Show THE PURCHASE 1 aa SE PRICE 0 OR THE CAUSE OF compromise by EMERSON HOUGH 1910 by emerson hough SYNOPSIS josephine countess st auban from washington by captain carlisle act ing on government order Is with I 1 im on an ohio river steamboat they are ap preached pro ached by ie dunwody a mis state senator the countess in a note asks dunwody for aid she Is posing as carlisle s 9 secy detary carlis e plays cards with dun and others and loses the two men play cards tor for custody of josephine dunwody wins and carlisle 1 es the boat dunwody confronts josephine the missourian Missour lan infatuated with jose phine declares he will take her to his home against her will the boat Is boa d ed by a party of recaptured slaves owned by judge clayton a passenger dunwody dun ody engages an overseer to kid gap ap josephine the cabinet discusses jo dephine as a dangerous abolitionist and decides to ask an opposition statesman to take her away should she return tall woods dunwody s home josephine with her maid jeanne and dunwody arrives at Tal lwoods he as signs sally an old colored woman to wait rait on her she ii he finds old faded women s garments in her room and asks eleazer an old french trapper to belp her to escape hearing a sound at her door at night the she tries to flee bee and falls from a window josephine a arm Is broken it Is set by dr jamieson Jam leson in the night she hears queer crying Tal lwoods Is visited by friends of dunwody the missourians Missour lans have a fight with a party of r northerners orth erners who have taken up and are guarding lily a runaway slave the party is commanded by carlisle carlisle and his lieutenant kammerer are re taken prisoners to Tal lwoods dun breaks a leg injured in the fight light continued from last week CHAPTER XI the art of dr jamieson aning against the pillar ot of the L gallery dunwody watched them all old fi lends late foes depart josephine st auban stood not far away he ile turned to her and her gaze fell upon his face now hi feud and glunt gaunt you ale ill she slid said to him linkul shely 1 you u reth re andly di hurt I 1 aren arent t yo yoi I 1 glad to see me suffer he asked grimly I 1 am not glad to see any one sat suf fer vi abell ell never mind about me but now you 3 dida dibut t I 1 tell 3 ou on to go to bour r out and lind reap she was tale toe the comers coiners of her mouth dhawn her eyes were nero d ill er neill er h d she slept bhe she also s suffered ered even now yet her coinage comage matched bis own she smiled it makes me crawl rawl all the way through to see a woman oman v h th tint it way i why did you try to climb out of or that w window you t walking in your s sleep leep I 1 was trying to get away from you I 1 tho ight vou vi were ere coming I 1 thought I 1 heard you at the door she looked him full in the fue fie searching it for sign of gull guilt of confusion was it not elou enough h she added I 1 hie lie ti flown own on his face only deepened that was not true slid said he I 1 leei cime line to your door it was sally you von beard confess 1 sent her to bet ariy aw ly those th e etlo clothes you saw I 1 didn dian twant t want you to see them I 1 believe you she sold said low as if she spoke to herself yes I 1 under stand now I 1 was mi nit taken how do you know why forgive met me I 1 don t it int idt you to forgive me I 1 am degraded forever tell le me she fi dished out upon him luddeni suddenly y whit wh it did you think then of me there on the boat how did you dale date I 1 don t think I 1 had any conclusion I 1 only hinted you I 1 just coulon couldn t think of vo ir going away thit that ni was as all I 1 d levei seen wen a it woman like you I 1 II 11 neer deter hope to see another your equal in jn all my life and yau you sent for me told me to come said you needed help I 1 d dd t know what you were t lit it I 1 didn dian t care whit yon you were either I 1 d it t cire care now I 1 wanted you 1 I 11 dever in all n y life cease to want you but whit Is the right tiling thing to do now he be resumed shortly parole I 1 a role hostage I 1 don t need to tell non on am I 1 in the I 1 prisoner now my future my char acter are absolutely in your hands hand the fact that I 1 have insulted a woman can be proved pro ed it Is with you what re you will take As a lawyer I 1 point out to you tha the courts are open you easily can obtain redress there against War barville ville dunwody and your rel relatives ailles or friends will of course hold me accountable account ible then you fear me no what comes comes I 1 am aln afraid of no do one in the world but my a own it belf elf I 1 fear only the dread of fac ing life of looking about me bece hene in my own hon hone e and not seeing not dot beiring hearing you kell teil me when will your lawyers call on me neer nei er at all she answered d it last what do you mean he demanded to let me off so easily 0 ui no nei er fear you sh shill ill pay me r rin in som nud and heavily 0 it of your own cli character arater I 1 shall exit I 1 t it a lu tidied fold in shan e in rl ret of yo i yol yoi love ray 1 L Is I 1 voi 0 I 1 du do not ion love e my madd I 1 love the then it bolli both es ei I 1 am a student of the law ill 11 arlly la Is it not baiger than thud we te Is this ganow life of yot is ull till sou can call bee of life of t tte I 1 e t aher la law NN 9 I 1 es 9 still ild du ix 0 ay galut griming attig pain fully I 1 reckon maybe it was one ot of those highel I 1 diw iw abolitionists that shot me boot shut what nhat do apu mean even as she s si oke ohe sl e now for the first time caught of the dark rimmed rent in his trou brou era ers lei notta the fashion in u filch bih he held his weight elect no one told me yo i were hurt I 1 thought vou oula tiled thed 01 tellaus bruised ty sone on e accident when vou fell in no sl ot he replied shot richt in here bere feli tiff we edge ot of tl it e bone athen lieu I 1 trinel I 1 e I 1 aud and fell in ili the hall I 1 broke the bote hot e baoit oft off it was only nl III I 1 ed nt at tl st and you have been standing here tall in to me witti that sl e step ped to I 1 allm aln swiftly and placed I 1 h bind ind under his linn arm you in lat go 90 in to come can you wilk through his nerves racked as they were there swept a hood flood of joy moi mot e sweet than that of any drug she p it her free arm under his forgetful of eiery everything thing in her woman s wish to allay suffering to brood to protect to increase life they pissed passed through the door toward the foot of the stair stairs here she turned to him tl TI e pain Is very creat she in quiren the pain at thinking of your going awny away Is very great he answered one ode hind bind on the newel post he bent down his head on his big arm for au all in stant ob youre you re making me payl be he groaned dut the next moment hp he turned on her defiantly I 1 II 11 not lorn if this was the only way tor for me to meet you then ill I 1 not regret a single thing I 1 ive i e done til ill not I 1 ill it not payl it all cornea comes bick back to me just what I 1 said s ild before what couldn coulden t we do together I 1 need you I 1 need you you must go to your room you ve been standing for an hour but I 1 ve been with you I 1 cm can t hope for another hour like this you 11 be leaving me but I 1 d live the hour over again in bell with you I 1 told you when we all gave parole that I 1 would exact my price of you in regret in to remorse I 1 oa on shall not it hive ire it in regret not regret but I 1 in paying gee I 1 m telling yon you yo i may go tint that yon you must go away from me fleszar proved a faithful messenger once more before the evening shad aws I 1 id ad greatly lengthened three fig urea tires appealed at the lower end of the approach to Tal lwoods mansion bouse house jeanne as usual looking out from their windows saw these it Is the old man madame she commented and yes monsieur ie docteur at last think the BOD bon dieu but one otin iwho v ho Is tint that e it was a very worn and weary doctor who presently swung out of his so idle at the gallery step his clothing was stained with m kd his very shoulders drooping dio with fatigue none ne lie the less iss he lie smiled as he held out ilia ills hind to lo josephine ephine how low is my patient he inquired plumb well of co arse and how about till this new 0 oie e I 1 thought I 1 fixed him up before he came home I 1 ve been grunting at ele izar all the way telling him its all foolishness my coming away ait oit it here he cold hive fixed dunwody R leg up lip somehow I 1 suppose vo i know the old man R son hector ile came all 1 ng for good meas melts lire fire I 1 reckon the voting man referred to now ad made a leg and pulled a blick black forelock fore loel ile was a strapping youth attired in the latest fashion of french preach st genevieve Genev leve he ile bowed to this lady but at the sime same time he coq cis a glance at her I 1 rench waiting maid mr dunwody has had a fall here in the house said josephine he thinks be big brol t it the injured bone bolie I 1 didn dian t know for a it long time that he had been shot ile stood out here last night talking to me I 1 stood out here talking to yon with his leg broken through the front bone t yon you have any mercy I 1 oil dian didn t have to use that broken wrist b 1 it he be standing around I 1 he ile did not telf tell me until the last moment he said he be thought he hid bid a little fever ai aid d believed he would take a little q irnine I 1 did tle tile best I 1 coul I 1 with bitout it out there in the dark bit b it it wasn gasn t half dressed come ile motioned jose phine to follow him to Dunwody A i room eleazar had slunk away about the house but hector left alone with jeanne improved the shining hour he ile was wag a cooper and had hall a most excellent business yonder at st genevieve Genev leve but the society of st genevieve Genev leveah ah well and so on very swimmingly jamieson Jam leson shook his bead over the xe suits of his first scrutiny lie ile turn efto to josephine have you ever seen any boy holy hurt I 1 vp ve been on two battlefields said she rire nursed a little turned to her a face whose eyes now were glazed with suffering he ile nodded to jamieson Jam leson without word la sally get some hot water qui ra called out jamieson Jaa in the hall bo ho now old man lets see he ile stripped the covering quite down and hired bared the loer lomer limb the tte bandage wl wt leb he had ap at piled por a moment he looked at the angry wound then he pulled bacic the covering and turned avny well what Is it croaked dun od u half rising on crum pled pillow Ia did not reply if that lefe lel eie mine do iou know i hat idilo d zo m with ith it iso no bat it lin 1 t yours NA all 11 1 id d h hue ile it off as aulk as it would cone wits all if you don t you II 11 lose au coir oi r life you ion dout don t mean that dui nody tei tensely iely attel a tin e 0 I 1 n nean ean ei eiery er T wold woid I 1 say polso polI ulu ODID the only answer his patient nade nas as to rea h a sl w hand under tinder his pillow did aid draw out a long barie led revolver wilch wl ich he lie laid upon the bed beside him I 1 didn dian t think you such a coward cited jamieson rubbing bis his chin if you MIDI I 1 in afraid of the hurt of it I 1 II 11 let you do your work hit and ill do mine afterward gas gust ed dun slowly lowly but 1 I in not going to ili ahe e a cil cill pie not be maimed they looked each other firmly in the face Is it so bid as all that doctor demanded jobel hine her answer was a I 1 m not go ng to jive live a cr or pp aple le rp sad look from the gray old eyes blood poison some kind of an aggravation its it s traveling fast dunwody turned his gize gaze on jose phine now lou ion don dont t belong here now said be he at length lenth you d better go away this Is just where she does belong contradicted J in leson if she has courage to stay here I 1 want her I 1 ve aa to ba hale i e h b jp she shell 11 do her d duty u ty and with one hand tied can cant t you do as much haven t you any idea of duty in the world duty dunwody a lips met in a bit ter smile I 1 listen here mr air dunwody began josephine I 1 ve seen worse wounds than that seen weaker men survive worse than that hit there s a chance perhaps why don t you take it like a man I 1 exact it of you I 1 demand it your duty to me Is unpaid lome we must live all of us till all our debts are paid he ile made no answer at first save to look her straight in the face for a mo ment maybe there la Is such a thing as duty said he be maybe I 1 do owe it to you I 1 ve not 3 jet et paid enough very well then come cried out jamieson Jam leson sudden ly out you go on the table get a hand under tinder there thre thi re was no word further spoken gently they tided aided the injured man to his feet ind and helped him hobble through the ball and into the great dining room beyond where stood the long ta to ble of polished mahogany dunwody swaying leaned against it while jamieson hurried to the window and threw up the curtains to admit as much as possible of the light of late afternoon returning he motioned dunwody to remove his coat which he folded up for a pillow the remainder of his preparations necessarily were scant hot water clean instruments that was nias all an was of course out of the question dunwody we were re going to hurt you a little bald jamieson at last you ve got to stand it that a all lie down there on the table and get ready tie ile himself his back and was busy nearby at a smaller table ar ranging bis his instruments next he went out to the front door and called aloud for eleizer come herg her man commanded to aleson after he be had the old trapper in the room take hold of this good leg and hold it still madam I 1 want you at the foot oa on the other side bournay you may get hold of the edge of the table with your hands dunwody and hold still if you rou can I 1 won t be very long swiftly the doctor cut away the gar ments from the wounded limb which lay now exposed in all the horrors of its inflammation the next instant there wis a tense tightening of the muses muscles of the man on the table there was a sigh of deep intakeo breath followed however by no more than a flint moan moon as the knife went at Is its work I 1 rn not going to do it came back croni from under the surgeon s arco arin sheres hilf half h a chinee I 1 to going to try to save it hold on old man here s to do N n ere e re going to arv lie ile m went ent down now into the quivering tissues and told bale the edge of f the broken bone deep to the inner hoes lines the front of the shattered bone lay exposed I 1 he doctor sighed ns as he pushed at this laith a steady finger nia his ebes fi owning absorbed the buffet wound in the anterior edge nas not clean cut it was nias a I 1 ng heavy splinter of boni bout the a isse ise of thy the lunam matlon something not I 1 I 1 I 1 the hunted dres drebbin biah of or t tte e 0 tto o it nl I 1 in the hilf darkness at the rivet elc ele J his bone end bit itta let el nas as broken free d MI nil titu libotte lle an gry and imitated Inita ted flesh I 1 or an instant jamieson the ira ir I 1 ahe he silence of or death wig w is in the loom the toe of tie patient might have been those of a lifeless man only the horrid bound sound of the dripping blood fallino fallin from the table upon the camiet earl et broke the silence I 1 had a coon dog once began dr Tai Tam leson cheerfully I 1 dou don t know whether you remember him or not dunwody of a yellow dol with long eats cuts and white e ee e just w wilt it a minute lie hastened over to the bide of the table and bent aaen over his case of instruments there been all kinds of coon dogs in these bottoms and hills I 1 suppose ever since white folk came here but dunwody im 1 telling you the truth that dog of mine by this time I 1 e had fished out from his case a slender probe which he be bent back and f ecith ith as he once 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