The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1913-01-24

i Bfaev.~,
"rII make good. Do you understand?
Ten millions each!"
sick people-I've got to do something
for them. I'm going to build palaces
for the lame, the halt, the sick. the
blind. Pm going to gather the great
men of science from the ends OF the
earth and set them to work to lift
this shadow from the world"
A sudden pain seized and convulsed
his frai body and Stuart called the
doctors from the next room.
They stood by in helpless sympathy.
Cant you stop this pain?' the f.
nancier gasped in anger What are
enough morphine to stop this hellish
agony?"
His family doctor bent and said:
Your heart action is too low Just
now, Mr.. Bivens. you can't stand it."
"Well, l can't stand this Give it to
me, tell YOU
The doctor took hypodermic
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jected it into his arm
While Stuart watched the pitiful
trick, his eye wandered over the mag
niticent trappings of the room.
what irony of fate"' he exclaimed,
under his breath.
The sufferer stared and beckoned to
Stuart.
Handing him key which he drew
from beneath his pillow he cried:
Unlock the right hand top drawer
of that safe, Jm-the door is open.
Hand me those bundles of stocks and
bonds and call those doctors"
Stuart complied with his request and
Bivens spreadNthe brilliantly cofored
papers on the& white covering of his
bed, while the doctors drew near.
Listen now, gentlemen" hei began.
Istill gasping with pain. you're our
greatest living doctors, I'm told. Wei.
I'm not willing to die, l won't die-do
Iyou hear? I'm only forty-nine years
old You see here thirty millions in
gilt edged stocks and bonds. Well.
there are three of you. I'll give you
ten millions each to take this stone
off of my breast that's smothering me
and give me five years more of life
The three men of science stood with
folded, helpless arms and made no eff
fort to keep back the tears They had
i, seen many men die. 1t was nothing
new-and yet the pity and pathos of
this strange appeal found their way to
the soul of each. They never envied
, a millionaire again.
They retired for another consulta-
ton. Stuart replaced the papers and
gave the key to Bivens.
TASK Nan to come here minute
he said feebly.
, pered to a servant When he return
) ed to the bedside the dying man look
ed up into his face gratefully.
you don't know how it helps me
< to have you near. Jim. old boy. I'm
lonely Nan I(guess is i'll and broken
down. Eye, lavished milliopS on her
Eve given her all possess in my will
a but somehow we never found happi
e ness. VI / could. only have been sure
+ of the deep. sweet, unselflsh love OF
t one human soul on this earth! II
could only have won a girls heart
when / was poor. But l was rich
and I've always wondered whether
d she really loved me for nay own sake
Y At least I've always thanked God fos
you You've been a real friend. Our
Y hearts were young together and you
S stood by me when-I--was-pOor
It An hour later when the covering
was turned back from the dead body
t Stuart saw that the smooth little oOkd
d hand had gripped the key to his treas
ures in last instructive grasp
6 He looked again at the lump of cold
/ clay and wondered what was passing
e In the soul of the woman who waG
IS now the heir OF all his millions.
IS Why had she shown such stFanse
h and abject> terror over his death-ar
e event she had foreseen andsdeSired?
A horrible suspicion suddenly flashed
. through his mind He determined tc
?. knew at once.
Y AS he had feared Nan refused point
l blank to enter the death chamber an6
8 asked him to come to her boudoiF
y He found her standing by a win
= dow. apparently calm Stuart hooked
Il at her q moment with a curious de
It tached interest Suddenly aware Oh
. his presence she turned
+ AT last, at lastr' she cried in low
o broken accents. ''Oh, dear God, how
e long rye waited and despaired! Al
last we may belong to each other for
K everybody and soul! Nothing else mat
tiers now, does it? We shah forget al
|! the blank hideous years; you'n forget
0 It, won't you. dearest? You'll forgive
e me-now-say that you wfflT'
"rve long ago forgiven, Nan, but tel
me about this sudden attack. You were