Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 13, 1878, Page 11

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. JANUARY 1 ' 1878—SIXTEEN PAGES "4 CAST FOR A FORTUN‘E, , Y ADVENTURES OF A LADY TEE BOLIDE DOCTOR. Temple Bar, December, 1677 1sm one of those women who, being endowed with a fove of xuowledge, a disposition to grat- {fy it, and means, 1mental, pecuniary, an 1 other- ise, of accomplishing that object, have devoted serious study the years which most persons :?m)' sex give to croguet, kettle-drums, aud other ‘matrimonial machinations. It is mot, however, Iy purpose- in these ces to deliver & homily upon the higher edu- cation of women; therefore, leaving my per- slews and social ereed undefended, I pass tuout further preface to the simple rela- rtain facts which I have undertaken . on Wil of cel 1 ‘::fle public in the following story: Haviog takenat o Continental University the medical degree which my own country denied me, I quitted forever the scene of my studeut 1ife, and. started on my journey homeward. The fatigue and excitement caused by my recent examinations bud impaired my bealth and wearied my brainto suchan extentthat I judged {s best, instead of proceeding directly to En- and, 10 Dass & fortnight or three weeks ina ‘poiidsy ramble through a few of the livelivst snd most noted of the many tourist resorts in Germany. [twaslateautumn, warm and sunny, the very weather for the purpose, and pleasant snticipations of enjoyment lghtened my heart a1 completed the first stage of my jourucy {rom Zurich, and cntered the portalsof the chief hotel of the little lake-town [ had chosen s my resting-place for that night. ‘When 1 bad removed my traveling dress and ondered my dinner, the waiter brought we 1be hotel visitors' book, an ofticial-looking tome of porientous gire, in which he politely requested me to write my name, and it was with a feeling of natural and irrepressibie grati- fcation which the sympathetic reader will sure- 1y condone that I found myself for the first time fn my life enabled to make public use of the honoreble prefix my late tolls had carncd, sndto sign mykels, to the intepse admiration of the walter aforesaid, *Dr. Mary ‘Thoruton.” The hotel proved to beso comfortable, and the town so agreeable, that I speedily resolved to prolong my stay. Luxuriating n a new senseof idleness and irresponsibility, T amused wyeelf by observing the habits and appesrance of the tourite who came and went at the house, and in & very ehort time bad begun to take speciel interest in a certain English party +io had srrived only a few days before myself, ood who occupled rooms upon my floor. This party consisted of 3 geatlemsn Lo the prime of life, tall and well- bred in manner, who sat next to me every day ot the tavle d’hote; a pale, fragile-looking lady, evidently an inyalid, who took ll her meals in her own room, and a serving-maid, whose man- ner was somewhat pert, and whose as 1 thought unprepossessing. My interest in the pentleman was eutirely due to the coucern I felt for his wife, and to the compassion awaken- ¢l n me by the sizhtof her sweet colorless face and emaciated form, Her feeble coudition to preclude ler not only from fre- quenting the public rooms dowu-stairs, but even from outdour excrcise, 5ave On very rare occasions, When she was accompanied by her husband. More often I met her in the corridor Jeading to her apartment, promenading to and froon the ann of ber maid. and wearing a cer- 1sin subdued and mournful look which seemed never to vary, and which caused my heart to yearn so earncstly towards her, that 1 doubt not my glances involuntarily expressed the warmth of my compassion. One afternoon, as Ieat at the open window of the visitors’ salou, sunning myself in the warm October light sud lazily toyinz with a German movel, the pale lady’s husband passed throngh the room, carrving his kat and cane, and went out fnto the street. Not ten minutes afterwards 1he serving-maid entered, and to my ereat sur- prise watked up to me without the least hesita- tion, and handed me a note_bearing the inscrip- tio, i Dr. Mary Thornton.” «¥rom my mistress, ma'am,” said she, and stood waiting. Much perplexed, I opened the missive, and found that its contents, written in German, and 1o a fine, delivate band. indicative of timidi and weakness of character, ran as follow: Pray pardon the liberty I take in addressinz yon thus, and judge if the excuse I have to otfer doe~ 2ot justify my dack of ceremony. 1 huve learned jrom the hotel servants that’ you are a physi- Ham, and beg that you will be so kind 1o favor e with 3 profcssional visit Fith as littlc loss of time The Yanzaage In which 1 write is ankzown to my maid. But] Aw aware that you are convefsant with it, 2nd it is extremely important that the purport of This note, amd your vieit 1o me~if you are ool enough 1o comply with my request—ehould be Soncealed from both her and Dr. Pomeroy (the atleman whom you have seen with me). Be o [iod, tnerefore, 48 to pretend that T bave racou- zized in you an old friend or school-fellow swhose cquuintance 1 wish to renew, and come to my Toom fn that character. The rusewill bltnd my maid; ehe will Jeave us fozether. We can then con- ‘and 1 ball besbleto cxplain toyou The very grave reasons which compel me to observe this gccrecy on the subject of your profession. Tre kindly encouragement I have noticed in your face and maoner whenever we have chenced to ‘meet each othier, sssurcs e that 1 may count on yourtimely help and advice. ADA PoxEnor. I 1 had felt some surprise when the maid Janded me this letter, the sensation was cer- * tainly not mitizated by its perusal. My first impulse was, it must be _confessed, to decline &0y participation in a0 affair which my instinet 10fd me promised to be of an excecdmsgly un- pleasant and delicate nature. But this selish consideration speedily yielded to more worthy feelings; I recalled thie pallid face and the wast- ed form, the sadness and depression of manner which had so often touched me in this noor lady, sadtheremembrance verved me toencounter any adventure which might await me on bebalf of so interesting a patient. Idrewa pencil from my vocket, snd wrote in German upon the blank £heet of her letter: Iwillcome at once. Rely on my observing yoor cautio 7 O TionNFox. _Then, dopting my correspondeni’s suzees- 1 said, s I put my answerinto the maid’s Land, “Your mistress is, I find, an old school- Sellow of mine. She has recomnized me, and wishes me to po and sec her. This is to sy 1 4m coming,” Iu speaking these words 1 assum- 2d a foreign mode of prouundation, intending Uy the afféctation of Germun nationality to Justify to her the use of thatlanguaze in the Dote she had brought we. Evidently unsuspicions, the maid retired with my messace, and after n brief iuterval, sufli- <ient to prepare her mistress for my visit, I pro- ‘dfldh‘lnx-smrs, tapped lightly at ‘the invalid’s 00T, And was a once aamitted. $She was seated in an arm chair, her head rest- ing on a cashion. ber hands hanaing listles 3t ber sides, and her whole appearance exhi: ing melancholy and_exhaustion. Upon secir [ enter the room she madle u slizht movement €40 attempt to rise, and a sudden flush over- £oread her cheeks and throat. - Do not disturb yourself, bray " cried I, still :lhilnzm broken English for the edification of ‘e mald, who stood beside ust not use ANy ceremon Rlzd fam to see you again ! i She st a grateful Jook at me, murmured a % unintelligible words, and motioned me to a T Opposite ber own. Inorder to set herat ‘;l:flflsfiy and facilitate the course of our plot, I e ied on the conversation for some minutes in rmduncm; assizmed to me, touching on A va- 0 y ol indifferent subiects, and assumine an Torestraing which I was for from {ecliog, until, _,,:flinem sible relief, the maid, whom I a-n yregarded us »_ goaler, saw fit to with- ‘% from the roow, No sooner had tne door ihed upon her than my patient, who lad erto remained silent and motionless in her , seemed 1o awake as from a trance, tum\i(:ndlflg guddenly forward, caughi me e 5 by both hands. lifted Ler sunken eyes 1o auh »and whispered, in a voice that seemed to « ,}ZIEI with emotion: woutank God you have come! Iam a dying 'mli!- Before you say anything to me, hear T hare to telt you.’” :Pfllled assent. - She leaned back in her sest. ok deep breazl, and began to speak rapidiy t:"!IIn._ with a thin, broken voice which 1t ootk 10 a whisper, her wasted fincers taseels % mervously the while at the” dangling 3 of the arm-chair. R e ? 6ald ehe, “the widow of Gen. Sir to momeroy. who died only 3 year aco, leav- s tome everything he possessed. We had o uué,e;nd my husband was very rich. It was e mlhnt he would bave beaueathed some ks s ranersy to his ouly and yomuger 2 Dr. Gearge Pomeroy, iho, in fact, I efi!_uuted on some provision of the Ut none was made,—eversthing vs a weak Kind of or mistress: *you Ab, how Yok, ‘Gme My brother-in-law was very hbzn?m; he was always at hand to cheer me me compeny at the old Hatl, which 38 verr, very dull and miserable after my haus- hgfl"iéin_m” She paused a moment, master- Ruore g W{IL;XI::;' so0b in her throat, and voatinued 1 w3s grateful to D i i 2 r. George for his friend- $hip. but, 5ot in the least prepared for what Only elght months after Sir James Bone e proposed to marry me! Iwss ;againin three weeks dceb\é shocked, and found courage to tell him 50. He answered that such marriages were fre- quent in sowme parts of the world, and that it would be easy to procure a license for the union abroad. But when he saw that his proposition {illed me with horror, and that I could not listen to it on any terms, he asked my pardou, aod promised never again to revive the ques- tion. For some weeks after that I saw very lit- tle of him. Then, feeling terribly lonely uud depressed, I sent him a little note, begging him to come and visit me again on the old ‘terms as though nothing had occurred to part us, because I was inneed of some companionship, and had few 1rierids or relatives of my own. He came im- mediately, and for a long timescemed to devote himself to the purposeof effacing from my miud the disagreeable impression which his offer of marriage bad caused me. He was so charmn- ing, 50 _attentive, 0 brotherly, that_he made himsclf indispensable to me, and I could do nothing without him. About this time my health began to fail, for what reason I know ‘not, but Dr. Georgs attributed my indisposition to waut of change, and persuaded me to visi the German waters. He said I nceded ¢ tone,” and that hLe Kuew the very way to ket me | und would restore my health In *a month it would go abroad under his escort and be guided entirely by him. This 1ngreed to, and taking my maid Clara with e, I started for the Con- tinent in his care. But, strauge to say, instead of recovering, my indisposition fucredsed from day to-day until itsettled into contirmediliness, and I became by degress the pitiable creature you now sec. Dr. George is unremitting in his care and attentiou; he rarcly leaves my side by day, and passes the nighit with his bedroom door uuclosed, so as to be within my maid's call should bis services be needed. And mow 1 have to tell you, Dr. “Thoruton, what perhaps yon may bave thought e slow in arriving at, my resson for wishing to consult you. Of late a terrible dread has taken possession of me: I am Launted by an awful suspicion, a suspicion which has become almost a certainty, in conscquence of my brother-iu- 1aw’s absolute and unconditional refusal o al- low mie to sec any otber puysictan than himself. Last time I sugwested to him that it would comfort to me ut least to kuow that his method of treatment was aoproved by come eminent man ot his own profession he ‘hanged color, and, in the most empnatic and peremiptory manner, insisted on my resting my case efircly in his bands. He even added that e considertd it bis duty to prohibit my waid from admitting any otuer doctor to my pres- ence, and from affording me any opvortunily whatever of consulting one by leiter. As I am too itl and weak to leave the house alone, Dr. George and Clara are quite able to manage the matter as they please. You may now judze what emotion I experienced on discovering your profession. Ludics are so rarely physicians, that neither my brother-in-law nor my mald would ever suspect you, and as Clara is entirely ignorant of German, the lotel servants, none of whom speak Englist, canuot enlighten her on the subject, while Dr. Georse is of too tue- jturn a dispovition to ask questions of any stranger. 1t will be enough for hiw to hear thit you are an old school-fellow of mine; be knows that I was educated in this country, and you speak the language so adirably, that it will 1ot occur to him to seck a ditferent solution of our acquaintance. Now you have heard my Story. I fecl sure L may trust your sympathy and’ good faith to belp ‘me il ¥ cap, without betraying ~your profi ind getting me into trouble With my brother-n-luw.” She cessed, greatly exhausted, and extended her hund towards me in token of confidence. rose, and, giving Lier a glass of water, bade ler Yefrosh herself before answering the questions Siich I should bave to put to ber. As she re- turned the cmpty tumbler 1scanned the expres- sion of her face Wwith 1utense earnestness, and \Whispered, bending close to her “You have not toll me what it i3 that you are dreading so much.—what suspicion you ex- pect me to contfirm. - You believe yourself to be U¥ing, and you wish me to name’ your discuse, and, if possibiv, to save you. Isit wotso!” She nodued, but wave uo reply in words, “Tell we, then, urged, ¢ what it is that “you suspect to be the cause of your preseut suffering.” She gathered up her strength with an evident effort, and gave ber auswer iu & singie word: Caneer.” I drew b : and fived my eyes keenly upon The answer was not what 1 had expeeted, ac seusible of feeling vestly relicved by jt. Satisfied with the look with which she met rutiny that she had given utterance to her real belie, I continued : -+ Ami you thiuk that Dr. Pomeroy, knowing tobe your maludy, wishes to conceal the fact from you, and forbids you to consult any other physican for fear you should learn it from him¢"" “ Yes, But 1ynu are anxious to know the truth, nevertheless, and want me toteil youall I can?” 1 T want to kuow my fate—that is all.” I asked her a few questions_relative to her symptoms and _couditton, made the ecessa~y Sxamination of my patient, and ended by in- Specting the contents of several medicine-vials on- the mantelpiece. Havinz completed my survey, and refurned to my seat, 1 demanded in as careless an accent s L could assume, con- sidering the immense importance which I at- ached to the guestion: What food do you take, and who prepares hii « 1 eat very little. Everything makes mefecl sick. My meals consist principally of broths or soups of some sort which Clara makes for me herzelf. Sometimes Dr. George gives it to me. Ile Is a very good cook.” “You have nothing sent from the hotel kitchen?” + Nothing. ¥ brother-inlaw says they would mot do thines properly for me here. He is very careful about my tood, and seems to think that too much depeads on it to trust its preparation to straneers. He says that soups for fnvatids ought always to be made by a nurse or a doctor.” iy case was now complete. I had ascertained almost to absolute Qcmonstration that Lady Ponicroy was slowly succumbing to the cffects of a certain metallold poison administered in small doses day after da I was corvinced from my pstieni’s symptoms, sensations, ap- pearance, and history that tbis diabolical at- tempt. on her life had Leen carried on for a con- iderable time, probably from the very day on she first began to' feel indisposed, toat it u_ possessivg medical knowlcdze and professionalineans of obtaining the poison in question, while the respective pecuniary vositions of Dr. Pomeroy and his patient, the _relationship existing between him and the dead General, an 1o prevent his esister advice of auy g no alternative but to at the case I had 1o deal with was one of deliberate scientific murder for the sakeof coin,aud that the intend- inz murderer was a menber of my owa honored usion with resard fan, left me profession. To place my r 1o the, Identity and miotise of the criminal Dbeyond possivility of doubt, I put a final in- quiry to Lady Pomeros: VT think you said that your late husband had 10 wearer relative than his brother—your doc- tor?” one. We had no children, snd the other member of the faculy. a sister, died some years awo. Why do vou ask?? For the first time since the colloquy began I found myself at a loss for au appropriate re- sponse, aid could only murmar confusediy: T thought perbaps you might kave a mother- inlaw or someboty who would have taken charwre of you for a little while.” Sie shook her head and smiled faintly: W)fother-in-faw 2 Why, Gen, Pomeroy was old enouzh to be my father when I married i, His parents died ever so loug azo. Dr. Grorge is my only relative on my husband’s Side, and my own people arc all in India.”? It does notnatier,” sald Icheerfally. *You will get well without much nursingil you follow my advice.”” As I spoke, I o and was stertled at the anxious and strained ex- ion with which she 1egurded me. Secing 45 watehing and waiting, I in the most emplatic tones I re: for what she hastened to could comman +Lady Pomeror, there for the unbrehgnsmu you ymptom of cancer. uu.‘ls)luu‘!): of mingled hope and. mistrust crossed Jer countenance, the muscles of her mouth and eyelids quivered, and she answered ferventl; Do not deceive me, 1 implore you. Swear to me that you arc speaking the trith.” 1 swear it,” said I in a voice as grave and etrnest as her ownj; ** your suspieion is cutirely baseless.” 3 2 My tones carried conviction with them. She bowed ber head on ber Lands, and I saw from the convulsive movements of her shoulders that ehe was overcome by emation. — Fur a while 1 S iffored ber to weep unrebuked. knowing that Shch tears were Lest shed,and would restore Par to calmnuss more eilectually and speedily than auy word of mine. Presently she looked upat me,and said, sobbing and emiling by tur isno cause whatever entertain. You have caw't helperying; the relief—the new hope of life are 5o overwhelm { dreaded_to dic so hormbly. Dut vet, . m:.;l ;A“ &rl:;:- very fli; you see how weak and ema- ton, L am Fery B e atter with mel Shall T w ciated. What is the el trust Dr. (George's treatniens au. e & you trust el I asked aiter 3 mo- ment’'s pause. % “Yes; I can’t help trusting you.l w1 kpow what is causing your illnes: are being wrongly treated—quite wron: 5. you will lese your lirotner:m-h\r n:ga‘i‘lub(_ onty ¢l der my care, 1 promise you o I time—perbaps less.” | “Leave my brothi aw!” ghe repeated timidly. ¢ Hg would never let me go—never. 1 am sure he would not.” « Are you not your own mistress, Lad&{ Pom- eroy? Your purse is at no man’s disposal, your way in life is free and uncontrolled. = What hin- ders you from saving yourselfi”? Shé wrung her tnin “hands with a gesture of dismay. 4 Yes, yes,” she sobbed, * but I am so fearfal of offending him. It seems so ungrateful, so hard, after all his kinduess and care, for though he may have made a mistake, you koow, he did it for the best. od he loved me once, too! Oh, how can1 tell him 1 am going away! " Knowine the real facts of the affair, this ex- pression of the poor lady's scruples and com- miseration_of the wretch who was murdering her, stirred in me a sense of impatience and even of irritation. “You wished to know your fate,” sald I; “I tell vou that it is'in your own hands. if you re- main in your present position, and continue your present regimen, your hfe 1s not worth a month’s purchase. 1f you come with me, there is every reason to believe you will live to enjoy many years of health and vigor.” She hesitated. *- You speak very confidently, but I do not sufficiently understand your mean- ing. Wil you not tell'me what it is” that 1 am sulfering from? Lf the malady can be so cnsfl; cured, there is no geason why you should shrin! from naming it.”? - Once more I felt perplexed. [ had made up my mind that in my patient’s present uervous and enfeebled condition it would be extrenely unwise to subject her to the shock of nearing the terrible truth; and I was yet too youug in my professiou to take refuge iu one of those white lics which come so glibly to the lips of experienced practitioners. “You said you would trast me,” said I, after 2 moment’s thought. * Pray try to be satisfied with my assurance that your illness is easily curable by the right means, and that, as circum- stances are, you cannot becured unless you place yourself under my care. And I solemnly Dledge myself to tell you all you wish to know as soon as we shall have quitted this Lotel and Dr. Pomeroy.”" She was silent. At last, after much painful reflection, the character of which was evident from her quivering lips and clouded brow, she gaid, I should never dare to tell him I was going! He would be so avgry, and what excuse could 1 give—what reasons could I urge—for so strange and abrupt a proceeding «8ay nothing,” 1 answered decidedly. *Tell nobody anything until you have fixed the das and hour for_lcaving, and then send me word. “Tell your maid to pack your boxes as quickly as possible, and leave the rest to me. You must thoose some time, of course, when Dr. Pomeroy has gone out fora_couple of hours or 5o, no other precaution is necessary. your hotel bill down stairs and make all the proper arrangements, so_that when you are eady to leave there will be nothing for vou to do but to step into the carriage at the door and drive away.” As I spoke I looked firmly and gravely in her face, taking pains to shoi by my slow utter- auce and defermined expression that I was thor- aly in earnest, and 1 had the satisfaction of pereeiving that Iy patient, who, despite ber timidity, was by Do ncaus deficient in intetli- gence, tully appreciated the reason and foree of my exhortation. %] gee, said she in a piteous tone, *that you arc interested on my bebalf, and are generously prepared to risk considerable respousibility and trouble in order to hu!lyg me in carrying out the plan_you sugzest. The fact that you have so muchconfidence in its eflicaey and in your own ability to cure me is reassuring, and—" she hesitated a_moment before adding, *‘even tempting. You have said that if I continze in my present_condition and under my present treatment I can huve very littlehove of hife,and I feel that to be the truth. Still, you must ad- mit that my position with rezard to Dr. George is n delicate one, and_tiat the difficulties in the way of escanc from it are so great as to be al- most insuperable, esvecially to 4 persou of my tomperament. Are you guite certain that” noth- iner can be_done forme except in the way you propose? Would it be impossible for you to treat e here, privately,—or—or even to drop a hint to my brother-in-law that he has mistaken my case, concealing of course the fact that I have consnlted you#’ “No,” I replied almost sternly. *“Be sure thaf if any other means of saviug you thanthat T bave proposed were feasible 1 should not bave suagested to youa step which,l well know, appears ro you wild aud almost unreasonnble. But, Lady Pomeroy, the medical examination L ‘have made of your condition has revealed to me the existence of certain symptows, the mean- ing of which I well understand but cannot at present disclose to you.” Sceinz the alarm which this remark occasioned her, and trusting to the confidence which she oplaced in Dr. Pomeroy’s integrity, if not in his professional skill, T took the courage to add, * Do not fancy that these symptoms are indicative of any acute malady or. orzanic disease; they are due en- tirely to a method of treatment which will Kill vou if it is continued much louger. Remem- ber, 100, tlt you have my promise to cxplain everything fully to you as soou a$ we are alone torcther. You are agi:ated now, aud too iatigued with our conversation to be able to think collectedly and return a decisive answer tomy proposition, so for the present I shall Jeave you, and you must try and get some rest. Send ine aline in German when you have made up your mind, and do not forget. Lady Pome- roy, that the choice between going and staying is a choice between life and death. There is no third course possible in your case.™ 1 uttered the last words impressively, took her hand in silence, and withdrew from the apartment. As 1 closed the door Isaw that he had sunk back m_her chalr &nd hidden her face with her hand. In the corridor outside I found the maid Clara sitting ona chair and reading a paper novel. ““You muay g0 to your mistress now,"” said 1 in my foreign Euglish; “ our long talk has tired ber alittle.” Three days passed away, and I neither sawnor heurd anything of my stranze paticnt. This silence, extending considerably beyond my an- ticipations, caused me great uneasiness. T'held mysell responsible for Lady Pomeroy’s lifc, and felt decided that, in a matter so pressing and important, professional etiquette ought to be entirely disregarded. Accordingly { had made up my mind to interfere forthwith between Dr. George and his m, and carry things with as strong a hand as their urgency reauired, when an jucident occurred which relieved me from the necessity of personal interference. Earlyin thie aiternoou of the fourth duy, just as I had returned from luncheon, there wis a tap at the duor of my roow, and the permission to enter, Which Igavein German, betng_disrezarded, 1 Tose from my eat and answered the. summons in person. On the threshold stood Lady Pome- roy’s maid with a small twisted note o lier hand and a pert smile on her face. T taw't understand your German, miss,” said she, *and I'd 1o nofion what you said just now, so { thought 1'd best let you come your- self and take this.? She gave me the paper she had brought, which I iminediately unfolded, and read with areat satisfaction but less surprise the follow- fnz words, serawled go faintly as to be almost illegible: «] will put vour advice into practice this afternoon, if I am still alivg, in an hour’s time. T am dreadfully ill, and bave no strenzth left, even to write. Dr. George has just goue out; come tome at once. Clara knows uothing of our intentions yet.—A. P.? “Lady Pomeroy scems to be worse to-day,” said I, addressing Clara with my usual precau- tiou. “Much o1 miss; I'm afraid she's sioking fast, poor thing. 1t’s been a sad illness.” She sizhed as she spoke, and cast her cyes on the ground. “Tell her that T am very, vers sorry, and that I will come and see her in five or ten minutes. 1s the Doctor with her?” + No, miss, he’s tired himself out with sittine up nursing her, so he's just zone out for a counle of hours to zet some fresh air, You see the room’s very close for persons as i3 not in- valias, and it’s important that the Doctor should keep well. Dmsare, miss, it upsets me awful gometiines, sitting in that bot rovm as Ido for days together. But it don’t do not to keep her poor dear.™ Perceiving that there was no time to be lost, considering all that we had before us, [ dis- missed the maid with my messaze at once, and hurriedly set about my own preparations forthe intended journey. When these were completed, I hastened to Lady Pomeroy’s apartment, and found her as [ had expected, in 4 condition which would have made it criminal in me to abandon her an houf longer to the fate she was certain w meet at her brother-in-law’s bands. Without attempt- ing to parley with her, I instantly opened the campaign with her maid. + Ciara, your mistress wishes you to pack up all her thines at once, and to be ready to leave tne hotel in an hour’s time at the latest.”” 1had prepared myself for an outburst of amazement aud some resistance on Clara’s part, aud was noj, out of my reckoning. For a mo- ment after receiving the order I had conveyed to ber, she stood mute, and gazed at me. with an expression of the most absolute ustonish- ment possible. Then recovering her faculty of speech with an effort she exclainied vehemently: * You are mad, miss! k at that poor thieg, and talk about her leaving the hotel to- day " Why, it's simply impossible! What on earth do you mean?’ . I meanjust what I say, Clara. Your mis- tress has urgent reasons which I know, and ful- 11; recognize, for quitting this place immediately. am going with, her, and shall see that shels ‘roperly taken care of on the journev. Everv- 1 will settle | daty which d thing is arraneed, and tit only withont loss of volves upon you is to paf time.” 8he eyed me keenly & moment and asked sharply: ¢ Are you iIn earnest?"” «¥ost seriously in earnest.—so serlously, that vou see I can speak good English.” For I calculated that the time was now past for adopting subterfuges with Clara, since she was to accompany ber mistress in her flight, and must soon be admitted into the secret of its motive. . B As the wordsleft m{ li[&s, a pallid hue over- spread her face, she looked frightened, then fierce, and at last retorted in a low, deflant tone: “I'nin’t a bit surprised; I thought there was something %nl.-er about thie whole business. But 1 know,myduty to Lady Pomerdy, and I'm not golng tolet ber be runoff with in_this wa while tho doctor's out of the house, I can tell you, whoever you may be, miss.” “You areunder 2 great mlsnflnrehenslon, Clara,” sald I quietly, **if you think that Lam Dot the best friend your mfstress has. I zannot now spare time to éxplain_matters to y®%, for e have none to give, so Iwill only say that if the attachment you appear to feel for Lady ‘Pomeroy bereal, you cannot evince it better or more serviceably to her than by doing your | utmost to expedite our departure from “this place. But in case vou are otherwise disposed, 1 warn you that you will not in the least ninder our project, for I am myself ready to undertake our duties at a moment’s notice, and_you will {e immediately paid and dismissed. Now you sec the sort of person with whom you have to deal, and you have my solemn assurance that I am acting entirely for the welfare of your mis- tress with her full sanction and concurrence. Is it not so, Lady Pomeroy?" Iturned towards iy patient asI put the question, and elicited {n reply an affirmative bend of the head aud a feeble * yes.” 1looked again at the maid. Her face was ghastly in its whiteness, and her breath came and went rapldly, as though she had been under- going some severe phy: exertion. My dis- Dosition is by no means a hard one, least of all towards my own seX, and I am sure that under ordinary circumstances, or with any other wom- an, 1 should have been moved to pity at the sight of such evident symptoms of distress. But something antagonistic to my nature in this particular persou, something indefinable and vaguely felt, repetled me from her so much, that {his exhibition bad tie strange ef- fect of steeling my heart still farther against her, and 1 was couscious of desiring and fovit- ing n negative reply as I asked her brielly: « Now, decide at once: will you go with us ornott Yesoruo.” ‘She answered steadily, but with Tivid lips: S Twill go.” « Then pack at once, and lose no time.” T then rang the bell, ordered a traveling car- riage, aud desired the astonished waiter to oring Lady Pomeroy’s bill and my own with the utmost possible expedition, and while these re- uests were befug carried out, suc 3iut of vonsiderable pressure, in hurrying Clara through the onerous business of packing,—a task which, but for my personal assistance and supervision, she would certainly have prolonged until the return of Dr. George. In short, all my plans and promises were car- ried out to the letter, and the limit of our two hours’ grace was barely reached, when we found ourselves spinoing away at a very satisfactor, rate from the little German town which ha been selected by my nefarious confrere as a con- venient place of burial for the unbhappy vietim of his avarice. Now it had not escaped my observation that ust at the moment of our departure, when dy Pomeroy and I were both safely cusconced in the carriage und ready to start, Clara having heard me pame our destingtion to the driver, suddenly discovered that she had left behind her a small parcel which it was postively ncces- sary to feteh. Accordingly she sprang out of the vehicle and hurried back into the hotel, whence in less than two minutes she again emerged with her recovered treasure, and with- out more difficulty we drove to the station. But I had before this slight .incident begun to entertain suspicions of Clara, and it occarred to me that her auxiety to re-enter the hotel alone and nt the last moment, immediately after she had ascertained the name of the town for which we were bound, might possibly be due, not to any wish such 'as_that she had ex- pressed, but to ber desire to leave some writ- tem or verbal message, indicating our whereabouts for Dr. Pomeroy’s information and guidance. Acting on this suspicion, I took tickets, not for thie place she had heard me mention, but for 3 much larzer town on a dif- ferent route from that I bad previously se- lected. 1 said nothing about. this change in the place until we were well on our,way, and probably should nmot even then huve mentioned it, bad not Clara asked me how long the journey tothe place she had heard named would take to ac- complish. ' “\We are not going there,” said I, “but to Stuttgart, where I think we are more ltkely to find a comfortable hotel than elsewhere.” “To Stuttgart!” she echoed in a tone of con- sternation. “Why not?” said I col She bit her lip, made a gésture of impatience, and remainea silent. Confirmed fn my belief rezarding her, I watched her narrowly during the journey, and it was not long before I per- | ceived that she carricd in the bosom of her pown a certain little packet, about the safety of which she scemed c riously apprehensive. Tiwenty times before we reached Stuttenrt, I saw her nervously putting and feeling this talisman of hers, doubtless to satisfy berself that it was not likely to arop out or shp down in the folds of her dress, but if, when she was lifting her hands towards it, stie chanced to cateh my glance, Lnoted that she instantly relmquished lier purpose, and em- ployed Ler fingers elsewhere. These' obscrva- tions convinced me that the packet contained something particularly precious or fmportant to Ter, which she considered it necessary to conceal frota me. Had it been her purse or s trinket ‘which she was carrying thus, the latter precau- tion wonld not bave been requisite. I specu- lated upon the possible or probable contents of this hidden packet, untl [ felt persuaded that in order to secure the safety and convalescence of my patient it was necessary it should come into my possession at the earliest opportunity available. With this end in view I prepared my scheme with ail the sagneity of which I was capabie, and on alizhting “at the hotel I had chosen in Stuttgart, demanded and procured an apartment consisting of three bedrooms communicating by means of side doors with one another, as is the fashion in foreiru “ouses. The middle room I took for myself, the chau ber on the right I assigned to Lady Pomeroy, aud the one on the left to the muid, so that the latter could neither be abseut trom her own chamber nor in that of her mistress without my kuowledge. This arrangement completed, I took from my travelivg-bag a sheet of note- paper, wrote a medical order for a bottle of chloroform, and dispatehed a waiter to fetch it from the nearcst chemist's, as, considering the circumstances, 1 deemed it would be fmprudent to undertake the errand myself and incur the responsibility of leaving y fox and gonse together. In ten miuntes the chloroform was brought to mne; I locked it up in my bag, and went into Lady Pomeroy’s room to assist her in preparing for ~the might’s rest she so greatly needed. She had borme the Journcy, which even by persons in health inight be regarded as somewhat tedious and fatiguing, with considerable fortitude; hope and confidence showed themselves in the look with which she met my smile of eacour: and as I left her resting peacenbly in her whi curtained bed, I knew that, by Heaven's bless- ing, L had given her back her At about 10 o'clock I bade good-hizht to the maid, put on my dressing-zown, and remained sitting up in my roowm occunied with books and letter-writing until past midnight, when the 0! of Clara’s heavy regular breathing in the adjoining chamber nssnuzed me that she slept, and that my time had arrived for finding and se- curing the mysterious packet which had been so carefully concealed in lier dress during our jour- ney to Stutizart. Having removed my slippers Jest the slizht sound they occasioned should disturb her, I cautiously onened the door of commuuication between her room and nine, and uoiselessly _approached the bed on which she lay. Tne light of the candle which I held sufliced me to sze at the first glance that my search was not destined to be a Jong one. Clara's hands, which were clasped together upon ber breast, held tightly between them a small red purse, which, judzing by its size aud the importance evidently attached to it by its Sleeping owner, could be no other than the treusure she had similarly guarded all dnr Plucing my candle softly on the toilette-table beside the bed, I stooped over ber with the in- tention of endeayoring to detach the puree from her fingers, but just as Itouched it my eve fell on a small metal chain which encircled her throat. and to which by a vouple of silver rings the purse was attached. In vuin I examined s0 much of the chain asits wearer's position ex- Dose to my view for some clasp or swivel which would enable we to dispense with the difliculty of liftng the slecping woman's head from the pillow and riskinz the very probable misehance of awakening ler by the move- Ment. AsIstood beside her irresolute, my Dand lghtly and almost involuntarily touched ners, she started, drew o sharp breath, and clutéhed her treasure convulsively, as thonzh even in slumber her thoughts and emotions were concentrated upon it. - This accidental test decided me; I saw that she slept unsoundly, and that sny sttempe to disturb her position or to detach tno purse from her bands would al- most infallibly arouse her to consciousness. For this_coutingencs, however, I was not un- prepared, and, gliding back to my 0w room, fetched from thence my bottle of chlorolorm and a cambric handkerchief, which, having sat- urated with the anesthetic and folded to a con- venient size, I laid gently over the mouth and nose of the sleeper, and waited a few moments to ubserve the effect of my work. The coldness of the liquid and the contact of the wet hand- kerchief disturbed her, she moaned impatient- ly, and slightly torned ber head, but on adding more_chloroforn to the quantity already used, T speedily had the satisfaction’ of seelng it produce the result I wished. Her hold on the purse relaxed, her heart-beats grew feeble, and, litting with’ my finger the upper 1ids of her cyes, T percelved that she was com- pletely insensible. Without loss of time 1 raised her from her ;pillow, slipped the chain over her head and witharew it with the red purse from her loosened grasp. Carryinz m Frlze in one hand and the candle in the other, mmedidtely returned tomy ownroom, fastencd the door, and with much’ terepidation and a slight but irrepressible pang of remorse—for thefeat I had just performed bore an un- pleasant resemblance to robbery with violence —sat down to examine the contents of the purse. It held, as I bad surmised. neither coin nor trinket, nothing but a carefully folded and scaled mote, the soiled condition of which plainly indicated that it had been pre- served for a considerable time. There was no_superscription or address upon the outside of it, but the seal bore the impression of a signet-ring, eppraved with the Pomeroy crest and motto.” Such a ring I re- mebered having noticed one day at table d’hote on the finger of Dr. Georze Pomeroy. Without hesitation [ broke the scal, spread the paper open .on my knces, and read these words, written in handwriting which was evi- dently that of an cducated gentleman: I George. Pomeroy, of Newbury, Berksbire, ‘hereby solemnly promise to marcy Clara Fletcher, now livingin the capacity of domestic at Newbury 11nll. fn the eame county, o soon as the object for which she and I are working shall be satisfactorily accomplished. And 1 do farther engage and pledze ‘myxelf that the marriae uforesald ehall be awfully solemnized within® three months at the ubiost after the demize_of my_brother's widow, Lady Ada Pomeroy. GroneE Poxenor M. D. 1 shall not trouble the reader with a recapit- ulation of the thourhts and sensations which took possession of my mind upon the perusal of this document. For the present it is suflicient to say that I replaced it In the purse, wound the ceeded, by* neck-chain about it, and locked up. the stolen property in my traveling-bag. I then took tite Saine means of securing the maid, by fastening the door between her chamber snd mine; the only mode of communication with the corridor for the two side doors being through the one in the centre which I occupied. Having thus pro- vided against the possibilizy of her escape dur- fug the hours of night which yet remained,—it was already half-past 1,— threw myself on my bed, desiring rather than expeeting sleep. Contrary to my anticipations, Lowever, and Perhaps owing to the fumes of the anesthetic I had inhaled, my slupber was unusually and when I awoke it was giready broad daylizht, sunuoy, and ‘invigorating, and thehandsol my watch pointed to0 5 o'clock. I leapt from tay bead, and, cross- ing the floor on tip-toe, listened eazerly at the door of Clara’s rvom for any sound or move- ment that might be passing_ within it. There was none; all was silent as the grave. ‘It is just as well,” thought £.” * She is still evident- 1y under the influence o the cnloroform; I witl ot run the risk of disturbing her yet.”” With this resolution { proceeded to make my toilette s5 quickly s possible, lesving the door still locked, and by half-past 8 was fully equipped in walking costume, ready for {mmediate de- parture onnn crrand which I had versuaded myself to be necessary. Then, giving a gentle premonitory tap at L“df Pomeroy’s door, I en- tered the room as softly as tbe heels of my strect-shoes would permit and cheerfully wished the lavalid * good-morning.” She was sitting up io bed, broad awake, heavy, and . showing by her looks that every ome _of “her eighteen nours! immunity from paison bad told its utmost on a system as susceptible to benefi- cent gs to deleterious influences. T am feeling so refreshied,” said she, hold- ing out her hand warmly; * the journey reaily scems to have done me good instead of arm, as Clara feared. Is it late, or do you accustom yoursell to walk before breakfast " 1 sat down heside her, and, after a few min- utes’ chat, In_ the courseof whick I felt her pulse, and judged from ler appearance and mauner that she was sufliciently hersell to bear with tolerable strength the news I kad to im- part, I said gravelv: “Just now, Lady Pomeroy, you asked me if I was going out. Suould you like to know where Tam goingi” - ‘She noted the change in my tone, and replied, with an anxious look: © Yes, pleaze tell me. concerns me, I suppose.” 3 ©]am going out upon important business business whi concerns you very seriously and very urgently, aud I sce 10 way £o avoid telling you about it. 1t involves my explaining to you also the cause of your illness, and my motive for bringmg you away {rom your brother-in- law, although, but for what has just transpired, Tintended to have kept these secrets from you alittle tonger uutil you should have been ina fitter state to lear them. But since I quitted vou last night afluirs have assumed an aspect hich I @id not expect, and I fear that unless I tell you the truth myself now, vou will Jearn it ju loss than an hour through another and roush- ot channel. Do you think you cau nerve vour- self to bear calmly what I have to say to you?” “Wait o winute,” she answered, in a low voice, *and I will try.” ‘Sne covered her face with her hands, and her attitude, as well as the silence which followed ber last words, sugeested to me that she was scckiuz strength and self- conitrol from a Vivine source. Leaving her thus absorbed, I noiselessly withdrew tomny roou, and ou returning a moment afterwards with the red purse in my hand, found ber lean- ing back on her pillows. and prepared to hear calmly what I had to sav. ‘Reswming my scat by the bed, I briefly un- folded to her so much as I knew of her brather- io-law’s desizns upon her life and property, and of the meaps he was taking to aecomplish it. Passing on Lo the receht inciaents of the night, I opened toe red purse, produced Dr. Pomeroy’s strange prowmise of marriage, and placed it in her bands. + Do you recoznize that handwriting?” said I «0Of course I doj it is iy brother-in-layw’s.” «Read what he says there, then, and see for yourself what value ought to be sct on his pre- tended love for you.” She laid her finger upon a scntence in the manuscript and repeated it aloud in a tone of incredulity, looking upearnestly from the paper into my face: ¢ A soon as the object for which she and T are working shall besatisfactorily accomplished. What object is thatt” Isaw from the expression with which she re- garded me that she had alrea put on the ords the ouly coustruction of which they were capable, and I knew that my answer would carzy with it no new shock. 3t means your deatl, Lady Pomeroy. Your maid Clara has been bribed by this promise of marriage into becoming Dr. George's Mml‘h plice. Doubtless he found it impossible to carry out his desiga without her co-operation, and it secms to me extremely proba- ble that she may herself have ~made this compact the price of her treach- ery. The desire of becominZ & ladv and the mistress of such a fortune as yours would weigh heavily agalust vircue in the balance ofa Jow-born and uneducated woman’s mind, The Dbait of an assured position so far above her own Sould succeed fn CorTuptI many 3 person in 2 It is something that Clara’s circumstaoces, Wwith whom a mere ordinary bribe of a few hundred pounds would be powerless.” Lady Pomeroy retolded the paper in silence and returned it fo me. "\s T put it back in the purse and left my seat, she asked quietly: “What i3 it thut you intend to do now?™ «To yo at once o the police authorities of this town, and place the woole afluir in their hands. It has assumed dimensions which make it aniit for two women to deal with alone any longer. Meanwhile, uutil proper assistance is secured, 1 shall leave your maid, woo luckily is still under the influence of chloroforin, a pris- onerin her room, und to make sure that she does not escape in_ my absence T shall put the key of the door in my pocket.” Ha cordingly carried this latter precaution ir practice, after having listened a last time with- ont result for any sign_of movemant on Clara’s gide of the partizion, 1 descended the staircase Jeading to the hotel entrance, ordered one of the waiters to send Lady Pomeroy’s breakfast upstairs to ber room, and baving ascertained the whereabouts of the police-ollice, which b good fortune chanced to be close at hand, Started off on my crrand. {0 less than twenty minutes I returned with a tall, astute-vlsazea personage, to whom I had explained my view of the “case,”’ my owp con- cern in it, and the present position of the lady’s maid from whose_person the paper inculpating herself and Dr. Pomeroy bad been taken. We proceeded up-stairs. and the officer expressed his wish to arrest my_ captive at once, without further consultation with Lady Pomeroy, whom he judged it for the present unnecessary to dis~ turb. 1 banded b the kev of the door, he fitted it in_ the lock, turned it noiselessly, and, we entered Clara’s bedroom together. 1t was deserted! The bedclothes were tossed confus- edly on the gronnd, in the centre of the floor lay the cambric bondkerchief [ had left on the maid's face, and beside it was a basin containing a towel soaked in cold water, to which, no doubt, she ‘had bad recourae for the purposc ol removing “the stapor pro- ‘@need hy the anes'™ B0 ey v pa ] windov stood open, and with an exclamation my companion pointed to the balcony ottside, round thte top rail of which was kootted the end of 3 sheet taken from the disarranged bed. The windows “of the apartment we occupled opened upon a small paved court, and were at the height of ome story only from the ground. I remem- bered that T had particalarly requested theland- lord of the hotel to provide us with rooms on the first landing, on account of Lady Powmeroy’s ‘weak condition and her fnabulity to ascend more than one fiizht of stairs. But for this arrange- ment, Clara Fletcher would not have found escape an easy business. I drew a long breath, and the first sensation I &perienced was one of relief ratheg.than of disappointment. She had fled, certailly never to return, and her dis- appearance had saved Lady Pomeroyand myself the task of sustaining a charze against her which to me would have involved cousiderable annoyance and pain, and to my patient might have proved even perilous. ‘The otBcer, having taken a brief survey of the empty room, turned to me with an expressive p}&xl'uz of his shofilders, and sald good-humor- edly: “Qur bird is flown, madame. You are safe from her now; she knows that she is detected, and she will not come back to court exposure and punishment. Whatdo you say,—do you wish her to be pursued?” “Byne'meuns,” said I; “in my opinion things are very much better left as they are. And, as she knows that her precious marriage contract is in our possession, she has now no motive left" for returning at any futare time to remew her attempt on Lady Pomeroy’s life.” v Marriage contract!” echoed the officer, to whom I had translated the paper i’question. “Bah! I tell you, madame, such a document as that is could never hava been of the least lezal value to her. The man who wrote it must have known that well enough! Why, supposing the crine they contemplated to have been achieved, what hold could this miserable woman have had on her employer? Had he failed in his promise she conld never have produced such a paper as that before a third person. Ban! he s a rogue, an fnfernal rozue, and she is an ignorant fool.” He nodded hts_head at me sagaciously several times, whistled, turned on his heel and re- entered my room, closing the door after him as though to intimate that we had finished srith all concern or interest in anytbing on the other sideof it. *You have nothing more for me to do, madame?” he asked, standing still and Jooking abont him rather wistfully; * nothing further to communicate respecting the Doctor, for example?” < “Nothine,” replied f. “Fortunately we left no address ot the hotel from which we came, and I took the precaution of changing our route after we started, so as to frustrate any attempt Clara might have made to convey information to him beflore quitting Z—."" “Djd she make any such attempt, do you think?? 1 fancy s0.”” And I related to him tke par- ticulars of the incident which had aroused my suspicion just as we were about to drive to the railway station. %85 you believe,” said he, looking stead- fastly at me, ‘“that the doctor has now no pos- sibility of possessing a clew to your where- abouts. Willyou pleasetry to recollect whether, after your arrival here, Lady Poweroy’s mait lett this apartment for any A;uruosc!" “QOh yes, of course she did. We had been here only about a quarter of an hour when I seut ber down-stairs myself to zet her tee. Do you really think she could then bave found Ineans to commupicate with her accomplice?? The officer smiled, took a watch from his pocket, contemplated it & few minutes in silence, aud responded in a decisive tone: tMadame. since you permitted the maid to leave you after your arrival here, you might just as well bave spared yourself the inconvenience of changing your rotte on the wiy. *If you care to inguire among the servants of the hotel, or perhaps at the bureau round the corner,you will find that a telegram form was supplied to her last night at the hour you have mentioued. 1t is of no consequence that she does not speak German; in an establishment of this size, and in a place like Stuttgart, there is certain to be an English interpreter; not improbably even the \aiters themselves understand English.” 1 knew that he spoke the truth, for on our ar- rival the landlord had addressed us readily in our own language and Clara had responded. “You alarm me greatl{," said I; “what do you think we are to expect «T have just cousulted my watch, madame, and [ think you have to expect Dr. Pomeroy’s arrival herein about five minutes. Thereis a truin in from Z- at half-past 9, the station is aboat & quarter of a mile from this hotel, and the time is now threc minnteg to10. I allow fiye-and-thirty minutes because traus are often late, and porters sluggish, and hired vebicles slow in driving. Yes, I allow five-and-thirty minutes.” 1 looked at him nghast and sank into o chair. He rubbed his hands tozether and walked briskly tothe door leading on tothe corridor with an air that showed plainly how much he en- joyed the sceat of a fresh victim. There was a short silence, certainly not exceeding in dura- tion the five minutes he bhad named, and my sense of hearing, strained to unwonted scute- wss, . distinguished _the ordinary con- fusion of voices fn the hall " below, a sound like that caused by the Sudden opening of a deor commanicating with the strect, the whirl and roar of the outside traffic becoming for an instant sudible above all other sounds, andas suddenlysinking aguin. I Started to my fect and ran out on to the land- ing to listen for what might ensue, exclaiming, “ You are right, I believe; some one has just arrived!” Scarcely bad the words left myu‘l&vs than I heard my own name and that of y Pomeroy pronounced in a toue of inguiry in the entrosol, and caueht the reply of the landlord dirceting the waiter who had charge of the new arrival, * First floor, No. 191" @it is Dr. Pomeroy,” I whispered hurriedly to the officer; **he has undoubtedly followed us as you foresaw. And so quickly.” \iThe telegram rcached him about 11 o’clock yesterday evening,”’ returned my companion, as coolly as if he had superintended the whole affair. ‘ And the doctor left by the early train which passes through Z—— at 5in the morning, You were fast sslecp when he started, and Mlle. Clara was probably washing her face in cold water. Quick, madame, follow me, if you please.” Heranhastilydownintotheentresol,and Imore slowly descended the stalrs after -him, arriving on the ground floor just in time to see him in the act of arresting Dr. George Pomeroy on a charge of attempted assassination. Triumph- ant 8s I felt at this clever and successful de- nouement, 1 was yet woman enough to shudder and catch nervously at the balustrade of the staircase for support as my glance fell on the livid and terror-stricken features of the detect- cd yillain. & faint cry escaped me, he looked up suddenly in my dircction, and burst out in a farious voice: “Look here! Where's the landlord; re speaks English, and these German fools under- staud nothing! Landlord! This is a strata- gem, o plot, a damned lying coos| iracy, and that woman there is at the bottom of it. She's a person of infamous character, and onght to be turned out of the place; by G— she ought, and Pl do 17 \ "As he spoke he made s frantic effort to break avay from bis captor, and would doubtless have vénted his rage on me by personal violence had nct the muscuiar grasp of my tall ally ef- fectually restrained him. At the sound of his angry tones, not only the landlord, but some dozen waiters and chambermaids ran at once to the spot, and the entresol was presently crowded \with cacer spectators, wondering, questioning, and cjacalating excitedly. & Monsicur,” sald the officer, singling ont the Jandlord with the precision of a detective, an addressing bim in_low, rapid_tones, we have, unfortunatels, a little difticulty to_settle with this gentleman. Be good enough to sbow -us into some private room where we may discuss the matter quietly.” . The poor landlord, too bewildered to be par- ticular, threw open the door nearcst to him and stepped aside to let the officer and his_prisoner " Ashcdld so, a female servant at his elbow cned out in a shrill voice, *“ Not in there, sir; not In there! it's my storc-room.” But the shnrlv professional eye of the tall Constable hind already noted theiron bats across the window of the sanctum fu question, and with characteristic acamen, he at once decided that no room in the house could serve the pur- oseof a cell to so great 8 nicety. " Nonsense, my good woman,” sald he promptly, * It's the very thing; we shan’t open our cupboards; no place conld be better.” {(c becxoned to me to join him, and the next minute, after a briel resistance on the part of his prisoner, easily overcome by the athletic Constable, all four of uswere standing together inthe store-room, the door of which was se- curely fastened ou the inside. «And now, Monsieur,” sald the officer, addressing Dr. Pomeroy in the decisive perspicuotis manner which seemed . habit- ual to him, ¥ let meiassure you that these proceedings are all perfectly regular, and that for the present any attempt to dispute them will prove quite useless. Your accom- plice, Mademoiselle Cl 1s mo longer here; she has been detected and quitted the house, leaving in our possession the Enper countaining your promise of marriage. This lady is a quali- fied physician: she has examiued the condition of Lady Pomeroy, and we are in a position to make the chnr%re." He spoke in French, with a stronz German accent, but his prisoner understood him well, and stood silent, pallid as a corpse, and quiver- ing trom head to foot, either with fear or with tage. Once or twice 1 though he essayed to speak, but his whitened lips refused to articu- | inte. and the words died In hia throat witha sbonm} Iike the grasp of a creature struggling for reath. . «Madame," continued the offlcer, turning to me deferentially, I shall trouble you, if you please, to follow me into the hall down-stairs. S A{onsleur,"—to Dr. Pomeroy,—“It will ba | necessary for me to take your keys with me.” X am about to search your lugzage.” As he spoke he beld out his hand, and the demand was suilenly complied with. Leaving our prisoner carefully secured in his strange cell, the landlord and L accompanied the officer into the hall, where we were not long in identifying Dr. Pomeroy’s portmanteau, which, the constable immediately opened, and. asked, as he turned over its contents, after the manner of a Custom-House expert: - % TWhat sort of stufl Is it that you expect to find, madame?” 1 named the poison I suspected, and defined its probable appearance. - “This must be it, then, I think,” rejoined he producing, after a brief search, a durk-colnred bottle filled with an_opaque substance which exactly answered my description, and holding it up for me to examine; “say if it bears the test, madame.” z I took the bottie from him, shook out seme of its contents in my hand, and answered, as firmly as my agitation permitted: & It i3 precisely what I expected, mousieur.”. Without any comment he closed and relocked” the portmanteau, pocketed *he battle, and bade me accompany him back to the storc-roum. Conscious that the worst part of this very uu- pleasant day’s business was yet to come, [ obeyed with faltering stups and a heart full of aporehension. As 1 paused ou the landing, nos daring to lift my cyes from the ground, I heard the bolt of the door slipped back and the handle® turned; there was s momentary silence, and the next instant the officer, immediately behind whom I stood, recolled upon me as though he had been struck. “Mein Gott!” he exclaimed; * we are too late—he has killed himself!"” _ The landlord” and [ pressed forward into the room, and saw - lying on the floor a senseless, bloody mass, which but ten minutes since had been a living man. Be- side him lay a small case of surgical instru- ments, which, doubtiess, he had carried with him In one of his pockets, his right hand held a lancet, and the large artery of the throat, to the position of which bis anatomical knnwlediu r had uperringly guided him, was complete! severed. “Can you do mnothing for him, madame?” asked the officer as 1 kneit to examine the - wound; ‘“this is your business rather than mine.” I pressed my fingers on theunfortunate man'a wrist, and listened’ vainly for the least sign of heart pulsation. e “Impossible,” I replied, rising after a few minutes’ pause. ¢ e i3 already a corfée. This must bave been done the instant after we quitted him.” “ Poor wretch," said the officer, looking down on the dead man with more emotion visible in Lis face than I had believed him capable of feel- ing, ** he has passed & severer sentence on him- sclf than the law could have issued! Butit’s always the way withgentlemen criminals; when they are caught they feel it so much more than the others! ~Well, it’s over now; let's see what he’s got In his pockets.” " Stooplng down, the constable suited the action to the word, and presently drew forth from the vest of the corpse a thick packet of let- ters, which he placed on the table before us, and began hastily turniog over. They were all written in English, and therefore unintelligible to the German police-oflicer, whose ifogual ue- quirements did not extend beyond his own tongue and provincial French; bt avery slight investigation sufliced me to perceive that tney consisted chiely of memoranda relative to postobits for loams of considerable amount, raised, of course, on the for tune be had Loped to enjoy. The remainder of the papers, with but two_exceptions, were unpaid bills of heavy value, offers from usurers, - and aoplications frown duns claiming the imme- diate discharge of debts lonz since incurred. And, alasfor poor human nature, which at ics worst and weakest has always some soft spot in it, the two_exceptions [ have named were 2 coupleof long letters Fritten ina woman's hand, praying in the most affectionate snd piteous terms for the speedy remittuuce of a little mouey, no matter how small a sum, for the weather was beginning to get cold, and lit- tle Willi¢ had no thick boots, and Charlie wauted a coat, and things were going very badly with them all. And the letter, which had been most recently posted, and which, like the other, be- gan “ 3y derling George,” and was signed, % Your loving Nelly,” reminded the man to whom it was addressed of an old promise of marriage made years ago befure the children were born, and suggested that if only the writer ©had the ring on her finger” she might, she thought, be able to get some honest employ- ment somewhere among respectable foiks, and earn her own living and the boys'’ and trouble him Do mure. “Hut now, my dgur,” she wrote gull\ev.lmlly, 7T can do nothing decent, for when they séu how it is, they all turn their backs on me.”” The tears stood in my eyes as 1 gathered the scattered papers together, and moved towards the door. The oflicer, sceing my Intention, pass. ¢ You will not tell miladi up-stairs what has happened at present, madame?” said he., “No, not at present. She 18 far too eak to bear it. You st¢ he was her husbend’s brother.”” “Eractly, madame. Ab, it was 8 desperate cast, and hie threw badly after all! Noman should play a game of this sort unless he tan uounf'gn his Tuck beforchand. Al these thifgs depend on luck, madame.” e bowed low as I passed him, and closed the - door after me. I hurried up-stairs to my own.* room, and resisting as unprofessional a leart;, longing to Indulge myself with the relief whicl 1knew a good womanly fit of weeplug wouls afford me, braced myself by a draught of col¢ water, and hastened to visit my patient, a some what hysterical foreboding at my heart that the adventure with which I had begun medical lift would certamnly leave its mark on the whoie o my fature, and that I should never recover from it$ depressing effects. ButI did: and have only toadd thet Lady Pomeroy and 1 have now been llving together for some time, and that she bhas perfectly.re guined her bealth und spirits, that we have one of the napplest and best-appointed homes in London, and that Clara Fletcher’s vacated pust is occupled by a pretty fair-haired young woman in a black dress, who is warmly attached to Lady Pomeroy, and who bears the name o* “Nelly. ——————— TO MISS RECEPTION. Yes, thon art fair! surpassing fair! With l'glh.'f, queenly grace you wear The blush of dawn apon your cheek, The sunset’s glory in your hair. Dutah! beneath the loveliest rose Full many a thorn hics to oppuse; 3 And offen in 2 frlendly gar ) TThere come to us our deadliest foes. And well I kuow the royal face That makes you gueen of all your race, But bides the siren luring o1 ‘The heart that tarries, to disgrace. 0 sad thacform and face 60 fair Should prove. a8 thine, a deadly snarc? A smillog mask, but a plackened heast, With damning indnence lorking there. Jar. HONOR IN HIS OWN LAND. Says Comley in his recently-fssued work, The History of New York. State, “The day bas passed when the benefactors of humanity were allowed to live in ignomintous poverty,—their sacrifices, their labors, unrecompensed. To- day, the benefactors of the people,~the men who devote thelr lives aud encrgles to the fu- terests of humanity,—these are the men whom the world delights to honor, and whom It re- wards with princely fortunes. As an ecarnest worker for the welfare of his fellowmen, Dr. R. V. Plerce has won thelr warmest sympathy and esteem. While seeking to be thelr servant only, he has beconde a prince among them. Yet the immense fortune layished upoun him by a generous people he hoards not, but fnvests In the erection and establishment of institutions directly contributive to the publie geod, the people thus realizing, fn their liberal patron- aze, & new meaning of that beautiful Oriental custom of casting bread upon the waters. Noted in both public and private life for his unswerving Integrity and all those sterling virtues that ennoble manhood, Dr. Pierce ranks hizh among those few men whose names the Empire State is justly proud to tnscribe upon Ler roil of honor. Ambitious, yet moved by an ambitfon strictly amenable to the most dis- crimipatiog and well-balanced judgment, 's fatore career promices to be one of unpar- alleled activity and uscfuloess, ably supple- menting the work he has alrcady accomplishsd, by s lifeat once noblein effort, euviablz in its grand results.” While Dr. Pierce’s genius and cuergy have won for him so enviable a’ position on the records of a naticn, having been clected Senator by an overwhelming majority, his justly celebrated Housebcld Remedica have gathered for him a yet more dzsirable place in the hearts of agrateful people. His Golden Medical Discovery and Fayorite Pre- scription have brought hesith and happinesa ten thousand househelds T hastened politely to unlasten itand let me *