Show I 1 E I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 III a e j I 1 1 11 j S SILENCED j 3 I 1 L J E 4 N CJ E 4 D I 1 W af hanif tn in tho the life ir 0 of a doctor aa v ft by A T MEAD I 1 A k i r 91 aa by W 0 Chup maiL lola late petrie came to me from england bearing from rom several of londona liun Lon dona dons foremost physicians regarding tier her ability as aa a graduate nurse I 1 availed myself of her tees leeg in my private hospital and she aha justified the goud good impression Impre aslon she aha made upon me at our first interview she was clever painstaking kind nd absolutely sol trustworthy and I 1 learned to rely upon her in the atie handling of 0 the tha most difficult lini cult crises tier her health hour bow ever was not nil all that it have been and two doullis after her engagement ga she ehe WIM was taken III with a form of 0 nervous malndy malady I 1 treated tre atoil her successfully and sho aho acknowledged that as I 1 suspected she aho bad out from the aliment formerly still and this was wag a second attack or of the old trouble it was then that she he related to me J rather singular tory story which I 1 have endeavored to met bet lown down as follows as nearly as possible in her own words worda early in tile tho winter of lint last year when living in london I 1 was sent to diurso a patient by the name of leonora she was wan a n alil of nineteen anil and the victim or of nerve distress to ID an acute form the illness was brou glit on art by an lovo love affair two years before had been engaged to a captain gifford of the briny army then theia the lie news reached leonora that her lim inver r hall been killed dur during ingan un encounter enro unter with tribesmen in india blis andy never recovered and file blow colon coin plemely prostrated the be youir girl the tha nervous nervo iia breakdown vi bleto required ony my services took place I 1 gut got her to confide her sorrows to iu meland she alie otte often of captain G ifford orri and of the love she bhe still bore hink him lly by and by leonora began to get bet well anil and boon afterward to in my astonishment Ish Ithra ment ent I 1 heard of her engagement to or dr llen let one of tile the clever cleverest vot s burgeons vir geons in harley street t had nursed patients for dr Itt and never dover imagined that he was waa a marry barric ing man me ile wad waa hard and dry IS lit appearance not more than thirty five but looking considerably older ailers let wits was a brain and no man living jowl had studied the anatomy of the brain more mora thoroughly all that modern science knew lie be hail had mccluir ed I 1 respected I 1 IIer rolet Blet but lit bt the same time I 1 feared alin I 1 in for tie he was wag a silent cold bort of individual wh whose a so in manner a to III er revel repelled led one when lie he became en to I 1 felt sorry for the girl once I 1 ven ventura ventu to speak apone to my mir patient on an the subject Bub jart do you really love this man whom y you air tile goina to marry T I 1 baked ia one wiy andi shook her head 1 I do da nut not she lowly 1 I aro am going to marry dr Ile rolet bim ply because my rather wishes it yet he be knows known that all my lovo Is 4 given to the man abo lies in an unknown grave or dr herald that if such nil an impossible thing happened as that dirk dick gifford should roine come back I 1 could riot not marry him dick will never come back of course and I 1 hall be married to or dr IIer fler Blet in two months from now you yon will toy stay with me until the wedding to Is over will you not norse I 1 readily promised for I 1 had grown to lovo love the girl well on is a certain day not long ions after this hla conversation I 1 happened to be alone when the door of the ho room loom I 1 was va la in opened and lr dr flers I 1 lei slat let came caine in N 1 I have a vey very critical cann came in my hospital just juat now nurse maid bald he be 1 I want your assistance na as the tha case lg Is one of life or death yu you must leave illse usla tomorrow and come to me 1 I cannot I 1 replied leonora Leiu noru la Is better but shii sha Is still gill dependent on me nevertheless he returned coldly you will conie come to my aliouse tomorrow evening the tha operation will take taka place on clio llio following follo winn morning I 1 am going to 10 trephine it I 1 inn am not successful the patient will go niad mad hInIng to la the only chance lot for him I 1 will arrange the matter with Ws miss Tre fuels that evening inurn unia canis to lu itie you will have to loave leave ua ine nurse she be said 1 I 1 feet terribly ond enil at the ali thought of losing you but dr Ile la Is and must have lili ilia way when he becomes emphatic I 1 have leavo to obey him but I 1 want ant you to conic come to my room I 1 wish to show allow you yolk something you have new never yet seen cap lain alii giffords photograph I 1 f followed 0 her to her room and ltv li handed me the photograph of it re marlI ably aluli conking faced burrd mail I 1 it Is a good roco face I 1 maid ball after I 1 had examined the picture illie the cotin coin cenance of a brave man laan I 1 ant sorry for you yon leonora toward tot ard tho the evening ot of the next day I 1 went to dr hospital which was wan next door to hta his own on house houe bee bean u taken to wy uly room and fand given some refreshment m H servant rama came to ink ask me ma it if I 1 to see my patient I 1 assented and in uy my professional fess ional cup cap anil and uniform followed the girl to the hie door of a room on first floor I 1 knocked fl a voice aan do mo me enter and I 1 stepped inside A tall man had bad rl el e to cebre n me ino A a lamp jamp scoott on an the table bellInd hit hla his tace face and algue were in the shadow ho carao came forward and shook hands pray iray tit sit down nurse he ha said atas tr dr ller Ifer slat stat told you the nature of the operation r yet yea I 1 replied lie ile says gays it Is a serious one exactly well a couple of years ago I 1 I 1 received I 1 a severe blow on the head and dr believes there la is pressure on a certain portion ot of the brain since the time alm of the accident I 1 atre suffered ered from epileptic film alt to save gave myself tram from the horrors of 0 a lunatic asylum I 1 prefer to take the I 1 chance of the surge orkA knife I 1 re turned home a fortnight ago when with my regiment I 1 received tho the blow which I 1 have just jat mentioned I 1 was supposed to be ba dead but was wag taken prisoner instead I 1 have much to live for or should the operation OIK ration prove suc ces stul ir if not cot there are certain friends whom I 1 would just juat as noon moon have believe that I 1 perished in ili india hut but I 1 must mu st not talk too much no HH the th slightest brings un tin a fit hero here to IB the key of my perhaps nurse you will wi vo to my room and unpack noine of 0 my lily things I 1 took the key and went into his bedroom adjoined th the witting sitting toom room abarge A large portmanteau stood mood by the door I 1 unlocked it arid and began to put away my in pail eats clothes at the bottom of the portmanteau I 1 found a pile ot of papers on top of at which lay jay a photograph I 1 took the he photograph up and the well known rate of my lute into patient leonora was wit before me lly aly mind reverted to tho the man I 1 had just left surely as n he turned from out five lie shadow arid the lamplight fell upon ills hid fratin f s I 1 load hud noticed moi familiar about that frank open fc face where lind find I 1 i rein een it before like a flash of truth or what seemed to ile be the ali truth became ilear clear the ninn man I 1 was about to nurse run tie had only just returned from inilla where ho he had been wounded and tall ink en ioner was it possible that I 1 had found Leo leondras noras lost lover hut but I 1 must aust make sure mire I 1 must not be rush I 1 returned to the sitting silting room 1 I have imp unpacked rocked your things I 1 maid to the patient ily the wily way would you yolk mind telling ine 1110 know your our nnnie name my name Is in captain alfford Olf ford wait wah the reply I 1 left tile the room vilt hout speaking further it aris nearly jia 10 but I 1 revolved reMol ved tn TO straight to leonarn and fell ifal her what v licit I 1 had discovered I 1 dreshek hurriedly and was descend ing ine file stairs whon when tile hie front door opened and dr Ilet elet entered have you riven in the patient nurse lie naked asked yes I 1 ali 1 I 1 have unpack ril etl his ll 11 I 1 aro arn out to set seo aleso usim I 1 have some isoma important news ter for tier her 1 I am afraid I 1 cannot spare you slow now lio lie said the operation to Is to in be perform vI early in ili tile the morning arid I 1 want to talk the ills case over with you come into my consulting room I 1 followed him down the hall ball and entered the consulting room now nurse lie he said what do you yet I 1 mean by maying baying you have now news for affair chaa pa yon not intend to marry tier er in six alx lx Wl Weel call 11 1 asked certainly but what lir has your lour news to do with that everything averi thing you vou engaged yourself our Belt to marry leonora on a condition she promised to well wed you only because became loshe he believed tier her old lover to be dead which he Is 1 I 1 lid did say to tier that it if such nuch at A thing should happen as aa that the dead should return to lire life I 1 should in honor give her up but t was never sufficiently interested to even ask the name of the gentleman I 1 preferred pi oferrel to avold avoid the subject you can scarcely cely avoid it now I 1 said dr Ire ners lct Leo leoniras Leono noras raB old lover exists lie he la is altye allye und and in ili tills this house now lilt ills name Is in captain olf tora ford oo go to leonora it if you ou do riot not believe nip and ask what her lovers lovera narue was ft as ask her to how allow you his hl photograph the photograph is that of the th man your our patient rr dr Ilera He lets cold eyes gazed eanid at me steadily the mans nereca must have been made of at steel for be never 1 I will investigate your story he said gate in the meantime I 1 ilo do riot not intend to allow yon to lo BB see leonora to night while I 1 am absent you yet shall remain hern here without lor for a reply he be latt the he room antl anil locked tile the door after him at the end of art an hour he returned ilia face wall wa HI lo 10 coll old and impassive as ever 1 11 I verified the tha truth of your tale he salik 1 I visited glied vl altos busts and for the first time since our ensKe tat I 1 alluded to her oli old lover sho wept I 1 asked lilg ilia name arid particulars tic ulars about him and was ills hla photograph my rival lives llcy ee is up lip atatim tomorrow I 1 am ni to perform t it critical operation upon him think hat yon havn have put pill into my power A swerve of the knife means death hut I 1 have no lon lention of committing murder I 1 shall operate upon captain bifford arid I 1 hope to lie be successful I 1 will not throw the eafe for the sile success cogs of t such ich an operation tall broady enhance my reputation I 1 will i riot not sacrifices either love or ambition the th operation III ile ti postponed I 1 will give my lily patient excellent rent ons tor for the th delay I 1 shall leep john him here beris and operate after ny illy in arthiRA hns has taken place now perhaps you tin nit der stand the strength of my position pratt lon you can it if you ath ish it return to lonora leonora and stay play with her until after the mar garringe ringe or you cark can dely me you mean that thai I 1 am to KO go back to leonora and not mot tell tier her I 1 have Ex netly but you can please yourself what to Is the altern atherl it you yon 10 lo do tot bot promise to oba ob we me I 1 shall sent your lips how flow I 1 will dp dd go co la Is my st carlt you cannot leave leav I 1 this hla house tonight tomorrow morning I 1 will speak to yoa ru again now you ou must go to your room ile ho took ua lie by the arm and led me ri rut ut of the bonsu room ily bly brain was in ili a whirl and I 1 was 4 i ot of resistance I 1 went up lip the stair S catered caup calip my room and sat down to think matters over knowing Iler stet na as I 1 did I 1 saw that it would be useless to try to leave leace the house that perhaps I 1 could manage it in the morning lie he had bad kald the operation 1 I 1 was war to be postponed arid and there might yet bo be time for me to save gave leonora with excitement sold aua emo hon floor I 1 lay back in toy tny chair and tell into a dp deep sleep I 1 awoke suddenly find and opened troy my eyes ey ea to ties neo nr dr hera let standing before mo me I 1 tried to rise but wan wait unable to wove move the surgeon burgeon lent bent over ever me die ono one hand band on my about der the other holding something to my mouth month and nostrils no strlla tho the faint tweet sweet allibell of chloroform was in the air bertts Hert ts cruet cruel eyes were gazing into mine you are in ili my power lie paid bald 1 I aria am sealing your lips As ag tie ho spoke I 1 ceased to str struggle buggle and my senses left me when I 1 awoke again it was morning arid and I 1 was waa lying on oil the floor with my head against agal nat a sharp corner carrier of the bedi bedstead tead I 1 fe felt it queer and heavy and there was waa a dull pain in my temples suddenly the door opened and a servant entered what lit is the matter she he cried what lias has happe happened geIl I 1 made an effort to but blit not a word would come only a gurgling raise noise in my iny throat I 1 tried to struggle to my feet but my right alde aide arm arid and leg were ere powerless I 1 sank bank bark back with a moan As A I 1 did so I 1 noticed it a little blood on the corner carrier of the bed ag ainest which I 1 had bad evidently fallen the girl rushed out and returned in a few with or dr Ife ueriel he looked at me keenly this Is 1 dreadful I 1 heard him toll murmur ile ho raised my paralyzed arm and uit fall again amalfi how flow did this cappon nurse he asked again I 1 tried to speak my lips moved but no sound escaped them biting for nurse nurge martha mald the doctor nn get bet her into bod bed it Is apoplexy I 1 will be back bach shortly I 1 wa as put to bed and soon dr Ifer glet returned alth another doctor they both examined me carefully tl it Is it a clear case Hern tet said the other doctor hemorrhage from me iho left middle cerp cerebral bral with and aphasia aph agla very sad indeed the mind Is fully conscious cona cloua but all power of speech la IN lost brocas convolution va 1 la evidently involved carl can you raise your right arm he queried bending bond lne over tile me I 1 shook my headin reply you see she aha understands under standa what Is 1 said to her ho he addled looking at or dr hersleb Hers lef the two physicians left the room but soon dr heaslet returned and u nil sent kent the nurse away well 11 said he bending over me ll 11 you ou can gee ape now how wrong you I 1 r I 1 iiii X I 1 i 11 11 Jrp 1 14 I 1 lJ I 1 I 1 g ini 11 il I 1 I 1 II 11 I 1 1 1111 1 I J i I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 11 1 I 1 I 1 0 J I 1 it I 1 ii I I 1 I 1 III A I 1 I 1 P dl 1 1 I 1 III 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 g A 1 I 11 1 I 1 0 U 11 I 1 I 1 r I 1 II 11 1 I 1 11 I 1 51 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 11 I 1 7 I 1 f I 1 iti n 11 I 1 11 1 I 1 1 I I 1 11 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 t 1 1111 1 J I 1 11 i 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 II 11 ik 11 I 1 11 1111 A 11 I 1 ia o 11 3 jill as scar ata I 1 I 1 W I 1 I d 01 I 1 ip 1 1 11 1 I I 1 g I 1 I 1 I 1 JP 1 I 1 do not 1 I 1 obey me I 1 aall seal out ii were to dery me I 1 told you I 1 would seal your lips if necessary eBsary essary tord and they pro lire sealed I 1 am going to marry miss alias and so BO r have taken steps to insure your silence it Is possible that you noumay inay ilver biek r be able to speak break again with alth my auy knowledge or of the or of motor centers of the 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