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In that weird, blended light the face of the sick girl shone like a fading star. Lynde was conscious of no other presence, though Mrs. Denham and Dr. Pendegrast with a third person were standing near the chimney-place.
He would not like to have the woman he loved such an actress as that. Had Ruth revealed everything to the aunt, and was she too playing a part? In her several allusions to Dr. Pendegrast Mrs. Denham had called him "the doctor" simply, or "an old friend of our family," and never once pronounced his name. "Was that accidental or intentional?" Lynde wondered.
"Very well; I didn't know. I am listening to you, sir." "Early this morning," said Dr. Pendegrast, somewhat embarrassed by Lynde's singular manner, "a number of patients whom we had always considered tractable seized the attendants one by one at breakfast, and, before a general alarm could be given, locked them in the cells.
In short, everything is remarkably smooth for you. I think that's Denham's step now in the hall," added Dr. Pendegrast hurriedly." You can say what you please to him of Ruth; but mind you, my dear boy, not a word at this juncture about the Queen of Sheba she's dethroned, you know!"
"When am I to see her?" asked Lynde that evening, as the doctor dropped into the room to make his usual report. "Let me think. To-day is Tuesday perhaps we shall let you see her by Friday or Saturday." "Good heavens! why don't you put it off thirty or forty years?" "I haven't the time," returned Dr. Pendegrast, laughing.
"Mackenzie? Merely idiotic," replied the doctor, with the cool professional air. "And the young girl," asked Lynde hesitatingly, "is she" "A very sad case," interrupted Dr. Pendegrast, with a tenderer expression settling upon his countenance. "The saddest thing in the world." "Insane?" "Hopelessly so, I fear." A nameless heaviness fell upon Lynde's heart.
"Ah, then I HAVE seen you before!" exclaimed Dr. Pendegrast, transfixed in the act of drawing a cigar from his case. "Your name and your face puzzled me, but I could not place you, so I didn't mention it. You must pardon an old man's bad memory. I am confused. When and where have I had the pleasure of seeing you?" "It was scarcely a pleasure," said Lynde, with bitterness. "Indeed!
Pendegrast approached Lynde and rested one finger on his arm. "You had better go now," the doctor whispered hastily. "I will come to you by and by." Lynde was sitting on the side of the bed in his own room in the broad daylight. He had been sitting motionless in one posture for an hour perhaps two hours, he could not tell how long when Dr. Pendegrast opened the door without pausing to knock.
The depression in shipping afterwards ruined him and he fell to constructing marble vessels! He is dead, by the way. I wonder if his reason has been given back to him in that other world." Lynde did not speak immediately, and the doctor relighted his cigar, which had gone out. "Dr. Pendegrast, you have lifted a crushing weight from me.
"It was inevitable that he and I should meet sooner or later. Was she endeavoring to keep the knowledge of Dr. Pendegrast from me as long as possible? The exigency has unmasked her!" "Now, Mr. Lynde, I am at your service." Lynde gave a start, as if the doctor had suddenly dropped down at his side from out of the sky. Dr.
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