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OLIVIA;
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TEE DOCTOR'S TWO LOVES.
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BY THE AtJTHOB OF
• The Second Mm. Tilloleon," “ Never
Forgotten,’’ Etc., Etc.
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W-To ■•oduce bo sum," lie answered; “lot me in- ;
■ you to Mrs Richard Foster." I
■yes Tim woman looked at me with Hashing
and a mocking smile, while Mr. Fosto. '
— indulged a" himself with oxtortiug a long i
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“I cannot understand,” I said. I did not !
know how to continue my speech. Though |
peot “Ahl to impose 1 l upon do not," me. said Mr. Foster, j '
ion
•t With a vis.be sneer. “Olivia is dead* I
. !
CUArTKtt i iiai>tpu X1 vt ‘
a stuangk task.
“Olivia dead!” I cieluimcd. I repeated
the words mechanically, us if I could not
iimke any meaning out of them. Yet they
had been stiokon with such perfect delib
emtion and eortninty that thoro Bcorned to
be no question about tho fact. Mr. Fos
tor's glut, ring eyes dwelt delightedly upon
rny face.
“You woro not aware of it?" ho said. “I
am afraid I bavo been too sudden. Rate
tells us you Were in love with my first wife,
and Would Hacrifioed a most eligible match fresh for negoti- her. t
it bo too late to open
ations with your cousin? You soo 1 know
all your family history.”
“W'hon did Olivia die?” I inquired, parohed,
though my tongue felt dry ami
ami the room, with his fiendish lace, was
swimming giddily before my eyes. asked,
’ Whim was it, Came?" ho turn
i»g to Ids wife. (lie first of
“W»hi ant she was dead on
October," she answered. "You married me
the tie it day."
“Ah, yvs," he said; “Olivia had been
dt'ii il to mo for more tliuu twelve liiontlifl,
and the moment I was free I married her.
Doctor Martin. \\ e could not bo nun reel
before, ami there was no reason to wait
longer. II was quite legal. 1
"Rut what proof have you?” ^ heavy I asked,
Still mqredulous, with a heart so that
it could hardly rouse ilvolf to letters,” hope. said
"Carrie, you have those
Richard Foster.
She was away for a few minutes, while
he leaned hack again in his chair, regarding
mo with ins half closed cruel eves. 1 said
nothing, mid resolved to betray could no emotion, be
Olivia dead! my Olivia! 1 not
Iieie it
-II. re aro the proofs." said Mrs. Foster.
re-entering tbe room Sho put into my
hands an ordinary certificate of death,
signed by J. Jones, M. D. It stated that
the decoiisod, Olivia Foster, liad died or
of September tho 27th, of acute iufinniniatioE
the luugs. Acoompanying tins was a
letter written to.be in a good handwriting, pur
porting from a clergyman or minis
ter, of what denomination it was not
stated. Ho said that sho had desired him
to keep tho plaoe of her death and burial a
secret, and to forward no more than the of
licml certificate of the former event. This
letter was signed F Jones. No el •« was
I veu by either document as to the place
w here they were w ritten.
“Are you not satisfied " asked Foster.
“No." 1 replied; "how is it, if Olivia is
d*,ul, that you have not takcu possession of
her property?" question, he said,
A, shrewd jeeringly.
"Why iitu < hi these cursed poor lodgings':
" by am I «w poor «• Job, when there are
twenty thousand pounds of my wife's es
t ite lying unclaimed? My sweet, angelic
oiivia Jdt uo w.ll, or none tu my favor,
you may be sure; aud by her father s will,
if r-it- ili -e int state oi without children,
his property goes to build almshouses, or
soiue oonfotin ted ucn- »e. in Melbourne,
All she bequeaths to me :s tuis ring, which
? " 'hug-dav, curee
He hold out ins b no, ,u the liule fingei
of whieb shone a iliamoud that might, a
far a-- l knew. be t. e om i bad once seen
i U 01ri ,aspo-ses S ,on
le'o.qi- yu do nit knew, n
.
tinned, bat it was on this very point, the
making of h t will, or seeunug her prop
ertv to me in some way, that my wife took
offense and ran uwav from me. Carrie was
just a little too hard upon her, and 1 "a*
away in Paris. Hu: consider l expected
to be left p. unite**, just as you see me left
and Carrie was determined to prevent lu
t<> elusive ®o. “* of »•'•» her identity. <<« Jh^e Would papere, you was like < 0 : to 1 -
nee it/'*
Mrs. Foster gave me e slip of paper. «
which were written a few line,. 1 u ,
were, without doubt, Olivia s writing:
I know that you are poor, and [ send you
ail 3 can spare— the ring you once #avc* i<
me. I am even poorer than yourself, but J
nnve )U$t enough tor my Jan necessities, i J
forgive you, an I trust that God forgive- me.
Thore was no more to be said or done,
Con viefion bad been brought borne to me.
I rone to tike my leave,nnd Foster held
out iiis hand to me, perhaps with a kind y
w.emion. unvia'i nog g.utenng uu
it. :«nd I could not take it in mine.
“Well, well!” be Said. "I understand; 1
am sorry for you. Come again, Doctor
Martin Dobree. If you know of any rem
edy for n vcise, you are no true man 1 1
yi’i ‘hi not downthe "try it." staircase closely
I went narrow
l y Mt» loHler. Her face had
b’S 1 k 8 .V e ty ftD< ^ boldness, and look' d
womanly and careworn, as sbe laid her
h .ml upon my arm before opening the
house-i|o°r.
‘For God sake come at,<nm. „ she , said,
s
if you car. do anything for him, \V e have
money left yet, and 1 am earning more j
every .lay. Me can pay yea well. Prom- |
ise me you Bill come again.
gwered. t can promise nothing to-night, I an
“You shall not go till you promise,” she
said, emphatically. promise,” I answered, and
"Well, ihun, I
, 1 ).. unfiistcned the cboin almost noiselessly
and opened the door into the street.
CHM’TI'K ' XII
8AD KKWS * |
A . , fine drizzling , . ,. ram . was falling; I was
just conscious of it as au element of dis
comfor:, but it did not make me quicken
my i teps. I wanted no rapidity done, of mot on
now i here was no lung to be noth
mg to look forward to nothing to lice away
frorm Olivia was dead!
1 had said the same thing again and
again to myself, that Olivia was dead to
me: but at this moment I earned how
grea a difference there was between the
wauds as a figure of speech and as a tern
ble r, ahty. I could no longer think of her
as treading the same earth-the same
streets, jierhaps; speaking the same Ian
gunge; seeing the same daylight as myself
I recalled her image as / h/id seen her last
in s j* r k. end thon 1 tried to picture her
white face with bps and eyes closed for
evci, mid the awful chi 1 of death resting
upon her. It seemed impossible; yet the
cuckoo-cry went on in my brain, Olivia is
dead is lead.
I reached home just as Jack , , was coming
in from his cvemt.g amusement. He let
ln with his latch-key, g.ving me a
J""’' cheery 1 1 greeting; di “ in l ; r00 but “- us an(1 soon 1 "'. as we W had en
*<» eicl.„„,.-d .......1 »,. uvc„h Martin, what
huM “Olivia lm])})en<‘(l dead!” to you? I answered.
is !
• H * nt
’ s ttr,n ^ ,il ’ out «“>' ne ,n •™ om ? '
for . like boys together Htill, when
w.* were
wo wore alone. He knew all about Olivia,
“'"i !■" w.ito. [mi.....„uim,
“ d ‘ n « 8 iuto words.
‘Wf™ 1 ba tr “■ 1,0 Bnul ; ‘ ho "8 h ia »
doubtful tone; “the scoundrel would . , not
have married again if he had not sulhc.enl
. , ,. . ZZS5 »
“ n ’ s 'trance," lie said; “I wonder she
»»*« 8 ot ail F l)0ll >' to wrlto to Y°“ 01 ' J ur ‘
f >- tmn 8° «'e..ee r «-I toward f ns. accounting We sa for talking that
>® *° rt ; >«•*«*“ jontwjce. while Jack
« w ** 3 * ** <ould * unM » lo 110
conclusion about it. it , was 1 Into when wo
parted, aud I went to bed, but not to sleep.
For as soon as the room was quite dark
T igi 0 ns of Olivia haunted me. lWaraii
of her followed one another rapidly through
m y brain. She had died, so said the cer
ufleato, of inflammation of the luugs,
a ft ( , r an illness of ten tteya. I felt mvself I
bound to go through every stage of her ill
ness, dwolling upon all her sufferings, and
thinking of herns under careloss or hand tin
Skilled attendance, with no frien 1 at
to take care of her. Sho ought not to have
d i edi with her perfect constitution. If I
bttd i, eo „ there she should not have diod.
About four o’clock Jack tapped softly !
upon the wall between our bedrooms—it
was a signal we had used when we were
hoys but as though quiet to inquire enough if I wus wake all
right; it was not to
„ 10 ,f I wore asleep. It seemed boat floating liko the
friendly "Ahoy!" from a lying on
the sumo dark sea. Jack was awake,
thinking Olivia. There of me as something 1 was thinking consola- of
was so
t orv this symputhy that I fell asleep
while dwelling on it
I'pon going down-stairs in tho morning
I f„„„d that Jack was already off, having
tuu loft u my^pattents nliort nolo f or nio “ay. sav inn lio would
itot I liaii scarcely
begun breakfast when the servant an
nounced “a lady," aud as the lady followed !
close upon his heels, I saw behind his !
shoulder the familiar faeo of Johanna,
looking extremely grave. Sho was soon
seated beside me, watching me with some
thing of tho tender, wistful gaze of my
mother. Her eyes were of the same shape
and color, nud'l could lmrdly command
myself "Your to frioud, speak Doctor calmly. John Senior, called
upon us a short time since,” sho said, "aud
told us this sad, sad news.”
j nodd ed silently.
“If we had o Iv known it yesterday,”
Hn ,, oon tinned, “you would never have
h,. a r d what \\c then said. This makes so
vast a difference. Julia could not have l>e
Oomo VOU r wife while there was another
woman living whom vou loved more. You
understand her feeling right.”
“Yes,” 1 said. “Julia is
My brother aud 1 have been talking
about the change "would this will make,” sho re
sumed. “Ho not rob yon of any
consolation or of any future happiness; j
not for worlds. He relinquishes all claim
b , or Roue of. Julia s affection_”
' That would bo unjust to sncriti'ced Julia, ” I inter
rupted. ” She must not be to me
any longer. 1 do not suppose 1 shall ever
marry___'
-■ You must marry. Martin." she inter
rupted cally; in her turn, altogether aud speaking einpliati
“von are unfitted for a
bachelor's life. It is all very well for Doc
tor John Senior, who has never known a
woman without s companionship, and who can do '
it. li t it is misery to you___this
cold, colorless life. No. i)f all the men
3 ever knew, von are the least fitted for a
sim.lebfe." '
• p, -.haps [ am." I admitted, as I recalled
niv longing for seme sign of womanhood
a'ooiit our bachelor dwelling.
-[ um certain of it.” she said. "Now.
but for eur precipitation last night, you
would have gone naturally to Julia for
comfort. So my brother sends word that
he i- going hack to Guernsey to-night,
leaving u> in Hanover street, where we are
close to you. We have said nothing to
Julia yet Sue is crying over this sad news
mourning for \our sorrow. You know
[!ut mv brother has not sjtokeu direct!y to
j, du of bls ] ove . a!ld now all that is in the
,„ lst . and is to be as if it bad never been. I
H1! ,j C an goon exactly as if we had not
had that conversation vesterdav.*
• Hut thit cannot be." 1 ren oustratad. “I j
cannot consent to Julia wasting her lov*
" ; t £ an a nv woman now living” she
-
*' ... ▼ A*%ijg(1
„*•* r &
ig Julia requires,” she con
tinned" “so let us sav ' no more at present, idea of
^ unde stand that all
marriage betw en her and my brother is
^uite put f away. Don't argue with me;
don’t contradict me. Come to see us as
you would have done but for that nnfortu
nate conversation last nicht. All will com©
right by-and-by. n
“But Captain Carey-—- i began.
"There! not a word, she^ interrupted,
imperatively. “Tell me all about that
vtrnieb, Richard f °*te ; ' °
com-? across hm? he likely to die?
he an}thing like hate Dal rey. I wlI »
call her Kate Dobree as long as He >
lasts. Come, Martin, tell me e\er\ -~
^ ^7 with me most of the faoruing.
talking ^vailed with animated perseverance, aud at
, ast upon mo to take heFa walk
j n J[ V( J 0 X'ark. Her pertinacity did me
„ ood , n K j,jte of the irritation it caused
m ,_ When her dinner-hour was af hand,
I f.-lt bound to attend her to her house in
Hanover street, and I could not get away
f h er without first speaking to Julia,
H er face was very sorrowful, and her words man
ner gympatbetic . but We said only a few with the
to one another, I went awav
impression that her heart wag still with ae
CHAPTER XLII. r
A TORMENTING DOUBT, i
of At paying dinner visit Jack to announced Itichard Fosft. Ju'VjSffi* »'0D
a
“You are not fit to deal with the fellow,’ -
he said; “you may be sharp enough upon
yonr own black sheep in Guernsey, but
you know nothing % of the breed here. Now,
j Bee bi j in squeeze ' out of him
ev / mortal thi “ Ue k OOWH about 01ivia .
vvh re d d lhose pi‘ a , )e rs fome from?”
« xhere waB no { e9 given,” ” I answered,
- But lh(ire wou d be post-mark on the
envel . be replied; "I will make him
„how me the envelope “(ou they were in.”- he
"Jack," ’ I said, do atlf*" not suppose
hnB nny do ubts of her di
he answered. “Yon see he
' dead
baH Iliarried ttil andif shewe re not
(bat wonJd bi ,, amy J _ an ugly 0 J sort of
crime B t aro BU , 0 th ai e mar ried?"
“How can I be sure?” I asked, fretfully,
fo[ ^ ief as oft( . n makeg men fretful as
nl ^ not a8 k for their maniag#
t ficate M
..y Vel) a . e „ , I will go,” be answered,
j llWll ited his return with impatience.
"With this doubt insinuated by Jack, it be
$ jo seem almost incredible' that Olivia’s
u Uitively healthy frame should have
succumbed suddenly under a malady to
which Rhe had no original predisposition lonndness whatever. of
M „r,. OVt . r , her cn
Btjtutl0n ba d been strengthened by ten air
monlhs ' reB]den ce in the pure, bracing
of Sark. Yet what was I to think in face
„ f t , 1(>s0 , IU ,iute.l documents, and of her
own snort letter to ner nusnanar i no one
I know was genuine; why should 1 sup¬
pose tho others to be forged? And if
forgeries, who had been guilty of such a
cruel aud crafty artifice, and for what pur
pose? had found satisfactory
i not anv answer
to these queries before Jack returned, his
face kindled with excitement. He caught
my hand and grasped it heartily. than I
“I no more believe she is dead
am,” were his first words. “You recollect
me telling you of a druukon brawl in a
street off the Strand, where a fejiow, ns
drunk as a lord, was for claiming a j?rotty her
g - "Zit cf jZST^ ’ d ast
“wn/fidlen hi
recollect""’ ’ I.ye.
„)/’ ,,, s ' F' es > „ I T sa 'd. almost breathless.
" nB tb « 01lfla was the
«H?.' , ..t* 0 " x f cri Mn . ‘ ed Juck "
",,, contmued. .. 1T Jack,with , ... anaffection- „
ate , hinge at me; at any rate I can swear
! 10 ls t!l ‘! ar "? 1 " oa ' d bet a thousand
to one that the girl was Olivw.
_But when was it? I asked,
Since he married again, he answered;
th ''.'', wero married on the second of October
and this was early in November. I had
f°' le to Ridley s after a place for a poor
Fcllovv as an assistant to a druggist, and I
saw the K'H distiuctly. She gave the name |
of Rlleli Mnrtinenu. llioso lette s abou
,r Olivia death, snot, are all forgeries, I said; I know her hand
'
Well, then, observed , , Jack, . i there is
only one explanation. She has sent thmn
herself to throw Foster off the scent; she
Hunks she will be safe if he believes her
de ®‘V
No ,, 1 _ answered, , , hotly; ,, . she , would ,,
- ;
never have done such a thing as that,
\\ ho else is benefited by it? ho asked,
gravely. It does not put Foster into pos
session of any of nor property, or tnat :
would have been a motive for him to do it. j
But ho gains nothing by it, and he is so
convinced ot her death that he has taken a
second wife.
It was difficult to hit upon any other ex
plnnation, firmly yet convinced I could not that credit Olivia this could one.
I felt
aot ho guilty of an artifice so cunning. I 1
was deceived in her, indeed, if she would
descend to any fraud so cruel. But I could
not discuss Tiudif the question the ouly even with Jack who j
s, uior. wus person
know Olivia well enough to make his
opinion of any value. Besides, my mind
was not as clear as Jack’s that she was the
girl he had seen in November. .Yet tho
doubt other death was full of hope; it
made the earth more habitable, and life
mor. endurable.
“What can I do now?” I said, speaking
aloud, though I was thinking to myself.
“Martin,” he replied, gravely, “isn't stands? it i
wisest to leave the matter as it ,
If you find Olivia, what then? She if as -
much separated from you as sho can bp by
death So long as Foster lives it is worse
than useless to be thinking of her. There !
is no misery like that of hanging about a
woman you have no right to love.”
“I only wish to satisfy myself that she is 1
alive,’’ I answered. “Just think of it,:
Jack, not to know whether sho is livinf or I
dead! You must help me the to satisfy valuable piy
self. Foster has got only
thing she had she in her possession. in absolute an<|- Wan" if !
she is living, may with be that dread t.
I cannot be content on mv
mind. There can be no harm in my taking j
some care of her at a distance. This mys
tery would be intolerable to me.”
"You're right, old fellow,” he said, cor
dtallr: “we will go to Ridley's togetherto
morrow morning."
AYe were there soon after the doors were
open. There clerks were not manyclientspres- slack!
ent, and the were eujoying a
tune. Jack lmd recalled to his mind the
exact date of his former visit, and thus the
sole difficulty was overcome. The clerk
found the name of Ellen Hartineau en
tered upon that date in his book.
"Yes,” he said. “Miss Ellen Martineeu,
English teacher in a French school; pre
mium to be paid, about £10: no sa iryj
reference. Mrs. Wilkinson, No. 10 BelU
ringer street.”
[to bx coyTixvTtP.i
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in this world is from other men. No
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