Dr. Rumsey's Patient

e about him, Mr. Awdrey,

She was standing a little apart from a laughing, chattering group of boys and girls, young men and young ladies, with a respectable sprin

I tell you

o horrible, and to think of it happening on this very plain, just wher

ose to the Court, in fact. I've been over the ground this morning with

shock you

y for that unfo

I have not h

and Frere were heard quarrelling last night, and Armitage can prove that Everett did not return home until about two i

bout, I

Margaret a quick look, under which sh

in a whisper. "I am intere

e walk on a little way? We shall soon get into shelter if

n," said

steps seemed to speak the very essence of youth and springtime. She appeared scarcely to touch the ground as she walked over it; once she turned, and the full l

where this tree extends two friendly arms? Do you

ely and looked up a

e suits yo

ps faintly trembled-th

o pale?" he as

summer feeling which pervades the air, I can't get rid of a sort of fear. It may be superstitious

plain extends," said Awdrey; "but if I

a remarkable degree. I can't help it-I'm afraid there is something in me akin to trouble, but of course it wou

e miles from here-I a

, here at my feet if you l

leasure in the world, but why should we

am to get rid of it, I must know all ab

drey, speaking w

s why he came

but not

do te

sible. You know that little witch Hetty, t

er. I tried to get her into my Sun

little creature

ul little creature," c

y her-but Hetty denied it. I saw her back to the Inn-she was very silent and depressed. Another man, a handsome fellow, was standing in the porch. It just occurred to me at the time, that perhaps he also was a suitor for her hand, and might be the favored one. She went indoors. On my way ho

early hour. Poor Everett has been arrested on suspicion, and there's to be a coroner's inquest to-morrow. That is the entire story as far as I k

ntly she raised her eyes, br

rfully sudden end, and that other poor fellow; surely if he did ta

true," sa

bly convict him of

slaughter, or, at the worst, murder under stro

Her pallor and distress aroused emotion in his b

bout this," he said. "You are not fit

y moment to see that poor Mr. Everett, in order to tell him how deeply sorry I am for him. To ask him to tell me the story from first to last, from his point of view.

into sud

ou're an angel. You're too goo

let me have my cry out; I'l

ly over. She dashed them a

me," she said. "I'm in no humor

ckly; "no one knows the way

rrow path on which they could not walk abreast. Awdrey now took the lead, Margaret following him. After walking for half a mile the wood

it is here," she said, givi

these heights only a week ago. I never told a soul about it. For

nted slightly, and pu

matter with you

as never bett

ook well; yo

nswered, a faint ring

at him e

I don't quite recognize th

right," he re

at? Do t

in," he said, after a pause. "There is something, ho

is t

for instance-the beauty of the day-the gladness and fulness of life, but I do

stand your sensation. You don't feel it simply beca

alk about it any more. Let us

the preparations for

al light in her dark eyes, gave her at that moment an unearthly radiance in the eyes of the man who loved

embling in his voice-"I can only

beside her. She did not ask h

"you know what I want most when I come of age-I want my wife-I

e-then she softly and timidly stretched o

know-you're not astonishe

ine, too," she ans

argaret-you'll make m

e if you wish it, R

was a little taller-he put his arms round her, d

ward they left the

ybody to-day,"

if I could keep it to myse

Robert; remember I

t ab

her that our engagement was not known u