The Pulaskian., 1920-11-18

the will to live which had been in him eonspicuously indomitable.
 On Dr. Brownelrs last visit, he con hrmed what was in truth a fear.
 Has Mir. Sidney, to your knowl- edge, he asked, recently found a SUI preme satisfaction in any eyent?"
 None that I know of" said. "Why"
 He's changing. He is different now from anything I ever knew him to be. l always have believed that his case was out of our province, and that life and death, for him, depended upon resolve and that the resolve had purpose. You have not found things wholly normal here have your?
 ''No, I haven't"
 There is something here" said Dr. Brownell. 'T don't know what it is. You don't know what it is, but de pend on it, something of importance to Sidney has happened. It may not have satisfied his life's resolve, but I think it has. For the present, he does not need me-possibly never again."
 Jed observed the change in Mir Sid ney. Afterward I knew that he was much more acute observer than I, for the good enough reason that his observation had q background of knowledge which I lacked. There was, no doubt directly as the consequence of this, an unbelievable change in Jed. He was very fond of Mr. Sidney. In our unhappy experiences with him, we had overlooked this fact and had failed to use 1t as we could have. His affection for Mir Sidney was the one thing greater than his cupidity and self-loye, with their attendant train of malevolence, violence, surliness, brutality and treachery.
 He was convinced that MT. Sidney was about to die, and the thought affected him tremendously. He be- came gentle; he abandoned his rasp- ing manner-which, indeed, he never had carried into MT. Sidney's room, but which was an intermittent provo cation elsewhere. He was more than ever with MT. Sidney, and each eve ming, after the others had gone, they had a bottle of wine which Jed drank but he did not go singing down the halls afterward. He was quiet and considerate, courteous to Mrs. Sidney and thoroughly friendly to me.
 October went and the brown month of November took even the white-oak leaves, and the woods stood in mono chrome. 1sobel and I rode every morning, and just before the early sun down we usually took short walk, to rustic the brown leaves underfoot and enjoy the sweetness of crisp air filled with the edors of a seemly de- cay underfoot. Soon after sunset we were in Mir. Sidney's room. He great ly enjoyed to have the family about him. not engaged in entertaining him or waiting on him, but occupied in any amusement or work that could be undertaken by his fire.
 Jed had a cot moved in and spent the night with him. He did not want the nurses to have this office, and as he was perfectly competent, l con sented
 It was an intensely happy and in- rensely unhappy experience for me. Mir. Sidney, I was convinced, would not live to the hepatica season. Iso- bel had permitted him to follow the changing seasons from spring to win ter by bringing him flowers, and his delight at seeing the first hepatica had been as great as hers in bringing it to him.
 Isobel could not realize that her ia ther was dying. No one would have been so brutal as to tell her-or would it have been brutal? But Mrs. Sid ney knew, knew, Jed knew and Mr Sidney lnew-and was happy.
 The day before Christmas came with a driving snow which set in with an east wind early in the morning. II was real Christmas snOwstorm heavy. persistent and driving, but not unkindly.
 In the afternoon Morgan of the Metropolitan agency came, driving with difficulty through the drifted banks of snow in the roads, to sec me again. was full of apprehension as I told Jed to show him in. His mood was different from what 1t had been before, when he almost ragged out of the house. It seemed to me every bodys mood was changing.
 Nevertheless a childs fancy came Into my mind Outside was the storm through which travelled fierce animals of northern forest, and here, out of the storm, came the werewolf.
 Doctor" said Morgan, i've have done d great deal of work since J saw you. told you We would. be cause the case interested me. we have traced Mir. Sidney through every known operation and act-so long as we can fn1 him ss Mr. Sidney. Every acr is honorable; many of them ar' acts O. astonishing charity and kind ness. That is so far as Mir. Sidney exists"