The Press., 1915-09-22

| teaspoonful-i mean a quantum-of sympathy. leaving the imagination to
 come in third. after which resort to the ordinary devices pertaining to court ship
 "Tbank you. doctor," said the visitor, rising and grasping the doctors hand warmly, and with the same serious look on his face >that he had worn through the interview he went his way. Within fortnight the doctor receiv- ed letter from his client in which he laid down his great grief and a sin that he had committed. He had killed a man for revenge, but had been driven to the act through a great wrong done him. He was suffering no
 end of mental torture. Miss Ander- sons sympathy had been aroused. and she was intent upon knowing what
 had spurred him to kill fellow being.
 This was as far as he had gone. He
 had noted the rise of considerable in
 terest in him on the part of the lady.
 In due time he would reveal that his
 father and mother, who had lived in
 the wild west. had been murdered by
 Indians. He had not only killed all
 the Indians concerned in the massacre
 but he had barbarOusly taken their
 scalps, acts for which he could never
 forgive himself.
 A second letter came in which MT.
 Bloodgood spoke of the murder of his
 parents and his confession of his re-
 venge. Miss Anderson had been much
 grieved for him and had been disap-
 pointed because he had not tortured
 the Indians before killing them. She
 had expressed wonder that he should
 have allowed the killing of few saw
 ages who had murdered his dear fa-
 ther and mother to trouble his con- science. Surely he must have great nobility of soul to consider such an act a sin.
 And here. as these two scientists. Dr. Shotwell and MT. Bloodgood, had intended, the imagination began to work. Miss Bloodgood pictured the settlers cabin, the trees of the virgin forest waving over it, the old man sit ting before the firelight at evening smoking his pipe and the old woman clearing the supper table; then the fig ures of the red men far in the evening twilight galloping toward the cabin. The massacre was too horrible for the dreamer to dwell upon, but she pie tured the sons return to find his par ents weltering in their blood.
 And now the queerness of Norman Bloodgood had given place to heroic looking man bending over his parents bodies. then looking up to heaven and swearing to avenge their deeth. She saw him mount a mettlesome steed and. plunging his spurs into the hors .'s Hanks. speed away into the depths of the forest. She heard the crack of his rife as he brought down the first sav- age. She saw him plunge tomahawk into the next redskins skull. She fan cied him dealing death to a dozen In- dians and wished there were more.
 Then her hero rode off, his vengeance wrecked. appalled, at the gory being the massacre of his beloved parents had made him. Years of regret followed. What a noble spirit to grieve over the punishment of bloodthirsty savages!
 One day MT. Bloodgood called at Dr. l office and reported the story | he had told. the object of the experi- | ment they were interested in. He knew nothing of his success in excit- | ing Miss Anderson's imagination or her | sympathy. He simply reported what | he had done. The doctor listened to | his report and, confident of the effect l he had produced, suggested that he try | a light application of hand pressure; if this was not repelled, an arm stolen | around the waist, touch of the lips.
 Not long after this Bloodgood report | ed that in one of his fits of remorSe he | had dropped his head upon Miss An lerson's shoulder. She had not with lrawn from the contact. Encouraged, he had folded her in his arms. Still not being repelled. he had kissed her. Then one day he called at the doctors office to be congratulated upon his en- ,a~ement.
 These two scientists discussed the natter in the same vein as when, they were laying out their plan of attacking Miss Anderson's heart by scientific methods as if they had it in test ube. MT. Bloodgood did not appear o consider that there was any differ .nce in the two processes. AS for the loctor. he was a reticent man and nev- IF told even his best friend how much ,f the conquest was due to cause and ,ffect and how much to nature.
 After MT. Bloodgood's marriage Dr. ShOtwell met him and asked him if he lad preserved the secret of his decep- ion.
 "Oh. I confessed that at the time our first child was bOrn." replied Blood good, ''but she was too much interested n the baby to consider the matter of my importance"
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