The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-05-30

night with that poor angel"
"NurseP" said |. What do you
Iaean?"
"Oh. thought you knew. but per-
I haps you don't. He told me FIRST
the blackguard; and then she told
me, and kept telling me. that that
poor, lovely. little thing was insane:
not violent you know, or | should
never have taken them. out just that
she had delusions, and that she had
got away from the place where she
was being cured, and that they had
found her and were taking her
back"
Damn HIM" said T.. Did he tell
you that?'
| Amen, SIR" said Mrs. Lathrop.
and II is just what he told me. and
Fhe added more 10 il. that nurse did.
And |, who thought ali my life that
| had my wits, believed them. Be-
| lleved them almost, that is. Thank
heaven. had grain OF sense left.
your name Mason Ellsworth? ?"
was striding he room now; but,
Win the abrupt question | stopped,
y hand almost roughly upon her
houlder. Yes" | sad; why: Did
aney give you anything for me, any
I message that YOU have been keeping
rom me?" Mrs. Lathrop WINGED
under my hand and even In my mad
excitement, | gathered sense enough
TO mutter an apology.
"Oh, that's all right" she said.
If Id been you. Id have drowned
me, and small loss to a world OF SEN
siole folks; Just YOU wait a minute"
SHE dragged heavy chair across the~
Kitchen floor. and hopping up on IL.
stood on tiptoes to feel along the
nigh shelf, and reach down a small
brown jar, Here" she said;
take IL. And as / took il and nut
il on the table. she hoped dow n
again beside me, and taking of the
cover with one hand. plunged the
other into its brown, shallow depths.
Here" she said lis the letter she
gave me- Heaven only knows when
the poor dear found chance 70
write IT, with that fat cat following
around every minute. But she was
clever, too. and Slid IL into my lap
| this morning under her very nose.
with whisper 10 give il 10 Won IL
Inu should come, and 10 write Won n
you should not The woman caught
4 - ~ NiiN idrN DdIl III II, and TOOK
| the trouble to tell me later that IL
was all part OF her delusion. and
was idiot enough almost TO believe
her' ana 10 nave sat here all this
morning, twiddling my thumbs
when l ought TO have been down at
the telegraph office But | kept INV
MOUTH shut about her letter. because
I was AFRAID IL might get the little
iauy INTO trouble; and delusions or
NOT, ! llked her as much as | didn't
IKE the other one the minute | set
eyes upon her"
unfolded the scrap Of paper
which she handed me. Nancy senote
was pencll-written and on an irree-
ular biz Of paper. evidently torn
from the covering OF a chest shelf
or the lining OF bureau drawer. II
read: -
They came while you were awav.
did my best. but they took me
mink we are on the way 10 New
YORK. They are pretending am
insane Follow us there IL Won can
out be careful, for fear. too. for
your SAFETY. He is very angry and
capable of almost anything He.
calls himself, now. Doctor Morrison
out' as you may have guessed by
TINS time, he is my"
Was this all she gave YOU" said
!. glancing up.
| why, yes, said Mrs. Lathrop
| held the note to her. face down
have you any paper like this IN
the house, | asked
AIRS. Lathrop looked at IL closely
icelins its quality between her finger
ahc lAimb 1T looks like shelf pa.
per- she said after a moment "and
! lave 1t pretty much all over the
house"
Then" asked. may see the
room where the ladies slept last
nigh, -
Certainly said Mrs. Lathrop. and
leu inc way upstairs, where she
pasDcd open the door OF a rather
Sinai, sunny rom This is the room
| always give 10 two ladies' STAYING
together she said 1T is bright and
chetiiul and tGere are two beds .
B:isht and cheerful It certainly
Vas Bureaus, beds, chairs and tabIas
were ALIKE white enameled and tho
"a" cnintz window curtains matches
the larSe-hgurod paper o. the walls
May | look around?' | asked