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AN UNSIGNED WILL
Amaryllis, here's the doctor.”
-‘-he humble country practitioner
stepped forward, and even in the
dim lamplight could be seen the
flannel cuffs, hiatus of gray stock-
ing between old trousers and clumsy
boots, frayed linen twofold collar,
silver watch chain and greasv, ready
made tie that betrayed the «ma!l lo
cal practice.
Amaryllis, wake .up, wake up!
Doctor’s here. G iJ knows vou’ve
called enough for him.”
The woman on the bed, whose
name seemed a jest, opened her
heavy, vague eyes, coughed faintly
and groaned.
‘Ts it Dr. Watson, Janet?” she
asked.
"Of course! There’s none other
for miles,"' was the testy reply.
Dr. Watson went through the or
thodox farce of feeling pulse and
taking temperature, but saw at a
glance that she was at the last whirl
in her dance of death.
“Has she made her will ?” he
asked softly.
However, Amaryllis caught the
words, and in a cracked scream of
excitement said:
“That’s it! That’s it, doctor! I
want to make a will. I can’t die
easy. Janet, get him pen and ink.”
“It’s nonsense, doctor,” said Ja
net. “Let her die in peace. She
need make no will; she’s no kith nor
bin but me, her sister.”
“Put the pillow under my head,
both pillows,’" called the patient.
“I’m choking! Yes, that’3 it. How,
doctor, for God’s mercy, do what I
ask—Janet will let me—or I can’t
die easy.”
Janet’s face grew black with an
ger.
“She’s not fit to «^„ke a will, and
I’m all she has in the world,” said
9he.
“Listen, listen, doctor! I’m in
my mind; I can’t die easy. It’s short
enough—£3,000 and the cottage to
Janet, the rest to Charles Harford,
now on the training ship, the Mon
arch.”
The doctor took out a stylographie
pen and picked up from the fender
an old letter, on only one side of
which there was writing.
“Stop, stop!” said Janet. “She’s
mad. There’s no such person. Ask
her who he is.”
“God forgive me!” groaned Am
aryllis. “I’ll die happier if some
one knows. I’ve been a wicked
woman.”
The doctor sprinkled some eau de
cologne on her head from a curious
old silver bottle that stood on a
chair by the bedside and gave her
something to drink out of a medi
cine bottle. Then with desperate
energy the old woman told her story,
despite the efforts of death to check
her speech.
“Father and mother were cruel,
good people, and I was a blithe
young woman . tHat hated church
and psalms and dull Sunday books,
so when he came, Frank Harford,
the handsome sailor, he had my
heart for the asking They would-
none of his addresses, for he wasn’t
a God fearing man, they said, so off
we went with no blessing from par
son, bat a curse from father. It
lasted for ten years well enough. I
had a little house, not in cold Nor
folk, but here in this village, and he
passed as my brother when on land,
for he was most while at sea. How
ever, the time came. I was older
than he by some years and fretted
for his absence—yes, and drank a
bit—so he grew tired, but didn’t
break with me, was afraid to, I
think—God knows why. Then her
face caught him—Mary’s, the coast
guardsman’s daughter. He kept it
from rue, but the village gossiped.
He meant to marry her and cast me
off. How I hated her, poor thing!
I knew him well enough, handsome
devil! He’d have married her be
cause be thought no other way
would do, and I vowed he should
[ not marry her nor any but me, and
■ me he wouldn’t. I asked her to the
S house, and he courted her before my
■ face and thought me a blind fool.
j “One night, his birthday, I had
her to supper and got down from
London some champagne. She was
to stay the night—home was so
far off and the weather rough. The
little fool—the little, ignorant fool
—believed that the champagne, nev
er before seen in our village, was
only fine cider and drank her share,
and he was boisterous at the jest.
"Vn I went out'on a pretext, say
ing I’d be back in an hour. The
next day she ran away with him.
Cc-found her! I never saw him
again.”
At this point Amary llis seemed to
break down, but after •' *or a
few minutes she continues — *
faint voice:
“He left her soon enough and
went to sea, leaving her and the
baby to shift as they might. Me he
dropped after that night. We’d a
fearful quairel, for he guessed that
I’d schemed it all. Five years latei
be wrote, said he hau 'found God
said
lose
she
and married a rich woman and want
ed to make amends. He’d alwayt
kept me well enough, for his father
left him £3,000 and this cottage;
he’d settled it on me. He sent me
£500 for her and her child and
begged me to look after them. I did !
sure enough, for I still hated lihr.
I found she was in London, so I sent
her just enough to keep her going,
for I wanted her to live the cruel
life which, as I expected, she had
come to lead. Year by year he sent
me money till last year, when a let
ter come to say he was dead. I kept
nearly all of the money, and when,
two years ago, she died, I sent no
more, but I had the child watched,
and he’s ‘Charles Harford’ on the
Monarch. And, doctor, since I’ve
been ill and seen the parson I feel
I can’t die without doing right, so
make the will, for love of God!”
The doctor began to write.
“Stop!” said Janet, who during
the tale had walked up and down
like a wild beast. “It’s all madness;
she’s delirious.”
The dying woman heard her
words.
“In the box under the bed you’ll
find all Frank’s letters. They’ll
prove the story.”
In a few minutes Dr. Watson had
finished the short will and read it
to Amaryllis. Janet sat grimly on
the black horsehair sofa and did not
offer to raise her sister to sign.
“Come, Miss Webster,” he
impatiently; “one mustn’t
time.”
She did not move.
“What about witnesses ?”
asked.
“I’ll be one,” he answered.
“You”—
“Not me,” she replied hastily;
“that would make my legacy bad—
I know that. Father was a law
yer.”
The doctor kuw* this was true
and was at once vexed and per
plexed.
“To ease her”— he said.
“It’s no use,” she broke in; “I’ll
not. Will she last three parts of an
hour ? I can get to Mr. Trelois, our
nearest neighbor, in the time and
bring him.”
Dr. Watson looked at his patient.
“Yes, perhaps an hour, but be
quick!”
Janet put on an old black hat
that looked like a bonnet flattened
for country wear and a rough shawl
of sham Shetland fleece, opened the
door, letting in more of the cold air
than was necessary, and went out,
slamming it heavily.
The doctor sat down by the bed
side, then recollected he was hun
gry, and as Amaryllis did not an
swer his request he rummaged in an
unlocked cupboard and found some
bread and cheese, which he ate rav
enously,’ moistening it with some
brandy that he found in a bottle by
the bedside, despite his strict orders
against, alcohol in any form.. He
made up the fire and sat in front of
it, longing to smoke, till its genial
warmth crept gently through him
and sleep overcame the poor man,
who had walked five and twenty
miles that day on his ill paid rounds.
The noise of the opening of the door
swoke him, and, conscience stricken,
he hastened to the bed. Amaryllis
was still alive, but on the very lim
its of the borderland. There was
still time. He turned to Janet.
“There’s just life,” he said. “Bring
him in quickly.”
“He’s not with me,” she replied
stolidly. “He was out.”
Dr. Watson looked at his watch.
“It’s two hours since you started;
what”—
Janet gave a dreary smile.
“They expected him every minute.
I waited. He was too drunk when
he came in.”
A bright idea came into the doc
tor’s mind.
“Sign as witness,” he said. “If
the legacy is bad, it does not matter.
You’ll get it just the same as next
of kin.”
“Do you think I didn’t know
that?” replied Janet, with a hoarse
laugh.
“Then you’ve never been to Mr.
Trelois?” shouted the doctor.
“You”—
‘Tin not such a fool,” she an
swered grimly. “But, oh, it was
cold in the garden!”
As she spoke she came dose to
the fire, which glowed impartially
on her rugged, dingy face.
“I’ll go myself,” said the doctor.
“It may not be too late.”
He started up, and his chair fell
Amaryllis opened her empty eyes;
then a look of intelligence came into
her ashen face. The doctor had
nearly reached the door when in a
tone half whisper, half shriek, she
called out:
“Doctor, don’t leave me before
it’s made!”
He turned and saw her sitting up,
but as he moved toward her she fell
back.
“Too late,” said the doctor, feel
ing fc- the beating of the heart—
“too late. You”—
“I’m an houest woman,” answer
ed Janet, “and I’ve no sympathy
with other people’s by
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