| Show story of a martyr kot a great while since n aromi physician phy bician of denver col was boillod to attend a patient in ali last staged of what appeared to be consumption but which upon examination cd to bo simply a wearing away of life a decay of tho energies af anil linds well thin tras rela no received now an alien to alio ten deanc aal charities sanctity the lo 10 seemed to be drifting out of for him all aliu flowers of the heart had perished a bleak and desolate old man hastening out of alio sunshine into tho winter the grave after making ft thorough examination of the case tho doctor told him that although lio could find no dawe yet lie was dying I know it replied alio patient bat have you no idea of what brought you to tills plight ed tho interested ciui of science it cariou phenomena you havo heard a great deal about cases aiko mine more ns a visionary ex of tho fancy than as an occurrence but strange as it may appear I am dying as you say I of a broken hoart I you surprise me yee I myself I did not como to your health giving camato as others do in search of a longer lease of life but to dio in peace and iut have you no asked the doctor none that I can claim my past i scaled with the shadow and over my nameless grave not oven a memory mut hover am already dead to all who ever know luy name youlay You eay you are a criminal pur aued the doctor no I am none but I assume tho stigma to shield another and that other was my boil what WAS tho nature of the crime the physicians curios lly had pot tho better of his prudence the thadows of twilight acro falling alit m through tho open window streamed the soft brilliancy brill ianco ot the dying adny clouds of ame and purple led on the baroll fa roll hills bat in the chamber where tha fevered breath was raw n quick and chort there ans a hushed seemed in keeping with ghostly shadows it was murder I and was fixed oil you on nini assumed it and bat not to the canco of iho law but to capure to him I loved the of a felons how long ago wathia and you have been a wanderer over since the as liitzering liitle ring the plating eyes under waxen lids and iho shattered form was growing will you whispered the physician iio laj kept lin secret and hi life in it ask u what U good for matli wo lent know much about tl but we should rec ornnie nd healthy ing food with water tally tn aid digestion the ift info an anxious that are born not boado wo tu loarn alii for wo had intended to lake a audit pen a few lor tho fall trade akl |
