Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1916-05-12

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may gain strong point by confessing
some noble act which your tender con-
science has exaggerated into a crime"
"Shake, doctorl" said the visitor,
grasping the others hand. "That sug-
gestion is worth more than any pre-
scription you have ever written"
"That isn't saying much" muttered
the man OF medicine to himself.
st must leave you now" he said to
his client, looking at his watch, ito
make my morning round of visits.
suggested, and IL you find that you
have produced results let me know.
advise you, having made your begin
ming on basis Of curiosity, to add a
teaspoonful--l mean a quantum--of
sympathy, leaving the Imagination to
come in third, after which resort to the
ordinary devices pertaining to court
ship"
THANK you, doctor" said the visitor.
rising and grasping the doctors hand
warmly, and with the same serious look
on his face that no 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 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 Mr..
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 no should
have allowed the killing Of few saw
ages who had murdered his dear ia
Their 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 Mr. Bloodgood, had
intended, the Imagination began to
work. Miss Bloodgood pictured the
settlers cabin, the trees of the virgin
forest waving over 1t, the old man sit
ting before the freight 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 pic
tured the sons return to find his par
ents weltering In their blood
And now the queerness OF Norman
Bloodgood had given place to a heroic
looking man bending over his parents
bodies, then looking up to heaven and
swearing to avenge their death. She
saw him mount u mettlesome steed
and, plunging his spurs into the horses
tanks, speed away into the depths OF |
the forest. She heard the crack Of his |
rife as he brought down the lrst saw
age. She saw him plunge tomahawk |
into the next redskins skull. She fan
at III IN N
dams and wished there were more.
Then her hero rode Off, his vengeance |
wreaked, appalled, at the CORY being the |
massacre of his beloved parents had |
made him. Years of regret followed. |
What q noble spirit TO grieve over the |
punishment of bloodthrsty savagesl
Ono day Mr.. Bloodgood called at DIR. |
shotwelPs Office and reported the story |
he had told, the object of the expert
ment they were Interested In. He
knew nothing of his success In excit- |
ing Miss Andersons imagination or her |
sympathy. He simply reported what
he had done. The doctor listened TO
his report and, confident of the effect |
he had produced, suggested that he try |
light application of hand pressure;
II this was not repealed, an arm stolen
around the waist, a touch of the lips.
Not long after this Bloodgood report
cd that in one of his fits Of remorse he
had dropped his head upon Miss An.
derson's shoulder She had not with
drawn from the contact. Encouraged,
no had folded her in his arms Still
not being repealed, he had kissed her.
Then one day he called ut the Doctors
Office to be congratulated upon his en-
gagement.
These two scientists discussed the
matter In the same vein as when they
were laying out their plan of attacking
Miss Anderson's heart by scientific
methods as IL they had It in test
tube. Mr.. Bloodgood did not appear
TO consider that there was any differ
ence in the two processes. As for the
doctor, he was n reticent man and new
er told even his best friend how much
OF the conquest was due TO cause and
effect and how much to nature
After Mr.. Bloodgood's marriage Or.
Hbotwell met him and asked him IL he
had preserved tho secret OF his decep-
ton.
ooh, / confessed that at the time our
first child was BORN" replied Blood
good, "but she was too much interested
10 the baby to consider the matter Of
any importance"