{"1": {"fulltext": "FT MEPDE\\nGenCol 1", "height": "3029", "width": "2008", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.\\nChap!T.Z3 Copyright No,\\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA.", "height": "2971", "width": "1842", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2971", "width": "1842", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "1\\nI\\ni\\nf\\nf", "height": "2971", "width": "1842", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night", "height": "2971", "width": "1842", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2971", "width": "1842", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nA Comedy of a Western\\nMining Town\\nClara Parker\\nDoubleday McClure Co.\\nNew York 1900\\n4 j\\n1", "height": "2971", "width": "1842", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "TWO Copies heceivejd.\\nLibrary of CoBgprMn^\\nOfflOQ 0 f lln\\nMAR 1 4 1900\\nB\u00c2\u00bb9lat|ir of Copyrl^bt\u00c2\u00abr\\n56759\\nCopyright, 1897, by\\nS. S. McCLUKE CO.\\nCopyright, 1900, by\\nDOUBLEDAY McCLURE CO.\\nOOPV.\\n*5\u00e2\u0080\u009c%^\\nv\\\\A-#s/i^r i\u00c2\u00a7\\no e", "height": "2971", "width": "1842", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night", "height": "2971", "width": "1842", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "I", "height": "2971", "width": "1842", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nI am not going to lead up to my story\\ngracefully, for when you have learned that\\nmy name is George Manning and that I\\nwas, at the time the thing happened, visit-\\ning my married sister in one of the liveli-\\nest, roughest, and most altogether corrupt\\nmining towns to which a lady of culture was\\never carried by an adoring husband, you\\nknow all that it is needful you should know\\nof me, prior to my little hurst of notoriety.\\nMy sister was very proud of me whether\\njustly or unjustly I am not prepared to say\\nand immediately on my arrival began\\nflooding her house with all the single ladies\\nfor miles around, in the hope, I was well\\naware, that some one of the undeniably\\nfine creatures would tempt me to desert\\nmy business in the East and set up for a\\n1", "height": "2971", "width": "1842", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nfamily man on some of the ranches or in\\nsome of the mines which in the form of\\ndowries hung about the persons of these\\nalready alluring young things.\\nI had no intention of following out her\\nsecret desires, but I had not the slightest\\nobjection to making myself as agreeable\\nas nature would permit; and all went\\nsmoothly until one day I awoke to the fact\\nthat a severe pain was racking at my lower\\njaw, which, finding itself unable to contain\\nthis pain within ordinary limits, had\\nswelled itself up to a degree shocking to\\nbehold. As kind-hearted a woman as ever\\nlived, my sister was perfectly brutal in her\\ncomments on my appearance, and made it\\nso plain that she expected me to keep out\\nof sight of the numerous callers with which\\nher house was always thronged, that I\\nskulked about all that day like a forlorn\\nleper, a large bandage about my head and\\na very displeasing ointment imparting a\\npungent odour to my entire person.\\nNight came, and I was no better. My\\nsister became desperate. There was noth-\\n2", "height": "2971", "width": "1842", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\ning for it\u00e2\u0080\u0094 I must be lanced. The pain\\nhad stopped by this time, and I pleaded de-\\nlay, but was scornfully refused. I hinted\\nat rebellion, and then my fears were meanly\\nplayed upon. Who could tell but that my\\ndisorder might be some deep-seated affec-\\ntion of the bone I laughed softly at this,\\nbut was promptly frowned down. Dr.\\nA must be seen. He knew every-\\nthing.\\nWell, send for him, then!\\nBut no he must not be sent for; he\\nwas in delicate health; I must go to him.\\nWhat! In this high wind. I was in\\ndelicate health myself\\nNonsense. There was nothing the mat-\\nter with me.\\nThen why go for a doctor\\nI will not write down all my pitiful\\nefforts at logic with a woman, and that\\nwoman a sister. I went, of course an\\nunsightly mass of shawls in a close car-\\nriage; and after a long drive, during which\\nI went to sleep, I was admitted into the\\npresence of the most disagreeable man I\\n3", "height": "2971", "width": "1842", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\never met none other than the great doc-\\ntor himself, who was eating what smelled\\nlike very poor soup out of a large bowl,\\nand who insulted me the moment I ex-\\nplained my business. I was pitifully ser-\\nvile, but to no purpose. I abused myself\\nin bitter terms; I jeered at my own folly\\nin supposing my case worthy of his notice\\nbut I could not soften his judgment by a\\nhair\u00e2\u0080\u0099s breadth. I meanly laid my indig-\\nnity at my sister\u00e2\u0080\u0099s door, and told him as\\nmirthfully as possible that she had feared\\nsome trouble with the bone. For answer\\nhe drove a lancet in my swollen jaw to its\\nvery hilt, and stopped my speech with my\\nown blood.\\nI could have shrieked aloud, but for the\\ncontempt in his eye; and then he called\\nmy trouble a \u00e2\u0080\u0098^gum-boil,\u00e2\u0080\u009d as the most\\natrocious thing he could lay his tongue to\\nand while the cold sweat of pain was dry-\\ning on me, I handed him a large bill, from\\nwhich I got no change.\\nI should have been gone in a moment,\\nand what did happen never would have\\n4", "height": "2971", "width": "1842", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nhappened, but my bandages kept me.\\nWhile I stood in the cold hall fumbling\\nwith them, another patient, or at least an-\\nother caller, entered. Not a meek, de-\\njected figure this time, with his head tied\\nup in shawls, but a great, aggressive crea-\\nture in a huge coat, with a heavy, stamping\\nstep, and a smell of new leather about him,\\nwhich probably came from his long-wristed\\ndriving gloves. He paid no attention to\\nme indeed, he could scarcely have seen me,\\nI stood so far back in the shade but strode\\non into the presence of the doctor, leaving\\nthe door open and having a general air of\\nhurry and impatience.\\nIt is all going down just as it happened,\\nso I may as well confess that I was con-\\nscious of a sudden vulgar curiosity as to\\nthe reception of my successor.\\nDr. A I believe! exclaimed the\\nnewcomer in the loud, aggressive tone\\naffected by the hack-driver and travelling\\nshowman, and then stopped which was\\nmore than the doctor did, for he kept on\\nwith his soup, rattling the spoon against\\n5", "height": "2971", "width": "1842", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nhis false teeth at each mouthful with a vin-\\ndictive, stabbing movement. \u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098Well,\u00e2\u0080\u009d he\\nsnarled at length, setting down the empty\\nbowl and fixing the man with a savage\\nscowl, \u00e2\u0080\u009cwhat\u00e2\u0080\u0099s the matter with you?\\nHave you got a gum-boil, too?\u00e2\u0080\u009d This\\nlast with contempt unutterable. This was\\ntoo much Of course the newcomer knew\\nnothing of me and my trouble, so was\\nignorant of the creature\u00e2\u0080\u0099s meaning; but\\nremembering the pain of that boil, if I\\nmust so call it, I felt that it should have\\nreceived more respectful treatment, and I\\nwas on the verge of doing something rash,\\nwhen the doctor again surprised me.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cShut that door!\u00e2\u0080\u009d he screamed, but\\nwhether at me or my successor, I could\\nnot tell. Evidently the man thought that\\nhe was addressed, for muttering an excla-\\nmation not strictly moral, he closed the\\ndoor with a bang that made me wink.\\nI came to myself at that, and a little\\nashamed of lurking there, I finished my\\nbundling hastily, and withdrew with state-\\nliness. My carriage was waiting for me\\n6", "height": "2971", "width": "1842", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\njust where I had left it, which should have\\nsurprised me, considering that I had told\\nthe man not to wait, as I felt inclined for\\nsome exercise after my day\u00e2\u0080\u0099s retirement.\\nThis, however, I failed to remember, only\\nobserving, as I climbed inside, that there\\nwas no one in the driver\u00e2\u0080\u0099s seat. Doubt-\\nless he was a tippling animal, and had\\nstepped across the way to that cosy little\\nsaloon I saw there. Another time I would\\nnot have grudged him his little fling, but\\nI was growing decidedly ill-tempered, and\\nmeanly plotted how I should disconcert\\nhim on his return.\\nIt was a gratifying thought as I huddled\\nmyself upon the seat to wait his coming.\\nI had been so ignominiously handled my-\\nself, that the consciousness of the power I\\nheld over my sister\u00e2\u0080\u0099s hireling elevated me al-\\nmost to where I had stood in my own mind\\nbefore the occurrence of this affair of the\\nboil! Petty? Of course it was; naked\\nhuman nature is a horrid thing to look at\\nunder the scourge of bodily afflictions.\\nI had been sitting for some moments and\\n7", "height": "2971", "width": "1842", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nwas just getting warm and comfortable\\nunder the robes, when I heard the coach-\\nman mount hurriedly to his seat. I began\\ngathering myself to give him a surprise,\\nwhen the carriage-door was flung open by\\na rude hand, and a tall, muffled figure\\nbounded in like some captured animal\\nforced behind the bars by a keeper\u00e2\u0080\u0099s lash.\\nIn my surprise I sat passive, so might\\nor might not have been observed. Any-\\nway, I got no greeting; and my informal\\nfriend was just settling himself into the\\nseat opposite, when, muttering in a voice\\nmuffled by many wrappings, I\u00e2\u0080\u0099ve forgot-\\nten the other case,\u00e2\u0080\u009d he bounded to his\\nfeet, and reopening the door, framed his\\nlips for a peevish call to the driver. At\\nleast, to be perfectly exact, that is what I\\nthink this intruder designed doing; but\\nowing to circumstances I shall never\\nknow to an exact certainty, for at that\\nmoment there came a loud, impatient\\ncrack of the whip, the horses bounded for-\\nward into the night, while I well, I was\\ndazed and bewildered, my jaw was still\\n8", "height": "2971", "width": "1842", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nracked with the pain of the late operation,\\nan uncomfortable sensation of coagulated\\nblood lay about my teeth, and when you\\nadd to this my injured self-love as well as\\nmy annoyance at the glaring insubordina-\\ntion of the driver, it would seem to me\\nthere was sufficient excuse for what fol-\\nlowed. It is true, and I have never de-\\nnied it, that the check-strap was at that\\nmoment wrthin easy reach of my hand;\\nand bloodless critics now claim that reason\\ndemanded I should pull it, stop the car-\\nriage, denounce the coachman, confront\\nthe intruder, and otherwise air the various\\nitems of the mystery in which I thought\\nmyself involved but I scorn their logic.\\nAs I have before explained, the city in\\nwhich my sister lived was in the ferment-\\ning state of growth. It was gorged with\\npicked-up gold, and red-handed with strife\\nas to who should own it. I am a full-\\nblooded person myself, and the suspicion\\nthat I was being made the victim of some\\nrascality acted on me like a pleasing in-\\ntoxicant. All seemed then explained; the\\n9", "height": "2971", "width": "1842", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\ntemporary absence of the coachman from\\nhis box, the insolent freedom of the in-\\ntruder all pointed as clear as noonday\\ndown the road to dark suspicion. Acting\\non my first impulse, I sprang like a\\nwounded hyaena across the carriage, and\\nhad my companion by the throat, nor did\\nI relax my grip upon the scrawny thing\\nuntil the sudden fiash of a street light re-\\nvealed to me in the horror-stricken face\\npeering at me above my rigid knuckles the\\nill-favoured features of Dr. A now\\ntwined about and darkly framed by a\\nhuge muffler, scarcely less in dimensions\\nthan the one twisted about my swollen\\njaw.\\nIt was like a sudden thunder-clap, and\\nthough, when you considered the man\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\\ndisposition and his standing in society, my\\nthrottling him like a common thief was an\\nact for which there would be no pardon\\ngranted, yet it was my plain duty to let\\ngo and apologize. I did let go, but with\\nwhat sickening results I hardly have the\\ncourage to record.\\n10", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nKemember, please, that the carriage-\\ndoor was still open, that Dr. A was\\nalready half-way out, and that the horses\\nwere going at full speed. A sudden jerk\\nwas all that was needed and the jerk\\ncame. For one instant the unfortunate\\nman toppled where he stood, while his\\neyes glared into mine with rage and fear,\\nand his lean throat struggled hoarsely with\\na sound; and with a little, involuntary\\nshriek, I saw him make a dreadful plunge,\\nstand fairly upright on his head and shoul-\\nders, and collapse in a mashed, sickening\\nfashion into the shallow gutter.\\nNow, indeed, the carriage should have\\nbeen stopped, and no further trifling about\\nit; but a strange stupidity crept over me\\nas I stood craning my head back to the\\nspot we were fast leaving in our wake, un-\\ntil a second flash of light revealed a fact to\\nme which brought me down upon the car-\\nriage seat, very mild and limp, my mind\\nfilled with serious speculations about the\\nawkwardness of the scrape I had got my-\\nself into.\\n11", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nI was not in my sister\u00e2\u0080\u0099s carriage and\\nmore, there now floated before me the dis-\\ntinct remembrance of having dismissed the\\ncoachman at the doctor\u00e2\u0080\u0099s door. Yes,\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nran on my mind in morbid detail, I had\\ndismissed my driver, had sought out the\\ngreat man with my sordid complaint, had\\nlingered in his passage-way, had hidden\\nin his carriage, had flown at him like an\\navenging tiger-cat, and now he lay a dead\\nman by the roadside, with heaven knows\\nhow many witnesses to our death-struggle,\\nin full tilt to set the legal bloodhounds on\\nmy trail. And there was my coachman\\nstill at large with his tale to tell, and there\\nwas the possibility of last words which my\\nvictim might falter forth upon some offi-\\ncial breast, stamping me as his assailant.\\nThat the man was dead seemed my only\\nhope, and I sat and nursed my horrid\\nthought until my mind was a charnel-\\nhouse of ghastly speculation. How far\\nremoved I seemed from the peaceful sor-\\nrows of yesterday, and how I cursed my\\nstupid forgetfulness about the carriage and\\n13", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "An Eventfui Night\\nmy unseemly haste to throttle an innocent\\nman on whose privacy I had intruded\\nIn the meantime the carriage sped on,\\non, and on, faster and yet faster, and still\\nI sat there dull and lumpish, trying to\\nform my vapid plans as to what I should\\ndo when it should stop. Then I think\\nthat the real folly of my actions began, for\\nit occurred to me that, after all, there\\nwould not be so much to startle the driver.\\nDr. A and I were much the same\\nheight; we both happened to be much\\nbundled about the head; what was there\\nto prevent my alighting without suspicion,\\nand then watch my chance to cut and\\nrun, leaving the charge of sudden madness\\nto rest on the memory of Dr. A when\\nhis corpse should be discovered by the\\nroadside That I battled with these\\nthoughts I well remember, but their fas-\\ncination grew upon me, and I kept return-\\ning to them at intervals until my whole\\nline of action, despite the efforts of my\\nreason, was clearly mapped out before me.\\nGradually, too, the whole thing grew\\n13", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nupon me as funny and theatrical, and\\neven the certainty which possessed me\\nthat the dead body of that unpleasant\\ndoctor still lay by the roadside could not\\nhinder me from a certain awful relish in\\nit. In vain did I force myself to dwell on\\nthe shocking figure he must cut; but all\\nthat guilt and shame could do for me, in\\nthe state of mind I then endured, was to\\nforce from me a general forgiveness of his\\noffensive treatment of me. That done,\\nmy moral sense would budge no further.\\nAnd now another disquiet laid hold\\nupon me. It was becoming painfully evi-\\ndent that we must have long since passed\\nbeyond the limits of the city. No lights\\nnow fiashed in at the carriage windows;\\nno opposing roll of wheels deadened the\\nsound of our vehicle as it rattled over the\\nfrozen ground, and as my mind glanced\\nabout \u00e2\u0080\u0099midst the tales of rural bloodshed-\\nding I had heard, of masked men .rising\\nlike conjurers\u00e2\u0080\u0099 puppets before the belated\\ntraveller, of ill-gotten gains that had been\\nmade to vanish like a vision, I began con-\\n14", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nstructing headlines for the next day\u00e2\u0080\u0099s issue\\nin which the name of George Manning was\\nconspicuous.\\nThere was no getting out unless I chose\\nthe certain death of a broken neck to the\\nmore shadowy horrors with which I was\\nthreatened. Suddenly, it seemed, we be-\\ngan going sheer up. Five, ten, fifteen\\nminutes, and still we climbed, until my\\nfaculties became absorbed in the mere act\\nof holding on. A whiteness, as of the\\nsnow which I knew still lingered among\\nthe mountains, threw a glare into the\\npitchy darkness of the night. The horses\\nslipped, the driver swore, and I hung on,\\nwhile the wind struck mournful chords on\\nthe branches of the lonely pines. \u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098The\\nman is mad,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I gasped, as I dug my nails\\ninto things about me. Is mad, is mad,\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nmoaned the rising wind but who was mad\\nit did not tell. Perhaps I, perhaps the\\ndriver. Heavens, what a lurch! And\\nnow the carriage has stopped, and with it\\nmy heart had stopped also. My nerves,\\nplayed on by the mournful wind and the\\n15", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\npitchy night, are tingling like a child\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\\nhut there is no escape A glare of light\\nbursts in through the carriage door, and I\\nfind myself groping for the medicine chest\\nleft upon the seat by Dr. A\\nThings could not have turned out worse\\nfor me. I had made certain in my own\\nmind that the carriage would stop at some\\nentrance remote from the house, and that,\\nwhile the driver\u00e2\u0080\u0099s interest was centred on\\nhis horses, there would be ample time for\\nme to take wing. Imagine, then, my\\npanic when, directly following the burst\\nof light, a voice, not that of the driver\\nwith which I had grown familiar as he\\ncursed his beasts up the mountain side\\nbut smoother, one trained into a social\\nkey, exclaimed eagerly, So you are here\\nat last, doctor! We have been looking for\\nyou impatiently. She seems to be grow-\\ning worse rather than better.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cShe!\u00e2\u0080\u009d I could have sunk to the\\nearth. My patient then was a woman. I\\nhad not thought of this possibility. My\\nsoul was piteous with guilt. The plight\\n16", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nof the expectant patient had never before\\nentered my head. Suppose some victim\\nof acute neuralgia, some delicate female,\\nwas waiting in hysterical misery for a\\nfriendly dose of morphine; or some case\\nof chronic heart failure lay, cold and livid,\\nin dire need of one of the mystic drugs\\ncontained in the medicine chest I grasped\\nso limply\\nWell, I was desperate, there was no help\\nfor me. Heaven send the woman might\\nhe old and ugly, with no malady in reach\\nof earthly help! In despair I climbed\\nfrom the carriage, to find myself standing\\nin a glare of light before a long, rough\\nbuilding perched like an eagle\u00e2\u0080\u0099s nest upon\\nthe barren, desolate spot, while behind me\\nlay the blackness, the gulf-like abyss from\\nwhich we had crawled.\\nA dark, handsome man of some forty or\\nfifty was peering eagerly into my face, and\\nthe necessity for self-control suddenly pre-\\nsented itself to me with startling force.\\nIn my youth I had been much given to\\nparlor theatricals, and through all the con-\\n2 17", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nfusion of that moment those early days of\\ntraining came back to me like the whisper-\\ning of angel voices. The voice of the ac-\\ncepted stage doctor in my day had been\\nbluff, though pleasant my voice should\\nbe bluff, though pleasant.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098A rough ride,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I said, huddling my\\ncoat about me as in fancy I moved up and\\ndown before the footlights with an easy\\nstage stride. \u00e2\u0080\u009cWe have been the deuce\\nof a time getting here.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nI hope you are not suffering from the\\ncold,\u00e2\u0080\u009d exclaimed my companion politely,\\nas he moved up the steps of the building\\nbefore me. You seem heavily bundled.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nI got mixed up with a fool of a den-\\ntist,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I retorted, and then I swore dis-\\ncreetly. It would not do to be too nice in\\nmy language. Able old men rarely are.\\nMy companion murmured polite sym-\\npathy over the distress, and laughed in\\ngentle appreciation of my rugged dis-\\npleasure. Our teeth are sad burdens all\\nthrough life,\u00e2\u0080\u009d he said, as he conducted\\nme into a large, well-warmed, but badly\\n18", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nlighted apartment. \u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098We weep, and we\\nswell, and we go rickety and altogether\\nwrong until we get them, but no sooner\\nare they through than they commence again\\nto play the very deuce and all with us.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nAlthough attending me with courtesy, I\\ncould see that he was filled with a restless\\nimpatience which could hardly brook the\\nnecessary removing of my coat and rear-\\nrangement of my bandages, which, you\\nmay be sure, I took good care not to re-\\nmove from my face, and. which, swelled as\\nI was about my only visible eye, must have\\neffectually disguised me from my own\\nmother.\\nWhen you are quite warm we will go\\nupstairs,\u00e2\u0080\u009d he said grudgingly, as I\\nstretched my stiff hands towards the fire\\nbut I would not take the hint to hurry,\\nfor had the scaffold and halter been before\\nme, I could not have felt much greater\\nreluctance to go forth and meet them.\\nMy surroundings were, as I expected,\\ndecidedly suspicious. Though the items\\nwhich made up my evidence were innocent\\n19", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nenough individually, yet, looked at collec-\\ntively, they could not but appear peculiar,\\nseen in that country, at that hour of night,\\nand at that distance from anything like\\ncivilized restrictions. In the first place,\\nthe entire incongruity of the man himself\\nwith his surroundings was something that\\ndemanded explanation for here in a place\\nwhich would naturally suggest to your\\nmind a host either of the strictest hermit\\ntype, shaggy of hair and eloquent of a\\ngloomy past, or a toil-stained miner\\nwedded to his pipe and glass, I found a\\nman of town speech, one lately from the\\nhands of a thoughtful tailor, and bringing\\nwith him into that wilderness all the trou-\\nblesome necessities of civilized life; for\\nexample, the soft rug fiung down before\\nthe glowing grate, the books and papers\\ntossed everywhere about, and, above all,\\nthe snowy whiteness of exquisite table\\nlinen showing upon some shabby old ma-\\nhogany in the room beyond.\\nAll these marked the gentleman of taste.\\nThen why the comparative barbarity of his\\n20", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nretirement, why the unusual ornamenta-\\ntion of pistols upon his mantel shelf, why\\nhis haste and embarrassment, and why the\\nman-eating look of his great bloodhound,\\nthat kept privately testing the sharpness\\nof his yellow fangs on the legs of my\\ntrousers\\nYou may suppose that I did not remain\\nsuspiciously silent nor show myself offen-\\nsively curious as I noted all these little\\nfacts. No. Again my private theatricals\\ncame to my aid. In the days gone by I\\nhad been so accustomed to carrying on\\nlong monologues within three feet of the\\nstage villain, and keeping accurate watch\\nof the cue at which he was to lay me un-\\nconscious at his feet, while, to the audi-\\nence, I appeared perfectly blind to his\\nexistence, that at that trying time I was\\nenabled to make all my observations and\\nsilently kick the ugly brute which had\\nmarked me as suspicious, without drawing\\ndown upon my head anything like a doubt-\\nful scrutiny from the black, restless eyes\\nof my mysterious entertainer.\\n21", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nHe gave me his name as Brown,\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nwhich was so glaringly commonplace that\\nI privately rejected it, and could only be\\nthankful that, in his preoccupation, he\\npaid no heed to mine. I seemed to be a\\nmedical man to him, and nothing else.\\nWhen I could make no further excuse for\\ndelay we went out through a windy pas-\\nsage, and began mounting some stairs;\\nscandalous stairs they were, too, crooked\\nand steep, and so badly lighted I came\\nnear raking down my companion in a gen-\\neral crash before I grew accustomed to the\\nsemi-darkness. He bore with me pa-\\ntiently, however. \u00e2\u0080\u009cWe are dreadfully\\nprimitive here,\u00e2\u0080\u009d he said lightly; \u00e2\u0080\u009cbut as\\nyet electricity has only climbed the moun-\\ntain in its natural state.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nAs he spoke we reached an upper hall\\nwhere everything was in total darkness,\\nand when I paused, half-expecting the\\ncold muzzle of a revolver to be clapped\\nagainst my head, he took me gently by\\nthe arm, and led me like a shambling\\ndotard down its winding length, nor\\n22", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nseemed to notice how I dragged my feet\\ncautiously along the carpeted way and dug\\nin my heels at each fresh turn, so full was\\nI of remembered tales of yawning pits into\\nwhich victims, such as I, were made to\\nfall. Some of these pits had been lined\\nwith naked blades, and I seemed to feel\\ntheir sharp edges spearing at my joints.\\nIt was with a gasp of relief I paused with\\nmy guide at the extreme end of the pas-\\nsage, where, after a clicking sound which\\nI could have sworn was the turn of a key\\nin the lock, he swung a door open before\\nme, and I was gently pushed into the\\napartment of my patient.\\nWhile I was down-stairs in the presence\\nof my dark-browed companion and his\\nevil-looking animal, with the combative\\nthrill of suspected danger tingling through\\nmy veins, I wouldn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t have imagined that\\nI could ever feel the skulking criminal I\\ndid when I at length realized that I was\\nactually standing in the apartment of some\\nsuffering woman, in no licensed character,\\nwith no power to alleviate her sufferings,\\n23", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nmerely there as a frivolous adventurer,\\nthough, it may be conceded, an unfortu-\\nnate one. Any male relative would have\\nbeen justified, could I have been un-\\nmasked, in then and there pitching me\\nbodily from the window. Indeed, at that\\nmoment, I think I should have blessed\\nthe avenging foot which should have re-\\nmoved me from the scene of my confusion;\\nand yet had any one searched my heart\\nas I dragged my heels heavily behind me\\nacross the threshold, he would have found\\nit so filled with shame and contrition, so\\nabounding in respectful compassion, that,\\nhad he been a human being, he would\\nhave been more inclined to take me by the\\nhand and lead me forth like a pitying\\nelder brother.\\nA small white bed stood in one corner,\\ndraped about with some pinkish stuff, just\\nwhat I could not tell, for I had not the\\ntemerity to more than glance in that direc-\\ntion, and when a tall, portly woman rose\\nslowly from one of the dark corners and\\nconfronted me, I should certainly have sunk\\n34", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\ngrovelling at her feet, had she so much as\\npointed a finger of suspicion at me.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098How is she now, Mrs. Hoskins?\\nStill unconscious? asked my companion\\nshortly. He seemed filled with a restless\\nimpatience, and looked at the woman as\\nthough much inclined to leap at her throat\\nand drag the words from her, without wait-\\ning for the process of articulation.\\nFrom the look she gave him I gathered\\nthat she, too, felt that time was grudged\\nher, but she was of a rambling habit of\\nthought, and could not concentrate, what-\\never the need. She\u00e2\u0080\u0099s been a-laying much\\nas you see her, sir; but I give her them\\ndrops,\u00e2\u0080\u009d she said nervously. That\u00e2\u0080\u0099s four\\nshe\u00e2\u0080\u0099s had since twelve, counting but no,\\nI forgot she heaved them first into the\\nwash-bowl.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nHer employer eyed her until she shifted\\nuneasily to another foot. She don\u00e2\u0080\u0099t take\\nthe hot milk as I could wish,\u00e2\u0080\u009d she ran on,\\nas though hoping to strike something pro-\\npitious, but was cut short by a stern ges-\\nture.\\n25", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098The creature fairly drips with talk,\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nmy host muttered irritably.\\nWould the doctor like to see the young\\nlady asked the nurse amiably, while at\\nthe fatal word \u00e2\u0080\u009cyoung I came well-nigh\\nleaping into the air, and a species of death\\ndamps broke out all over me.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cIt\u00e2\u0080\u0099s very probable he would,\u00e2\u0080\u009d came\\ndimly to my failing senses. That was\\nmy main object in sending for him.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nDead to irony, Mrs. Hoskins took this\\nable stab in good part, and with a loose\\nmotion of her thumb beckoned me to fol-\\nlow her as she approached the dainty white\\nbed. For a full moment, as it seemed, I\\nstood in hang-dog uncertainty, and then,\\nas the woman glanced back in surprise, I\\nfollowed her, with a sinking at my heart\\nwhich seemed really dangerous to its\\nsafety. For a long time, as it seemed, I\\nwalked and walked. Then a curtain\\nmoved aside; some one held up a smoky\\nlamp at a better angle, and I saw I shall\\nnever forget it I saw before me one of\\nthe most charming women I had ever be-\\n26", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nheld or have ever since beheld. I do not\\nsay that she was pretty; I did not get that\\nfar. I passed the analytical stage at a sin-\\ngle bound. But I know she was charm-\\ning, with her crisp, dark hair curling\\nabout her flushed cheeks, her square little\\nchin surmounted with scarlet lips and the\\nsauciest little nose that ever defied human-\\nity in general. How she was dressed I\\ncannot say, only that it was in something\\npink, much the colour of the bed hang-\\nings, and I think it was made up baggy,\\nthough that isn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t exactly the word for it\\neither. Her eyes were closed, for which\\nI was humbly grateful, for had she looked\\nat me during those first dreadful moments,\\nshe must have read me like an open book.\\nSomebody shoved a chair under me, and\\nI sat down gratefully, for my knees were\\nshaking beneath me; and then, feeling\\nthat the eyes of both Brown and Mrs.\\nHoskins were upon me, I realized that I\\nmust immediately do something to sustain\\nmy professional r61e. I must question\\nthem, that was plain; but what to ask!\\n87", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nOn the rare occasion when I had been in-\\ndisposed, back in my boyhood days, it had\\nalways been an overloaded stomach that\\nhad played havoc with me, and it was\\nreally the only part of the human anatomy\\nI felt up on; but was I to hint at indiges-\\ntion with this fairy-like creature before\\nme? Never! It was not to be thought\\nof. Her nerves Happy thought What\\ncould be a safer topic than the nerves of\\nany lady? But for all that, my voice\\nsounded hoarse with embarrassment, and\\nI approached the subject with a timid deli-\\ncacy that would have admitted me, with-\\nout a chaperon, into the very heart of\\nany nunnery extant.\\nHas has the young lady exhibited any\\ndegree of nervous excitement within the\\nlast few days I faltered. \u00e2\u0080\u009cNot that I\\nwish to intrude but here, fortunately,\\nthe loquacious Hoskins cut me short before\\nthe miserable ending of my speech had\\nfairly escaped my traitor lips.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cShe had been dreadful oneasy like,\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nshe broke forth loosely, her eye rolling ner-\\n39", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nvously at Brown, who was standing, grim\\nand statuesque, beside us. \u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098But young\\nwimmen is that way, you know, mostly;\\nit\u00e2\u0080\u0099s the nater of them. I was given to\\nthem spells myself some, before\\nThe doctor will attend to your symp-\\ntoms later on, Mrs. Hoskins,\u00e2\u0080\u009d broke in\\nBrown frostily. Please favour my niece\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\\ncase with your entire attention at present.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cAnd her appetite?\u00e2\u0080\u009d I asked hastily.\\nHas it been quite normal, or has she\\nshown caprice in that also\\nI was getting quite proud of my cross-\\nexamination, and a growing confidence\\nlent me some majesty of bearing. It was\\nevident that not the faintest suspicion of\\nfraud had been as yet roused in the mind\\nof either Brown or Mrs. Hoskins.\\nShe never do eat as one might call\\nheavy,\u00e2\u0080\u009d exclaimed the latter, poking at\\nthe pillows about the young lady\u00e2\u0080\u0099s head\\nwith so rough a hand that I could scarcely\\nrestrain the impulse to reach out and drag\\nher back. Some days she picks at things\\nquite hearty, and then she won\u00e2\u0080\u0099t have none\\n29", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nof \u00e2\u0080\u0099em, and I am at a great to do to find a\\nthing as she will have brought a-nigh her.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nAll that is easily accounted for,\u00e2\u0080\u009d broke\\nin Brown harshly, by explaining to the\\ndoctor that she is a very high-spirited, wil-\\nful young lady. I should not have paid\\nthe slightest attention to all of those affec-\\ntations, but it is this feverish stupor which\\nhas alarmed me. I have made every effort\\nto rouse her, and I begin to think that it\\nis genuine.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nHow long has it lasted I asked, my\\nvoice coming very cold and hard through\\nshut teeth for, foolish though I might be,\\nthe suspicion that those efforts had not\\nbeen of the gentlest took possession of me.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098Off and on, for a day past,\u00e2\u0080\u009d broke\\nout Mrs. Hoskins as though choking for\\nspeech. Yesterday she took, all at once,\\ncarrying on about pains in her spine and\\nacrost her; then she said her head went\\ngiddy on her, and from that she took a fit\\nof hysterics quite sudden, and a lively\\ntime I had of it I can tell you. What\\nwith\\n30", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0098^Your troubles will wait, Mrs. Hos-\\nkins,\u00e2\u0080\u009d broke in Brown again, to whom\\nher garrulity seemed perfectly intolerable.\\nDoes she seem feverish to you. Doctor\\nIt had come For several moments past\\nmy eyes had been wandering to a slender\\nwhite hand dropped softly upon the silken\\ncoverlet, and now I must touch that hand,\\nmust approach near to my supposed pa-\\ntient, though she lay in appealing, help-\\nless maidenhood before me, and I I had\\nno right there. There was nothing for it,\\nhowever, but to go through with the farce\\nI had begun. Very cautiously I rose, and,\\nas I am a large person and the bed was a\\nlittle alfair, when I leaned down over it,\\nall the time murmuring prayers for my\\nsoul\u00e2\u0080\u0099s sake, I completely obscured its occu-\\npant from those behind me. Timidly and\\nreverently I touched the small hand\\ntouched and closed my strong fingers about\\nit, with a clinging protection in the clasp\\nI could not control, for I am a son of\\nAdam. To my utter undoing, the eyes,\\nwhich had before remained closed, swiftly\\n31", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nand cautiously opened, large and black,\\nupon me. One hasty look of entreaty and\\nappeal they sent down straight into my\\nsoul, while the fingers I had well-nigh\\ndropped pressed something into mine.\\nThe eyes closed again, and I, with very\\nlittle breath left in my body, stood gaping\\nvacantly before me.\\nIt seems scarcely credible to me now,\\nthat so strange a thing could happen, and\\nthat my first vivid thought after a fiash of\\ndelight at the beauty of the lady\u00e2\u0080\u0099s eyes\\nshould be a bitter rage at those dreadful\\nbandages of mine. All other considera-\\ntions the probable insanity of the pa-\\ntient, the wonder as to what she had\\nforced upon me were, for the moment,\\nabsorbed in frivolous regret that such eyes\\nshould have taken their first look at me\\nwhilst a silk handkerchief was knotted\\nabout my head, and my right eye glared\\nupon her, swollen, infiamed, and expres-\\nsionless. My poor vanity! Again it bent\\nbeneath a heavy load to bear, and I had\\nno leisure in which to bind up its wounds.\\n32", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nThe situation was growing frightful.\\nWell asked Brown curtly at my el-\\nbow, and with a start I drew back and\\nfaced him. Is there a table conve-\\nnient?\u00e2\u0080\u009d I asked sharply, and then, as a\\nsop to the impatience which I saw racked\\nhim, I explained condescendingly, \u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098as I\\nmust prepare her a soothing draught.\\nHer fever is running pretty high.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nWith that I snatched up the medicine\\ncase, which seemed to follow me about\\nwithout any intelligent effort on my part,\\nand made over to the corner of the room\\nto which slow-footed Hoskins had ambled\\nwith a second lamp.\\nEvidently boiling with irritation. Brown\\nflung himself into a chair beside the bed,\\nso that, after ridding myself of the woman\\nby sending her for a glass of water, I was\\nable to swiftly and stealthily examine the\\nsmall object which I still held just as my\\nAngers had closed over it. That it was a\\npiece of paper my sense of touch had al-\\nready told me; but that it was a small, torn\\nsheet of note-paper, covered with delicate\\n3 33", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0writing done in pencil I could not have\\ndreamed, and yet such it was. Covertly\\nI began to examine this writing, so filled\\nwith girlish twirls and dashes as to present\\na pretty, but bewildering, outlook to a\\nbusiness eye, in the meantime keeping my\\nback turned squarely upon Brown, who\\nsat like some huge watchful spider beside\\nthe dainty white bed, and holding the\\npaper where I might, at a second\u00e2\u0080\u0099s notice,\\ncrush it inside the medicine chest with\\nwhich I was apparently fumbling. The\\nletter began at once, without preamble:\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098You doubtless have daughters of your\\nown I stopped abruptly, feeling dis-\\ntinctly annoyed; but remembering the\\nwriter could not possibly have seen me be-\\nfore commencing her letter, I continued\\nmy reading with growing excitement\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cand will know how to feel for a poor\\ngirl, utterly in the power of a horrid,\\nmercenary man. I don\u00e2\u0080\u0099t know what he\\nhas told you about me, but I know it isn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t\\ntrue. There is not a single thing the mat-\\nter with me, but I took some stuff for colds\\n34", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nI found in a bottle to make something hap-\\npen to me, so that tliey could send for a\\ndoctor. For I know doctors have to be\\nrespectable. It gave me a kind of fever-\\nish look, and that\u00e2\u0080\u0099s all. Now please, help\\nme away from this place to-night, this very\\nnight, without letting anybody know, for\\nI can\u00e2\u0080\u0099t stand it *ny longer. I must stop\\nnow, for Mrs. Hoskins is coming.\\nP. S. The dog is kept under my win-\\ndow; and oh, yes, I can\u00e2\u0080\u0099t trust Mrs. H.\\nDistractedly.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nBut there the letter ended. No name\\nwas given, though to sign one had evi-\\ndently been the intention of the writer.\\nAnd with barely enough sense left me to\\nthrust the paper out of sight, I sat in help-\\nless bewilderment until touched heavily on\\nthe shoulder by Mrs. Hoskins, bearing in\\nher hand the water I had sent for and a\\nspoon.\\nWhen Brown saw that I had been inter-\\nrupted, he, too, came to my side, and the\\npair grouped themselves about me, and\\nstared at me, expecting, and with reason,\\n35", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nthat, now I had been given leisure for\\nthought, lucid ideas must begin to flow\\nfrom me, while, in reality, had I been\\ntapped for speech at that moment, I must\\nhave babbled forth mere scraps of the per-\\nplexing chaos with which my mind was\\nreeling.\\nWas the girl insane Was it my duty\\nto hand over the little, crumpled, confiding\\nnote to the stern dark man beside me?\\nNever! Whether the girl was insane or\\nnot, that note was mine. If insanity had\\nbeen its inspiration, some reverent hand\\nmust deal with its own folly. If not in-\\nsane what then was expected of me?\\nWhy was I warned against the dog be-\\nneath her window Could it be that she\\nactually meditated a theatrical flight If\\nso, where were the needed ladders What\\nwas to be done with the dog\\nAnd how do you find her, sir broke\\nin Mrs. Hoskins cheerfully. Pretty bad,\\nain\u00e2\u0080\u0099t she? I had a niece once that was\\ntook the same way, and we was upwards of\\nthree days a-gitting her to sense things.\\n36", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nIf she would only take a little nateral sleep,\\nnow.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nHer words came to me like an inspira-\\ntion. Blessed be thy wagging tongue,\\nHoskins; oh, long may it wave!\u00e2\u0080\u009d went\\nup my mental shout, while outwardly I\\nsaid a few grave things about \u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098nerves\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nand \u00e2\u0080\u009cmental pressure,\u00e2\u0080\u009d which seemed to\\nhit the mark somehow, for my listeners did\\nnot jeer me, but, on the contrary, looked\\nreasonably impressed.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cTo speak candidly,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I exclaimed\\nboldly, while I was groping for words as\\nthough grappling with a foreign tongue,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cI fear congestion of the nerve centres,\\nbut I can\u00e2\u0080\u0099t be sure. There is nothing\\nmore illusive than these symptoms. How-\\never, I shall give her a quieting powder,\\nand in three or four hours I shall be able\\nto tell exactly how much we have to fear.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nMy proposal, which involved a long stay\\nat the house, was not pleasing that much I\\ncould gather from the frown upon Brown\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\\ndark face, but it excited no suspicion, and\\nwith a faint gleam of hope glowing at my\\n37", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nheart I took the water which Mrs. Hoskins\\nwas still holding, and after pouring out\\nhalf of it with a great show of caution,\\nmanaged, while apparently mixing it with\\nthe contents of a small black bottle which\\nsmelled like varnish, to drop into it half a\\nchocolate cream which I deftly extracted\\nfrom a bon-bon dish on the table at which\\nI was working. Indeed, I felt rather\\nshocked at the light-fingered dexterity I\\nsuddenly developed it seemed to indicate\\nan aptitude for questionable practices, any-\\nthing but encouraging to contemplate.\\nThey seemed to expect that I would ad-\\nminister my own medicine, but after cov-\\nertly rinsing the candy about as long as\\nI dared, in my guilty effort to dissolve it\\nand colour the water a respectable brown,\\nI handed the glass sternly to Mrs. Hos-\\nkins. I had no right to touch the impul-\\nsive girl who had thrown herself on my\\nhonor, under the false impression that I\\nmust be some peaceful old fellow, with\\nmarriageable daughters and all that,\\nthough how she could have expected any\\n38", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nsuch antiquated party to climb about\\nthrough windows and toy with blood-\\nhounds I could not, nor cannot yet, con-\\nceive. However, her innocent blunders\\nhad nothing to do with my plain course\\nof duty, so I looked on with what grace I\\nmight while the clumsy Hoskins lifted\\nupon her arm the slender figure, and\\nforced my harmless dose between the scar-\\nlet lips, devoutly praying the while that\\nthe candy had all dissolved.\\nVery neatly did the patient do her part.\\nNot even a professional artist could have\\nput to shame her restless impatience, the\\ndrowsy opening of her eyes, and their soft\\nclosing.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cWe must have the room perfectly quiet\\nnow,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I said. \u00e2\u0080\u009cMr. Brown, would it be\\npossible for me to have the use of a room\\nnext to this for an hour or so? The\\ntrouble with my tooth has used me up\\nbadly; but what can I expect? When\\none chooses the life of a physician he\\nchooses a dog\u00e2\u0080\u0099s life, let him be clever as\\nhe will. And then look at the thanks he\\n89", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\ngets. Let him drag a man out of his\\ngrave-clothes, and it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Providence that gets\\nthe credit, but let the man die, and how\\nquickly Providence is let off scot free.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098And yet a doctor\u00e2\u0080\u0099s fee is not a bad\\nthing to have in one\u00e2\u0080\u0099s pocket, I imagine,\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nhalf-laughed, half-sneered my companion.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cBut come below with me, and we will\\nhave them set us out some lunch.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nAs may be imagined, all this talk had\\nnot been carried on in the sick-room.\\nGradually we had drifted out into the\\nhall, and stood there lighted dimly by a\\nlamp which Mrs. Hoskins carried. Of\\ncourse I knew I must not go below, though\\nthe suggestion of lunch was tempting in-\\ndeed so I still held to my ungracious blus-\\nter. \u00e2\u0080\u009cYou are very kind,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I said severely.\\nBut I must get my boots off and cover up\\nwarm. We physicians need some care,\\nthough our patients seem to doubt it.\\nHowever,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I added more graciously, \u00e2\u0080\u009cI\\nmight pick at a little cold meat, if you\\nwould send it up. That and a glass of\\nwine wouldn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t be at all bad.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\n40", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098Yon shall have them immediately,\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nsaid Brown. \u00e2\u0080\u009cBut let us say a bottle of\\nwine instead of a glass; and, by the way,\\nsir, do you know that I have neglected to\\nget your name? How very strange you\\nmusf think me,\u00e2\u0080\u009d and he paused, while his\\nfoot was actually raised to go and leave me\\nin peace, to send that fatal broadside back\\ninto my shaky breastworks.\\nWhat under heavens was I to say What\\ndid I know of his knowledge of the people\\nin the city, where I was almost a total\\nstranger\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cWell, well,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I exclaimed, with a hol-\\nlow laugh, this is droll certainly, but I\\ntook it for granted that your servant had\\nexplained.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cI have not seen him,\u00e2\u0080\u009d was the short\\nreply, and Hoskins, moving forward at\\nthat moment, I stood revealed to the sharp\\neyes of my host in all the glare of light\\nwhich the small lamp could boast.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cI am Dr. A of whom you have\\nperhaps heard,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I said boldly, setting fire\\nto my ships with an unfaltering hand.\\n41", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nI supposed that you had sent directly to\\nme.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098lam something of a stranger here,\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nwas the evasive reply, and with a long look\\nat me he was gone, leaving me in a state\\nof feverish uncertainty as to whether I was\\nunmasked or not.\\nGladly now would I have entered the\\nsick-room alone, on some pretext or an-\\nother, in hopes of a last word of explana-\\ntion, but the slow-pacing Hoskins was ever\\nat my heels, and to all my suggestions that\\nthe young lady should be left entirely\\nalone, and that Hoskins herself might take\\nsome sleep while I kept watch, she brought\\nforth the same rambling argument. \u00e2\u0080\u009cA\\nquilt in a chair, and me in it, couldn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t be\\nin any ways disturbing to one more accus-\\ntomed to company than to be without,\u00e2\u0080\u009d she\\nexclaimed amiably, until I gave up, fairly\\nworn out.\\nI took possession of the room assigned to\\nme as soon as a lamp, a fire, and a neatly\\nset lunch- table had made it ready. Once\\nalone inside that room, the door shut on\\n42", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nall intruders, and brought before the bar\\nof sober judgment, I felt that a strait-\\njacket was all I lacked for a fully equipped\\nmadman. Yet condemn my folly as I\\nwould, I felt no desire to retreat. Even\\nthen I might have crept down-stairs, on\\nsome pretext or other, have slunk from the\\nhouse, and made off without much chance\\nof detection. But there I sat, turning over\\nand over again every project that presented\\nitself to my feverish fancy for carrying out\\nthe scheme of the crumpled note, which I\\nnow boldly consulted.\\nConsult it as I would, however, there\\nwas nothing more to be got from it than\\nthat I was expected to help a perfect\\nstranger, a young girl apparently confined\\nto her bed with a serious illness, to rise\\nfrom that bed and bolt through a second-\\nstory window, guarded by an ugly blood-\\nhound, out into a freezing night, in the\\ncare of a single man, of so reckless a char-\\nacter that he had, earlier in the evening,\\nhidden himself in an innocent man\u00e2\u0080\u0099s car-\\nriage, killed that helpless man, taken his\\n43", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nbelongings, and was now foisting himself\\nupon her notice under an assumed name.\\nA black outlook, I was forced to admit, and\\ndon\u00e2\u0080\u0099t mistake me by imagining I made\\nlight of the painful circumstances. I de-\\nplored them deeply, but what would you\\nhave had\\nHad the lady been plain, reason might\\nhave spoken with a louder voice, or, at\\nleast, its faint piping have been listened\\nto; but as it was, I merely decided by the\\ntime my lunch was finished that, if any-\\nthing was to be done, I must immediately\\nset in action some one of the many opera-\\ntions necessary.\\nHoskins? What was to be done with\\nher And then, from all I could recall of\\nher personality beyond her loosely balanced\\ntongue, and the fact that she was large and\\ndark, one little thing came back to me\\nwhich brought me to my feet, a hopeful\\nsmile struggling with the swollen melan-\\ncholy of my features. She had a very red\\nnose, which might result from a disordered\\nstomach and might not.\\n44", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nVery softly I opened the door of my\\nroom, for I had no wish to disturb the\\nslumbers of the rest of the household, and\\nvery softly I tiptoed to the door of the\\nsick-room, which I found standing a few\\ninches ajar; on account of the heat I sur-\\nnxised, for I could feel the hot air fanning\\nmy face as I peered in cautiously before\\nentering.\\nEverything was quiet. The bed I could\\nnot see plainly, but before the fire, which\\nwas blazing brightly, Mrs. Hoskins sat\\nleaning back comfortably in a huge rocker,\\nwhile her feet, in reckless disregard of the\\nlaws of grace and decorum, were hoisted\\nupon a second chair, where they had slid\\nfrom the red woollen blanket which had\\nbeen wrapped about them, and confronted\\nme as I approached, huge and motionless\\nin their grey woollen casings, like sentinels\\nbefore a sleeping city. For Mrs. Hoskins\\nwas sleeping. But even as I saw it, and\\nmoved back with my heart thumping vio-\\nlently at the swift thought that, before\\nwaking her, that word of explanation I\\n45", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nmight, as my right, demand, could be\\nspoken, she started peevishly awake.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098Lor\u00e2\u0080\u0099 a mercy,\u00e2\u0080\u009d she muttered pettishly,\\nher eyes glaring at me wild and bleared;\\nbut she followed me willingly enough when\\nI beckoned her into the hall, where we\\nmight talk without disturbing our patient.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cWas she took any way that you heard\\nshe asked in a hoarse whisper, her mouth\\nworking with an abortive yawn. \u00e2\u0080\u009cI\u00e2\u0080\u0099m\\ntroubled with inflaming of the lids, an\u00e2\u0080\u0099\\nset mostly with my eyes shut. It\u00e2\u0080\u0099s more\\nsaving on \u00e2\u0080\u0099em than glasses, besides being\\nmore handy.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nI have been thinking over all possible\\ncauses for this attack,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I exclaimed with\\nthe absorbed air of a medical fanatic.\\nHas the young lady been in the habit of\\ndrugging herself Does she ever use opi-\\nates of any kind to make her sleep and\\nI glared at the woman as sternly as the\\nlimited use of my right eye would admit.\\nHer wits were fogged with sleep and stirred\\nslowly, but after staring dully at me for a\\nmoment, she brightened visibly, evidently\\n46", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nfired with the hope of answering and get-\\nting rid of me. Yes, sir,\u00e2\u0080\u009d she answered\\neagerly, she do sometimes use a powder,\\nan\u00e2\u0080\u0099 it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s often an\u00e2\u0080\u0099 often I\u00e2\u0080\u0099ve told her she\\nhadn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t orter; but she\u00e2\u0080\u0099s that stubborn and\\nset, you\u00e2\u0080\u0099d hardly believe it, when she gets\\na notion.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098She has some left? Bring them,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I\\nsaid sternly. I shall sift this matter to\\nthe bottom.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nUpwards of a dozen, I should say, sir,\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nand with a step heavy with sleep she moved\\naway, returning after a few moments with\\na small green box in her hand. \u00e2\u0080\u009cThese\\nare \u00e2\u0080\u0099um,\u00e2\u0080\u009d she said, giving vent to a mighty\\nyawn which had been convulsing her since\\nshe started from her sleep.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cYou look all used up,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I said, fasten-\\ning a professional eye upon her. \u00e2\u0080\u009cYou\\nneed something to brace you up. Have\\nyou nothing in there that you can take, a\\nlittle wine, now, or even a drop of straight\\nwhiskey?\\nAh, I had not been mistaken. Her eyes\\nlighted greedily, and then were overcast\\n47", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nwith helpless resentment. \u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098I haven\u00e2\u0080\u0099t a\\ndrop of nothing,\u00e2\u0080\u009d she said sullenly. Mr.\\nBrown is not of the thoughtful kind,\\nand makes no reckoning of the wear and\\ntear of being broke of one\u00e2\u0080\u0099s sleep as a\\nstiddy thing. Them that goes to bed reg-\\nular,\u00e2\u0080\u009d she added morosely, can little esti-\\nmate the needs of them that must set awake\\nin their hours of rest.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cThat is very true,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I remarked aus-\\nterely. \u00e2\u0080\u009cBut I shall have a word to say\\nabout that to-night. I can\u00e2\u0080\u0099t have you\\nwearing out suddenly just when I may\\nneed you. Wait here for a moment, and,\\nhighly gratified with my clever trick, I\\ntook the box of powders and hurried back\\nto my room, where, after pouring out a\\nliberal glass of wine, I stood debating what\\nnext. On the box I read, Miss Bran-\\ndon. One powder every hour until re-\\nlieved.\u00e2\u0080\u009d So my young friend\u00e2\u0080\u0099s name was\\nBrandon. U ntil relieved that meant,\\nof course, until she should fall asleep. But\\nsurely if one powder was prescribed for so\\ndainty an invalid, at least double that dose\\n48", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nshould be allowed for the great, robust\\ncreature I had just left, and hastily shak-\\ning in the contents of two of the folded\\npapers, I rushed back into the hall where\\nmy victim was awaiting me.\\nWith what pleasure and self-congratula-\\ntion did I watch her drain the glass to its\\nuttermost dregs! Then we separated; she\\ngoing her way to fall asleep, as I told my-\\nself, inside of the next five minutes, and\\nI mine, to gloat in secret over the easy vic-\\ntory I had won. Five minutes I waited in\\nrestless inaction, and then felt tempted to\\ngo and view my work. But there was no\\nhurry, and taking a chair by the fire, I had\\ndetermined to wait patiently for another\\nfive, when the sound of shuffling steps in\\nthe hallway outside brought me to my feet\\nin vague alarm.\\nHad my fraud been discovered? Had\\nDr. A come back to life and followed\\nme My hand fiew to my pocket, where it\\ngrasped a small penknife, my sole weapon,\\nwhen the door opened, and in walked Mrs.\\nHoskins in a state of feverish excitement.\\n4 49", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nShe was carrying a box in her hand, a\\nblue one this time, and she flung it down\\nbefore me with a most disrespectful dis-\\nplay of ill-temper. Them\u00e2\u0080\u0099s the sleeping\\npowders,\u00e2\u0080\u009d she snapped, laying her hand\\nupon her head with a reeling motion while\\nI stared at her in lively horror. \u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098But\\nhow is one to tell, with writin\u00e2\u0080\u0099 worse than\\nthem as don\u00e2\u0080\u0099t lay claim to be no scholards\\nLor\u00e2\u0080\u0099 help me, them spirits went straight\\nto my head,\u00e2\u0080\u009d she went on. \u00e2\u0080\u009cWhich is\\nrightly your hand, sir?\u00e2\u0080\u009d snatching va-\\ncantly into the air beside me. \u00e2\u0080\u009cYou look\\nto have a dozent.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nWhat had I done? In the name of\\nmercy, of what had I given a double dose\\nto the poor creature? Wildly I turned\\nover in my mind all possible poisons and\\ntheir antidotes: milk, oil, whites of eggs,\\nall danced before me. Women sometimes,\\nI had heard, took dreadful things for their\\ncomplexions. Was there to be a second\\ncorpse on my hands that night And yet,\\nonce more, it had not been my fault.\\nRushing at the tottering woman, I got\\n50", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nher into a chair, gazing at her as I did in\\nsuch an agony of fear, lest she drop dead\\nin my grasp, that she took the alarm her-\\nself, and making certain that death was\\nnear, turned such a greenish white that,\\nwithout reasoning what I was about, I\\nseized another tumbler of the spirits and\\ndashed it down her throat, with scarcely\\nmore caution than I would have used had\\nI pitched it into the kitchen drain. Fear\\nof her immediate death, that and that\\nonly, was my motive in stocking her thus\\nheavily with the strong liquor, and what\\nfollowed cannot be laid at my door, ex-\\ncepting in the form of an unmerited acci-\\ndent. Yet I understand there are those\\nwho do not take the same view of the\\nmatter.\\nAt first the poor creature choked, which\\nI will admit was- my fault in that I forced\\nthe liquor on her so abruptly. I was sorry\\nfor my awkward zeal, and aided her to the\\nbest of my power to regain her breath, pat-\\nting her violently upon the back, while her\\ngurgling, though deep, was low. But\\n51", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nonce she had passed this stage, I saw what\\nthat second glass had done; saw reason\\nleave her eye and give place to a silly stu-\\npor; saw and flung a pillow upon the floor\\nto which she shambled and sank down\\nbabbling.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0098^I\u00e2\u0080\u0099m feeling very comfortable, thank\\nyou,\u00e2\u0080\u009d she gabbled as I strove to drag her\\nfarther from the Are; but my head ain\u00e2\u0080\u0099t\\nwhat it should be. Too much setting up\\nof nights has done it.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nBut I heard no more. Fleeing my sec-\\nond victim, I hurried across the hall, to\\ntap as light as a feather against the door\\nof the sick-room, though had my own ears\\nbeen all I cared to reach, the loud thump-\\ning of my heart at that moment would\\nhave equalled the booming of any cannon.\\nAs though my timid knuckles had\\ntouched some hidden spring, the door re-\\nsponded instantly, and through a slight\\naperture a wisp of dark hair waved, and\\nthe gleam of a flne eye shone on me, as a\\nwhispering voice asked me what I wanted.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cIt is I,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I faltered idiotically, forget-\\n52", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nting that I had as yet no identity with my\\nquestioner beyond the rather vague one of\\na medical man. \u00e2\u0080\u009cI\u00e2\u0080\u0099m the doctor, you\\nknow,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I added huskily, my tongue refus-\\ning me the service of a glib lie.\\nOh,\u00e2\u0080\u009d with a most delightful inflection,\\nand the door swung an inch or two far-\\nther open; but in place of accepting this\\nfriendly advance, I skulked back into the\\nshade of the unlit hall like a sheepish\\nassassin.\\nWhere is Mrs. Hoskins came in the\\nsame guarded whisper. Look out for\\nher, she may be hiding somewhere. She\\ndoes that lots, and then dodges out. Oh,\\nshe\u00e2\u0080\u0099s just horrid!\\nShe won\u00e2\u0080\u0099t now. She she\u00e2\u0080\u0099s asleep,\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nI faltered. I gave her something some\\nof your powders,\u00e2\u0080\u009d hut no sooner had I ut-\\ntered the words than I repented my con-\\nfession. What if, after all, it was not the\\nwine which had affected her; what if even\\nthen she was breathing her last, in some\\nhorrid death agony! The thought was\\nsickening.\\n53", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098Oh, oh, how awfully clever!\u00e2\u0080\u009d And\\nthere was a sound as of soft hands beaten\\ntogether gently. \u00e2\u0080\u009cBut the dog!\u00e2\u0080\u009d was\\nthe next dismayed exclamation. They\u00e2\u0080\u0099ve\\nlet him out again. I heard him champing\\nabout down there just a moment ago. Oh,\\nyou may depend on it, we can never get\\nout if he isn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t done away with.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nI had forgotten the brute, and I must\\nconfess that but for the gleam of that fine\\neye, which had grown plainer and devel-\\noped into a pair, I should have felt much\\nvexed at the reminder. If I could only\\ngive him sleeping powders My ear heark-\\nened painfully for the slightest sound from\\nthe room I had left. Oh, I think we can\\nmanage the dog all right,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I said lightly,\\nwhile not the faintest plan as to how I was\\nto make good my words suggested itself to\\nmy mind. In the mood I then was I could\\nhave strangled any beast with my naked\\nhands, and relished the details of the task\\nat that.\\nOh, how awfully clever you are came\\nin an admiring gasp from behind the half-\\n54", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nopen door. But if you\u00e2\u0080\u0099re going to shoot,\\nplease let me know before you set the gun\\nofE, or I shall be sure to scream. I always\\ndo.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cI shall not shoot,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I said with a pa-\\ntience begot of the fine eyes and fluffy hair.\\nIt wouldn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t do, you know. The noise\\nwould\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098Why, to be sure!\u00e2\u0080\u009d with a soft little\\nlaugh. It would make a mess of every-\\nthing, but you see I\u00e2\u0080\u0099m so stupid. Good-\\nbye now. I\u00e2\u0080\u0099ll get dressed and be all\\nready,\u00e2\u0080\u009d and the door shut gently in my\\nface, leaving me standing alone in the\\ndarkness gaping helplessly about me.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cAll ready,\u00e2\u0080\u009d she said. I could have\\nlaughed aloud, but that I felt more in-\\nclined for tears. All ready for what?\\nWell, I could not improve matters by\\nstanding there, so with a reluctant step\\nI turned to re-enter the chamber I had\\nleft.\\nWhat should I see? A horrid, staring\\ncorpse, a miserable frothing object all but\\ngone, yet with strength left to rise and\\n55", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\ncurse me? If so, good-bye even to fine\\neyes and soft, dark hair. I had stood a\\ngreat deal that night, but there were limits,\\nI felt, to my endurance.\\nWith a sinking heart I pushed the door\\nopen, only to jump back in hysterical\\namazement. The woman was afoot again,\\nand babbling foolishly! What was to be\\ndone How gladly then would I have ex-\\nchanged her for the corpse I had so dreaded\\nto see There was little sense in what she\\nsaid, but I made out that she was looking\\nfor Miss Brandon, and I managed to quiet\\nthat cry by telling her Miss Brandon was\\nasleep, and must not be disturbed, at the\\nsame time tearing about in search of some-\\nthing to do with her while she trailed at\\nmy heels with dog-like devotion.\\nAnd then her intoxication, if such I can\\ncall it, began to take alarming forms,\\nwhich preyed dreadfully on my conscience.\\nHer vision grew shockingly distorted, and\\nwhat with her resolution to follow me\\nabout, and the number of me she seemed\\nto see, she was forever taking imaginary\\n56", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nwalks with me in parts of the room where\\nI was not, talking as readily to any piece\\nof furniture as to me, and never finding\\nout her mistake unless she happened to\\nrun against me.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0098^Heavings above,\u00e2\u0080\u009d she would whisper\\nhoarsely to a tall dresser by the window,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cI can\u00e2\u0080\u0099t rightly make out. Doctor, how\\nit is you come to be so leggy all of a sud-\\ndint;\u00e2\u0080\u009d and then to the washstand, as I\\nchased her there: Give her nateral sleep.\\nDoctor, give her nateral sleep, and she\u00e2\u0080\u0099ll\\npull through somehow. I\u00e2\u0080\u0099ve said it be-\\nfore, an\u00e2\u0080\u0099 I say it now, sleep is what we\\nneed, and plenty of it.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nIt was a shameful situation, and what\\nwas worse, I distinctly heard steps below.\\nThe creature\u00e2\u0080\u0099s babbling tongue had started\\nsome one awake. With a desperate hand\\nI jerked open the next door to me, and\\nwhen I found it admitted me to a small,\\ndark closet I did not hesitate. Miss\\nBrandon is in here,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I hissed in the wom-\\nan\u00e2\u0080\u0099s ear, snatching her frantically by the\\narm. \u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098Go in and lie down beside her.\\n57", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nIt will keep her quiet, and then you can\\nhave your sleep out.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nShe obeyed me in the same dog-like man-\\nner in which she had followed me about,\\nand although, in the face of this docility,\\nit seemed a brutal act, I turned the key\\nsecurely upon her, feeling an almost mur-\\nderous thrill of satisfaction as her murmur-\\ning died away in the denser stupor into\\nwhich the confined air of the place plunged\\nher.\\nAnd none too soon did those mutterings\\ncease, for I now distinctly heard steps\\nmounting the stairs, with evident care not\\nto tread too roughly. Not daring to meet\\nany questioner where I then was, I rushed\\nsoftly into the hall, where the happy con-\\nception seized me of affecting to be just on\\nthe point of leaving the sick-room, when\\nmy visitor should come up. It was well,\\nthough, that the darkness of the hall con-\\ncealed my guilt-stained features, or the\\nmerest child must have detected some mis-\\nchief brewing.\\nIs that you. Doctor came in a growl-\\n58", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\ning whisper from Brown, while a firm, cool\\nhand seized me so suddenly I all but\\nshrieked, so shattered was my self-control.\\nWhat in the are you up to, anyhow\\nIt sounded as though a pair of you were\\ndancing the minuet. I thought an order\\nfor quiet was given.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098And so it was,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I managed to say\\ncoldly, as a man without humour who feels\\nhimself affronted with a jest. But I\\nhope that does not interfere with Mrs.\\nHoskins heating fiannels at my orders for\\nyour niece, now that her fever has suddenly\\nleft her.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nBrown gave a soft whistle. To be sure\\nnot,\u00e2\u0080\u009d he said with more civility; \u00e2\u0080\u009cI in-\\ntended no disrespect, I assure you, but\\nkindly ask Hoskins to toe-and-heel it in\\nher stocking feet hereafter.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nSir! exclaimed I irritably.\\nI\u00e2\u0080\u0099m a wretched sleeper,\u00e2\u0080\u009d he explained,\\ncoming hastily back to dignified discourse,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cand Hoskins should know it. I can\u00e2\u0080\u0099t\\nimagine how she had the temerity to go\\ncrashing about so.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\n59", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nShivering like a wind-swept reed, I\\nwaited for him to demand that he should\\nsee his niece, or call for the disgraced Hos-\\nkins, but these trials were not laid upon\\nme, for now with a restless yawn he left\\nme, after a mild hope for the further im-\\nprovement of his niece, and when the last\\nechoes of his steps had died away I crept\\nback to the room I had left, and stood\\ntrembling there for some moments before\\nI could be certain that he had really gone,\\nwith no suspicion to bring him creeping\\nup those stairs again.\\nFor ten minutes I waited, while the house\\nwas silent as the grave. Hot a board\\ncreaked, not a curtain rustled. Then,\\ndrawing off my shoes, I made softly across\\nto a window which I reasoned must look\\nout upon the place where the ferocious\\nbloodhound lurked. Inch by inch, like\\na trained housebreaker, I raised the\\nsash, my heart stopping dead still at the\\nfaintest creak, then rushing on with\\ncongestive jerks at an easy slide, until\\nfinally it was propped up at a height to\\n60", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nadmit of putting out my head and shoul-\\nders.\\nCautiously I peered forth into the dark-\\nness for dark it was, with only a star glim-\\nmering here and there, and nothing but\\nfaint outlines of the jagged mountain\\npeaks showing themselves against the sky.\\nThe air was keen and cold, and the ground\\ncovered with a skim of hard, dry snow. A\\nnice night, indeed, for people to be launch-\\ning themselves from second-story windows\\nand taking to their heels through unknown\\nfrozen districts!\\nWe\u00e2\u0080\u0099ll end up at the bottom of a caflon\\nwith a fractured bone or two for company,\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nI muttered as I let my gaze roam despon-\\ndently about. \u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098There\u00e2\u0080\u0099s the dog, sure\\nenough,\u00e2\u0080\u009d as my eyes, becoming more ac-\\ncustomed to the darkness, made out a mov-\\ning, black body on the snow beneath.\\nIt is one thing to look down at a dog\\nfrom a second-story window, and another,\\nand quite a different thing, to rid yourself\\nquietly of him. On any other night I\\nshould have exclaimed, Impossible,\u00e2\u0080\u009d and\\n61", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\ntamely closed the window. But on this\\nspecial night my mind seemed fairly lurid\\nwith bright thoughts. I suddenly sped\\nback to the table, clutched the napkin\\nfrom my lunch tray, and found that I had\\nnot exhausted the generous supply of cold\\nmeat sent up for my refreshment. With\\ntrembling fingers I spread out the contents\\nof the medicine chest upon a chair close\\nby, and began in a purblind fashion to\\nstudy the different labels.\\nConfusion seized upon my mind at the\\nfirst row. How could medical men pre-\\ntend to understand such gibberish? My\\nmind had not been neglected in my youth,\\nand yet I could make nothing of it. De-\\nfeat stared me in the face; but with a cold,\\nproud smile, I counted the number of bot-\\ntles I had before me. Then with a few\\nbold slashes I had the meat quartered and\\nlying ready to my hand.\\nThis done, and the bottles divided into\\nfour different sets, and ranged conven-\\niently about me, my real work began. The\\nfirst relay of bottles came to me in the\\n62", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nform of powders. I dipped section number\\none of my meat supply in the milk jug be-\\nfore I attempted to smear it over with as\\nmuch of the powdery stuff as I could make\\nhang on, being careful to take a fair\\namount from each bottle, in hopes that in\\nsome one of them lay the deadly drug I\\nsought. It was remarkable how much I\\nmade that piece of cold beef hold. When\\nnot another grain would stick I gathered\\nit up gingerly, crept to the window, took\\naccurate aim, and flung it straight at the\\nfeet of the restless animal.\\nThey must have kept the brute half\\nstarved, for with a plunge and a snap he\\nseemed to catch the morsel while it was\\nyet in the air. But nothing happened;\\nhis restless walk went on, and impatiently\\nI rushed back to my ghastly work. This\\ntime it was liquids with which I had to\\ndeal, and my work was easier, but how\\nthey smelled The house seemed reeking\\nwith their biting fumes, and it was with\\nstreaming eyes I again sought the window,\\nand stood with my second prescription sus-\\n63", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\npended over the hazy space below. No\\nneed to peer about in the darkness now in\\nsearch of my restless prey. The animal\\nexpected me, and crouched directly be-\\nneath my window, where the light from\\nthe lamp shone, upon his gaunt frame, re-\\nvealing him with his huge jaws distended;\\na pretty sight for one who might at any\\nmoment be pitched forth to become his\\nmidnight lunch. Out went my second\\nlot. I could see him plainly this time.\\nHe met it, his full length from the ground,\\nwith an appetite perfectly disheartening.\\nNot even its horrid smell fazed him, and\\ndown it went with a dreadful champing\\nsound.\\nWhile completely discouraged, I turned\\nagain to the table. What did Dr. A\\nkeep in his chest, anyhow? Drugs de-\\nsigned solely for the use of teething chil-\\ndren And yet who could tell Perhaps\\nmy method might be bad. I might be\\ndoing up poisons and antidotes in the same\\nbundle. This time I mixed powders and\\nliquids with an impartial and liberal hand,\\n64", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nbut it was with only the faintest hope that\\nI gathered up my third dose, and again\\nsought my post at the window. The dog\\nwas not there! Was not there, nor was he\\ndead! I could see him, see him plainly, if\\nthat mass of moving snow and fur could\\nbe a dog. Faint, angry yelps rose from\\nthe tossing heap, and my heart stood still.\\nThen, suddenly, as I looked, the mass took\\nshape, and rose and ran as nothing de-\\npendent on mere legs ever ran before, melt-\\ning away into the darkness beyond, with a\\nlong, low howl which struck stone-cold\\nupon my fainting heart.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cWe are undone,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I all but cried, for\\nthat mournful howl must set even the\\ncocks crowing upon their roosts! Then\\ncame the thought that speed might even\\nyet save us, for once outside, who was to\\nfollow us in such darkness, with enough\\nand more than enough of caverns about\\ninto which we might crawl and evade pur-\\nsuit? Why we were doing it at all, and\\nwhat right we had to evade pursuit, I had\\nno time to consider as again I fled the\\n5 65", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nroom, which was strewn all about with\\nevidences of my late traffic in animal life.\\nThe disordered boxes which had been\\nhanded me by the now helpless Hoskins;\\nthe uncorked medicine phials, all spoke\\nloudly to me of my deadly work, and I\\ncould but feel like some beast of prey\\ncreeping from its lair, as I stole out and\\nclosed the door behind me.\\nThis time my knock at the door of the\\nsecond chamber was less guarded, for my\\nnerves were getting into a horrible state;\\nbut it was not so quickly answered, and I\\nwas growing alarmed, when it was flung\\nwide open, though very noiselessly, and\\nMiss Brandon stood before me, not dressed\\nin her flowing robes, but in a trim suit of\\nblack, such as you might see a dozen of\\nany day in a well-dressed crowd, only they\\nwould not all be so becoming to their own-\\ners. Over this she wore a short fur coat.\\nHer hair was tucked away under a cap to\\nmatch, and there she stood, looking so\\nwarm, so fresh and smiling, that somehow\\nthe memory of my bandages came back to", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nme, filling me with such a sense of defor-\\nmity and inferiority that I think my bear-\\ning took colour from the morbid abasement\\nof my mind.\\nI know that I held my right eye with\\none hand while I talked to her, and that I\\nshuffled on my feet as she looked at me,\\nwhile I bit my tongue to keep from crying\\naloud that I was not the bloodless old do-\\ntard she so fondly dreamed me to be.\\nOh,\u00e2\u0080\u009d she burst out in an excited whis-\\nper as soon as her eyes fell on me, \u00e2\u0080\u009cyou\\ndo think of the funniest things! Now tell\\nme whatever you have done to that dread-\\nful dog to make him go running about so,\\nscratching things!\\nDid you hear him yelping\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cI guess that\u00e2\u0080\u0099s what dogs do. I was\\njust sure he\u00e2\u0080\u0099d wake everybody up, weren\u00e2\u0080\u0099t\\nyou\\nI had been, indeed, and yet was. At\\nthat very moment I fancied I could hear\\nsome one moving, and bracing up my man-\\nhood, I spoke decidedly in spite of those\\nthings about my jaw.\\n67", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098We must go at once/\u00e2\u0080\u0099 I said, moving\\ninto the room with a cat-like step. \u00e2\u0080\u009cWill\\nyou he able to hang on to one end of a\\nblanket while I lower you from the win-\\ndow?\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nI dared not look at her while I made\\nthis cool proposal, for I fully expected her\\nto turn pale and shrink hack; besides, the\\nhorrid suspicion haunted me that, even\\nshould she consent, it would end in her\\ncompleting my list of victims, and what\\nwith the doctor, Mrs. Hoskins, and the\\ndog, I was sickened of blood.\\nTo my amazement she laughed a de-\\nlightful, gentle, little chuckle which made\\nme long more keenly than ever to bury the\\nsnuffy old doctor and rise myself to fill his\\nshoes.\\nOh, how perfectly killing it will be!\\nshe whispered, seeking for sympathy in\\nthe depths of my dull, swollen eye. See\\nThe window is all ready for us. I was put-\\nting it up when I saw the dog.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nSuddenly I started, stabbed to the heart\\nwith fresh trouble. I had dragged a", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nblanket from the large chair in which Mrs.\\nHoskins had been sitting, and was testing\\nits strength as best I could, when it oc-\\ncurred to me that all my out-door apparel\\nwas down-stairs. I certainly could not\\nventure out on such a night, not knowing\\nhow long I might remain dodging about,\\nwithout some sort of covering, yet I dared\\nnot go down-stairs in search of mine.\\nMy cap and coat,\u00e2\u0080\u009d was the cry wrung\\nfrom me in my distress. Instantly my\\ncompanion grasped the situation with smil-\\ning composure.\\nAre down-stairs,\u00e2\u0080\u009d she finished for me.\\nOf course we canH think of going to get\\nthem, but there are some of Mrs. Hoskins\u00e2\u0080\u0099\\nthings here that will do. She\u00e2\u0080\u0099s so dread-\\nfully big, you know,\u00e2\u0080\u009d and before I could\\nprevent her, she had dived into a closet\\nclose at hand, from which she emerged\\npresently, triumphantly holding up to my\\nview a large grey and black plaid shawl\\nand one of those many-coloured woollen\\nbags known as ^\u00e2\u0080\u0098toboggan caps.\u00e2\u0080\u009d It was\\nthe last straw to my overburdened vanity\\n69", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nWear them! I could have snatched them\\nfrom her, flung them on the floor at her\\nfeet, and stamped upon them, but for the\\nadded absurdity. And then, too, what\\nawkward evidence in the shape of card-\\ncase, marked handkerchief, or other fatal\\ntrifle might I not leave in the pockets of\\nmy abandoned coat!\\nInsulted, perplexed, and downright an-\\ngry, I stood glaring about me, but before\\nI had voiced my annoyance a faint sound\\nbelow put flight to all thought of more\\ntrifling discomforts. Some one was mov-\\ning cautiously, whether towards us or from\\nus, to seek or avoid, I could not tell; but\\nit decided me to haggle no longer over my\\nappearance, good or bad. Literally snatch-\\ning the horrible headgear from Miss Bran-\\ndon, who was tranquilly kneading it into\\nshape, I crammed it down about my ears,\\nfeeling a certain savage delight in the self-\\ntorture I inflicted.\\nIt will be warm, anyway,\u00e2\u0080\u009d murmured\\nmy companion, with a glance of kindly\\namusement which I haughtily ignored.\\n70", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nCome/\u00e2\u0080\u0099 I said briefly, snatching up\\nthe blanket, \u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098we have not a second to\\nlose,\u00e2\u0080\u009d and I rushed stealthily to the open\\nwindow, and flung out in advance the shawl\\nwhich was to serve me as a covering. Miss\\nBrandon following me in a state of what,\\nI could plainly see, was pleased excitement.\\nThe window was high up from the floor,\\nand as we stopped before it she looked\\ninto my swollen eye with a face of innocent\\nexpectation: \u00e2\u0080\u009cI can\u00e2\u0080\u0099t get up there alone,\\nyou know,\u00e2\u0080\u009d she whispered, and with an\\nalmost audible groan I put my arm gin-\\ngerly about her fur-clad waist, and the\\nnext instant she was sitting with her feet\\noutside, holding towards me her ungloved\\nhands for the blanket. The morbid fear\\nwhich possessed me that she was to make\\nmy fourth victim was not lessened by that\\nmoment in which I held her in my arms,\\nand as she grasped the quilt with two small\\nwhite hands and looked at me with a\\nfriendly nod, to tell me that she was ready\\nfor the drop, I felt every particle of\\nstrength leave my body.\\n71", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098Come back,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I faltered, but she was\\nover the side, and with desperate hands I\\nclutched the blanket.\\nIt seemed so short. Had I miscalculated\\nthe height of the window? I dared not\\nlook down as I leaned far out, giving the\\nfull length of my arms to the clumsy con-\\ntrivance. Suddenly the weight left it.\\nHad she fallen My eyes seemed glazed\\nas I turned them downwards. There was\\n.a black heap upon the snow beneath. Was\\nshe living or dead\\nBut now again sounded that step below.\\nIt seemed nearer this time. It was com-\\ning upstairs, coming softly, and pausing\\non each step, as though some one had\\nstopped to listen. It had a horrid sound\\nin that gloomy house, and I seemed to see\\na dark face gliding toward me, a white\\nhand uplifted, to hush the very echoes\\nthat he might hear. I had meant to do\\nmany things the time for which was\\npassed. The closet door I had meant to\\nunlock it upon the hapless Hoskins, but\\nnow the feet had reached the hall. With\\n72", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\na warning hiss for my conspirator below,\\nI swung myself from the window and\\ndropped, speculating, even while I fell,\\non the probable length of my life should\\nsome part of me double up and strike\\nwrong in my mad plunge.\\nThe window was either higher than I\\nhad calculated, or I fell upon slanting\\nground, for I struck so solidly that I had\\nthe breath knocked out of me, and when\\nmy senses became clear again, I found that\\nMiss Brandon had set me upright, and was\\ndabbing at me with frozen snow, and set-\\nting my cap straight upon my head, with\\na freedom she would never have exercised\\nhad she not learned to regard me as a\\nharmless married creature who could safely\\nbe tumbled about.\\nThrusting aside the snow with no gentle\\nhand, for her daughterly care was growing\\nperfectly intolerable, I was instantly upon\\nmy feet.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cEun,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I whispered, and we ran, she\\nlike a spirited young deer in its first en-\\ncounter with the hounds, and I really,\\n73", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nafter the way I spun along that night, I\\ncannot see how she could suspect such a\\npair of heels as I showed to the old house\\nbehind us of having learned to potter\\nabout in carpet slippers.\\nQuick as our flight had been, it was be-\\ngun none too soon; for by the time the\\ndarkness swallowed us, the whole house\\nseemed suddenly to blaze up with hurry-\\ning lights, while a loud shout reached us\\nand increased our pace. Suddenly, right\\nin our path, a man sprang up, waving his\\narms before us, as at a runaway horse. He\\nmay have been a harmless citizen. Possi-\\nbly he was only startled at our sudden ap-\\npearance, but as to that I shall never be\\ncertain, for I had no time to question him\\nnor reason with him. All that I could do\\nwas to knock him down, which I did with\\nsuch brutal awkwardness that he collapsed\\nwithout a struggle, and my knuckles were\\nbadly grazed against the poor creature\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\\nskull.\\nDear me, I hit too hard,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I muttered,\\nin answer to a little shriek from Miss\\n74", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nBrandon, and then we brought up against\\na stone wall, on a level with my head as to\\nheight, and jagged as broken glass.\\nOh, my gracious! gasped Miss Bran-\\ndon. Whatever will we do and, say,\\ndo you think the man is dead\\nMore than likely,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I groaned, making\\na grim note of my fourth victim. Can\\nyou jump. Miss Brandon?\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cYes, yes. Oh, do hurry!\u00e2\u0080\u009d she whis-\\npered and taking her waist in both hands,\\nI gave her a mighty lift, which she sec-\\nonded with a spring so light that it set her\\nupon the top of the wall, gazing anxiously\\ndown at me, at least I judged her to be\\nanxious by her voice.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cHow will you ever make it?\u00e2\u0080\u009d she\\nwhispered, leaning down until I was in\\nagony lest she should fall. \u00e2\u0080\u009cDear me,\\nyour poor hands! Oh, oh!\u00e2\u0080\u009d in pitying\\nhorror, as I dug my way up the side,\\nbreathless and bloody, nearly losing my\\nunsightly cap, and suffering the ignominy\\nof having her again clap it upon my head.\\nHowever do you keep so limber she\\n75", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nmurmured admiringly, as, gnashing my\\nteeth at her friendly service, I sat for one\\nsecond to catch my breath. I hope you\\ndidn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t kill that man, though. You must\\nhave hit him in the wrong place.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098I\u00e2\u0080\u0099m afraid I did,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I stammered guilt-\\nily. \u00e2\u0080\u009cWe were running hard, you know.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cYes, I know,\u00e2\u0080\u009d she said hastily and\\nsoothingly, and then severely: \u00e2\u0080\u009cComing\\non to you in the dark that way, how could\\nhe expect to be hit right\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cWe must go,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I said. \u00e2\u0080\u009cAre you\\nready?\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cYes, and I have your shawl,\u00e2\u0080\u009d she said\\nsweetly.\\nMy shawl At that moment I would\\nhave frozen to a brittle mass before I would\\nhave touched the thing, but I was still\\nwarm from running, so my manhood was\\nnot tempted. Down I went on the oppo-\\nsite side of the wall. At the same moment\\nI saw the door burst open by some one,\\nwho rushed headlong into the yard.\\nQuick! quick! I called to my compan-\\nion, and without a question as to why, she\\n76", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\ndropped tranquilly into my arms, a deli-\\ncate shape, all warm and furry.\\nDo you know which way to go I\\nmuttered, as I quickly released her.\\nI haven\u00e2\u0080\u0099t the faintest idea,\u00e2\u0080\u009d came the\\ncheerful whisper, and then we were off\\nrunning again, with more care of our\\nstrength, this time, and I possessed by\\nlively expectations that at any moment\\nwe might puncture some snowdrift and\\nfind that it was but the upper crust of a\\nbottomless abyss. The main road we must\\nnot take, even could we find it, which\\nseemed anything but likely; and we\\nplunged about, knee-deep in snow. Blank-\\nness of fear settled on me as I realized the\\ndangers we were facing. Who ever saw\\nanything so pitchy-blank as this night?\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nI exclaimed, peevish with alarm for my\\ncompanion; for myself, the gallows seemed\\nso imminent that all lesser terrors paled\\nbefore it.\\nYes, but it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s the only thing that saves\\nus, you know,\u00e2\u0080\u009d tranquilly observed Miss\\nBrandon, as I picked her out of a small\\n77", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nditch. But what\u00e2\u0080\u0099s that snuffling about\\nso and she shrank towards me in a way\\nthat shook my moral nature again to its\\nvery centre.\\nIt was the dog. A changed dog, indeed,\\nwith all its fury spent, and nothing much\\nyou could call dog left about it, but a drag-\\ngled shape and tumbled fur; yet still dan-\\ngerous to us if it was disposed to haunt our\\npath, for who could tell at what moment\\nit might break out into the melancholy\\nbaying which had before alarmed us.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098I must kill it,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I muttered to myself,\\nbut Miss Brandon heard me, and faintly\\nscreamed.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cOh, dear,\u00e2\u0080\u009d she wailed, \u00e2\u0080\u009cwhat dread-\\nful things we seem to be doing all of the\\ntime! First that man, and now the dog.\\nIt makes us seem like bloody-minded crea-\\ntures.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cBun on a few steps, please, to that\\ntree,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I said gently.\\nWith a little shudder she obeyed me,\\nputting her fingers in her ears as she ran,\\nwhile I, pouncing like a huge bat upon\\n78", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nmy prey, soon put as merciful an end to\\nhim as possible, considering my only weapon\\nwas my pocket-knife.\\nOnce dead, though, he must be hidden,\\nand in great haste I tumbled snow and\\nbrush upon him. Then for I either\\nheard voices or all the excitement I had\\nbeen through was rendering me fanciful\\nI rose and ran towards the spot where I\\nexpected to find Miss Brandon, only to\\nspring back, barely restraining a shout of\\nterror. She was gone\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cThey have taken her,\u00e2\u0080\u0099 I gasped, a\\nsudden blank regret which I had no time\\nto analyze sweeping over me. Then, set-\\nting my teeth, I plunged forward, and\\nwith two strides found myself stepping off\\ninto space. The fifteen or twenty minutes\\nduring which I seemed to be steadily fall-\\ning gave me the impression of being in-\\nfinite. But I finally struck, fortunately\\nfor my earthly career, in a bed of snow,\\nthrough which I rolled and gasped, fetch-\\ning up at last with a painful thump against\\nsomething so solid that my airy, light-\\n79", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nheaded sensation of infinite space was im-\\nmediately swallowed up in acute physical\\npain.\\nOh, so you fell, too! exclaimed some\\none close beside me. \u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098How queer we should\\nboth do it! Eeally now, we ought to be\\nthankful; it might have been quite un-\\npleasant.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nMight have been quite unpleasant.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nAnd there I sat, with every part of my\\nclothing filled with melting snow and my\\nhead ringing. Eeally, if she had been a\\nplain woman but here! I belie myself.\\nI have quite a reputation for courtesy, and\\nI think that I partially deserve it, for, after\\ncoughing up much melted snow, I asked\\nher, in a strangled voice, if she was in-\\njured in any way.\\nNot the least bit in the world,\u00e2\u0080\u009d she an-\\nswered cheerfully, whipping at the back of\\nmy collar with her handkerchief. My,\\nbut you\u00e2\u0080\u0099re full of snow, though Do you\\nknow, it is so funny; but I actually\\nbrought your shawl the whole way down\\nhere with me! You\u00e2\u0080\u0099d better put it on\\n80", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nnow, and warm up. You may have\\nstrained yourself somehow, but they say if\\nyou keep warm you won\u00e2\u0080\u0099t stiffen.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThat shawl again It was too much\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cMiss Brandon,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I cried, excitedly\\nspringing to my feet, then I stopped ab-\\nruptly, and taking her by the arm drew\\nher as far back as possible in the shelter\\nof the rock against which I had grazed in\\nmy fall. \u00e2\u0080\u009cHush, hush!\u00e2\u0080\u009d I whispered\\nuselessly, for she had made no attempt to\\nspeak, and I pointed upwards as I crouched\\nbeside her, for lights were beginning to dot\\nthe gloom above us in many places; hurry-\\ning lights, held low and tearing headlong,\\nlike so many burning eyeballs.\\nThey have tracked us,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I groaned, for\\nI heard a shout. There is nothing for\\nit, we must run again. But which way\\nThis thing seems to begin and end in\\nsnow.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nOh, there\u00e2\u0080\u0099s no great hurry,\u00e2\u0080\u009d said my\\ncompanion coolly, with a little nod which\\nI could see plainly as I gazed at her in\\nhorror. I shall get my breath first, and\\n6 81", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nbesides there is some snow down my collar,\\nwhich must be got out or I shall be in a\\ndreadful condition.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098But, Miss Brandon,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I protested stern-\\nly, \u00e2\u0080\u009cthey are close upon us; they\\nShe gave a good-natured little laugh. I\\ncould scarcely believe it, but she did.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cHow funny men are!\u00e2\u0080\u009d she said pleas-\\nantly, working at her collar, with success\\nI knew, for bits of snow flew into my hor-\\nror-stricken face as I leaned over her.\\nWhy, don\u00e2\u0080\u0099t you see that the fun of it is\\nthey must take their time about getting\\nhere? They won\u00e2\u0080\u0099t dare just walk up and\\nfall down as we did. It wouldn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t do, you\\nknow. One might hit wrong. You came\\npretty near it.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nIt was perfectly true, but it made me\\nseem painfully stupid to have to take such\\nplain sense second-hand, and from a young\\ngirl at that. We could not get out, that\\nwas clear enough. It was equally clear,\\nwhen I considered it, that they could not\\nget down to us without returning to the\\nhouse for ropes, or ladders, for no sane\\n82", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nman would deliberately take such a leap\\nin that pitchy darkness.\\nOh, for some outlet! I was teeming\\nwith inspirations, but, alas they were en-\\ncased in clumsy flesh. A sudden bright\\nflame from the freshest of them brought\\nme to my feet, where a pair of sordid heels\\nblew out the illumination, and down I came\\nupon my back, with the end of my tongue\\nwell-nigh bitten through from the shock.\\nOh, do be careful! wailed Miss Bran-\\ndon, dragging at my shoulders to set me\\nupright, while I muttered something be-\\nneath my breath which I shall not record.\\nAnother shout reached us a flerce, ex-\\ncited shout. Had they found the spot\\nwhere I had performed my clumsy execu-\\ntion of the dog If so, murder or suicide\\nmust be their inevitable conclusion, and\\nthey would be hot after the survivor.\\nThere must be no longer delay. Breath\\nor no breath, we must do something before\\nit was too late. Come, Miss Brandon,\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nI said flrmly, and taking her by the arm\\nI lifted her to her feet, only for us both to\\n83", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nlose our balance together and go skating\\naway upon a new-found icy incline.\\nIt was clear to me now where we were.\\nWe were adrift upon the frozen bed of one\\nof those mountain streams about whose\\nsummer music my sister had discoursed in\\nher letters home. I remembered well how\\nshe had made them \u00e2\u0080\u009cleap from rock to\\nrock,\u00e2\u0080\u009d hide themselves in granite caverns,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cand then burst forth again all fierce and\\ntortured from their brief restraint,\u00e2\u0080\u009d all of\\nwhich had sounded well in the letters but\\nwhen it came to sliding down this ice-clad\\nwinding idyll, with a delicate young lady\\nfor your companion, a band of desperadoes\\nscouring along the mountain side in search\\nof you, no coat on your back, and the\\nmemory of two dead men and a dead dog\\nbehind you, making the thought of your\\nprobable venture into the next world some-\\nthing to be avoided if possible, I could\\nhave wished the windings in and out\\na shade less fantastic, and would have en-\\ntirely omitted that bounding from rock\\nto rock,\u00e2\u0080\u009d had choice been given me.\\n84", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nIn the darkness I could not estimate the\\nlength of our first fall, for I distrusted my\\nreckoning made in mid-air; hut that it\\nwas considerable seemed clear from the\\nsubdued sound of the men\u00e2\u0080\u0099s voices, even\\nwhen, as I reasoned, they must be almost\\ndirectly above us. And that our lives were\\nsaved by the heavy accumulation of snow\\non which we struck, but on which no one\\nwould dare to count if making a wanton\\nleap, was proved to me beyond a doubt.\\nIn the light of our late leap it was mad-\\nness to make fresh ventures. And yet it\\nwas an ignominious thought that of sit-\\nting there until ladders were brought,\\nand we were dug out and carried back.\\nHad it been broad daylight, with noth-\\ning behind to drive us, I now feel cer-\\ntain that I should never have left my\\nsoft nest in those snow banks. Certainly,\\nI should never have drawn Miss Bran-\\ndon from hers but as it was, we went\\non, and happily I seemed possessed with\\nthe off-hand indifference of a sleep-walker.\\nI saw not, and yet I could walk. I\\n85", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nused no reason, but a sort of dull in-\\nstinct.\\nAs for my companion, nothing could ex-\\nceed her cheerful indifference to our sur-\\nroundings, and although I knew perfectly\\nwell that this condition rose entirely from\\nher utter ignorance of all the common\\nlaws, rules, and usages she was trampling\\nunder her pretty feet, what was I to do\\nDeath shrieked at her in every chill breath\\nthat blew about our shivering forms, and\\nthreatened her with every clinging snow-\\ndrop which fastened itself upon her gar-\\nments, and she she said, Dear me, how\\nsharp,\u00e2\u0080\u009d to the icy wind, and bent her head\\nto meet its force, and flapped off the cling-\\ning snow with graceful petulance.\\nHow many times in our wild course down\\nthe stream\u00e2\u0080\u0099s bed only a hair\u00e2\u0080\u0099s breadth sepa-\\nrated us from certain destruction I will not\\nattempt to guess. Certainly we must often\\nhave been so near to the dark river that its\\nmurmurings might have reached our ears.\\nWe were a snow slide, an avalanche, any-\\nthing you please but human beings, and I,\\n86", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nfor one, became accustomed to travelling\\nconsiderable stretches upon the back of my\\nhead, while that detested shawl I dignified\\ninto a sort of pad for Miss Brandon in some\\nof our straighter shoots.\\nI don\u00e2\u0080\u0099t know that we travelled very far\\nthis way. I am quite certain that we did\\nnot, but I have been to other continents\\nand back since with less seeming expendi-\\nture of time, and have never, before or\\nsince, viewed with such joy any inanimate\\nobject as I did the light which suddenly\\nappeared before us, not many yards away.\\nA poor, mean light it was, coming from\\nsome smoky lamp, I fancied, and shining\\nthrough the window of a miner\u00e2\u0080\u0099s hut; but\\nno blaze of glory ever thrilled my heart\\nwith such gratitude.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cLook, look. Miss Brandon!\u00e2\u0080\u009d I cried,\\nand then we both fell again, to alight\\nupon comparatively level ground, not far\\nfrom the hut and its cheering light. But\\nwhen I raised my companion from the\\nground, she lay in my arms limp and\\nmotionless, a cut on her forehead, and a\\n87", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\ndark stream trickling down over her still\\nfeatures.\\nI thought her dead, and a great madness\\nseemed to possess me. Snatching her close\\nagainst me, I ran, with no sense of her\\nweight, through a door-yard thickly strewn\\nwith snow-covered objects, like lumps of\\nwood, old buckets, and other litter. Stum-\\nbling among them as I did, I came to no\\nstop, but bounding blindly over the last\\nthing in my path, I brought my knuckles\\nupon the door with a sudden, loud thump,\\nwhich I had not the humanity to realize\\nmust bring the heart into the throat of\\nany solitary dweller in that lonely place.\\nNo answer came. I grew furious, and\\nfrom pounding with my knuckles, fell to\\nhammering with my fists, and then to\\nkicking, all the time shouting for admit-\\ntance in a voice so hoarse with fatigue and\\nexcitement that it must have sounded like\\nthe croaking of some asthmatic madman.\\nA fiercer kick than all at length brought\\nthe door open, with an explosion of wood\\nand nails that made even the insensible\\n88", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\ngirl in my arms start up with a cry of ter-\\nror and that cry, which told that life had\\nnot deserted her, brought me back with a\\nrush of shame to my surroundings.\\nFilled with misgivings at my mode of\\nentrance, I gazed about, at first seeing no\\none, and then I spied, drawn up at bay in\\na far corner, the gaunt figure of a woman\\nclutching in one hand a huge meat knife,\\nwhich she brandished with a slow, par-\\nalyzed movement of terror. She was\\ndressed after a fashion, having got one\\narm through some sort of a coarse woollen\\nwrapper, but her feet were bare, and her\\nlong toes curled up like talons.\\nStand back!\u00e2\u0080\u009d she called, in a quav-\\nering voice, and then as I did not, but\\ncrowded myself yet farther in, all spent\\nand dishevelled as I was, covered with snow\\nand staggering beneath the weight of the\\nfainting girl, she set up such a series of\\nshrieks as drowned every attempt at con-\\nsolation or apology, screaming out, and\\nasking to be protected from every crime\\non the calendar.", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098Madam!\u00e2\u0080\u009d I shrieked, in an attempt\\nto drown a double call for murder and\\nthieves, \u00e2\u0080\u009cno one intends to harm you.\\nOblige me with a little wine or brandy.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nI might as well have screamed into the\\nface of a whirlwind.\\nThen, in happy inspiration, I undertook\\na dumb show that I wanted drink for Miss\\nBrandon, pointing to her as she lay in the\\nchair where I had placed her, drawing my\\nhand across my throat to indicate that it\\nwas dry, then raising imaginary bottles to\\nmy lips. I cannot think what she imag-\\nined, but her terror took a new and this\\ntime silent form. She ceased to shriek,\\nbut with a sudden rush of her bare toes\\nacross the floor, shot from my sight into a\\nsmall closet or pantry, immediately slam-\\nming the door, and applying an eye at\\nonce to a good-sized knot-hole just above\\nthe knob. I suppose it was the state of\\nmy nerves, for I can make no one quite\\nunderstand the feeling it gave me to know\\nthat the one staring eye was upon me and\\nthat, whichever way I turned, it would fol-\\n90", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nlow me follow me as I moved Miss Bran-\\ndon in her chair nearer the smouldering\\nfire, follow me while I wrapped the shawl\\nabout her and fiercely poked the sticks of\\nsputtering wood. All the time there was\\na stealthy, rattling sound coming from the\\ncloset, which somehow bore in upon me the\\nimpression that with one long arm the\\nwoman was gradually raking everything\\nmovable within easy reach. Why, I could\\nnot guess, until happening near the door\\nin my desperate search for drink, it was\\njerked open a few inches, and a tin skillet\\nwas flung at me through the aperture.\\nStop that, woman! I called sternly,\\nfor, though the action had broken some-\\nwhat the spell of that immovable eye, the\\nsituation was such a disgraceful one!\\nThen go \u00e2\u0080\u0099way and lemme alone, or\\nyou\u00e2\u0080\u0099ll git the sad-irons next,\u00e2\u0080\u009d came the\\ndogged answer, and I could hear her hard-\\ndrawn breath rushing through the keyhole.\\nThere was no time to be lost. I was\\nmeditating means of obtaining what I de-\\nsired without misusing the woman, when\\n91", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\na languid voice recalled me to Miss Bran-\\ndon\u00e2\u0080\u0099s side, and to my great relief I found\\nher sitting up, wiping the blood from her\\nface, and looking quite herself. Oh, do\\ntake me out of this horrid place,\u00e2\u0080\u009d she\\nwhispered fearfully, glancing at the closet\\ndoor with such an expression of terror that\\nI wondered if she, too, could feel that eye\\nupon her.\\nI must get something to refresh you\\nfirst, and something to carry us back to\\ntown,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I whispered in return, and then I\\nadvanced carelessly towards the door, only\\nto be met with the promised \u00e2\u0080\u009csad-iron,\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nhurled at me with a right good will. Evi-\\ndently our hostess was determined I should\\nparley with her only at a distance, and I\\nsaw that I must humour her, for a nerv-\\nous cry from Miss Brandon warned me to\\ntamper no further with her overstrained\\nnerves.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cMadam,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I said pleasantly, retreating\\nsome steps and addressing myself strictly\\nto the eye, which was again at its post,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009ccould you make any use of a five-dollar\\n93", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nbill?\u00e2\u0080\u009d And I ostentatiously flourished\\none before the knot-hole, then placed it\\ncarelessly on the table. There was a per-\\nfect silence at this, and I produced a sec-\\nond. If so,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I said jauntily, you prob-\\nably might prefer two,\u00e2\u0080\u009d and I laid a second\\nboldly beside the first.\\nI was sure of the eye now; its greedy\\nblink was not to be mistaken. A moment\\npassed, then the eye drew back. Plates,\\ncups, and other things rattled a retreat to\\nthe shelves; the door creaked upon its\\nrusty hinges. First a head, and then a\\nneck appeared, then shoulders, and finally\\nthe woman was before us again, entirely in\\nher dress this time, and with a conscious-\\nness of her bare feet. She crouched down\\nto cover them, which made her seem more\\nfeminine and approachable.\\nMy name is Brown,\u00e2\u0080\u009d she said solemnly.\\nI saw that her right hand still clutched the\\nmeat knife, but I could not resent this.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098Mrs. Brown,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I murmured politely.\\nSo many people\u00e2\u0080\u0099s names seemed to be\\nBrown that night.\\n93", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098I am a widow,\u00e2\u0080\u009d she continued, in a\\nsketchy, biographical style, with pauses\\nfor comments.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098Very sad, I\u00e2\u0080\u0099m sure,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I faltered. Her\\nconversation began to sound rather in the\\nmatrimonial way, but I remembered my\\nbandages in time to take no real alarm.\\nMy husband is dead,\u00e2\u0080\u009d she continued.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cSo I gathered,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I broke in hastily.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cCan we have some wine or spirits of\\nsome kind for this young lady?\u00e2\u0080\u009d and I\\nturned to Miss Brandon.\\nAt this Mrs. Brown came abruptly out\\nof her reminiscent state and waxed curi-\\nous. \u00e2\u0080\u009cAre you running off with that\\ngirl she burst forth, jerking her thumb\\ntowards Miss Brandon, who turned very\\nred, but looked, I realized with unreason-\\ning anger, more inclined to laugh than to\\ncast down her eyes.\\nShe is my sister,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I said, looking the\\nwoman shamelessly in the eye, while I saw\\nwith a thrill at my heart that Miss Bran-\\ndon started and stared at me. Would it\\noccur to her, then, that I felt she needed\\n94", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nprotection before the judgment of strangers\\nin thus fearlessly flinging herself on my\\nhonour? The nobler side of me shrank\\nfrom seeing her pretty head droop, and\\nthen turn away, while an irritable longing\\nto feel myself regarded other than as a\\nharmless watch-dog would jostle itself\\nrudely to the front.\\nHumph!\u00e2\u0080\u009d snorted the woman\\nsnorted is the word and then she eyed\\nus fixedly. can\u00e2\u0080\u0099t say that you look\\nmuch alike.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nAnd yet I am a very handsome man\\nwithout my bandages,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I said, bowing\\nwith ball-room gallantry to Miss Brandon.\\nThen remembering how grotesque I must\\nappear, all disguised as I was, with my\\nwoollen cap and swollen face, I straight-\\nened myself up stiffly, and cried out with\\nsudden irritation for the wine.\\nAlthough partially reassured, I think\\nMrs. Brown never wholly abandoned the\\nidea that I was mad. I sat sullenly by\\nuntil the drink was prepared, one of the\\nwomen present watching me furtively,\\n95", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nwhile the other and fairer one turned to\\nme as to a handy man, some one who could\\nfetch and carry, could be humbly useful at\\nthe wedding of a happier man, but never\\nat all conspicuous, except at his own\\nfuneral.\\nBut hark! What was that? Was it\\nonly the wind which kept rustling to the\\ndoor and away again? The window was\\nrattling fiercely, or had I dozed There\\nare men about,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I shouted, and was upon\\nmy feet to find Miss Brandon with her\\ncheeks glowing from the wine and her\\neyes brimming with laughter, while Mrs.\\nBrown, rigid with terror, was stiffly swal-\\nlowing the bread and butter she had just\\nspread for her guest.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cPoor man!\u00e2\u0080\u009d cried Miss Brandon\\nsoothingly. You went right to sleep.\\nIt was too funny, but I wonder you didn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t\\njerk your poor head off. It was down so\\nfar and you brought it back so hard.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nCrazy as a loon,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I heard Mrs. Brown\\nmutter grimly, as she crept from behind\\nthe table where she had sprung. Drat\\n96", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nhim, and there I have eat all that bread\\nMy stomach will be as sour as vinegar.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cI want a horse,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I said coldly, \u00e2\u0080\u009cand\\nsomething to ride in.\u00e2\u0080\u009d I longed to deny\\nthat I had been asleep, but dared not.\\nBetter asleep than insane, and I was near\\nboth.\\nA faint gleam of hope lit the gaunt feat-\\nures of Mrs. Brown. There was, then,\\nsome prospect of being rid of us. I sup-\\npose he might use Cousin John\u00e2\u0080\u0099s horse,\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nshe said, talking across to Miss Brandon,\\nas one might discuss the beef tea of a pa-\\ntient who is not to be reasoned with per-\\nsonally.\\nCousin John or Cousin Jim, it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s all\\nthe same to me,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I cried recklessly, \u00e2\u0080\u009cso\\nlong as he can go.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cI\u00e2\u0080\u0099m sure I can\u00e2\u0080\u0099t say,\u00e2\u0080\u009d she retorted,\\neyeing me askance as she unhooked a\\nsmoky lantern from its peg. \u00e2\u0080\u009cI only\\nknow Cousin John fools away his time in\\nthe summer peddlin\u00e2\u0080\u0099 with him, then leaves\\nhim here to eat his head off in the winter.\\nIf I could only beef him he wouldn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t live\\n7 97", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\na minute, I can tell you that! and open-\\ning the door, she led me forth into what\\nseemed a wilderness of snow-filled kegs\\nand boxes, all of which I am quite certain\\nthat I stepped into. I arrived at the small\\nstable in no mood to endure the undigni-\\nfied commotion set up by a roost of old\\nhens and a solitary cock as we threw the\\nlight from our lantern in upon them. It\\nwas maddening, out upon a secret mission\\nas we were, to note the zeal with which the\\ncock set about his crowing, and to have the\\nhens come squawking down as ready for\\nthe day\u00e2\u0080\u0099s engagement as though the morn-\\ning sun had tumbled bodily in upon them.\\nEven Mrs. Brown found it trying, and\\ncried tartly for the rooster to \u00e2\u0080\u009cshet his\\nhead,\u00e2\u0080\u009d as we fought our way through to\\nthe horse\u00e2\u0080\u0099s stall beyond.\\nAccurately speaking, we found no horse,\\nbut lying prone on some musty hay we dis-\\ncovered a four-legged grey thing which,\\nbeyond snorting a trifie as Mrs. Brown\\nthrust the lantern contemptuously under\\nhis nose, took no further notice of us.\\n98", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nThere he is/\u00e2\u0080\u0099 she said bitingly. Noth-\\nin\u00e2\u0080\u0099 but a rat-hole to pour good oats into.\\nHe hasn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t had a bit between his teeth for\\ntwo months, but you may take him and\\nwelcome.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nAfter digging in vain about his bony\\nframe for some trace of life and spirit, I\\nwas in despair, but I had no choice. To-\\ngether we pried him from his ill-smelling\\nbed, and he developed, as he slowly un-\\nfolded his joints, into a regular carcass of\\na horse, with great hollows which it would\\nhave taken the earnings of a whole race of\\npeddlers to round out with high-priced\\nhay. \u00e2\u0080\u009cAre you sure he is strong?\u00e2\u0080\u009d I\\ngasped. Will he be up to a trip, you\\nknow It seems to me he looks awfully\\nshaky.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nShe wouldn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t answer me, but kept on\\ndragging out mouldy pieces of harness and\\nmoth-eaten robes, until I had an outfit the\\n)r match for any rag-picker\u00e2\u0080\u0099s trap.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cHeavens!\u00e2\u0080\u009d I moaned, as I mounted\\nthe sleigh, jerking at the rotten straps\\nwhich were all the hold I had on that\\n99", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\ngreat brute. \u00e2\u0080\u0098^He has our lives in his\\nhands. He couldn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t feel the strain of\\nthese lines if I were to drag them across\\nhis naked eye. Have you no respectable-\\nlooking ropes I called fretfully, re-\\nsolving to drop to even that for the sake\\nof security. But Mrs. Brown was at the\\nbottom of an old feed-box, and rose to the\\nsurface with such a disgraceful contrivance\\nin the shape of a whip that I felt it would\\nbe madness to appeal to any sense of de-\\ncency within her.\\nCautiously I steered my beast up to the\\ndoor and left him in charge of Mrs. Brown,\\nwhile I went inside for Miss Brandon. As\\nI entered the house a clock struck two\\nclattering strokes. \u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098And to think,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I\\nexclaimed absently, that I dined with\\nFlo last night at six!\\nThe statement bore in upon me no im-\\npression of the truth after I had made it,\\nbut it startled Miss Brandon to hear me\\ntalking to myself, so I told her I had asked\\nif she was feeling any stronger. It seemed\\nhuman to retain her confidence in my san-\\n100", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nity, my own faith in it was so badly\\nshaken.\\nAnd now you\u00e2\u0080\u0099re off,\u00e2\u0080\u009d cried Mrs. Brown\\njoyfully a few minutes later, as I cracked\\nthe whip over the back of Cousin John\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\\nnag.\\nAnd as a matter of fact we were off even\\nas she said it the horse off the road, strad-\\ndling about with its foot through an ash-\\nbarrel, and I off the seat with my toboggan\\ncap off my head and filled to the brim with\\nsnow.\\nBoth women screamed, of course. I\\npicked myself up, seized the horse by the\\nbit, forced him to kick himself loose from\\nthe barrel, and then we really were off,\\nwith but one more brief delay while I\\npressed into the half -frozen fingers of Mrs.\\nBrown a third bill sufficiently large to\\ncover the loss of our outfit should it never\\nreturn to her.\\nMrs. Brown had assured us that for sev-\\neral miles the road could be travelled blind-\\nfolded. You see, you got clean off the\\ntrail tumblin\u00e2\u0080\u0099 down that caflon,\u00e2\u0080\u009d she had\\n101", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nexplained irritably, \u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098an\u00e2\u0080\u0099 have got to feel\\nyour way back to the main travelled path.\\nBut just go slow, an\u00e2\u0080\u0099 give the critter the\\nlines, an\u00e2\u0080\u0099 you can\u00e2\u0080\u0099t run into nothin\u00e2\u0080\u0099 else.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nAnd as it was perfectly black overhead,\\nand not much better under foot, and the\\nlines must inevitably burst under the\\nslightest pressure, there seemed nothing\\nfor it but to put our united fates into the\\nkeeping of the animal\u00e2\u0080\u0099s instincts.\\nCowering and shrinking, I silently\\nwhipped my chilled fingers and stamped\\non my hardening toes, knowing all the\\ntime that I ought to be one of the most\\nwretched creatures living, yet conscious of\\na sneaking delight in my false position, a\\nrascally pleasure when the soft fur sleeve\\nnext me brushed my icy hand, which had\\nnothing to do with my physical comfort in\\ntouching something warm. I think that\\nI would have been content to drive on that\\nway all night, not speaking at all, but sit-\\nting there, half frozen and wholly irra-\\ntional, dreaming foolish dreams. But sud-\\ndenly down went the curtain with a crash\\n102", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nupon perfumed knight and smiling lady,\\nand up it rose on me, the married man,\\nthe trusty doctor. \u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098Oh!\u00e2\u0080\u009d my compan-\\nion hurst out suddenly, turning her face\\ntowards me, though in that light I could\\nsee nothing of it hut a white blur, \u00e2\u0080\u009clam\\nsure no father could have been kinder to\\nme than you have been to-night, and that,\\ntoo, without knowing my story. Why\\ndon\u00e2\u0080\u0099t you ask me about myself\\nSwallowing the \u00e2\u0080\u009cfather\u00e2\u0080\u009d like quinine\\nwhich has stuck in the throat, I suggested\\nfaintly that there had been no time, but\\nno sooner did my voice break the silence\\nthan she stopped me with a nervous start.\\nI wonder why I don\u00e2\u0080\u0099t like to talk with\\nyou so well in the dark,\u00e2\u0080\u009d she said uneasily.\\nI haven\u00e2\u0080\u0099t seen your poor face really, it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\\nbeen done up so; but, somehow, when I\\ncan\u00e2\u0080\u0099t see your bandages you seem so differ-\\nent. Your voice is so I don\u00e2\u0080\u0099t know what\\nyou\u00e2\u0080\u0099d call it, hut it seems so changed.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nI\u00e2\u0080\u0099m getting a cold in my head,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I said\\nfirmly. I could not hear the sudden trem-\\nbling in her voice.\\n103", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nShe should not fear me if I had to go\\ndown to the grave and live there in her\\nmemory as an old fellow with full-grown\\ngirls dependent on him. Oh, is that it\\nHow funny!\u00e2\u0080\u009d she exclaimed with a re-\\nlieved laugh. \u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098But now I am going to\\ntell you all about myself,\u00e2\u0080\u009d and she settled\\ndown for narrative with a delightful little\\nflutter which brought her warm garments\\nbrushing against my chilled limbs like\\nsomething living.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cJust as you think best,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I murmured,\\nthough I felt morally certain that if she\\nshould confess that the whole escapade\\nwas planned in a fit of rage because the\\nproper kind of stufl for an evening gown\\nhad been denied her, I should swear she\\nwas justified.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cYou see,\u00e2\u0080\u009d she began, Avith a little\\nsigh, it all came about through that hor-\\nrid will of papa\u00e2\u0080\u0099s.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nOh! I said vacantly.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cYes,\u00e2\u0080\u009d she went on with relish, \u00e2\u0080\u009cand\\ndon\u00e2\u0080\u0099t you think wills are nearly always\\nhorrid They\u00e2\u0080\u0099re made, you know, mostly\\n104", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nwhen people are sick and not quite right\\nin their heads, and then how is any one to\\nhe argued with after he is dead and gone\\nOh, I\u00e2\u0080\u0099m all against wills,\u00e2\u0080\u009d and she shook\\nher head severely.\\nThey certainly do stir up a great deal\\nof ill-feeling,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I stammered, seeing that\\nshe expected me to say something.\\nAnd papa was so awfully good and all\\nthat, that he couldn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t be got to see that\\nothers weren\u00e2\u0080\u0099t all like him,\u00e2\u0080\u009d she went on\\nhurriedly. So when his heart got to act-\\ning so queer, he just made his will, leaving\\nme and my property all in uncle\u00e2\u0080\u0099s hands,\\nfor mamma had been dead ever so long,\\nand then he died that night, and it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s all\\ngone wrong ever since, and I presume I\u00e2\u0080\u0099ve\\nhad about as dry a time of it as almost\\nanybody you can think of.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nDry! I exclaimed it was really the\\nfirst word that had caught my attention.\\nI gave the will less than no thought at all.\\nWhat had a ranch or two more or less to\\ndo with such eyes as hers\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098Yes, dry,\u00e2\u0080\u009d she repeated firmly, \u00e2\u0080\u009cfor\\n105", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nyou see there was another funny thing\\nabout this will that I haven\u00e2\u0080\u0099t mentioned\\nyet, and that\u00e2\u0080\u0099s the reason I came to be\\nbrought up in a convent.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nIn a convent,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I repeated feebly.\\nYes, in a convent,\u00e2\u0080\u009d she said tragi-\\ncally, taking my horror for granted.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098Perfectly horrid, wasn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t it? But, of\\ncourse, as I was to marry whom I pleased,\\nthat was about the only safe place for them\\nto put me. I wouldn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t be likely to want\\nto marry a priest, now would I\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cI should rather think not!\u00e2\u0080\u009d I ex-\\nclaimed with unnecessary energy, com-\\npletely roused. What do you mean by\\nmarrying any one you pleased? I don\u00e2\u0080\u0099t\\nin the least understand you.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nI think, myself, that that is the funny\\npart of it,\u00e2\u0080\u009d she cried amiably, evidently\\npleased with my growing interest; \u00e2\u0080\u009cand I\\ndon\u00e2\u0080\u0099t wonder you are surprised; but you\\nsee, papa had had such a dreadful time of\\nit getting mamma something or other was\\nthe matter with some land that belonged\\nto their grandfathers that it had given\\n106", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nhim a hobby about people being crossed in\\nlove, and that\u00e2\u0080\u0099s how it came about that he\\nput such a queer thing in his will.\\nI was to marry whom I pleased, and if\\nI did marry, I was to have my property\\nand use it as I pleased; but if I didn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t\\nmarry. Uncle Hobart was to take care of\\nme and all my money until I was twenty-\\none, and that\u00e2\u0080\u0099s going to be next week.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\n^\u00e2\u0080\u0098Hext week! So soon?\u00e2\u0080\u009d I cried in\\nsurprise, for the wonder of her flight,\\nwhen escape was so near, almost formed\\nitself into words upon my lips.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098Soon so soon!\u00e2\u0080\u009d she cried, and now\\nwith real anger in her voice, though not,\\nI felt, against me. It may seem soon to\\nyou, but it will be just six days too late,\\nand then all my years of horrid old dresses\\nin the convent, no parties, nor jewels, nor\\nanything nice, will be for nothing; for I\\nmust either marry Cousin Harold at the\\nend of this week, or Uncle Hobart will sell\\nmy mines before I can come of age, and\\nthen deny I ever had any, or will claim\\nthat they are the ones that turned out\\n107", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nbadly, though they weren\u00e2\u0080\u0099t mine at all,\\nbut his. Yes,\u00e2\u0080\u009d she cried, defiantly facing\\nme, I don\u00e2\u0080\u0099t deny that I have listened at\\nkey-holes, and pried into letters, and done\\nlots of dreadful things to find all this out;\\nbut I\u00e2\u0080\u0099ve had my disposition just ruined by\\nbeing kept mewed up all these years. How\\nI used to rage when I could feel myself\\ngetting more and more poky, and then to\\nhave only a few dollars doled out to me at\\na time, when I knew that Cousin Harold,\\nwhom I just hate, was spending all my\\nmoney, and putting off marrying me until\\nthe last moment, because I had been shut\\nup in a convent until I was a perfect\\ndowdy,\u00e2\u0080\u009d and here she broke down in an-\\ngry tears, while I sat a statue of fear and\\nlonging longing to comfort and protect\\nher as no staid, middle-aged doctor would\\nbe supposed to comfort a young and help-\\nless woman, and fear lest the stern self-\\ncontrol I had been able so far to exercise\\nshould break down utterly under the strain\\nof that low sobbing.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098My dear Miss Brandon,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I said, low\\n108", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nand hurriedly, calm yourself, I beg. Are\\nyou quite, quite certain about that will?\\nCertain that you were left free to marry\\nwhom you choose\\nOh, yes, indeed, I should think I am,\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nshe burst out indignantly. Why, it was\\nfor that reason and no other that I was\\nkept mewed up in that stuffy old convent\\nall those years, and never a man to look at\\nbut priests and some old things that did\\nwork about the grounds!\\nIt is pitiful to confess that I winced at\\nthis. It did not please me that she should\\never have wished to meet other men, and\\nwhen you recall that she had never really\\nseen me and had only looked upon me as\\na married person with a swollen eye, you\\nwill wonder at my folly. \u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098What right\\nhad you to want to see men? I wanted\\nto ask her hotly, but instead I cried softly\\nHark I hear horses\u00e2\u0080\u0099 feet behind. They\\nare coming fast. Do you hear them\\nThis dried her stormy tears at once, and\\nbreathlessly we sat and listened. Yes, I\\nwas right. From far up the steep road\\n109", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nthere came to us swift, hard strokes, break-\\ning startlingly upon the silence and filling\\nus with chill premonition of pursuit and\\ncapture when our victory seemed all but\\naccomplished. They are following us,\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nmy companion whispered fearfully, creep-\\ning nearer to my side and resting there\\ntremblingly. They will not let me go.\\nI know it. To-morrow my uncle was to\\nmeet some men and finish the sale of my\\nmines which have turned out to be full of\\nsomething. They will kill us if they find\\nus here. Oh, what shall we do\\nWhat should we do, indeed? At that\\nmoment, as if to increase our perplexities,\\nthe moon, which had been hiding all night\\nbeneath a blanket of clouds, burst sud-\\ndenly forth, clothed in glistening gar-\\nments, which lighted every nook and\\ncranny of the rugged scenery about us.\\nFar above towered the snowy peaks, while\\naway down below, a dim radiance, nestling\\nclose like a circlet of gems against the\\nearth\u00e2\u0080\u0099s dark line, the lights of the city\\nlay. Above and below us stretched a tor-\\n110", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\ntuous path upon which impatient hoofs\\nwere beating not many rods behind; and\\nwe what could we do, all unarmed as we\\nwere, and at the mercy of an ancient beast\\nwhose every motion seemed wrung from\\nhim in bitter pain\\nOh, you do not know my uncle! We\\nare lost! came in an awed whisper close\\nbeside me, and then a great desperation\\nfell upon me. The road to the city\\nstretched before us. Inside that city there\\nwas justice to be had; help, at least. Then\\nreach that city we must before those fleet\\nhoofs behind had tracked us down. With\\na spring I reached my feet, and folding the\\nuseless lash about the whip-stalk I held,\\nI brought it down upon the back of the\\nhorse before me with all the energy of a\\ndespairing man\u00e2\u0080\u0099s last effort. \u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098Go!\u00e2\u0080\u009d I\\ncried in a voice of thunder, then sank hack\\ncrushed with the certainty of defeat, while\\nnearer and yet nearer came those ringing\\nfootfalls, and a distant shout told us that\\nour black shape on the moonlit track was\\nalready clear to our pursuers.\\nIll", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nBut what was this What magic had\\nthat whip-stalk held What fire had my\\nhoarse cry infused into the huge frame be-\\nfore me Or was it those clattering hoofs\\nbehind Was the instinct of some ancient\\ncourser trembling through those starting\\nveins, and pricking up with long-buried fire\\nthe dull ears drooping beneath their rusty\\nharness Scarce had that cry behind\\nceased echoing when the huge bulk of\\nhorsefiesh before us began to tremble with\\nthe workings of some hidden passion.\\nSlowly did the great head uplift itself, the\\ngreat chest expand, and then, with a\\nbound which, but for my too ready arm,\\nmust have fiung my companion from the\\nseat, the beast sprang forward, swinging\\nus and the rickety old sleigh behind him\\nwith as much unconcern as though we\\nwere so many wisps of straw.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cNow may Heaven help us, I can do no\\nmore!\u00e2\u0080\u009d I gasped, guarding the useless\\nlines with care for that awful moment\\nwhich I felt must come, when the varia-\\ntion of a hair\u00e2\u0080\u0099s breadth might save us from\\n112", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nsome horrid death. Death! Why, the\\nthing seemed simple. The only question\\nwas how to die. Every avenue was open,\\nhut since my remains might be recovered\\nby my sorrowing friends, I yearned for a\\nmore symmetrical end than to go crashing\\ndown over jagged rocks into some bottom-\\nless abyss.\\nAnd now another shout from behind\\nreached us. Faster and faster came the\\npursuing feet, while the great hulk before\\nus worked its starting joints as though\\nlightning itself were playing fast and loose\\ninside them. Great clods of snow dug up\\nby clattering shoes rained thickly about\\nus, and struck upon our smarting cheeks.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cThe shoes themselves will be coming\\nnext,\u00e2\u0080\u0099\u00e2\u0080\u0099 I groaned, crouching low, as my\\nteeth grated upon the sand left from a\\nmouthful of the snow and ice.\\nWould he, could he make it Nearer,\\nnearer yet those feet seemed coming.\\nWould bullets be whistling next in the\\nfrosty hail about us? \u00e2\u0080\u009cCling to my\\narm!\u00e2\u0080\u009d I cried in my companion\u00e2\u0080\u0099s ear,\\n8 113", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nand then I half-rose to my feet and looked\\nbehind, only to be brought down upon a\\npair of bruised knees as our racing steed\\ntook a small boulder at a single leap.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098One more such trick and we are lost,\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nI muttered between my teeth, and then\\nwe struck a smoother track, and I climbed\\nupon the seat again, to meet, as I did so, a\\nglance from Miss Brandon\u00e2\u0080\u0099s dark eyes,\\nshining and dilating in the moonlight un-\\ntil I lost all reason and strange visions\\nseized upon me.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cMiss Brandon,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I whispered, and my\\nvoice sounded far off to my own hearing,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cif you were married, if you had a hus-\\nband to protect you, you need not fear\\nthose men behind\\nShe sighed impatiently. Of course\\nnot,\u00e2\u0080\u009d she said hurriedly. \u00e2\u0080\u009cBut there\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\\nno use talking about it now, for they\u00e2\u0080\u0099ll\\ncatch us; oh, they will surely catch us!\\nand she clung to me as a louder shout\\nreached us.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cListen to me,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I whispered, taking\\nher cold hands in mine boldly now, for\\n114", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nthat I meant her well God he my witness.\\nA week from now you will be free, you\\nwill need no one\u00e2\u0080\u0099s aid, but to-night, but\\nnow, let me protect you. For a few short\\nhours be my wife in the sight of the law,\\nand I swear you shall be to me a young\\nand reverenced sister,\u00e2\u0080\u009d and involuntarily\\nI bared my head before her.\\nAh, if I could have spoken in my own\\nname and language then; but what a fig-\\nure I must have cut. She might have\\nlaughed aloud as I crouched before her,\\ndisguised and disfigured as I was, but she\\nonly shrank from me. Marry you she\\ngasped. \u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098Are you not married already,\\nthen Oh, I was sure that you were mar-\\nried. What must you think of me, what\\nmust you!\\nI I have been married,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I stammered,\\npitying her so in her shame and loneliness\\nthat I made nothing of my continued per-\\nfidy. But my wife is dead. You have\\nno need to fear me. Eemember how young\\nyou seem to me. Look up, and see that\\nyou can trust me.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\n115", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nAs I pleaded with her the sleigh plunged\\non at the heels of that dreadful animal.\\nDown and down the frightful grade we\\nwent, but he made nothing of it. Half\\nthe time we seemed perched upon his very\\nhaunches. Slowly the girl lifted her bowed\\nhead, and timidly she looked at me at\\nwhat she could see of me and how I\\nblessed then those hated bandages. Had\\nshe seen that I was young, that every pulse\\nwas tingling with a devotion beyond the\\npower of reasoning age to feel, who can\\ntell what might have followed. But, as it\\nwas, something in the swollen eye she\\nstudied seemed to bring comfort to her\\nheart. She smiled, and although at that\\nmoment we took a stone the size of a din-\\nner-table under our left runner, I never\\neven felt the dull shock.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cIt would be awfully funny,\u00e2\u0080\u009d she fal-\\ntered. \u00e2\u0080\u009cI hate to lose all my money be-\\nfore I\u00e2\u0080\u0099ve ever had a diamond necklace, or\\nbeen abroad, and and afterwards\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cAnd afterwards,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I cried with my\\nhead whirling rapidly, though my voice\\n116", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nsounded paternal and reassuring still\\nafterwards the law which has helped me\\nto preserve for you your property shall give\\nyou back your liberty, and may Heaven\\nbless you for your sweet trust in me.\u00e2\u0080\u0099^\\nAnd now go, old horse, go Go, go, and\\nmay you yet, with Cousin John upon\\nyour back, canter into the very heart of\\nParadise. Half -standing, half -sit ting, cau-\\ntiously did I ply the whip. With line and\\nvoice I sought to guide his headlong charge;\\nevery nerve on fire, every pulse throbbing,\\nwild with anxiety, lest one false step waken\\nme from my dream of bliss.\\nAnd now lights from countless gambling\\ndens, lights from sick-rooms, and the lights\\nfrom distant streets came plainly to us.\\nGo, go And go he did, with great lunges\\nof his awkward legs, and now and then a\\nthreatening snort which told of straining\\nlungs gasping forth a vigorous protest or\\nreproach. Half a mile, only a quarter\\nnow, and still those galloping feet behind.\\nOh, for a dark alley into which we might\\nplunge! See, there it yawns before us.\\n117", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nNow, one burst of speed, and we go crash-\\ning through a heap of rubbish, and breath-\\nless and panting, the knees of the horse\\nbending beneath him, we spring out into\\na dark and loathsome alley, and with a\\nGod bless thee, old nag! and a pat on\\nhis reeking flanks, I flung a coin into the\\nface of a man who started up from a door-\\nstep, and cried: Oats for that horse and\\na drink for yourself I\\nAnd then what a chase began A chase\\njoined in by every homeless dog and va-\\ngrant cat we started from their unclean\\nlairs, while drunken revellers hailed us\\nwith coarse jests as we flashed across their\\npaths, and twice I fancied that the gleam-\\ning muzzle of a firearm threatened us from\\na dark retreat. But so rapid was our\\nflight as I half -led, half -carried my trem-\\nbling companion through the horrid tan-\\ngle, we must have seemed to all we met as\\nillusive as the shifting night shades, now\\nand again trembling for a second between\\nthem and the moon\u00e2\u0080\u0099s pale light. At last\\nthe air about us began to freshen, and with\\n118", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\na great gasp of relief and exultation I drew\\nmy companion into a decent thoroughfare,\\nand, with anxious glances, sought for some\\nsign which would lead me to what I most\\nneeded.\\nThere is no time to be lost, not one sec-\\nond. I must ask directions, hut of whom\\nYonder, with stately step, comes a starred\\nand coated oiSicer of the law, and I shrink\\nback and let him pass as though the weight\\nof crime was pressing down upon my soul.\\nDespair seizes on me; but hark, there are\\nother feet! And see, there comes a be-\\nlated traveller of respectable mien, a fam-\\nily man, long overdue at the domestic\\nhearth, I would take my oath. I could\\nread the signs of a mild debauch and guilty\\ndread in his feverish haste and in the\\ncraven fear which lit his eye. \u00e2\u0080\u009cSir!\u00e2\u0080\u009d I\\nexclaimed, forgetting caution and spring-\\ning so suddenly before him that he threw\\nup his hand as though sandbagging were\\nhis nightly cross. I beg your pardon,\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nI said humbly, seeing how it was with him,\\nand then I asked for what I wanted, and\\n119", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\npoured out into his reluctant ear such a\\ntale of love and romance that, had he con-\\ntained a divine fire, he must inevitably\\nhave burst into fiame on the spot. As it\\nwas, however, he stood and eyed me with\\na cold, dull eye, an eye filmy from loss of\\nsleep, a suspicious eye, that did not twin-\\nkle at my amorous tale, and when I had\\nfinished, said merely: \u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098You have been\\nfighting, I see,\u00e2\u0080\u009d and looked at my band-\\nages with a self-righteous air which sat ill\\non so belated a reveller.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cAnd how could it be otherwise?\u00e2\u0080\u009d I\\nasked plaintively. \u00e2\u0080\u009cI could not get her\\npeaceably. For I had mixed up a roman-\\ntic elopement with certain elements of\\nhighway robbery until I thought the tale\\nsufficiently highly spiced. But I beg of\\nyou, do not detain me. Surely you can\\ndirect me to the proper officer without\\nsuffering any strain upon your principles.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nColdly again did his dull eye scan me,\\nup and down and all about, to rest at last\\nupon the diamond scarf-pin I wore. I\\nam a jeweller,\u00e2\u0080\u009d he remarked at last indif-\\n120", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nferently, but his eye spoke for him with\\nan eloquence I did not attempt to mis-\\nunderstand.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098Indeed,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I exclaimed joyously, \u00e2\u0080\u009cif\\nthat he the case, perhaps you can estimate\\nfor me the value of this bauble,\u00e2\u0080\u009d and I\\nplucked ofE the gem, forcing it upon him\\nwith an arch and meaning glance, while\\nI secretly yearned to boot him for a cut-\\nthroat. But no sooner had the thing been\\ndone than I found the price beggarly com-\\npared with the comfort it brought to my\\njaded energies. I was no longer a rudder-\\nless ship drifting about at the mercy of\\nevery capricious wave. I was an impor-\\ntant event, something with a purpose, a\\nman who paid his way.\\nI would give a connected account of the\\nnext hour\u00e2\u0080\u0099s work were the thing possible,\\nbut so confused are the real events in my\\nmind with certain vague imaginings that\\nI dare not vouch for what might be called\\nthe plain facts. We walked, I should say,\\na great number of miles, though they have\\nbeen reduced by some to barely as many\\n121", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nblocks, and stopped at several houses where\\npeople, men mostly, in night-caps, I think,\\nthough I will not insist on the night-caps,\\ncame and peered at us through cracks\\nin doors, and swore at us first, and then\\ntalked more mildly, and at most of the\\nhouses I kept telling my name until they\\nstopped me, and had me sign it to papers,\\nwhich I did with pens as large as walking\\nsticks.\\nI know for a certainty that I kept pay-\\ning out money, but probably not in the\\nquantities it seemed, for my bankers tell\\nme I had drawn no thousand-dollar bank-\\nnotes, nor bags of silver dollars, and then\\nwalked again, and more men in night-caps\\ncame and looked at us, and I told my story\\nto some, and to some I didn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t, until sud-\\ndenly I came to myself in a dusty little\\nparlour before a man in a dress-coat and felt\\nboots, who was saying to me as well as he\\ncould with a bad cold in his head, I pro-\\nnounce you man and wife.\u00e2\u0080\u009d I was stand-\\ning holding fast to Miss Brandon\u00e2\u0080\u0099s hand,\\nand the knowledge that she was no longer\\n123", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nMiss Brandon was tingling through my\\nsenses. My wife for she was my wife in\\nthe eyes of the men who stood staring won-\\nderingly at me gave a frightened little\\ncry, tottered for an instant, and then fell\\nfainting into arms, so white, so wan, so\\nchildlike that I thought we had killed her\\nsomehow with our clumsy doings. Snatch-\\ning her up, I dashed out into the hall with\\nher, where my sudden entrance scared up\\na covey of half -dressed women, who made\\na rush for the stairs, but finding they\\ncouldn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t make it, turned and defiantly\\nfaced me.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098Show me a room!\u00e2\u0080\u009d I shouted, and\\nthey fled before me like rats, until, fol-\\nlowing their scant skirts, I found myself\\nstanding before a clean, but tumbled bed,\\nfrom which the scared occupant had just\\nsprung to secrete herself behind a half-\\nopen closet door. Here I tenderly placed\\nmy charge, and, with one more look at her\\nwan face, I fled from the apartment, shut-\\nting the door upon her and the women,\\nand then I crouched close beside it, wild\\n123", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nwith fear lest a cry of horror reach me at\\nany moment to tell me that life had fled.\\nNor from that lowly post could I be up-\\nrooted, though the hole was dark and the\\nwomen, running in and out, stumbled\\nagainst me as they ran, spilling things\\nover themselves and me. At last one of\\nthe lot came and stood before me, with\\narms akimbo, her face shining with good-\\nnatured scorn. Six months from now\\nyou\u00e2\u0080\u0099ll take things more easy,\u00e2\u0080\u009d she said.\\nAnd the lady, how is she I cried.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cThe lady?\u00e2\u0080\u009d she repeated wonder-\\ningly; \u00e2\u0080\u009cyour wife, you mean,\u00e2\u0080\u009d and then,\\nfor I reddened furiously beneath my band-\\nages, she laughed and cried: \u00e2\u0080\u009cWhy, the\\nman is blushing. You better go and shave\\nyourself,\u00e2\u0080\u009d she cried jocosely, \u00e2\u0080\u009cyou are no\\nfit sight for so pretty a little runaway.\\nLeave her to me, and brush up, or she\u00e2\u0080\u0099ll\\nbe more than ready to run back with papa\\nwhen he gets here.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThere was good sense in this, and I crept\\ndown-stairs, and meeting in the hall my\\ngentleman of the diamond pin, asked him\\n124", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nshamefacedly where I might obtain at once\\na bath, a change of clothing, and a shave.\\nAgain was I led forth, and once more\\nwe were knocking at people\u00e2\u0080\u0099s doors, and\\nonce more did surly men peer at us through\\nstingy little chinks, and, by and by, a half-\\ndressed barber stood before us, mixing up\\ncold lather, and stropping a razor with a\\nsleepy blindness far from reassuring.\\nYou\u00e2\u0080\u0099ll have to get off them rags,\u00e2\u0080\u009d he\\nsaid, with unnecessary rudeness, pointing\\nto my bandages, and then he stripped them\\nfrom me with no gentle hand, and fell at\\nhis work.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cBe careful of that jaw,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I said heav-\\nily, and then I think that I must have\\ngone to sleep, for, though I remember his\\nasking me snappishly, \u00e2\u0080\u009cWhich jaw?\u00e2\u0080\u009d I\\nremember nothing else until a sudden ap-\\nplication of bay rum to a cheek all but\\nfreed of skin brought me to myself with\\na moan of pain.\\nWhatever have you had them rags on\\nfor was the greeting of my tormentor,\\nas he hastily covered the evidence of his\\n125", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nbrutality with a dab of powder, and then\\nmy eyes, straying about in sleepy wonder,\\nfell upon my reflection in the long glass\\nbefore me. What, indeed? Why, I was\\nmyself again How long had I been mas-\\nquerading unnecessarily in those band-\\nages W hy, even my swollen eye, though\\na thought heavy about the upper lid, wore\\nonly a look of interesting melancholy.\\nI could have sung for joy. I sprang to\\nmy feet with such an expression of artless\\ndelight on my face that the man demanded\\nfour times the usual rate on the spot.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cIt\u00e2\u0080\u0099s too much to be expected to climb\\nout at this hour and sharpen up extra for\\nwhat one would get at mid-day when the\\ntrade is driving,\u00e2\u0080\u009d he said, in excuse of his\\nrobbery, but I took him so pleasantly that\\nhe quite bestirred himself when he got to\\nmy hair, and when I mentioned, with an\\nattempt at gaiety, that I was without hat\\nor coat, he offered to drum up a friend of\\nhis who kept a clothing store a little far-\\nther down the street.\\nLet\u00e2\u0080\u0099s be off,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I cried like one leading\\n126", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\na charge of cavalry. Half an hour later I\\nwas so completely metamorphosed that the\\nlady who had recommended the change did\\nnot know me when I rushed in upon her,\\nuntil I broke forth into a storm of inquiries\\nas to the state of the invalid I had left in\\nher charge.\\nOh, is it you, then she cried,\\nthrowing her fat hands in the air, while\\nher eyebrows sought out her oily hair once\\nmore. Well, well So that\u00e2\u0080\u0099s why she\\nran away from home, was it A good eye\\nand a neat moustache will make a fool of\\nany girl that breathes, I see, and her home\\nis no better than the dirt she walks on.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098Where is she?\u00e2\u0080\u009d I cried, for I was\\nburning to display myself before her with-\\nout my former dismal trappings. Of\\ncourse, I should have remembered how she\\nhad learned to regard me that she was\\nweak, tired, and in a situation of the ut-\\nmost delicacy, and in a manner I did but\\nhow, without raising fatal suspicions, could\\nI refuse to enter when the attendant\\npointed to the parlour and said my bride\\n127", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nwas in there? I might, however, have\\ngone in more slowly; might have followed\\nup my timid knock, which brought a\\nsmothered chuckle from behind me, with\\nless speed; but as it was, I was inside the\\ndoor, and on my knees beside the chair in\\nwhich she sat, pouring out a stream of in-\\nquiries, regrets, and congratulations before\\nI noticed that she was not listening to me,\\nbut had drawn herself back from me as\\nfrom a wild beast, and was regarding me\\nin a pallid horror which struck me to the\\nheart.\\nWhy, don\u00e2\u0080\u0099t you know me I cried,\\nin pity and reproach, at which her face\\nturned crimson, then went down upon the\\narm of her chair, and she burst into tears\\nwith such an abandonment of grief that I\\nwas beside myself.\\nOh, forgive me, forgive me! I cried,\\nthough I was not conscious of having\\nsinned against her. But she only shook\\nher head, and bade me leave her, and, as\\nI could not do that, I dropped into hope-\\nless silence, regarding the crown of fluffy\\n138", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nhair, which was all I could see, in helpless\\nmisery, until gradually about an inch of\\nher white forehead began to show itself\\nabove the handkerchief she was clutching,\\nand a desperate voice said: \u00e2\u0080\u009cHow could\\nyou be so young so awfully young, and\\nall that? It\u00e2\u0080\u0099s just\u00e2\u0080\u0094 just too dreadful for\\nanything.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nI know it,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I said meekly, though I\\ndid not think it dreadful at all. \u00e2\u0080\u009cBut\\nyou know all this is just for a little while.\\nI only stayed to make you understand that.\\nI will leave you now, if you prefer it.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThere was a silence, then she reached\\nher hand cautiously towards me, still with\\nher face concealed behind the handker-\\nchief.\\nI am not angry with you,\u00e2\u0080\u009d she said\\ntimidly. And if you had been old, you\\nknow, come to think about it, you couldn t\\nhave got about so. Perhaps it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s best this\\nway, after all.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nPerhaps it is,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I murmured gravely,\\nbarely touching the dainty fingers, then\\nlaying them discreetly down again, while\\n9 139", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nmy traitor heart leaped high and mad fan-\\ncies possessed my brain. And then, to re-\\nassure her, for I cared little enough about\\nit myself, I began to talk to her of her\\nbusiness complications, artfully rousing in\\nher the resentment against her uncle of\\nwhich I had caught a glimpse; and so,\\nlittle by little, winning her to look at me\\nand trust me as I sat down back from her,\\nnot trusting myself in the least, and very\\nmuch fearing that some hasty word or ac-\\ntion might drop again the veil which seemed\\nlifting from between her soul and mine.\\nOh, how can I ever thank you\\nenough she cried at length. And to\\nthink that you are about the first honest\\nman I ever talked to, though, I suppose,\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nshe added hastily, that the priests must\\nbe all right, being in the church and all\\nthat, but then you know they have to be\\nso queer, that it doesn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t seem to matter\\nwhether they are or not; one doesn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t care\\nmuch, you know.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nWell, they would not let us alone, so we\\nhad some breakfast the usual thing, I\\n130", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nsuppose, for I remember being asked\\nwhether I would take cream in my coffee,\\nand declining it, then wondering why the\\nstuff tasted wrong and wasn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t the right\\ncolour; and something about being asked\\nif the steak suited me, and that I answered\\ndreamily that it did not, at which people\\nlooked offended. Little could be expected\\nof one sitting down in family fashion with\\na blushing girl, who kept her eyes fast-\\nened questioningly upon him whenever she\\nthought herself unobserved, and who fal-\\ntered out little womanly proffers of deli-\\ncacies that led him to pile his untouched\\nplate with incongruous eatables.\\nA carriage was got for us by some one,\\nand I paid out more money, almost my\\nlast. Then we were directed to a down-\\ntown law office; arrived indecently early,\\nand were received by a janitor much out\\nof temper from an encounter with the\\nfurnace, and I was snubbed by him and\\nfrowned upon; and when the lawyer came\\nI left my companion in the reception-room,\\nand went into the inner office with him,\\n131", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nwishing devoutly that I might have sought\\nmy brother-in-law\u00e2\u0080\u0099s advice as to the kind\\nof help to employ in my delicate business,\\nyet not daring to venture near him, as I\\nvalued my liberty.\\nToo utterly jaded to use my ordinary\\ntact, I did not decently prepare the poor\\nman. While I pelted him with my wild\\nstatements, he sat far forward upon the\\nedge of his office chair, with one eye upon\\nthe window beside him, making ready, I\\nfelt, for that moment when my lunacy\\nshould break loose and he must leap for\\nhis life. But, though clumsy to the verge\\nof brutality, I was firm with him, and\\nnothing he could say shook my confidence\\nin my reason, or the reality of what had\\nhappened. So gradually he left off his\\nfeverish attention to the window and be-\\ngan to really heed me. But when I reached\\nthat strange morning wedding, he sprang\\nto his feet and snatched the papers per-\\ntaining to the ceremony from me, much\\nas one would seize a loaded revolver from\\nthe hands of a child\\n133", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nOur names he took down, and then my\\ncompanion must be brought in and ques-\\ntioned, and when he had cross-examined\\nher until the toe of my boot fairly tingled,\\nhe bundled us both out of the office, tell-\\ning us when to call again, all the time mut-\\ntering to himself as though his nervous\\nsystem had sustained a severe shock.\\nOnce more in the carriage, what was I\\nto do We could not ride all day. Should\\nI take my companion straightway and place\\nher in my sister\u00e2\u0080\u0099s care Not for all the\\nworld, until the mystery surrounding her\\ncould be cleared up.\\nWhat, then? Timidly I turned and\\nlooked at her, but nothing was to be got\\nfrom that, save the disconcerting percep-\\ntion that she, too, felt the awkwardness of\\nour situation, was crushed beneath it, and\\ncowered away from me, her head turned\\naside and her whole attitude one of com-\\nplete prostration.\\nWell,\u00e2\u0080\u009d said I briskly, as my eyes noted\\nthis, we will drive to a hotel, where you\\nmay rest,\u00e2\u0080\u009d and, pretending I had forgot-\\n133", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nten something, I ran and conferred with\\nthe driver as to some quiet retreat, the\\nname of which he gave with a leer, so that\\nI climbed back beside my companion,\\nfilled with vengeful longings, which were\\naugmented when I detected my bride in\\nthe act of studying me from beneath her\\nlashes, and saw that, far from comforting\\nher, the survey of my person seemed to fill\\nher mind with renewed consternation.\\nMiss Brandon,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I cried softly, a whole\\nworld of respect and compassion ringing\\nin my voice, and then I remembered that\\nshe was no longer Miss Brandon, and she\\nremembered it too, and the good work\\nwas all undone. Up rushed the scarlet to\\nmy face, and to hers too, poor girl, and\\nwith a childish motion she pressed one\\nhand across her face to conceal it from me.\\nIt\u00e2\u0080\u0099s going to be a chilly day,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I gasped\\nwith an attempt at unconsciousness she\\ncould not second, and so we sat in a silence\\nawful to her I knew, while my heart\\nthumped away at my side like a hammer.\\nNo sooner had the carriage stopped than\\n134", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nshe was upon her feet with down-bent\\nhead, and I had scarcely time to get the\\ndoor open and be ready to receive her be-\\nfore she slipped down, avoiding my ex-\\ntended arms, and stood beside me like a\\nbird ready for flight.\\nGood-bye,\u00e2\u0080\u009d she murmured feverishly,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cyou don\u00e2\u0080\u0099t need to come in with me. I\\ncan take care of myself now,\u00e2\u0080\u009d with a little\\ncatch in her voice. She would have been\\ngone, but forgetting where I was, I caught\\nher hand and made her raise her eyes to\\nmine. Oh, forgive me,\u00e2\u0080\u009d she faltered,\\nyou have been so kind, but\\nBut I shall not obey you now,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I fln-\\nished for her flrmly, and then I dropped\\nher hand, for I saw that the driver was\\nfairly feasting his vulgar curiosity on our\\nlittle scene. I saw something else, too,\\nwith a sudden sickening chill at my heart.\\nAn elegant private carriage containing two\\nladies was being drawn up with a flourish\\nbeside us. In one of those ladies I recog-\\nnized my sister, while in the other I dis-\\ncovered, with a sense of being caught up\\n135", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nin the grasp of a whirling maelstrom, the\\nmost yielding of the fair creatures to whom\\nI had been paying idle court since my ar-\\nrival at my sister\u00e2\u0080\u0099s home. They had seen\\nme, but not my companion for, as I had\\nsaid before, I am large, and I was standing\\nbefore her. They had seen me, and were\\nhot after me, and my friend was smiling\\nupon me with gay indulgence.\\nThe coachman from his elevated seat had\\nalso seen me, and seen not only me, but\\nmy companion, and I thought there was\\npity in his glance as he reined in his horses\\nclose beside us so close that before my\\nmind could act both ladies saw I was not\\nalone, but saw it too late to draw back.\\nThe half-reproached, half-relieved greet-\\ning already framed upon my sister\u00e2\u0080\u0099s lips\\nfroze into a little frosty nod, while a deli-\\ncate flush of shame and outraged confi-\\ndence spread itself over her handsome fea-\\ntures. Her friend sat like flesh and blood\\nturned of a sudden into an excellent qual-\\nity of granite, while not the faintest trace\\nof pity gleamed from the four eyes turned\\n136", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nhaughtily upon the shrinking figure beside\\nme.\\nI had stood so much that I think I had\\nlittle reason left; besides, although I knew\\nthe circumstances were against me, I was\\na little indignant, which still further\\nblinded me. So without a thought of\\ntheir amazement, indeed with scarcely a\\nconsciousness of the thunderbolt I was\\nlevelling at their heads, I took my com-\\npanion\u00e2\u0080\u0099s hand and led her a little forward,\\nremarking in a perfectly vacant manner\\nOh, how do you do, Flo Let me make\\nyou acquainted with my wife. And Miss\\nThompson, also, I should like to have you\\nmeet my wife. Pleasant morning, isn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t\\nit?\u00e2\u0080\u009d And then, utterly apathetic from\\ndespair, I stood and stared listlessly.\\nI have always admired women, but the\\nconduct of the outraged Miss Thompson\\nat that moment moved me to such intem-\\nperate wonder that, with the insane ten-\\ndency one has to grasp at trifles in mo-\\nments of peril, I thought for a moment of\\nnothing else save the sudden glittering\\n137", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\ncomposure which fell down over and stayed\\nabout her as the fatal words slipped past\\nmy babbling lips. Not the shriek of my\\nsister in that public place, nor the violent\\nstart and reproachful cry of my wife, had\\npower for that moment to rouse me.\\nWell, really now, quite abrupt and the-\\natrical, I do declare! cried Miss Thomp-\\nson, while every other mortal on the spot\\nwas tongue-tied with horror. \u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098And to\\nthink, Flo, that you lost a night\u00e2\u0080\u0099s sleep\\nworrying over such a refreshingly roman-\\ntic creature! I would tear my hair just a\\nlittle, my dear, if I were you. Of course,\\nI should recommend the greatest discretion\\nwhile you\u00e2\u0080\u0099re about it.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nWhen one looked from the pitiful,\\nfrightened face of the child beside me to\\nthe chill, white face of Flo, glaring down\\nat us from the carriage door, this rattling\\ntalk sounded like profanity, and yet I did\\nnot blame Miss Thompson. At heart I\\nwas guiltless, yet I cowered beneath the\\nglitter of her eye as though confronted\\nwith actual bigamy. I have said before\\n138", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nthat Flo is a good woman. She is. She\\nis more. She is a great woman, and at\\nthat trying moment she proved as much.\\nAfter all was said and done, I was her\\nbrother, and my honour was her honour.\\nI am very glad to meet your wife, I\\nam sure,\u00e2\u0080\u009d she at length gasped out, with\\na smile which must have come much harder\\nthan the last defiance of many a well-baked\\nmartyr. \u00e2\u0080\u009cDo get in and come with us,\\nboth of you. I was on the way to the\\nmorgue to identify you, but we will drive\\nhome now.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nIt sounded suspiciously friendly, but I\\nwas looking for floating straws, and I\\nturned to assist my trembling charge in\\nbeside the others.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cForgive me,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I whispered, as I half-\\nlifted her upon the cushions; but she\\nwould not raise her eyes to mine. When\\nI murmured in my sister\u00e2\u0080\u0099s ear, Flo, be\\nkind, I will explain,\u00e2\u0080\u009d she turned her face\\naway with a low order to the driver which\\nset the carriage spinning towards home at\\na rate that threatened to cripple every slow-\\n139", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nfooted pedestrian along our track. But if\\nmy bride would not look at me, nor my\\nsister talk. Miss Thompson did both and\\nto spare. Heavens, how she scourged me\\nwith her merry speeches And to think,\\nFlo, you naughty girl,\u00e2\u0080\u0099^ she cried, turning\\na vengeful glare on my poor sister, who\\nwrithed beneath her just attack, \u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098that\\nyou passed him off upon us as a gay bache-\\nlor. What if I had lost my heart And\\nshe glared at me, while I wondered to think\\nshe dared claim to own such an organ.\\nI don\u00e2\u0080\u0099t suppose we were more than ten\\nminutes making that drive, yet I seemed\\nto grow old and grey before it ended.\\nHelpless to retaliate on Miss Thompson,\\nmy manhood seemed to desert me, and I\\nsat huddled up upon the seat like some\\npoor relation out for an airing.\\nAt last we were at home once more.\\nSome one only the coachman, I think\\ndrove off with Miss Thompson, and after\\nmore confusion I was standing before my\\nbrother-in-law, who had been telephoned\\nfor in great haste; with Flo showing symp-\\n140", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\ntoms of hysterics on a sofa at hand, and\\nmy poor bride doubtless weeping her pretty\\neyes out in a chamber above us, whither\\nshe had fled without one word or backward\\nglance for me. Thus standing, suspected\\nby all, pitied by none, I poured out my\\nstrange tale for perhaps the hundredth time.\\nI can see my brother-in-law now as he\\nsat there, large, loose-limbed, and pros-\\nperous, fllled with uneasy embarrassment\\nat the irregularity of being in his own\\nhouse during business hours, his eyes\\nroaming in conjugal anxiety to where his\\nwife lay, yet ever returning to me with a\\nfriendly light in their sharp, grey depths.\\nNot a flgure to encourage romantic yarns,\\nand yet I poured mine out upon him, and\\nsaw him shift and wince, and heard his\\nmuttered \u00e2\u0080\u009cBy George\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\u00e2\u0080\u009d and his \u00e2\u0080\u009cOh,\\ncome now, old fellow\u00e2\u0080\u0099s without flinching;\\nand then, when I had flnished, they both\\nsat and gazed at me with pale faces and\\nfrightened eyes, much as they might have\\nlooked had I been brought home to them\\nspread out on a shutter.\\n141", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nNever mind, Plo,\u00e2\u0080\u009d were the first words\\ngasped out by poor William when I had\\nended. \u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098George, my dear boy. I\u00e2\u0080\u0099ll see\\nyou through this,\u00e2\u0080\u009d and then steps came\\nhurrying along the hall, and the door fell\\nopen to admit a servant\u00e2\u0080\u0099s fiustered face.\\nBut before it had fairly dawned upon us,\\nit was shoved aside, and in bounded a\\nsmall, stooped figure which I recognized\\nas the lawyer I had consulted that morn-\\ning. Something exciting he had to tell;\\nhis face showed that, and before I could\\nspeak to him, he and my brother-in-law\\nran at each other and fairly exploded with\\na lot of legal jargon in which I seemed to\\nfigure as both John Doe and Eich-\\nard Eoe,\u00e2\u0080\u009d so involved had my affairs be-\\ncome. Then all three of them for my\\nsister had mixed herself up in the confu-\\nsion turned and looked at me: my sis-\\nter for she loved me with happy tears\\nchasing the shadows from her eyes; my\\nbrother-in-law for he loved my sister\\nwith a face of profound relief; and my\\nlawyer for he loved his gold with a", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\ncountenance uplifted by the vision of a\\nheavy fee.\\nSir,\u00e2\u0080\u009d he said, sir, allow me to con-\\ngratulate you you have married an heir-\\ness! and he grasped me with fingers pur-\\nple from the arteries of his fountain pen,\\nand shook me as though rattling sover-\\neigns from a sack.\\nBy George, old fellow, you lit on your\\nfeet this time! burst forth William with\\nan explosive laugh, and he gave me a blow\\nupon the back which would have driven\\nhome a railroad spike.\\nOh, George, and she\u00e2\u0080\u0099s so pretty!\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nwhispered my sister, with her arms about\\nmy neck. \u00e2\u0080\u009cCouldn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t you don\u00e2\u0080\u0099t you\\nthink vou might learn to like her just a\\nlittle?\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThe next two weeks of my existence\\nwere as troubled as a sick man\u00e2\u0080\u0099s dream,\\nfor though scornfully indifferent to the\\nwretched dollars involved in the affair,\\nevery one else seemed to consider them of\\nthe first importance, and I led a wretched\\nlife of it in the hands of my lawyer, who\\n143", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nworked me like a day labourer with his\\neverlasting interviews. And when Miss\\nBrandon\u00e2\u0080\u0099s uncle and cousin (I hadn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t the\\ncourage to even think of her by any other\\nname) turned violent and insulting, no one\\nwould think of letting me meet them, one\\nat a time, and have it out with them.\\nThose who took an interest in the tire-\\nsome details told me that the fantastic will\\nwhich had made all the trouble showed up\\npractically the same as it had been given\\nto me; and, finally, the matter was settled\\nsomehow on a comparatively peaceful basis.\\nThe uncle denied everything, of course,\\nbut finally disgorged enough, I suppose,\\nto satisfy those who were handling the\\nbusiness. Anyway, they ceased torment-\\ning me about it; even Dr. A whose\\ncase had of course complicated my troubles,\\nrecovered from his miraculously trifiing in-\\njuries, and I had time to fall back on the\\nreal source of my sufferings.\\nIt had its root in the unaccountable dis-\\nlike taken to me by the young bride fiung\\nso strangely on my care. This it was\\n144", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nwhich robbed me of my appetite, destroyed\\nmy pleasing manners, made me peevish\\nwith my sister, intolerant of the cook, pet-\\ntish to a degree with the housemaid, and\\ndownright savage with the smirking coach-\\nman, who privately considered himself a\\nparty to all my unwholesome notoriety.\\nAnd how they bore with me! I wondered\\nat their goodness even while I kept on\\ntrampling over them in my unbridled ego-\\ntism.\\nIt must have been patent to every woman\\nin the house, from my sister down to the\\nmeanest scrubwoman, that I was the vic-\\ntim of an engrossing and despairing pas-\\nsion; and so my sister ignored petty flings,\\nthe cook did violence to her own past rec-\\nord, the housemaid fllled my vases with\\nflowers, and through all this womanly kind-\\nness I stalked untamed, dishevelled as to\\nties, solitary as to habit, a lean spectre of\\na bridegroom without a bride.\\nIt was apparent to every one that my\\nbride had no desire for my society, and I\\nwas made to feel, even by Flo, that it would\\n10 145", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nbe considered a graceful act for me to take\\nmy meals down town whenever the pretty\\nrecluse had been prevailed upon to prom-\\nise she would leave her room.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098You see she feels so queer, you know,\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nmy sister would say with an inscrutable\\nsmile. \u00e2\u0080\u009cAnd I have promised that we\\nwill be alone to-night\u00e2\u0080\u009d; and so I would\\nrush off savagely, take a few wretched\\nmorsels of food somewhere, then sneak\\nhome again with the unacknowledged hope\\nof surprising them at the table, only to be-\\nhold vanishing skirts melting away behind\\nsome closing door. After that I would\\nfling away to my room, and commence my\\ndaily task of packing the satchel which I\\ninvariably unpacked before the night was\\nover.\\nI fell to absenting myself from the com-\\nmon haunts of man, taking long and dis-\\nmal walks in the suburbs of the place,\\nmoody and suicidal. During one of these\\nrambles it was, at a moment when my self-\\npity was at the keenest, that I came upon\\na group of men, one of whom was in police-\\n146", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nman\u00e2\u0080\u0099s garb. He was directing the others\\nwith voice and gesture regarding a maimed\\nand halting beast that hobbled in their\\nrear. Take him to the outskirts and\\nshoot him!\u00e2\u0080\u009d he bawled. \u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098He broke a\\nplate-glass window to-day racing with a\\nstreet car,\u00e2\u0080\u009d and, with this death sentence\\nwarm npon his lips, he faced about to run\\nfull against me, as I darted towards him.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cStop them! Stop those men!\u00e2\u0080\u009d I\\ncalled, and then, before his fingers could\\ncome groping for my collar, I explained\\nmore calmly: I know the owner of that\\nhorse. He will gladly pay for any damages\\nthat it has done, and agree to see after it\\nmore carefully in the future.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nI think he thought I was demented, but\\nthe colour of my gold was the same as that\\nof any sane man\u00e2\u0080\u0099s; so, after a decent pause\\nin behalf of his official dignity, he recalled\\nhis vassals, and a moment later, with the\\nwhole crowd jeering at me, I had started\\non my homeward way, leading the wretched\\noutcast. On through the sloppy road we\\nwent, we two who had made that dark\\n147", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nnight race together he worn and spent\\nin body, and I with my spirit biting the\\nvery dust. Long was the way, but at\\nlength we turned in at the door of a pub-\\nlic stable, where a wondering but friendly\\nhostler took the halter from me, while I\\ntold him my desires.\\nIf you don\u00e2\u0080\u0099t \u00e2\u0080\u0099low to use him none, he\\ncan be pulled through all right, I guess,\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nhe said doubtfully. But his legs is stiff\\nas posts, and he won\u00e2\u0080\u0099t never be good for\\nnothin\u00e2\u0080\u0099 much but slow travel and then,\\nwhile he went for oats and a blanket, I\\nstooped and I looked into the creature\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\\nalmost human eyes in dumb apology for\\nthe wrong my passion had done him.\\nAnd it was all in vain, old nag,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I whis-\\npered, patting his hair with a lingering\\ntouch, for his shape was a beautiful mem-\\nory to me; and again, in fancy, I could see\\nit steaming along the frozen road which\\nstretched so long, so long before me, while\\na girl nestled at my side, and a peril that\\nmade her mine to save came rushing on\\nbehind.\\n148", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nDistracted with memories, I hurried home\\nin no mood to cope with Flo, when she\\ncame and gently probed and goaded me,\\nuntil the secret of my heart came out in\\nan angry confession that I loved the wife\\nwho would not even raise her eyes to\\nmine. She gave me not a ray of hope.\\nShe even said, Poor boy! And sullen\\nwith despair, I flung myself from her\\npresence.\\nI now decided conclusively to leave the\\ncountry. I went down to dinner envel-\\noped in a halo of resolves, having mentally\\ndeclined every objection which the courtesy\\nof a host or the affection of a relative could\\nurge against my departure. I was a little\\nlate, but it did not matter. I opened the\\ndoor carelessly, only to And myself stricken\\nin such confusion as I had not felt since\\nmy flrst ball.\\nIt was not the teasing light from Flo\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\\nsmile which disconcerted me, nor yet the\\nfriendly encouragement which radiated\\nfrom William\u00e2\u0080\u0099s entire person. No; some\\none else was there, some one dressed in\\n149", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nshimmering white, with a blushing face,\\nhut a bright and happy one a young per-\\nson whom Flo and William called Ber-\\nnice with a familiarity positively madden-\\ning, inasmuch as I dared call her nothing\\nat all.\\nThat dinner! How I got through it\\nwithout stabbing mjself with the imple-\\nments of which I seemed to have forgotten\\nthe use, or scalding myself with the soup\\nwhich I swallowed boiling hot, no one can\\ntell. I certainly was a great care to the\\nservants; they were kept busy dragging\\noff the small articles I wrecked about me;\\nbut no one noticed my accidents. They\\nwere all in the highest spirits, and laughed\\nat my few stuttering remarks as though I\\nwere the funniest creature living.\\nBut I am sorry you feel that you must\\nleave us,\u00e2\u0080\u009d said Flo, when we had got back\\nto the drawing-room, catching her train\\nfrom beneath my feet as she spoke, and\\nsmiling upon me. \u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098Thomas says you\\nhave packed up again. I wonder that you\\ndon\u00e2\u0080\u0099t wear out your clothing, changing it\\n150", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nabout so.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Then she melted from the\\nroom, and William, without even the de-\\ncent pretext of an excuse, made haste to\\nfollow.\\nI think my companion knew that they\\nwere going, Wt when we were fairly alone\\nher courage failed her. A little cry es-\\ncaped her lips, and, had I not quickly\\nplaced myself before her, she, too, would\\nhave vanished.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cBernice,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I cried, and I was on my\\nknees before her, you must help me to\\nsave my honour. I said that I would leave,\\nbut I cannot. Oh, Bernice, my little\\nbride, I cannot!\\nHad I frightened, had I shocked her?\\nI dared not look up, but clasping tightly\\nin my own the trembling hands which I\\ncaught as they wound themselves nervously\\ntogether, I pressed them close against my\\ndownbent face. There was a long silence\\nwhile the small hands struggled feebly in\\nmine; then they grew still, and there came\\nfaintly: \u00e2\u0080\u009cI\u00e2\u0080\u0094 I don\u00e2\u0080\u0099t think that I want\\nyou to go\u00e2\u0080\u0094 but you never had any wife\\n151", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "An Eventful Night\\nand ^you aren\u00e2\u0080\u0099t a doctor at all and\\nand\\nIf there are those who would prefer to\\nbelieve that I remained upon my knees\\nthrough all that faltering speech they may\\ndo so, but I think there are many who will\\nappreciate me better if they doubt that I\\nwas so passive.\\n153", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "4", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2937", "width": "1592", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2954", "width": "1725", "jp2-path": "eventfulnight00park_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "MAR 14 1900\\nDeacidified using the Bookkeeper proces\\nNeutralizirtg Agent: Magnesium Oxide\\nTreatment Date:\\nDEC\\n1996\\n1 \u00e2\u0080\u00a2-w KMO\\nBBBl^EPER\\nPRESERVATION TECHNOLOGIES. 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