periodical
poverty WHO had hoped to touch the larger metro
nolitan world of wealth and fashion whose horizon
had never videued beyond the ordinary expectation or
what might fail to the future wife OF future country
hvsc;an suddenly felt herself distinguished and ex-
lted bv the wild homage and royal tribute OF the son
OF the millionaire He himself, as one OF the most
nrincev heirs OF the city the much-admred the much
desired and the constantly pursued Craft calculation
and ambition avohe III Mary Iraske Cnder the on
slauet OF the fascinating personality OF His his open
deyotcn and aggressive defiant disregard Tor her troih
with the simple grave and studious fremont Mary igl
the bonds between her and the book-porng pracuceies
hyscau begin 20 pail then to gall and finally to loosen
hen minis finally offered her marriage. her last feeble
defcnccs fell golden, careless and queeny existence
v.as onencd ia he with one whose nature was more
akin 10 Lcr own than that OF the struggling Fremont
Quite lightly She broke the strained unwelcome word
by which She had promised 10 be the wife OF her
former pl~ ymate and thenceforth wore right proudly
the magnificent ring the Of the millionaire had
bestowed upon her She gave up her place in brokers'
Office and at the request Of Hills mother went TO live
with thcm in their large and fashionable house.
In a fcw weeks they to be married ! he black
ype Of the newspaper ouncemen had turned to red
inextinguishabll FIRE in Fremonfs brain And he he
who had endured all this, he those nature had been
cursed with tie tragic inheritance Of broodns intro
soe,tive soul lie who had resolved to consecrae hm-
self to the welfare Of bligllted, suffering humanity
whose ambition It was TO push death and disease stll
farther from daeir human prey-he Robert Fremont
svaviag under the stroke had felt himself su'ien
with a sickness Of TIC spirit for which he knew there
world he no cure 4 s1loulderng despairing rage in
tense ard terrible began TO consume his heart His
brain took fire in all its cells: his bosom ached as
though crushed in some iron shell It seemed y ann
that lis life Lad been blown away in smoke. taa all
his vast ambitious plans o medical research were crin-
Lied into dust At FIRST in bis morbid rage he had
i,rs@re, 3- the life of Hills II IN c'en ~ -'1