Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-12

ployer's Office from day to day, as this
intimacy deepened:
The doctor is settling into a deep
melancholy from which he tries to rise
at times. but with only Indifferent sue
cess. Yesterday he rode around TO an
his patients for the purpose OF WIN
drawing his services on the plea OF III
ness. But he still keeps his Office open
Dr. Zabriskie loves his wife. but in
way torturing to himself and to her. If
she is gone from the house ne Is
wretched. and yet when she returns he
often forbears to speak to her, or II ne
does speak it is with a constraint that
hurts her more than his silence. was
present when she came in today
Where have you been, Zulma?' he
asked.
ITO my mothers, to Arnold & Con-
stables and to the hospital. as you re-
quested," was her quick answer, made
without faltering or embarrassment
He stepped still nearer and took her
hand and as he did so my eye fell on
his and noted that his finger lay over
her pulse in seeming unconsciousness
You must have enjoyed yourself.
was his cold comment. as he let go her
hand and turned away
If | am any judge of woman. Zuima
Zabriskie is superior to most of her sex
That her husband mistruStS her is evil
dent, but whether this is the result OF
the stand she has taken in his regard,
or only manifestation of dementia. |
have as Vet been unable to determine
I dread to leave them alone together.
II would be a grief TO see her injured
By this passionate and unhappy man.
have before me two visions OF men
tai suffering. At noon l passed the Of
fee door, and. looking within. saw the
figure of DR.. Zabriskie seated in his
great chair, lost in thought. His hands
rested upon the arms of his chair. and
III one of them l detected womans
glove. which | had no difficulty in rec
ognizing as one of the pair worn by his
tf. tta4 sfn for IN
minute watching him, till an irresisti
BILE sense of the shame Of thus spying
upon blind man in his moments or Sc
cret anguish compelled me to with
draw. But not before | saw his fea
lures relax in a storm of passionate
feeling, as he rained kisses after kisses
on the sense!ess kid.
The other picture was more tragic
still. | was seeking Mrs. Iabriskie in
her own room, when ] caught a Meeting
vision Of her tall form. with her arms
thrown up over her head in paroxysm
OF feeling. which made her as oblivious
to my presence as her husband had been
several hours before Were the words
that escaped her lips, Thank God we
have no children" or was this eXclama-
ton suggested to me by the passion and
unrcstrained impulse of her action?
SO much up to date. Interesting
enough. or 50 her employer seemed to
think. as he went hurriedly through the
whole story. tapping each sheet as he
finger. as though he would say.
Enough My theory still holds good"
what was that theory. and i'll what
way and through whose efforts had he
been enabled to form one? The follow
ing notes he evidently thinks worth
While TO reperuse in connection with
those he had just laid aside:
Watched the Zabriskie mansion for
i've hours this morning, from the sec
ond-story window Of an adjoining hotel
SAW the doctor when he drove away on
his round of visits and saw him when
he returned. colored man accompa-
MED him.
Today / followed Mrs Zabrissie. She
place. here | am told her mother
lives. Here she stayed some time
after which she did some shopping
and Ia;er stopped at the hospital, into
which ! took the liberty of following
her. She seemed to know many there
and passed from. cot to cot with a
smile. in V mich ! alone discerned the
sadness CT broken heart.
have spent this day in accumulat-
ing details in regard to DIR. and Mrs.
Zabriskie's life previous to the death
OF sir. la sbrouch. That Mrs. Zabriskie
had not lacked enemies to charge her
with coquetry: that while she had
never sacritced her dignity in public
more than one person had been heard
To declare that DIR. Zabriskie was
fortunate in being blind since the
sight oil his wife's beauty would have
hut poorly compensated him for the
pain he would have suffered in seeing
how that beauty admired.
.Nnd so one portion of my theory is
proved to be sound. DIR. Zabriskie is
Jealous ofShis wife; whether with good
cause or bad l am not prepared to de-
eide.
have Just found out where Leonard
is. Ar he is in service some miles up
the river. shall have to be absent
from my post for several hours, but /
consider the game well worth the
candle.
Light at last have not only seen
Leonard. but succeeded in making him
talk. His story Is substantially this:
That on the night SO often mentioned