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Bob brought her back to New York and besought the aid of the medical experts of America and of the Old World to regain that which had been recalled by its Maker. The doctors were fascinated with this new phase of mind blight, for in some particulars Beulah's case was unlike any known instances, but none gave hope.
The victim was delirious; the hazel eyes, inflamed and vacant, rested on Beulah's countenance, and she murmured: "He will never know! Oh, no! how should he? The grave will soon shut me in, and I shall see him no more no more!" She shuddered and turned away.
"For Heaven's sake, Beulah, do not mock me! You know too well what separates us." "Yes; utter uncongeniality." Clara raised her head, looked into the honest face before her, and answered: "If that were all, I could yet hope to merit his love; but you know that is not so. You must know that he has no love to bestow." Beulah's face seemed instantly steeled.
There was a knock on the door. Ought she to go and open the door in her nightdress? Ought she to call out "Come in?" It might be a gentleman, and her Aunt Beulah's nightdress was not very thick. She decided to cough, so that whoever was outside might understand she was in there, and had heard them. "May I come in, Eleanor?" Beulah's voice called. "Yes, ma'am."
Her uncle's countenance resumed its habitual severity, and, taking Beulah's hand, he led her into that quietest of all quiet places, his study. Seating himself, and drawing her to his side, he said: "Was it meeting Claudia that distressed you so much? That child is very warmly attached to you. She raved about you constantly during her illness. So did Lilly.
I thought gratefully of my mother's always ready argument that the law of all laws, of God and nature, is that of compensation. I had allowed Bob's head to sink until it rested in Beulah's lap, and from his calm and steady breathing I could see that he had safely passed a crisis, that at least he was not in the clutches of death, as I had at first feared. Bob slept.
"What business is it of yours?" began Claudia; but Beulah's sensitive nature shrank from observation, and, rising hastily, she took Claudia to her bosom, kissed her, and turned away. "Oh, Beulah! shan't I see you again?" cried the latter, with streaming eyes. "Claudia, your mamma would not be willing." "I don't care what she thinks. Please come to see me please, do!
Beulah stood still, and the sachel she carried fell unheeded from her hand, while a thrilling cry broke from the little girl's lips; and, springing up the steps, she threw herself into Beulah's arms. "Dear Beulah! I have found you at last!" She covered the thin face with passionate kisses; then heavy sobs escaped her, and the two wept bitterly together.
Hoyt found no difficulty in providing a room; and, to Beulah's great joy, managed to have a vacant one adjoining Clara's. She was a gentle, warmhearted woman; and as Beulah examined the apartment and inquired the terms, she hesitated, and said: "My terms are thirty dollars a month; but you are poor, I judge, and being Miss Clara's friend I will only charge you twenty-five."
The pink and white loveliness of Beulah's wax features peered up at her. In fifteen minutes Nan was back in her room, without being discovered by anybody, and with the doll safely clasped in her arms. Indeed, she went to bed a second time that night with her beloved playmate lying on the pillow beside her, just as she had done when a little girl.
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