Evening Star Newspaper, September 30, 1871, Page 3

/ * Tt | all the pawnbrokers on the avenue had thrown | What he did was complete to the minutest tide, and the lights were burning throughout the | We went into the ward. It was dimly lighted. STEAMBOAT LINES. RAILROADS. Out as worthless when J had endeavored to dis- | from the arrangement Of the softest light to the | building. At five minutes past, a messenger One nurse tee heli nimi an heen § | —_ —— peseof it. fortitying of » jaded man against a. ing | came into the room; the doctor wished to see a tray of medicines. —a is were 66D 1IONEER LINE.” N PONE Sere TEE ROBIE SEP My friend made no further preparation than | operation. His look, his tone, word, x preasion, Emilo. I looked at on Hic was looking at me. ee were awake, and onc or two — ae restoring his cap to his head and we desce ved step, his general presence was 9 " He asked me to ‘Were restless. 1o 3 arm-in-arm, me each ower to dine at Delmonico’s as 2 fies 59 Favor. It was raw and cold. A westerly wind tore down the street like the air from an iceborg, and in the uncleared places tle snow was half. way to our kre 's. We waiked up several blocks, avoidig first one street and then another, from some fancy, and fina'ly hit upon one which pre. sented no I oe objection, aud which T think was Twentieth s:rect. 1 applied at the first promising basem: nt and was refuse the labor r of cle: the steps anc sidewalk, for the rea- (Do mean Dean de ith = auntie had og impicesente of LS pew whe ; 7 his was just enough, perhaps, but still I ven- nee yA By te a for word | tured to argue the caxc at other dose, albelt la" dhask you, deck Gott’ be right? | With no success for at least a dozen trials. Then “Snel We accomplished car object. For the sum of half a dollar we agreed to dot yaired work, | and havin, secetved & hesitating loan of two | re @ stilt broom, we set about our tolangh Js it naughty? Say. na! Pee had such fun today Tecan hardly vay my p: as t feel I want to be it do Aod run, all undressed, It was more arduous and exhausting than wo thought possible. I felt my strenzth dwindle almost at the outset. Isaid nothing, bu’ kept on until [ found that my mate hat ceased, and was leaning against the arca railing, exhansted I dared not peak fo him, and pretending to be oblivious of I kep' He resumed again while I took a lon ‘1 he told me dand <anction eweet tm close to the Lord's f-et, And his words like music rap: “ Thank you for making this home so nice, The flowers. and folks, and my two white mice, right on.) rest, afterwards that he watched my efforts with the same anxious feelings. It took us an honr to complete the work. At the end of it neither of us was able to stand erect, and we were trem. bling from head to foot. We panted up the stens Bi won tit te alee te hc ones and rang the bell. A little child playing in the stay all night down stain hall- a and we went in, wi Emer 1e door though a little doubtful of the propriety of the act. "We were left alone, the pretty biue-eyed porter having run off, shouting for his fathe>, No chair was visible in the entry. I could keep my feet with difficulty, and began to look about. “The place was comfortable, warm, and perfumed. An open door showed a parlor to the right. I roused up and beheld an easy ebair peta a table with gilt heads 1, T walked in and sank down, my cap falling upon the floor. My friend also entered and leaned. inst the table. Upon it was a small box tied be a white ron and also a card-receiver of He opened the box, and the side at once fell n and disclosed’ a piece of wedding-cake. We both uttered an exclamation, and my friend =o = thrust ptecnggtoe pocket. a came m behind us; we mcpet ent ieaae ® gentleman with wrinkled us with an expres- inging, clas] him tight, ie or fod = Good eught,” —M ‘ary B. Dodse. THE ELEVENTH COT. [From Seribner’s Monthly.} It wos in the winter of 1866 that my straggles he pai 'y were the most desperate. f misconduct had exeluded ms fice in which Iwas employed as a a the ove ded condition of the ¥ prevented me from obtaining another situ- i, even when delay and anxiety had de- stroyed my fastidiousness, and when the mean. | t est salary would have been gratefully accepted. I quickly became poor, and then soon followed | Sion of anger. He walked directly up to ue and th regular train of sharp experiences with we done, and why. Weex- money-lenders ard pawn hrokers—that harass. | Claimed that we were hi ing round of sickening conflicts which so quickly Ho gensed, ‘at the table; the box re- broke the lightness of my ¢: and destroy- | ™ained, only the cake was gone. His face soft- ed the smovthness of my face. ed and took my wrist in I was then the eceupant of a small back room on the fifth floor of a large house on Sixth avenue; a dreary, barren barn, scant of furni- » with draughty halls, carpetless stairwa; d always pervaded with a chilling dam to think the house was full of cers, from the almost incessant opening and of doors at all hours of the night and m the other hand, I rarely heard Nast corridors, and never on any agh. © was cheerless beyond comparison; what pretty scenes of light and fire may have ecenrred bcbind the nomberless doors visible Ne aeiky pean al cel qui re} with m: nd, nh th dread and sickness. "" he cried; « are a great deal ‘nhangry. Pvorfeilows! Sit where you house of a good man. In a moment he returned tocarry us to another room. and his wife came with him. The little child became frightened to see us walk so fvebly, and I remember she began to cry as sie saw us go by leaning on her father’s arm. They gave us some medicine and some food. ‘ben we fell asleep in our nee while the gen- 3 « from every point, 1 do not know; there may | teman and his wife, with the child, sat om sitinr have bern fimesof carousal and eonvivialiee bet | Side watehing us. When ‘we awoke, which we Inever knew when, or never, at that dismal | ‘id nearly together, it was dark. Only tho gear period, looked upon on ceases povoty eve had gone to bed, By the middle of February the train of bitter A rned es circumstances enveloped me very closcly, een t frcaf tits Dotnt we told our storie; 1 telling mine began t prive myself of food. I accustomed E ‘Bello i myself to dowithout light at night and withoattire name was le was Chilian. He inthe ¢ I recall that L kept my bed dur- had been in this country two years. He was ing several entire days in order to avoid the | twenty-two years of age. on By the latter part of this dismal month { were be Bd sad ae, Dut gave the Was reduced to taking one meal each day, and | idea of tru from the very scarcity of even that was slender and barren enough. formation. But he was poor to the last extremity. He had no friends, no prospect of relief. That night we slept in the house—a sleep so deep, 80 precious, so sweet, that I never felt its grew iil and bent; and that inevitable sequence of hunger began to open upon me—the wide ex- Panse of theft and villiany. It was as I reached this common point that I became particu‘arly conscious of a neighbor. | lke = Hie performed no act that brought bison. my | _Jn came the gentleman, full of notice, but I regarded his ineotaings and out, | Slicitude, bringing the little child. We were well, he told us. Then he offered us goings more in consequence of the utter vacuity employment. He was the leading physician in the ef my own mind than from any unusual conduct on bis part. In fact he was exceedingly unob- —— Hospital. An additional number of WT had an indletinet Mon teen Swas a | beds had been added; in tact, enough to ace r, ned perhaps from the fact that he | © ™modate twenty more patients, and trom the recent great num! n or of casualties these were nearly all occupied. needed. More under-nurses @ere ‘The duties were regular, not unpleasant, and secure ease for us until the summer. the most brilliant offer then opened be- e moke cigarettes incessantly, though I never had heard bim speak, and indeed osuld hardly recall his figure. From some little trifling cirenmstances—cir- ———- which I an uly too well how to Had interpret, 1 came to believe that my fellow- Se SennS Cin, Rate Seen Serr | comeaaea atten neiae Wee eee quite understand why, ne arrived at this conclusion than I became pos- | Dity to show our giatitude near the person of the scesed with the desire to find the ins andonteaf | Gai doctor. - Secerted RIE necies tein as Ceny DOUG | puina wes teenie exiseed tt ea ee that I the firstevidence that he had ere He sat up in his bed and thanked the doctor - He then asked, after a pause:— “Wil miseree cheerful while prosecuting my inquiries among the few people whom I knew. The result was «minently unsatisfactory. It merely appeared that he came from some one of the South Amer- ican States, and that Le was unhappy, and that he was a gentleman. IT see de of de human race, de I determined, therefore, to waylay him, and | *¢kness, de soofering and de peen?’ form his 1 ‘The doctor aintance 1 to my ob I never questioned my- ect; I doubt if I had any n the instinct to emplo; some fashion or other, and I think the @rat would have afforded me as much “Den I have not so much as one regreet. I am bappee. I vill be so kind, so geentle, so teender. I vill make dem adore me. U, my doc- tore, I know 1 may be an angel, e-ven cef I have been a devil! His face was sublime. He stretched ont his arms and looked upwards with transcendent joy. Then be cast himself upon his pillow and wept rly. Within eight hours we were installed in our places. The ward to which we were attached was a room of twelve beds, all of which were occu- pied but two. Across one end was a corridor eight feet wide; jed with grass the other looked upon a garden fil and shrubbery now dead, with a dozen trees which overtopped the roof. ‘The windows were long, and each bad four dusk on a cold, snowy day, I met him in 1, and at once addressed ed, raised his cap, and saluted surprising gentleness. the irregularity of my proceed- ing, and stammered some excuses. I blunder- ingly explained m: ‘sire to know him, and he instantly gave me his hand. It was cold and thin; and I am certain mine must have been so, for we both shivered as we walked away from the spot. ‘ent to his chamber. I sat upon his * he stood with his hands behind his ef nt flush of light which came pore wong Bae. opt shades of different colors. The bedsteads or cots His face war thins distrestinglt thin, | Were uniform, of fron and ranged in two ned and even Beautiful. His Gout wad | TOWS of fve each, with the remaining two at tho broken at the nape of the neck, at the elbows, | Suthern end of the hall. and at the skirts. It > When we first beheld the place it was illumi- his Geass. ‘His shoes" were of clon a= nated by a yellowish glow. Before each window thought they were a woman's. Was @ green glowing plant reared in a painted The room was vase of ware. Harmoniously colored ms * of autumn Mered: the, flosee cok, U8; | Walls, and at each bedside wasatable of walnut, articles of apparel were scattered’ here and ene eens aes a been 8 emai ye heh) there; everything was awry, twisted, out of | Of flowers, or capctanee 2 rgd if othing stood straight, and ali lay under | the entrance was a organ, whit & pall of dust- When tne conditien of al the patients wate sat for thirty minutes with my hands upon aded 2 § knees without uttering a word. I could wot | mitit. ee ee see ging syeak. He also was silent, and I saw his knees | Which was almost ent was a Yield bencath him several times. It was ve Se nae dames Radrotted c 1 felt the perspiration from my e! their le had becn a mechanic, and body run down beneath my arms. while lying in his bed/had mented a machine Finally I spoke. I told him my cireum- | f great simplicity and strength, and the pro- then he told me his. We curiously ‘0 & sort of competition in our various nd for the moment we became sorry as his equal ull we & proached the but 01 duction of which was a blessings ‘He whispered the plan to his son, and before he died he asked thatthe present memorial of his thanks might be erected. It wasscrupulously done,and ten mi- {rable wrctches pow enjoyed the blessing. Ti » mes 1 the impression pf Emilo’s last related words being ingle eea pene in | still fresh upon me, I was able to partis uedae os 7 stand his behavior. He contemplated the ten occupied beds with a look which displayed something like delight He lanced about the hall asif it were his king’ Gut walked from bed to bed with the gontio of a woman. Attheend of the little jour during which he did not utter aword, his Was [transformed, and throwing an arm a the Leck of the venerable doctor, he went a Twenty-four hours bad not elapsed betore sable af anak had made the acquaintance of the ten paticnis, i ao ee the | aud hadacgaired an accurate knowledge of their glanes of his eye. the | Cases as well as their remedies. of his voice which accom. | _Hebegan his work by endeavoring to love the cfore me like a scene of yester- | UNfertunate group, and no soil could be more my trials into tritles, and disperse | More responsive thin such aone. A puny boy, Heol ian odo 4 with a decaying thigh-bone, whose employment no direct answer, but instinctively | b#d been merely to watch the gradual ¥ with respect, and approached him. | Wasting of his hand as he held it up before 1 his face with his hands, and sur. | bim, was the first to worship the foreigner. His instant; then he caught along | }oung heart burned strongcr for a few days and put his hands behind hiss en stopped, but ceased happily, under the ogai burning eye of Emilo. He had nothing to sell, and neither had I. 1 | A bare remnant of a man, from whose body remember that we went’ through the form of allhadbeen lopped away saze enough to cui searching our pockets. Nothing was produced. | tain the minimum of lite, Neh eage on recekiry im me since a day. I am 1 pleasures of my sub- thrown an of want and bu A long look of intelligence passed between us; [ | eleventh hour to the 2 a took bis arm and we wolkos to the window. We | Soul. His saviour was were being starved. man, who ses yn cnt He r od hishand and pinched his shoulder, of great power, had been depri the ability and neck, and arm word by » necessary “ Look—look; see how theen—O, how meesar- | Within his mouth. He felt himse! mpeoforward able—meesarable—meesarable!” worthless, and of further life. Emil It was snowing hard, and the streets were | ome day a and explained its beauty, filled. The cars were running, however, and 2. culture, its grace. The man looking downwards we could see the warm glare | listened ® refreshed heart, and became a of the shop windows. The crowd had long since | fervid poet, though he was dumb as a stone. turned homewards, and the undefinable mure An ignorant fellow who had beena very fortu- mur of the flo throng penetrated even to Serubich bowas tong Heeee oneEee Iw adeking at ih = ‘t was im perchance thonghts of the Iwas ing of nothing, was nearly ~ S cas cena possible. I wicca Presently my friend | doctor spoke to me and touched my arm; me afterwards that he spoke thrice. “Do you hear de ring—de “We die cef we stay here, that's true. And eet, be we find a fool.” and under the effectof a stronzer spirit at once BEVEL Ton my aider and drew me comenanend to: mends ow a pape omen away from whe . Itoften position, and kept it until he rose to a better one, re ate. one a that though be has bees in intimate and a contact with certain scenes, elrcumstanees: persons, both agreeable and considerable t' » yet certain moments may oceur when a vivid realization of his presents itself and discloses: relations which even as failed to proda sort wlimpse at immaculate truth, a view dimmed 1 rt or joy or re t, case mifort we mere Such aiheineat now ofcurred te ime. I beheld be ok of ‘ tact was sublime, and unfiatterin, jure of my affairs. Weakness, | his affcetion Sovesty, Benaet, anda chanes Gee seiaet’ ® Could vot understand his ardor (rom th ir I immediately went ard got my cap and a | Why he should 50 aban mself to so faithful littie woolen tippet, which, thank God, ailaber was beyond my conception, 3 unknown, and it was I may say it was, worshipped. At every evidenee of this, snd in’ the course of the day many would hap- y(n, seme expression of pleasire would eseane Vie “He weuld grasp my hand and listen to hear them cail his name, end then hurry away. A whisper of gratification, of ease, a mur- mur of content and relief, would fill his ¢ye w: tears of pleasure, and I’ once iound him upon his knees thanking God in a broken voice. In gnother part of the hospital was a former directress of a foundling school which had been destroyed by fire, and in consequence of which she bed been given a high and responsible posi- tion in our building. She was young, ardent in her work, and had the face of an angel. Emilo met her twice and thrice a day. “The result ¢, and that the happiest. contd be but © One day the good doctor met them together as they were busy upon sme schc me for improv- i Iness of the hospital. He gave hand. “I have something to tell ase you both. ‘Three hours orst, Who was dying of cancer, ttle pictare to her purple lips and whispered her last word with a face full of The word was ‘Edit! } the tarible weight. ‘That person did so. | Pres- tt stretched cut his arms and cried—Thank »Pmilo.’ Your two names mean peace and micrt. Inever knew the power of sympathy until now, Fimilo’s labor increased, and still I could not understand. J felt I was in the dark. Heaven forbid that I doubted his sincerity; I had no right to dream that, simply because f could not understand the impulse that animated him; yet cause I was ignorant of it, I observed him ly. Nothing transpired to satisfy me; all earnest, pure, and self-sacrificing; the splendor ot his tace, the dignity of his bearing, the win- ning inflection of his voice, grew as each new suftcrer yielded his beleagured soul and body to his consoling influence. On a certain d however, the disclosure came. It was stormy, and daring the afternoon the tempest reached its height. I stood by a south window, startled at the violence of the wind, and watching the fearful way in whch it swayed the elms outside. Emilo came up from behind and touched me on the shoulder. He was pale. I said nothing, but his hand slipped down to my arm, and beld it tight. Soon he put his = arm about my neck, and began to tremble. “ Freederic, I see you watch me; do you tink me a hypocrect 2” Ishook my head. In a moment he went on, waking pauses now and then. “Tam frightened wid de day. Igo back two years, when I see times 90 like hell. A meesa- Table day. I had a good friend, and I love him more than you, more than fader or moder, We have quarrel about women. We have fight. I ee} him.” I cannot explain why. but I remember that I was not shocked, scarcely surprised. I bent my head to listen, “Itwasin Chili. I ran, Dememoree hunted me. © so awful, awful! Two years go. It never Icave me. Jose Luco, my best friend, go dme here and therein de speerit. I say to 1f, Twill do good. | I will make ‘de peeple ppee. Maybe I make peace wid my soul. Heelp me, Freederic, heelp me.” ‘This, then, was his spur. His work was that of recompense. When the sterm ceased he became himself again. I loved him more than ever. I watched his attachment to Editn with solicitude, as I feared that the disclosure of his secret would separate them. "milo now had nothing else to conquer. He became rad ant with hope, and would often em- brace me with rapture as he counted the hearts that wore his. He had a beautiful flower, a tulip; indeed, I think it was the seme one with which he wrought the change in the preacher, and to this flower he would seem to confide his inmost wishes. He told me that it reminded him of his home, and that he fancied that it was a witness of what he did. He placed it upon a window-sill beside one of the vacant cots at the upper end of the room, and there it bloomed in all its lovely grace. Seven days after the storm, Emilo came to me ereatly agitated. cat “ Freederic, grasp m; nd 1 Ididso. It was cold. « Freederic. my friend, I feel that I am being pursue; that they hunt me. I dreemed so in de dark night.” Ile was very nervous, and was covered with perspiration. I used all my persuasion to calm him, and partly succeeded, though during the day I frequently caught his eye resting upon me with an expression ‘of expectaney. I faneied he was overworked. The next day he brought to show me arich velvet smoking-cap covered with gold bullion. Jt was a present fom one of his former patients. With it was a letter —— some of the most refined expressions of good-will and thankful- ness which it is possible for man to write. Emilo read it time and again, and dwelt upon the prominent Passages with an in ible de~ ‘ight. It banished his fears, he became again filled with his high intents, and with even more than his old e rs At night we had news ofa new-comer. His ene had been severe,and he had undergone one of the most notable surgical operations known inthe country. His delirium been almost constant. This was the fifth day of his admis- re ‘He was to occupy the cot in our ward which was on the right of the room; he would lie in full view of Fmilo’s tulip. At six in the evening he was brought. Emilo and | assisted, and then stood arm-in-arm at the foot of his bed, contemplating him as he lay perfectly still with closed eyes. He was frightfully ugly. tf ged and covered with ad- His head was banda, hesive straps. His hair and whiskers were gone; he had large flaps of ears, a massive jaw, awide thin lips, a retreating foreliead, and mouth wit barrow, trembling nostrils whic! mre him the thin and long; look of a wolf. His hands were he had asmall chest and bow legs. 1 half re- coiled, but Emilo smiled. “I will make him my friend, Freederic. Eef T éan teach heem something, if I can help heea awtul peen to go away, den such a victoree shall prevent me from fright at dat one who hunts me. I shall scorn heem.”” His face was filled with enthusiasm. I in- yoluntarily turned around. The doctor was just within the doorway, staring hard at Emilo. Presently he turned around with bowed head and disappeared, unseen by my friend. The next day the doctor was not to be seen, and the next in rank took his place. He was in the hospital, but he kept hisroom. Even Emiloand Edith could not visit him. ‘The man in the eleventh cot remained ina state of stupor until noon. Then he slowly awoke to consciousness. He met the calm ance of Emilo, and he returned it, Emilo reached bim a bit of camphor from an ebony box. The man siniled and gave him his handin a weak fashion. Emilo held it for an hour. Still the doctor was not visible, and all began to wonder, for such a thing had not occurred for years; neither storms nor illness had ever pre- vented his presence, and yet all agi that he was well. At fonr o'clock in the afternoon, while :t was t light, Emilo went to his tulip at the window- 1. It was in the full of its loveliness, and he nt over it with the deep afigction which I ¢ could interpret. It wag tiearly his idol. Hie almost thought it comprehended what it witnessed from day to day. Baith had admired it with him, and it was full of the purest asso- rf e caught at the snapped it from the stem. He cried nentiy * Por t Santos! Look, Freederic, see my prettee, prettee flower crushed! broken!” His tace assumed an e: ion of despair. I heard a@ movement behind me and I turned about. The ugly man had risen to a sitting posture, supported by his hands. His face was of a green color, his mouth open, hig nostrils dialated, and bis eyes glared upon Emilo. Emilo, still holding his tulip, beheldhim. He stood transfixed. The man drew a breath, closed withdrew his eyes, felt about behind him for a pillow, and then lay slowly down again. Enmilo, fall robes rig crossed over to himand put his hand upon his forehead. Therd was no Shainge in his pulse. He appeared to have gone leep. « oor fellow!” said Emilo; “I frighten heem. Hiya har her hyn Born te he continu: See tee followed me his eyes all de day. I am sure he love me, andI have — ®0 harsh; tulip ane out vehe 5 F E i ; 3 ii Eee S pet Eile g 5 s pat i il F 8 f hand, ther eett. Fe |, then on my Tam afraid? He covered and turned towards the | long dining-hall and ‘hen with him. But the ioctor did not send for me!” | “You are a purt of me, my dear f.iend Freed- atic. He teok my aim and we went ont together. We crore d two corrslors and went through 9 dor, at the oth: rend ot whieh was the doctor's pa The cvcr at which we entered was in the center, exactly cpposite the door of our ward; our path lay to the lett, and I by mere aceid nt looked to the right without attracting Emilo’s atnention. I saw Edith in the center of the floor with her bands clasped before her, her facey.ale, and with her cyes fixed stcadfast'y upon Emilo. j She was immovable. Isnid nothing and we went on. We entered the doctor's room. There was a fire, plenty of light and warmth, and the place was comforta- ble. The ductor was before bis fire, twisting and untwistirg a handkerchief. His dress was dis- ordered; be locked like @ man i: ngony of mind. He saw Emilo and not me. Emilo advanced until he stood in the center of theroom. At first he full of ratural dignity, though distrus ful; et pepareny sank and hang his head like a criminal. Scme seconds of silence followed; then the doctor aid in isper, a \akerchief: wrench at the E y dearest boy— he stopped as if chocked. fiuiebed vehemently: “You must go. I ki you. T know about Jose Luco. God k cannot look xt it in the light I ought. not lav hands upon you, I do not detai Emilo!’ He advanced w bd you, m_ him as if to push him out of the room. Emiloshook from head to foot. * All day long I have Sregeied and fought with mysel’; [have unwittingly shielded you. 1 have hid you. You have been hunted fied, you are disco: cers of the law :” Emilo clurg to a chair. = “1 think of you as my son. Your crime vanishes as I luok at you, and if man’s poor for- iveness and love can—can ever be a pleasing fhoughe to you in the miserable days to com:, remember you have mine, Emilo. Emilo, go out of my sight !” Fmilo remained silent, erect, impassive. Th doctor approached him closer and leaned hi: white hand on his shoulder. That strange quality ot FE milo’s, the — of instilling affection, had developed even - The man of blunied sen- | ibitities and exhausted sympathy wept like a s child. ig rigs? he raised his head. He pointed to | ith a shaking finger. | ou have vered. You belong to the offi- the door wi “No,” said Emilo, 1 yill not go; I vill stay ‘The doctor looked at him with terror. «1 | have one great object far above you and dem poor soofferers. I look upon dat objcect, | of disaster, tics | which we thought were iron prove weak as | | re Out of per cow Md hitherto ab- | interests one su ly becomes preemi- rest are lost. In this case the one remaining hold was—Edith. “You know what dat ees ?” said Emilo. “1 loove her wid all my heart. I stay to tell her al! at de proper time. Den I go, and she will go ‘too. “J forbid it,” cried the doctor. “What I care what you forbeed ?”” «I will tell her myself. It will be my duty. She is strong and resolute. She will recognize that any pain which her séparation from you | will cause you, will be Pogo’ the reaeky ‘for what you have done. She will ayold you; she will become afraid of you.” ‘The bare glimpse of this was faightful to Emilo. He descended from his position of re- sistance, and in a brea’h became a suppliant. He ae paler and more infirm. ““O Doctor, my best friend, you cannot be so cruel, 80 like a savage to me.” the doctor did not answer. “«T promise to go away from here. I will hide myseelf; only do not speak to Edith. I will tell - will tell her the truth. I will do it my- seclf.” The doctor calmly said, ‘ No.” “0, good Doctor, look at me. Iam notchange. Tam as I was yesterday. 1am good to the seck and the troubled. You forgect me. I am steel Emilo Bello.” He extended his handsin an attitude of suppli- cation. ‘The doctor turned his ¢; juickly upon him. “No, you are not Emile Bello> Haute Bello as an im man. He did the work of Siriet, Your name is Victor Caro ” Emilo uttered an exclamation of despair. His own name was an object of hate. The sound of it overwhelmed him. = mag Ont ire miseree, ao is rege I preey toyou—I proey upon my knee. not tell ‘her. cep my secret for one whole day. Say nothing, in the name of heeven.” He sank down and clasped hishands. The doctor was unmoved. He had become familiar with the acene. He could have smiled. He was inexorable, and re to the door. Two Emilo murmured some inco- minutes elapsed. herent yers, but ber vailed nothing. The silence became intolerable. “He slowly got upon feet. “Den you try to croosh me 2” “I shall tell this poor girl that you killed a friend in a duel; that remorse has made you what you appear to be; that you are acriminal.” Emilio retreated backwards, with his large eyes fixed on the doctor, who was rigid and quiet. He slowly approached the door, opened it, hesitated, with a burning look, and went out. turned to follow. he rustle I made brought the doctor’s eyes upon me for the first time. He was a little surprised, but asked me to wait until be wrote a prescription | which I was to carry to the Dispensary. hile | searching for paper he remarked that he had seen the patients, and this medicine was in- | tended for the eleventh cot. He wrote itout. He wasagitated. His fingers with difficult, oy thy his pencil, and he twice | stopped to lect his thoughts. ‘His mind was plainly upon Emilo. I received the Poh er The doctor trem- bled violently. 1 went ont. Emilo was in the hall waiting for me. “Did I not tell you I was pursue? Ah, is it not strange that wicked news should come thousands of miles and catch me in sooch aplace as this? All my thoughts fy away; now I am weeked. I tell you F: leric, 1 am weeked! Eef { lose Edith, I die in one hour.” ‘He pinched my arm and shook me. “T shall make dat coorsid doctor to sooffer a ee tay teins ea cae et - pat my band w mouth. I parly calmed 2 bim. I told Ihada preecrs tion. ave it him, He | He arked to see it, and I read it carefully, and then looked at me with an Intensity which thade me feel a mementary fore- rh Re: ‘Will keep this,” he said, and put it behing ay J explained that I was sent to have it prepared for use, He shook bis ead, and took B penell yh ae is “My friend Frecderic, trocst me, no harm shall come to any one. Vill you leave me here alone for three minutes 2” 1 did s0 without searce'y any hesitation. At the end ofthe time I returned to the corridor It was composed of four bare walls, perfectly white, and twenty f-e* high. Six doors with cas- ings of chestnut /ed of from it at different points, and each door had ite rug in front. Two large windows made it glaringly light in the daytime, and at night it was illuminated by a single gas- jet, in the form of an ancient Egyptian lump, igh up on the wall fur out of the reack*of any | one but the one whose duty it was to light and extinguish it. In this place was the doctor, held tight against the wall ty Emilo. milo held him with a knee and the left hand. In his right was the prescription. “ Look at it,” he whispered loudly, waving the paper to and fro; “it ees plain you go to write a pre- screeption; you mezn to say onelectle grain of arsenic. You make a mark; you make a wrong mark, on say fivegrains of arsenic. That is ‘The doctor was appalled. He would have slipped upon the floor if Emilo had not upheld him tightly. He said nothing. I think he was unable to speak. Emilo’s face was a terrible ol t. He approached it near the doctor's — cheek,and delivered (he following, say- agely: H H F d rH § f EY F 5 i i £ Fe A f Est Hl g Z 7 F i ie $ i rE ri id f H3 a i i j 3 i ; é E is 3 3 1 inilo went first, softly and tenderly. His face was followed in his track, watchin, wretcLcs woke up ashe stood beside them for a mon«nt, and reached out their bands with rmiling faces. One clung to him as if he felt iustinetively that he was looking upon his best frierd tor the last — Another gave him = Lie blessing in a foreign tongue; an 4 Ore w fre ma under his Covert a ateh-guard which be had braided with hair, and with a trembling voice gave it to him. Others gave a ¥arm good-night with feeble tones, then, Sutisted, sed their eyes in the firm belief that they would see him again to-morrow. The sow, carctnl journey was atria Everything was calm, and t objects were shadows. Now and then there arose & whisper or an unintelligible mutter from — man, er ht sound of completa und I saw Ee h clasp her hands. The hed him and bent over him. y he arose to go away. He felt himself detaincd. The ugly man had grasped the skirt of his coat and opened his eyes. He sai thick whisper, Lout him with terror. His knees es came back again to the hor- n an errand from Jose Luco.” . He ts alive.” fell at the bedside and grasped the man’s 1 was petrified. and Edith clung to me E milo's smothered voice ejaculated semething, and the man made this explanation: “Tam English. Iwasemploged by the fam- ily of Luco to find you. I started, but did not pursue you. I have been a villain. I have drawn pay for my debauchery. them. J was hurt ina fight. They brought me here. I told the doctor what I told all—that I Was looking for a man who had killed his friend. Tsaw you w the tulip. 1 heard what you sald. new you. You awoke my tude by kindness. I determined to release you and im: plore your yr oy me Jose Luco was in the condition ef the dead for one week; he is now recovered, and is well. God forgive me!” He ceased, exhausted. I do not think Emilo, or perhaps, Victor, heard all of this disconnect. ed tale; he Was too full of the aaneere, the salvation of his friend. He kissed the of the man, and passionately pressed it to his breast. I looked up after pp hve; more, E hard. desperately aud _ 1 beheld the doctor on the other side of the cot. He had come to administer his prescription in person. He scowled upon allof us, and said to the man, in a harsh voice, “Ronse up! They have nearly killed you with their talk. ‘his was 80 mant that it roused Vie~ ter. He looked up, and then hastily fumbled in his pocket; he withdrew the old and dangerous prescription. With a trembling hand he an- folded it. He arose, and, going to the doctor, he Te ghage arm about his neck, and gave the paper to him. “I did not keel Jose Lnco, dear friend. This man come from heem. Iam free. Edith love me. Iam happec.” Seabed, nn eye sparkled, The doctor's face ee - unable to said set is is the prescreeption,” Victor, thrusting it into his band. “Ilie te you. You say one grain of arseenic. I alter cet with a leetle dot; I made eet five grains. I was despe- rate. 1 implore you to forgeeve me.” ‘The doctor changed color. For an instant we all stood in silence. He then whispered: “ Come, Emilo, raise the head of this man upon your shoulder; we will save him. He deserves it, the scoundrel!” In a week, Victor and Edith went away to his country, whither I followed in a few months as an attache of the American legation. The Eng- lishman recovered, but was remanded toa Home for Incurabies one year after. ‘The good doctor died. He was killed by asin- gular and persistent ulceration of the throat, which defied the accumulated skill of the best surgeons of the country. His was the extraor- dinary case described at length in No. 801 of the Medical Journal of the Collegeof Physicians at Paris. Hed uncle by a blooming child whose Emilo.” ——__-<e-.—____ Waste Paper for Houschold Uses. Few housekeepers have time to blacken their stoves every day, or even every week. Many wash them fn either clean water or dish water. This keeps them clean, but they look ver brown. After a stove has been blackened, can be keptlcoking very well for a long time by rubb'ng it with paper every morning. Tocea- sionally find a drop of gravy or fruit juice that the paper will not take off, I rub it with a wet cloth, but do not pat on water enough to take off the blacking. 1 find that rubbing with paper is a much nicer way of keeping the outsi Sagem teakettle, Lepr and tea-pot bright ani clean, than the old way of washing them insuds. ‘The inside of coftee-pots and tea-pots should be rinsed in clear water, and never in the dish- water. Rubbing with dry paper is also the best way of polishing knives and tinware after scouring. ‘This saves wetting the knife-handles. If a li four be held on the paper in rabbing tinware and spoons, they shine like new silver. For polishing windows, mirrors, lamp chimneys, etc.. I always use paper in preference to any cloth. Preserves and pickles keep much better if brown paper, instead of cloth, is tied over the jar. Canned fruit is not so apt to mold if a piece of writing paper, cut to At’ the can, is lald de rectly on the top of the fruit. Paper is much better to put under a carpet than straw. It is warmer, thinner, and makes less noise when one walks over it. A fair carpet can be made for a room not in constant use, by ting several thicknesses of newspaper on the floor, over them @ coat of wall paper, and giving it a coat of var- nish. In cold weather I have often placed paper between my bed quilts, knowing that two thick. nesses of paper are as Warm asa quilt. If it is necessary to step on a chair, always lay a ew on it; this saves rubbing the Children easily learn the habit of doing 80.— Technologist. _— reo Lone Lire.—Physiologists from the days of Galen have established rules and ns for the preservation of life, which are all included in the mutual laws. Upon a strict observance of these laws and upon such natural conditions as the parentage, constitution, and form of the individual, longevity depends. Heredit longevity is regesacd WNotret as the moat important prognosticat Rush said he never knew an octogenarian who could not quote similar instance mhisfamily. Froma report of the hospitals and workhouses of Lon- don, out of 507 octogenarians 303 were rom long-lived parents. , Bacon makes the Regarding the parents; curious statement that “ those that resemble the mother most are longest lived.” The same author describes the most favorable organization for old age “as one with a head the body, a moderate neck, wide nostrils, lar, month, ears gristly, teeth sound, a raw-boned body, broad chest, ‘large hand, short foot, eyes large, and facility in holding the breath.” Medi- cal authorities, as a rule, rely more on the gen- eral physique than on minor details. ‘The cele- brated Huteland tavors one of the middle size, with a complete harmony of all his parts, senses nottoo delicate, pulse slow and regular. Lavater lays more stressupon the countenance. He says “every man destined to reach an advanced period of life has a muscular forehead, furnisLed with a soft skin, and the nosesomewhatenry* ” With respect to the sex there has been much dis cussion, butit is certain that women do attain as withstanding their inferi- sedentary habits. Tisch ex- fe plains tot exercise as being compensated tor by ig so much. ‘The hegl™Mof the human race is very depend- ent upon rnal conditions, especially the character of location or habitation, and a coun- try geo; ically situated so as to combine reg- ilunity of the seazons with @ uniform, mild, and moist climate, is the most conducive to the pro- longation of life. The most unfavorable locali- ties are those where 3 s v ° Hi i H i E on the Bee Line to visit some relatives inan pecs enh 8 ving suffered on oo thought that for once he let ° Ay ee head. Sikocinne ot eitsekncen ts of her head. mpd gr Soetionna to get "at ‘ast. as he Teached the fimal paragra of sala mane and was on if i ! 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