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Keller's sister is one of my patients in Munich. I thought I would take the present opportunity of speaking to him about the state of her health." He had just introduced himself in those words, when Mr. Keller entered the room. The merchant and the physician shook hands like old friends. "No alarming news of my sister, I hope?" said Mr. Keller. "Only the old trouble, my good friend.
When she was at the Wright-Humason School in New York, Dr. Humason tried to improve her voice, not only her word pronunciation, but the voice itself, and gave her lessons in tone and vocal exercises. It is hard to say whether or not Miss Keller's speech is easy to understand. Some understand her readily; others do not.
Keller's sympathies, was thus far undoubtedly a reason known only to herself. That very night, after we had left her, an incident occurred which suggested that she had some motive for ingratiating herself with one of the servants in Mr. Keller's house. This last was a foolish young man, excessively vain of his personal appearance but a passably good servant, making allowance for these defects.
"You will understand," he went on, "that I was too well aware of the marked difference between Mr. Keller's illness and Mrs. Wagner's illness to suppose for a moment that the same poison had been given to both of them. I was, therefore, far from sharing Jack's blind confidence in the efficacy of the blue-glass bottle, in the case of his mistress.
Keller's message of invitation referred to the wedding day. "I lose my best treasure," she said to herself sadly, "if I am beginning to lose my steadiness of mind. If this should happen again " She left the expression of the idea uncompleted; locked the door of the room; and returned to the place on which she had left the box. Seating herself, she rested the box on her knee and opened it.
I had just given a porter the necessary directions for taking my portmanteau to Mr. Keller's house, when I heard a woman's voice behind me asking the way to the Poste Restante or, in our roundabout English phrase, the office of letters to be left till called for. The voice was delightfully fresh and sweet, with an undertone of sadness, which made it additionally interesting.
"Folks were right anxious down there, according to the say-so that reached me." Keller's cool eye measured him in silence, at which his enemy laughed contemptuously and turned on his heel. Healy drew his confederate to one side of the room and held a whispered talk with him.
Keller's wish that they should all be absolutely free to do what they liked with their leisure time in the evening: "I know that I can trust them, from the oldest to the youngest man in my service," he used to say; "and I like to show it." Under these circumstances, Mrs. Wagner had only to rise earlier than usual, to be sure of having the whole range of the offices entirely to herself.
Then it was full of flies that fell upon boards and tables from the poisonous papers, and a big gramophone made a discordant noise. Sadie remembered Keller's pride in the machine and how he had bought it, to amuse the boys, after hearing an electric organ in a Montreal restaurant.
I am sure I may speak for my mother, as well as for myself. Fraulein Keller's time shall be our time. Please tell her so, with my duty or, may I be bold enough to say already, with my love?" Mr. Keller kissed her forehead with a fervor of feeling that was rare with him. "You are well worthy of my sister's bridal gift," he said and took the necklace out of the cabinet, and gave it to her.
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