It had not occurred to him that the fall from the bridge was accidental, inasmuch as Rosa had deemed it her duty to keep inviolate7 the secret of her young mistress's errand abroad on that night; he was therefore unable to conjecture8 why Carice should have sought the river-side at so inopportune an hour, except with a purpose of self-destruction. Nor did it give him any comfort to reflect that her mind must have been set all ajar, before she would have resorted to so desperate an expedient9; that only lifted the terrible responsibility from her shoulders to lay it more crushingly on his own. It was he, who, without giving her time to recover from the shock of Bergan's apparent infidelity, or the fatigue10 and anxiety occasioned by his own illness, had urged her into a union with a man for whom she persistently11 asserted that she neither had, nor would ever be likely to have, any warmer feeling than respect for his intellectual attainments12, and admiration13 for his professional skill and devotion. To be sure, he had done it solely14 with a view to her happiness,—doing evil that good might come, and finding too late that "Whatsoever15 a man soweth, that shall he reap."
First, on that woful night, he had carried Carice to Bruno's cabin, partly because it was nearer to the scene of the disaster, and partly because he feared to encounter some lingering guest or indiscreet servant, if he took her to the cottage. Fortunately, Bruno and his wife were both within; and the latter immediately applied17 herself to the work of restoration according to her lights; while the former was dispatched, with suitable injunctions to be secret and expeditious18, to bring more efficient aid in the person of Doctor Remy.
It soon appeared that—thanks to her father's promptness—Carice had sustained little injury from her immersion19 in the water; but, though heart and lungs were quickly brought to resume their functions, her senses remained fast locked in stupor20. Knitting his brows, for a brief space, over this unexpected complication, Doctor Remy betook himself to a careful examination of the patient's head; and shortly announced that he had discovered a severe contusion of the skull21, implying more or less serious injury to the brain.
The stupor would last hours—possibly days. Meanwhile, many appliances and comforts which the cabin could not afford, would be demanded; he therefore advised her immediate16 removal to the cottage. Mr. Bergan hastened to break the distressing23 news to her mother, and to make sure that the house and grounds were clear; then Carice was carefully placed on a litter, and borne to her own room.
It was long before she showed any sign of consciousness, longer still before she was free from the supervening fever and delirium24, and capable of coherent thought and expression. When that time came, it was found that her memory of the past five months was a blank. Bergan's unaccountable silence, her father's trying illness, Doctor Remy's unacceptable suit, and the ill-starred marriage ceremony—everything which had distressed25 her mind or wounded her heart, had been completely wiped out of her recollection as by some friendly, pitying hand; and she was carried back, all unconscious of the transit26, to the tender joy and blissful content with which she had parted from Bergan. To her thought it was only a few days since he went; yet, with a pleasant inconsequence, she was already beginning to watch for his return. At first, she had seemed a little bewildered by the change of season; it was amidst the flower and foliage27 of early summer that Bergan had said good-bye; now, the deciduous28 trees stood bare against the sky, and the flower-beds were shorn of their glory. But her mind was too feeble to reason, and she soon accepted the fact, as she did many another, without trying to account for it. Enough to know that, winter being near, Bergan must be near also.
It may be noted29 as a curiously30 ironical31 turn of that blind Chance, or Fate, in which Doctor Remy believed, that he was compelled, in his professional capacity, to give orders that Carice should be carefully humored, for the present, in this or any other delusion32. There was something at stake of far more importance, to him, than his personal feelings as a man or a bridegroom—namely, the ownership of Bergan Hall. In consideration of that, Carice must be spared everything tending to excite or distress22 her, and indulged in whatever was soothing33 to her mind, or pleasing to her fancy.
Meanwhile, he addressed himself, with renewed ardor34 and determination, to the study of brain diseases. His attention had already been engaged by the recently promulged theory of Gall35, that each faculty36 of the mind had its distinct location in the brain; and he was quick to see the fine field thereby37 opened to pathological investigation38. It was in this direction that he hoped, some day, to make his name famous; and it was chiefly as a means to this end that Bergan Hall was valuable in his eyes. He wanted wealth in order to be able to devote himself exclusively to the study of this branch of medical science, and to pursue it, unhampered by considerations of expense, throughout the books and manuscripts, the practitioners39 and patients, the hospitals and asylums40, the morgues and the dissecting-rooms, of the whole world. Till he could do that, he must content himself with the one patient whom circumstance had thrown into his hands.
But here, he was unexpectedly disappointed, in a measure. Whether it were that enough of her recollection revived to associate him dimly with anxiety and distress; or whether, her reason being in abeyance41, she was more controlled by her pure and delicate instincts; certain it is, that Carice's fever no sooner left her, than she developed the most unconquerable aversion to him, amounting in time to a degree of terror. At his approach, she either hid her face, and trembled like an aspen leaf, or she fled with cries of fright. And these moments of excitement were followed by such alarming prostration42, that Doctor Remy was reluctantly compelled to admit the necessity of keeping out of her sight. His investigations43 had thenceforth to be conducted through the agency of her parents or of Rosa. Now and then, when she slept,—and her sleep was always singularly profound, the very twin brother of death,—he stole into her room, to acquaint himself with some particular of the location, depth, or progress in healing, of the injury to her head, and to satisfy himself of the state of her general health.
To every one but Doctor Remy, Carice was gentleness itself. She was happiness, too, in a touchingly45 quiet, dreamy, illogical form. She was content to spend hours at the window, watching for the first glimpse of Bergan, with a smile on her lips, and her eyes bright with eager expectation; and though she sometimes sighed, when the day ended, and he did not come, she was ready to begin the same hopeful watch on the morrow, and never seemed to know how long it had lasted. As she grew stronger, she resumed, in some measure, her old pursuits;—she busied herself with light household tasks; she wrought46 dainty embroidery47 with silks and worsteds; she read, chiefly poetry, the music of which seemed to please her ear, without fatiguing48 her mind; she even noticed the cloud on her father's brow, and made gentle war upon it,—conquering, of course, as long as he was in her sight, and never suspecting how heavily it settled back afterward49. But all this time, the veil over the past never lifted, nor was the eager watch for Bergan ever abandoned.
The few intimate friends, or the servants not of the household, who saw her occasionally, noticed nothing unusual about her, except the delicacy50 and languor51 consequent upon a severe illness; Mrs. Bergan being always present to turn the conversation away from every dangerous point, and guide it through safe channels. To the rest of the world, it was simply known that Carice had suddenly been stricken down, on her wedding night, by a fever, supposed to be of the same nature as the one which had lately prostrated52 her father; and that she was not yet sufficiently53 strong to show herself abroad, or see much company at home. Doctor Remy, meanwhile, came and went, and spent as much time at the cottage as could reasonably be expected of a physician with a large area of practice, and an office three miles away from his nominal54 home. Not a person, outside of the limited household, supposed that he never saw Carice, except when she was fast asleep, and totally unconscious of his presence.
So the months rolled away, and the year drew near to its close. Doctor Remy had prosecuted55 his abstruse56 study, by the dim light of the science of that day, with characteristic energy and acuteness. He had slowly felt his way, from the premise57 that each faculty of the mind had its appropriate seat in the brain, to the conclusion that every local injury or disease would affect mainly the faculty corresponding to the injured or diseased portion, thereby not only indicating the seat of the impaired58 faculty, but suggesting the possibility of a local remedy for the local disturbance,—probably a delicate and difficult surgical59 operation, to remove pus, slivers60 of bone, or other foreign matter pressing upon, piercing, or otherwise irritating the sensitive cellular61 tissue of the brain. Now, he only longed for an opportunity to test his conclusions by experiment, and would certainly have attempted to use Carice for this purpose, except that on her slender thread of life hung his only chance of Bergan Hall. It would not do to sacrifice the immense future advantage to the small immediate gain.
Nature, meanwhile, was laboring62 in her slow, gentle way, to effect the same end contemplated63 by the doctor's science. With the beginning of November, a change was observable in Carice. Her sweet face lost its look of happy anticipation64, and grew weary and anxious. There were tokens that she was beginning to reason again, in a fitful, fragmentary way, and to notice some of the many discrepancies65 between the facts and the theories of her life; sometimes she put her hand to her head with a piteous expression of doubt and bewilderment. By and by, she became possessed66 of a spirit of restlessness by day, and of sleeplessness67 by night; making the care of her—hitherto an easy and a pleasant task—a sufficiently onerous68 charge. Thus it happened that she had made her escape to the Hall, as heretofore narrated69. Her night had been restless, beyond all previous precedent70, keeping Rosa constantly on the watch. Toward dawn, she had fallen into a light slumber71, during which the weary attendant, sitting quietly by the bedside, had suddenly been overcome by a profound sleep. Waking ere long, and not wishing to disturb her tired maid, Carice stole softly to the window, to look out, as usual, for Bergan's coming, and saw the light shining again from the window of his room in the old Hall. The broken links in the chain of association were stirred, if not reunited,—perhaps a dim reminiscence of her former attempt to reach him woke within her,—she wrapped herself in the first shawl that came to hand, thrust her feet into a pair of slippers72, and noiselessly made her way out of the house and down to the river, exactly as she had done a year before. At the gap in the foot-bridge, through which she had fallen, she stopped and put her hand to her brow, in a momentary74 perplexity. Here, her memory of the former expedition, which had led her thus far on her way, failed her;—what was she to do next?
Lifting her eyes, she again caught sight of the light from the Hall, which had recently been hidden by the trees. Her lips parted in a smile; her hesitation75 was at an end. Clinging to the hand-rail of the bridge, and sliding her feet carefully along the great beam underneath76, she safely passed the gap,—though she lost a slipper73 in the transit,—and then hurried to the Hall, to meet with the accident lately described.
All of the foregoing history—or at least as much of it as was known to him—Mr. Bergan recounted to his nephew, in a long conversation held in the parlor77, after Carice had been soothed78 by her father's promise that she should be compelled to do nothing but what was right and agreeable in her own eyes, and left to the care of her mother and Rosa. Now, too, the loss of Bergan's letters to his uncle and Carice was discovered; the false or distorted statements in those of Doctor Remy to himself were brought to light and discussed; finally, Mr. Bergan was glad to listen to a succinct79 recital80 of Doctor Trubie's reasons for believing Felix Remy to be identical with Edmund Roath.
In the course of the conversation, all reserve between the uncle and nephew insensibly melted away, and the last topic was discussed upon terms of the most cordial confidence and sympathy. Bergan's high reputation in Savalla had not failed to reach his uncle's ears, and sometimes to make him doubt if all his old prejudice was well founded; and now, there was so much dignity and gentleness in his bearing, his words were so full of unselfish consideration for others, he showed himself so ready still, as heretofore, to sacrifice every merely personal feeling to Carice's welfare, that Mr. Bergan's heart, softened81 and humbled82 as it had been by adversity, was irresistibly83 won. He was glad to feel that he had so dispassionate a judgment84, so wise a counsellor, and so kind a friend, to lean upon, in this moment of perplexity.
The talk was broken in upon by a message from Mrs. Bergan. Carice, after her manifold questions in regard to the circumstances in which she found herself had been answered or evaded85, had sunk into a deep, but apparently86 natural sleep. Still, her mother could not but be extremely anxious about her; and she suggested that Doctor Remy, or some one else, should be immediately sent for, to provide against the contingency87 of her waking.
Mr. Bergan looked anxiously at his nephew. "After what you have told me," said he, "I do not feel that I can allow that man to enter Carice's room again, even when she is sleeping. Yet, be he what or whom he may, his professional skill is undeniable, and her life or reason may turn on those waking moments. What is to be done?"
"Do you know where he is to be found?" asked Bergan.
"No. He merely told me that he had a critical case on hand, which would keep him out all night, and perhaps we should not see him before noon to-day. I suppose he can be heard of at his office."
Bergan reflected for a moment. "By this time," said he, "Doctor Gerrish must be on his way to the Hall. From what I have known and heard of him, I believe him to be both a promising88 physician and an honorable man. Send Bruno to intercept89 him, on the plea that the dead can wait for his services better than the living. Then tell him, in strict confidence, enough of Carice's condition to make him understand the case; but you need say nothing of Doctor Remy, except that he is not at hand, and you feared to wait. Finally, ask, as a special favor, that he will not mention his visit to Doctor Remy, lest the latter be annoyed. He will think you weak and overscrupulous, but he will promise."
This advice was acted upon. Doctor Gerrish, after listening to Mr. Bergan's statement and examining Carice as she lay asleep, decided90 that the recent wound, which was in the neighborhood of the former one, had, in some mysterious way, relieved the inflammation, or counteracted91 the injury, caused by that—in short, had done precisely92 what Doctor Remy proposed to do by means of an operation. He furthermore believed that Nature was making her final effort at restoration through the deep sleep which held Carice in bonds so gentle and so firm; and he gave strict orders that nothing should be suffered to break it. It would doubtless last some hours, perhaps the whole day; or if she woke, it would be merely to swallow a little nourishment93, which should be given her, and then to fall asleep again.
Bergan had waited to hear this decision, and he now requested Doctor Gerrish to ride on to the Hall, where he would join him almost immediately, by the shorter way of the foot-bridge. His uncle detained him longer than he expected, however, for a final consultation94 about several important matters; and he was conscious that Doctor Gerrish must have been kept waiting for a considerable time, when he finally quitted the house. Hurrying to the foot-bridge, he saw two rough-looking men crossing it from the direction of the Hall. At sight of him, they interchanged a few words, and then came to meet him.
"Mr. Arling, I believe," said one, touching44 his hat. "We have been asking at the Hall for you, and a doctor that we saw there told us that you were coming this way, and asked us to say, if we met you, that he begged you would hurry."
"Thank you," said Bergan. "That is what I am doing."
"Not so fast," interrupted the other, who was a tall, muscular fellow with a sinister95 countenance96. "You are that Lawyer Arling, I reckon, who got my brother sentenced to state prison last month for burglary."
"I did my duty as prosecuting97 attorney for the State, if that is what you mean," replied Bergan, coolly.
"You did, did you? Well, I'm going to do mine, which is to knock you down for it."
With these words, the man raised his powerful fist. Bergan instinctively98 threw himself into the attitude of defence; but the ruffian's companion, who had edged behind him, caught hold of both his arms; and the unparried blow felled him senseless to the ground.
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