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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER- HYRUM, UTAH - the his soul. But he hud not con- ical and spiritual acceptance ' If I were ten. score and law of three trolled his expression. It was of the wildest excitement. And yet how he not deceived by little and Impressive tried to preserve the normalities, taken signs I noted, Mr. Sidney wqs substias he was in such strange circum- tuting complacently the will to die for the will to live which had been Jn him stances! ' Mr. Sidney!" I exclaimed again, conspicuously indomitable. On Dr. Brownells last, visit, he conand my wonder was not simulated. You abroad tonight at such an hour!" firmed what was in truth a fear. Has Mr. Sidney, to your knowlHe made a violent effort to keep his he asked, "recently found a suedge, composure and succeeded. fixed in Clifford Illustrated kg CHAPTER XIII Irwmiye Continued. 14 opyrigKi by George HDorarvo" Jed, whom I always dreaded, was following hrtn. It may be wondered why I was not Instantly in chase nnd why I stood worried and indecisive. The only explanation is that I knew, as surely as one could know anything by reason and conjecture, that whatever was happening that night had happened this same night for a number of years in the past, nnd that whatever It stairs. , was, it had direct connection with the Now the hall wns In complete dark- secret of the place which Mrs. Sidney ness and was quiet. Jed, like myself, so earnestly desired me not to pos1 guessed, was In hiding but for what sess. For these reasons, or upon this renson ? instinct, I acted as I did and stood Then I heard the faintest stirring or. the porch listening to the unnatunear by. It came nearer. I tried to rally late whippoorwill and looking keep from breathing audibly. I could out toward the dark woods and thickhear another persons breathing. It ets which stood at the edge of the was Jed, beyond doubt. lie came into yellow moonlight. the recess where I stood. It wns The tension was so great that I got only five or six feet deep but fully a distinct shock when out of this wall twenty feet long. lie was at one end, of darkness came a figure running us nearly as I could judge. I was at Into and across the moonlit space the other. the house. I knew It must be The situation, a product of supemui-tlon- , Jed, and I waited where I stood as had grown ridiculous and also a ho approached. He barely had come bit ghastly. Here were Jed and I, Into the shadow of the house when anstanding In utter darkness In a small other figure came out of the dark wall recess In the hall, he not knowing of of the thickets and came slowly across my presence, I not knowing his pur- the moonlit space. Jed, running up the steps, saw me pose. I decided to make my escape. I had, nnd gasped with astonishment, but rewonderful with as usual, my electric flash in my covered himself pocket. If he heard me and challenged promptness. Inside, man, Inside, and act natutae, I could throw the light on him, Come challenge him, and say that I was ral, he cried. taking my on my way to the telephone to con- arm in the office. sult Doctor Brownell, nnd make him He was so certain and so commandfexplain. His position was the awk- ing that I did just whaf I was told. ward one. I had an idea that even Into the office, man, he said, still If he heard me he would not challenge. clutching me. What are you doing I made my escape without noise abroad? This night of all nights But or if I mnde any Jed did not inquire ; no matter. Into the office, and turn on and I found the office door in the dark. the lights. Turn on the lights in the I intended merely to use the flash, find hall not all of them, but some of the telephone and do my errand in them. He ran to do it himself and was all the dark. But I had just flashed the light once nbout the room when I flutter and activity. Then he orheard a person at the door. This was dered: i not a stealthy person; the hand that Into the office now, and act natutouched the doorknob was resolute. By ral. Youre a man of genius; think of this time nothing rational seemed rea- something we could naturally be dosonable. The house of mystery had ing at this time. Think quick man; so asserted itself that one, hear- Its beyond me. What are you doing ing a noise, hid. Before me, revealed here? Good Lord, what are you doin the single flash of light, was a ing here? I could have managed it tall clock and I was flattened against without you. Why did you have to be the wall the farther side Of that great on the scene? And I can think of clock before the person at the door nothing was in the room. You have severe cramps in the The person carried a candle and it stomach, I said. Its not to be wonwas Mr. Sidney. He was completely dered at, considering the way you dressed and wore an overcoat and a abuse your stomach. I may say you cap which came down over his ears. are the only human being I ever was His hands were gloved and he was glad to see drinking himself to death. well protected against more severe You have now some premonitory sympweather than that of this crisp Octo- toms of gastritis. You have got me ber night. up. If I do not have a collar and tie ' His candle lighted the large room on it will look more natural but dimly, and I felt secure, seeing ImI tossed these articles and my coat mediately that he had a definite ob- behind a couch. And possibly if you were less clad ject. He went to the corner of the room, took up a heavy cane which I It would help the Illusion. had often seen standing there, and Jed rid himself of collar, tie and with It in his hand went toward the coat and disposed of them in the same door as if his business In the room fashion. were wholly done. Now, I Imagine, I said, we are As he did so, I saw his face plainly reasonably convincing as physician in the candle light. It was wholly and sinner. What are your sympchanged ; it Indicated ferocity, hate, toms? Youre a man of genius malevolence, a bitter sense of injury Jed exa terrible face, hardly recognizable as claimed. Wait a minute. that of the gentle, courteous, Jovial He ran to the window, concealing Mr. SIdnev. He closed the door and himself behind a curtain. was gone. Hes almost here, he said, as he When Mr. Sidney had been gone a looked out on the ghastly white lawn. moment, I heard him open the front Then he came running back. door and heard him close it after him. The door had better be opened, I should have followed him to the he said, and he threw the door to front door, but Jed was somewhere In the office open. Then he sat in one of the hall. I waited at the the chairs and began to whine loudly. door of the office. Presently I could Its an acute shooting pain, docbear Jed coming down the hall, care- tor, he said loudly and then he whls lessly now. He also went to the front pered: What ought it to be?" I heard the front door open and door, and I heard it opened nnd closed shut. again. I went to a window of the office I have often told you," I said with which gave a view of the lawn. I loud professional dignity, that there could see one figure slowly crossing is a penalty attached to such habits the open space toward the path lead- as yours. Have you any nausea?" Jed was Sick as I can be with pain, said ing down to the river. Just outside the shadow of Jed, groaning tremulously. standing " the house. I dont mind at all being aroused, The farther figure Mr. Sidney, as Jed," I said, Jus? loud enough to carry I knew passed into the dense black to the parson Approaching and to of the thickets by the path. Then sound to him as if It were a normal Jed stepped forth nnd went quickly tone to Jed with me in the office. across the open. I went to the front That is a part of my business here." . entrance and stood on the porch. I knew Mr. Sidney was standing in The hunters moon was at full, and the doorway. So did Jed. Neither of the place was luminous in a soft, misty us betrayed our knowledge until the yellow light strange apparition which we knew to I had tremors, frankly felt the pres- be there said: ence of tangible dangers, unseen, and Up so late, doctor? Up so late. of intangible terrors. I never felt such Jed?" oppression, doubt distress and dismay Why, Mr. Sidney I I exclaimed. In my life. My patient was on a He was, indeed, an extraordinary strange errand far beyond any looking being. He had controlled his strength I ever knew him to have ; and voice and his manner. Discipline was lie was turning out the lights, but he was reversing the reasonable process. lie went down the hall to the light at the stairway leading to his room and turned It out. Then he came back, past the recess In which I stood, turning out lights as he went, and the last light he extinguished was the one at the foot of Mr. Sidney's 1 . I felt so well, doctor," he said, and I see so little of the place I love so much, that I took the only chance I had this wonderful October moon and my faithful physician asleep and off guard, as I thought to steal out a moment. But Jed Here purpose took hold of him again and defied concealment ; he became excited and caused me to have double dread of his tomorrow. Jed, call the penitentiary, he commanded. Theres a convict escaped. I met him as I walked down the lane toward the river. Call the penitentiary Instantly. He ran when he saw me, but I recognized him. It was the old fellow I saw working in the library at the prison. Call quickly. Jed took up the telephone. Tell them he ran east toward the main road, said Mr. Sidney in great He saw me nnd ran. But agitation. I recognized him. There could not be any doubt. Jed had the penitentiary on the telephone. Yes, a convict, long trusted, had walked out of the prison gates. It was the old man In the library. They were hunting for him had been for three hours in several different parties not because they feared to hove him escape, but because he would be so miserable and unhappy In the open all night, and, liking him, they hoped to find him and bring him back to shelter. He had no use for liberty ; It would only torment and torture him, but some whim anyway, the old man was loose. Hes on my place, Mr. Sidney cried to Jed In a voice I never would We cant have recognized as his. have convicts running about the place." They would have him in a few min utes, sail the man at the penitentiary. 1 1 - half-ope- n preme satisfaction in any event? None that I know of, I said. Why? Hes changing. He Is different now from anything I ever knew him to be. always have believed that his case wns out of our province, and that life and death, for him, depended upon resolve and that the resolve had a purpose. You have not found things wholly normal here, have you? No, VtauWoiiH is (taiis-Si- M The lives of most women I I havent. "There is something here, said Dr. I dont know what it Is. Brownell. You dont know what it is, but depend on it, something of Importance to Sidney has happened. It may not have satisfied his lifes resolve, but think it has. For the present, he does not need me possibly ' never again. Jed observed the change In Mr. Sidney. Afterward I knew that he was a much more acute observer than I, for the good enough reason that his of observation had a background 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 it as we could have. His affection for Mr. Sidney was the one thing greater than his cupidity and with their attendant train of malevolence, violence, surliness, brutality an treachery. He was convinced that Mr. Sidney was about to die, and the thought He beaffected him tremendously. came gentle; he abandoned his rasping manner which, Indeed, he never had carried into Mr. Sidneys room, but which was an Intermittent provocation elsewhere. He was more than ever with Mr. Sidney, and each evening, 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 nnd the brown month of November took even the white-oaleaves, and the woods stood In monoIsobel and I rode every chrome. morning, and just before the early sundown we usually took a short walk, to rustle the brown leaves underfoot and enjoy the sweetness of crisp air filled with the odors of a seemly deSoon after sunset we cay underfoot. were in Mr. Sidneys room. He greatly 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, I consented. It was an Intensely happy and Intensely unhappy experience for me. Mr. Sidney, I was convinced, would IBWW not live to the hepatica season. Isobel had permitted him to follow the I Saw His Face In the Candle changing seasons from spring to winPlainly ter by bringing him flowers, and his Light. delight at seeing the first hepatica now that they had him located, and had been as great as hers in bringing he would be as glad to get back as it to him. they would he to get him. Isobel could not realize that her faThat closed the conversation, and ther Was dying. No one would have Mr. Sidney, with one flash of spirit been so brutal as to tell her or would showing In his eyes, gently and softly it have been brutal? But Mrs. Sidcollapsed in his chair with a moan. ney knew, I knew, Jed knew and Mr. Jed and I, in alarm, got him to bed. Sidney knew and was happy. The day before Christmas came with CHAPTER XIV. a driving snow which set in with an east wind early In the morning. It Dr. Brownell came in the morning was a real Christmas snowstorm, and found Mr. Sidney, as was expectheavy, persistent and driving, but not ed, in extreme exhaustion. I explained unkindly. that our patient had been, as usual In the afternoon Morgan of the the night prior to his alarming colMetropolitan agency came, driving lapses, very animated and that after with difficulty through the drifted midnight he had stolen out of the banks of snow in the roads, to see house for a walk about the grounds, me I was full of apprehension had encountered a convict escaped as Iagain. told Jed to show him in. His from the penitentiary and had come mood was different from what it had back in great excitement. been before, when he almost raged out ' Restoratives were given Mr. Sid- of the house. It seemed to me everyney, but Dr. Brownell said he respond- bodys mood was changing. ed with more difficulty and more slowNevertheless a childs fancy came ly than in other ocqasions. For sev- into my mind. Outside was the storm eral days he lay quite passive, as through which traveled fierce animals nearly inanimate as a living person of northern forest, and here, out of could be. His Immobile features, as the storm, came the werewolf. he lay unconscious, were set; and the Doctor, said Morgan, we have expression, it seemed to me, was one done a great deal of work since I of hate, indomitable, steady, enduring saw you. I told you we would, behate. cause the case Interested me. We Dr. Brownell came once every three have traced Mr. Sidney through every days for two weeks, during which time known operation and act so long arf Mr. Sidneys recovery was painfully we can find him as Mr. Sidney. Every slow. His mind cleared and became act Is many of them are honorable; active long before any strength came acts of astonishing charity and kindback to his body. As soon as his mind ness. That is so far as Mr. Sidney did clear, he was, In disposition, his exists. former self. I thought that If such a (TO BE CONTINUED.) thing were possible In so gentle a man, he was even gentler than ordinary, Money Decides It. I am not exaggerating when I say that A tourist without' money Is a tramp the benignity of the man was seraphic. a tramp with money Is a tourist LonI thought I saw a change of mood don Answers. In him. There wns, if I was right, less Insistent claim upon life. There Women color their faces with bln was a yielding, an appearance of phys and yellow paint In Greenland. self-lov- e, k full of wony. Mens troubles 52 bad enough, but womens 52 Worry makes women S. pulls them down, and in weakened condition they are ject to pains, aches, weakness, headaches and dizzy Most women neglect their health and for this thev nay the penalty Any woman will find that neglect does not pay. A little more atten tionHo health would brighten up her life. If she asks her neighbors she finds that Dr. Pierces Favorite Prescription benefits a womans whole system. 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