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/ A Sweet Breath
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T & eT R U A N T S O U L
b y Victor Rousseau
Ceprnshi h , W . C. O i«pev»e
CHAPTER IX— Continued
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"A t first, when 1 came here, It was
only at times that he'd take the mor
phine, and then he'd have terrible out
bursta of rage, and his mind would go,
especially when he’d have those fits
after be came back from Avoumouth.
But after that tha hoodoo got him.
That w ai when I was afraid.”
“The hoodoo?" Inquired Joan.
"Ulsg Wentworth, the devil who
was at him so long got hold of him
once or twice. I ’ve seen him come
back from Avonmouth a different man.
Miss Wentworth. That’s when I ’ve
been afraid. Because the devil that
can kill tha body Isn't much of a
devil, but when he kills the soul there
la no help but prayer. When he’s In
those dreadful moods he's another
man. He's a wicked man, Miss Went
worth, and I ’d shoot him then, If he
tried to harm me or any of mine, and
I wouldn't think I’d killed Doctor Lan
caster. It all began after they accused
him of stealing the trust funds”
“ It la not true,” said Joan.
" I ’m sure It Isn't, Miss Wentworth.
But you see old Doctor Lancaster
didn't leave the charge of the fund
to his son; he left It In the care of
the trustees. And there were com
plications about the hospital at Avon
mouth. And then, after the doctor’s
bride ran away on the eve of their
marriage It changed all hla nature.”
“ I have heard of that,” said Joan
quietly. "But we must not discuss
that In the doctor's absence.”
"Why, everybody knows about that.
Miss Wentworth. Before It happened
they say the doctor was the moat re
spected man In Lancaster. He’d been
horn here, yon know, on the planta
tion down In the valley Millville way.
She was a Miss Reid. She came rrom
Farnley county. She was the reigning
belle there, admired and flattered, and
It turned her heart to a atone to have
all the men after her, crazy to marry
her. The doctor was a young man
then, and he couldn't see any further
Into her heart, such as It was, than
the rest of them.
"She led the doctor a chase before
she promised him, they say. But the
very day before their marriage was to
have been she left her home without
a word to anyone, to go off with an
other man who's never been discov
ered. That broke the doctor up. He
took to drugs then, they tell me. The
Inatltnte had been a big place before;
It stood over on Morley’s hill, but It
burned down one night, and we took
this old farm honae. And the doctor
wag using the funds, they said, and
wasn’t responsible at all.
“The trustees found that the money
was gone.
Nobody knew where It
went, because the doctor had his own
Inheritance, and he wasn’t the man to
iteal or squander. They wouldn't do
anything to him, because of his fam
ily, but they put Mr. Myers In charge
of the finances. That's all. None of
us liked him, but what could we do
about It? He was here when Doctor
Jenkins and I were appointed, and as
soon as we understood how matters
were we agreed to stay aa long as we
could and try to help the doctor.”
"Mrs. Fraser, I want to know why
Mr. Myers Incited Doctor Lancaster
to nse morphine,” said Joan.
“ Miss Wentworth—”
“ You know he did.
You told me
so. And Doctor Jenkins knows.”
The matron looked agitated. "What
could we do?” she cried. "Suppose
we knew, what ran two people do
against a man like Myers? Suppose
we had said go, who would have be
lieved ua? We did all we could do;
and we all love the doctor and would
rather stay with him and help where
we could than be discharged and do
nothing.”
She looked at Joan piteously, like a
child caught In wrong-doing.
" I know you did your best,” an
swered the girl. "But why should
Doctor Lancaster stay here In Myers'
power, Instead of at hla borne In
Avonmouth, where he la respected
and powerful? Nothing of all this la
known there.”
The matron wrung her hands. “ I
don’t know,” she answered. " I sup
pose that man has had him by the
throat In more ways than we know.
Whenever the doctor used to go to
Avonmouth Mr. Myers would go with
him, and generally he'd come back
with him. Miss Wentworth, till you
came here the doctor wasn't a man;
what with hla drugs and the bold Mr.
Myers had over him, he was Just a
machine.
And Mr. Myers was the
driver.”
Joan had the feeling that she should
not listen to the matron’s talk about
Lancaster; It seemed disloyal of h e r;
but she felt, too, that she must know
more, and apeedily, If she was to
thwart that menacing evil which she
sensed more and more clearly as the
momenta passed.
"Miss Wentworth," said the matron,
placing her hand on the girl's aim
firmly, “there’i something else I ought
to have told yon about. Mrs. Dana—"
“ H ark!” Interrupted Joan, holding
up her hand for alienee.
Then they heard, a long distance
away, and Inaudible to one whose at
tention was not strained, like theirs,
tha sound of the wheels of Jenkins'
buggy
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Joan hurried oat - 310 a the veranda
and stood peering under bar raised
hand across the rain awaasped fields
to where the carriage road wound la
and out among the hills. The sun
had set, and It waa beginning to grow
dusk; a bat was flitting under the
eaves, and the ateady downpour never
ceased. Mrs. Fraser, who had moved
to follow the girl, went back Into her
room. There was a queer, troubled
pucker about her Ups, and once she
went to the door and looked Intently
at Joan, who had not stirred from her
position of expectancy.
Presently, looking out through the
dripping trees, Joan could see the
buggy crawling up the hill through
the mud. Slowly It moved along the
road. Jenkins waa driving, and there
were two men with him, not one. Joan
recognized Lancaster; then she per
ceived, first the hard hat, next Myers'
face under It.
She shuddered. The worst had come
about, then. But the last battle was
joined, and under her fears she felt
a hardening of her spiritual resources.
She would not falter. She went slow
ly toward the top of the three low
wooden steps, and stood there like a
statue, watching the buggy pass up
the weed-grown drive until It came to
1 standstill.
Lancaster and Myers were laughing
together, and, aa Myers saw the girl,
he said something, and the other
threw back hla head in merriment.
Myers was the first to descend. He
raised hla hat to Joan and grinned.
“The doctor’s come back quite safe,
you see,” be said, “ and feeling fine
again.”
Joan hardly noticed the man; she
was bracing herself to bear what was
to come.
Lancaster got out, and Jenkins, con
trary to hla custom, lashed the horse
violently and drove rapidly away.
Myers and Lancaster came up the
steps of the porch together. Now Lan
caster was raising his bat In turn, and
under It waa the face of the smirking
bully of the operating theater at the
Avonmouth hospital.
“ Well, I had a fine trip to Avon
mouth, my dear, and I hurried back as
fast as 1 could, to see you. 1 couldn’t
stay away from you very long. Joan,
after you saved my life. And I per
suaded Mr. Myers to return with me.
We're all going to be good friends.
Mrs. Fraser! Mrs. Fraser I Where
the devil are you?” he bawled.
Mra. Fraser’s frightened face ap
peared at the door. “ Here, air I" she
stammered.
“ Is supper ready? I f so. we’ll all
eat together."
"It's waiting, sir. I'll lay another
place," said the matron.
"Good 1 Then we’ll go in. What do
you say, Joan, darling? Aren't yofl
glad to see me?” he asked, linking his
arm In the girl's and advancing his
face within a few Inches of hers.
W’ lth a sob Joan tore herself away
from him and ran upstairs at the top
of her speed. She waa choking with
grief and shame. Hard as she ran,
she knew her flight was an Incentive
to Lancaster to follow her. He went
after her aa fast as he could, and, as
she slammed the door of her room,
his hand was on the knob outside. She
was Just too late to turn the key.
"Joan I Joan 1 Open the door and
don't act like a little fo o l!” he shout
ed.
"W hat’s the matter with you?
Ain't you glad I’ve come back? Say,
I've got a half dozen bottles of the
fizzy stuff In my bag, and we three
will make a night of It.”
"Oh, won't you please leave me?”
pleaded Joan. "Try to remember how
—how different you were yesterday.”
“ That's true 1” he swore. “ I'm dif
ferent now. I was a sanctimonious
mug yesterday. I'm In my right mind
today. It gave me the blue creeps,
being cooped up here in this uod-
forsaken place. I tell yon, Joan, now
that I've had enough good liquor to
soak that morphine out of my system
I'm feeling like a king. Say, now,
come down to supper, like a good lit
tle girl, and we’ll have a great time
together. Myers doesn't bear any lll-
feellng. And we'll pat hint out after
a while and finish up the bottles our
selves. And say— ”
He was advancing toward her with
hla arms outstretched. Joan sprang
back to the waahstand and snatched
up the half-filled pitcher, with such an
evident determination to defend her
self with It that the man fell back
scowling.
"Joan, don't be a little Jackass!"
he shouted angrily.
“ I know what
yon mean when you look at me like
that. You think you're above being
Jolly and sociable, Just because I don’t
choose to stand on my dignity tonight.
Did you expect me to go about al
ways looking like a sanctified mummy,
aa I did when I waa III7”
“ Listen, Doctor Lancaster,” panted
the girl. ” 1 am not going to judge you
by wha» you are saying now. Leave
me, and tomorrow, If you are yourself,
1 shall be willing to hear your explan
ation, because I know It Is not your
better self that Is speaking. I.pave
iny room now, please. Immediately 1”
The man glared at her; but he waa
dominated, In spite of himself, by her
courage and apparent calmness.
“Well, I'm not going to fight with
you before I've had my supper,” he
answered.
"You think things over,
and In a little while I guess you'll tee
them In a different light. You can't
fool me with those mock alra and
graces, dearie.
I've teen them In
women before.
Used to believa In
them once, ton, till I found it meant
that It was going to coat me more In
the end. You come down and net
straight, Joan— seer'
He clemmed the door viciously be
hind him. Joan fell apoa her knees
betide her bed. Thera, tearless, hut
shaken with her grief, ebe poured cut
a wild prayer for the lost tool of the
man. This was worse than anything
she could have divined. Better by far
that he had returned as on that earlier
day, drugged and possessed by the
morphine spirit than In the chains of
this devil. Better that he had died.
For Lancaster, even when the shifty,
false, lying drug fiend was In control
of hjm, had never been vicious and
vile like this before.
And yet this was the John Lancas
ter of the Southern hospital. It waa
the traditional Lancaster In hla hour
of relaxation.
He treated women
shamefully, as a gossiping nurse had
said. Joan had never been In fear of
physical harm as she was now. She
rose from her knees, looking wildly
about her. Then she heard footatepa
outside, and she sprang back across
the room.
But It was only the matron. Mra.
Fraser cast a scared glance at her and
ran forward. “ What did he say to
you?" she cried.
“ I am afraid of him.
I dare not
stay here. Where shall I go?” cried
Joan, losing all self-control.
In the midst of her terror Joan sud
denly realized that the look upon the
matron's face was the same aa on her
first night, when they had held a brief
conversation In the same room.
For a moment Mrs. Fraser did not
answer her. The women drew togeth
er, listening. They were having sup
per below, conversing In boisterous
tones and laughing loudly. Joan heard
her own name spoken, and a renewed
outburst of mirth followed.
“ Mrs. Fraser,” said Joan, “the Doc
tor Lancaster whom I respect and
honor Is not In that man’s body. I
am going away. I am going at once.
I shall ask Doctor Jenkins to protect
me until tomorrow. He la a gentle
man ; he will do so.”
“ You can't go through this storm,"
exclaimed the other, and, aa she spoke,
Joan realized that the wind had risen
to a hurricane, and the houghs
creaked and snapped like pistol shots.
“ You must stay here tonight. Stay
with me, and I ’ll swear he shall not
hurt you. Look at this 1"
She pulled a revolver from beneath
her apron and handed It to Joan.
“I've kept that ever alnce the last
time he came back like this, when he
went raving among the patients, mad
with liquor. That was the end of the
institution. He frightened a sick girl
almost to death. Use It on him If you
must—use it, because It won't be him
you'll kill, but the devil that's got
him.”
She was almost Incoherent with fear
and excitement. Joan took the re
volver and slipped It Into the pocket
of her uniform.
Oddly enough, ahe
felt that the Lancaster of that eve
ning had so grossly wronged the Lan
caster of earlier days that to kill him
would he to avenge an Intolerable out
rage.
She hated him with all the
Intensity of which her heart waa
capable, hated him for the wrong he
had done himself, the outrage on their
love; and under the hate the flame
of the love she had borne burned pure
and clear.
It was long since dark, but the maid
had not lit the lamp outside Mrs.
Dana’s door, near the head of the
stairs. The moon had not yet risen.
The women crept cautiously along the
hall.
Lancaster and the secretary were In
Myers' room. The door was open.
Joan heard a cork fly with a bang,
and the gurgle of the champagne In
glasses.
Their voices were ralaed
high, and there came the sound of a
scuffle.
"Sit down 1” the secretary was cry
ing. “ Do you want to be a fool and
spoil everything?
Leave her alone
until tomorrow.”
"I'm d— d If I dot” cried Lancaster.
"W alt a minute! Listen to met
You agreed to come back here and put
her out. Why don't you do It now?”
Lancaster laughed coarsely. "B e
cause she’s too d—n pretty, Myers,”
he answered.
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