STRANGER THAN FICTION

THE MISSSING HAND

Soo>; after my arrival in New York, in ]SB6, I made the acquaintance of a young American surgeon named Joseph B. Toaio- linson, who had served daring the war, and wlio had since joined the start" of the Belto vue Hospital. I was anxious to see soms thingof the famous battlefields of Virginia, and, as Tomlinson had just' been granted two months' leave of absence, I without much difficulty prevailed on him to accom pany me to the South, and to no!, a? my guide, philosopher, an;l ftien-l during my wanderings. He was a pleas-ant and amusing companion, full of good spirit?, and fond of exercising his undoubted gift, of humour, especially when he had an opportunity of flavouring it with a toudi of the grim and horribly. With him 1 enjoyed myself to the utmost, and «.iu" all that was to be seen in the historical stretrh of country that lies between Washington and the Appomatn, and westward as far as the lower slopes of the Allegluinies. When wo returned together, instead of at once going on to Canada, as I had originally intended, I remained for some weeks in !Nev York, seeing Tomlinson almost every flay, either ab hil! rooms in the hospital, or ai. the hotel in which I was staying. Wo had become very intimate, and, I confess, I looked forward with no small regret to the prospect of bidding' him good-bye ; for at twenty young men make warm friend ships.

One morning I found upon my breakfast table a note from him. "My dear Smith," he wrote, " I'm going to Bend yon to-day a 1 notion ' to take home with you as a me mento of this remarkable country. Pre serve it carefully. The workmanship of it is more beautiful than you can imagine. I fjness it won't be of much use to you, but, anyway, it is a genuine curiosity." 1 saw Tomlinson in the course of the day, but he refused to tell me to what his letter alluded. "When you get back," he said, laughingly, " you will find the present, and then you will know all about it." At night I a.sked the clerk at the desk in the hall of the hotel whether a parcel ad dressed to me had arrived during my ab sence. He handed me a little package, about three inches square and about one inch thick, and, having- also obtained from him the key of my room, I went up to bed. When I was half undressed I opened the mysterious present. It was wrapped up in a good many thicknesses of tissue paper, and ko lone; was I in reaching the kernel of the packer, that I began to suspect that, after all, there was nothing in it. At last, however, I came upon a mass of soft cotton wool, from the midst of which a white ob ject tumbled out, and fell with a dead sound upon the floor, where the rays from the gas jet did not reach it. 1 stooped to picket up. It was cold and clammy ; and ;is 1 held it to the light, I saw to my horror that it was a little human hand. I need scarcely say that I very quickly dropped it again. This time, however, it fell upon the table, and, when i had re covered from the shock, 1 was able to evamino it without touching it. Yes ; it was beyond doubt a hand, a little, dimpled baby's hand, that had been cleanly severed from the arm at the wrist. It was a sorry joke of Tomlinson's, 1 thought, to send it to me. 1 did not quite know what to do with it. If 1 threw it out of the window, it might be found by the police, and I might be arrested on suspicion of murder and mutilating. If, on the other hand, I left it on my table, I felt certain that all night long I should be tormented with night mare. With some shrinking of heart, therefore, I wrapped ie up, and placed it in a drawer, determined, if possible, to get rid of it on the morrow, lint, when 1 fell asleep, that little hand came forth and prosecuted me in my dreams for hours together. I seemed to see the prattling —baby to whom it belonged, and in fifty different ways to witness the barbarous mutilation of the poor child. As early as possible next morning I walked to the hospital and called upon Tomlinson. " Well, old fellow ; it is a curiosity, isn't it ?" were his greeting words. "It was a very poor joke of yours to send it," I.replied wth some indignation. "I dreamed about it all night. 1 have ■•brought it back to you." " What ? You won't have it ':" lie laughed. "Give it to me, then: I'll have it made into a paperweight for you.'' " No, 1 don't want it on any terms, thanks. None of your gruesome relics for me ! Where on earth did you get ibV" ' "It is an interesting story," said Tom linson. " Yesterday morning they brought the poor child into the hospital with its little hand hanging to its wrist, by a mere shred of flesh and skin. The mother, in a lie of madness, had done the deed with a table-knife. When the surgeon came round at midday we took it of)' altogether. It was impossible to save it, of course. It seems that the woman is the wife of an Englishman who volunteered into the Austrian service and was killed in the late war with Prussia. She, being an Ameri can, came over here ; but not finding her friends, as she had expected, she lost her Lead, and, in spite of her love for her baby injured the child as I have told yon, I guess that they will send her to an asylum until she gets cured." "Poor woman; and how is the baby .' 1

"Oh, the baby -will probably do well enough. We have a nurse for it., a? it is only three months old. Come and have a look at it." . , . 1 followed Tomlinson into a bright ana cheerful ward in which, near a stove, sat a •woman who was tenderly rocking the little sufferer in her arms. The maimed stump of the child's wrist was swathed in bandages, but I was astonished to see how ■well the tiny patient looked. Its face, though perfectly white, was intelligent and lively ; and it bore no traces of pain. "It couldn't be doing better, sir," said the kindly Irish nurse ; " I'm taking care of it as if it were my own, poor little thing. 1 crave the woman a five-dollar bill, and told Tomlinson that I should be happy to do tor the child anything that lay in my power. "Don't worry yourself on that score, lano-hed the good-natured American. " livery man on the staff of the hospital is ready to be a father to the baby. But, when we find out who its mother's friends are, they will probably see to everything. I fancy that they are well-to-do people. "Well, here's the hand," I said, as 1 took the packet from my pocket. ' And now I must be off." . " I shall have it made into a paper-weight for you," said Tomlinson. "There is a man on the Bowery who is great at pre servin" and embalming, and mummifying, and afl that, and I'll get him to tix it up for you." ~, T " Confound your unwholesome tastes, l eiaculated. "No ! throw it away or bury ft; I don't want it to haunt me. Good y And I hurried to meet a literary friend, who had promised to show me over the •' Herald" Office. Three weeks afterwards I sailed for Liverpool. Tomlinson saw me off, accompanying me on board the steamer, and saving his last words to mo in my state-room! Then lie went ashore, and, as the vessel was towed from the slip, waved his band to me and disappeared. When, an hour or so later, I went below to arrange my luggn ? oin the cramped space •Which is allotted to the Atlantic voyagei, I found a strange parcel addressed to me and lying in my berth. It contained a neat box made of American walnut, and in the box was the baby's hand, mounted in silver, spread upon a small slab of black marble, and looking as if it were a piece ot delicately-carved ivory rather than »

nroa of skin and cartiUge. This time I was enchanted with it, for it was a really beautiful objcjet. All the fulness and chubbtu&fl'i of contour had been wonderfully pres-arved, and my horror of ib vanished at onr:?. nnd for ever. From that day instil this ths baby's hand has always lain upon my writing-table. As I write now, it. keeps thbse sheets, from □'ut tering away from mo,

Six or seven years &zo an English sur geon saw it and admired' it. "It is splen didly preserved," he said; " and certainly the specimen was woKh mounting. I have never before seen a hand with so long a ring-finger." And then, for tha first time, I noticed that the ruiz-tinger was absolutely longer than the middle one.

Last year I wen: down to Sir Rupert Dudley'? delightful place in Moor.-hire, my hospitable hiend, the barenst, having, ac cording to his went, invited me to assist at the annual si ;\a nhter of his partridges. For eight oi--nine months 1 had not quitted my bachelor chambers in the Toinplo for more than a few hour? a* a lime, anrl, like the majority of Londoner? in autumn, 1 was heartily glad to get away for a season from Che grime and smoke of the metropolis. Sir Rupert's hciuo — it is a rumbling Elizabethan place called The Stacks—was full of gue-U Vi-fount Comberwell, who had just returned from a-voyage round the world, and who hod shot all kinds of game in all kinds of dime.?, was there. So was His Highness the\Maharajah of Barracouta, an Anglicised Hindoo potentate, who was said to possess pnilfuls of jewels, and who had with him a suite of nine gentlemen, each one of whom seemed duskier than the the rest. And among the other visitors were Colonel John Dawc and his shrew of a wife, Lady Eunhemia ; Count Alphonse de la Rouge-Cantennc, a Breton nobleman who was generally believed to make a pre carious livelihood by playing cards at short lived London clubs ; Lady (irundle and her two stupid sons ; Mrs Copleston Vcrc and her two plain daughters, each of whom, by the way, has four thousand a year of her own; that ancient dame, Dionysia, Coun tess of Fribbleham ; .Mrs and Miss Shooter ; Miss Viola Pickering, the most incurable flirt in the three kingdoms, and several others. It was a pleasunt enough party; and although, on one occasion, the French count, who is very short sighted, and never tires at a bird on the wing, managed to put tho best part of a charge of shot into my hat, I, from the first, enjoyed myself amaz ingly. We were out every day starting directly after breakfast, and and as the weather was lovely, we all spent the best part of our time, including our evenings, in the open air. 1 talked scandal with Lady "Fribbleham until that highly ridiculous old lady grew tired'of me, and handed me over to Clara Shooter, upon whom, until that moment, De La Rouge Cantenac had been graciously bestowing his attentions. Misa Shooter seemed, I know not why, to prefer my society to his, and 1 certainly pre ferred hers to Lady Fribblehnm's. Perhaps Clara's preference was owing to the fact that, although 1 was Hearing forty, I played tennis, and because she was jmssionately fond of it, and never got much satisfaction out of playing with the Count, who, I be lieve, wore corsets. At any rate, de la Rouge-Cantenac soon began to regard me with evidentdisfavour.and I am by no means certain that I have not to thank his jealousy for the shots which narrowly missed my head and entirely spoilt my hat. Miss Shooter was a charming but rather dangerous companion for a man who, like myself, had determined to live and die in single-blessedness. She was as active as a fawn, as sweetly amusing as a child, and yet as clever, and, considering her age, ao well-read as any woman I knew. The ladies had grown weary of coining" out to meet us at luncheon the other day, and Lady Fribbleham one morning proposed that as many of us as chose to do so .should drive over to Bickcrslade, a village twelve miles away that is celebrated for its line old church, containing, among other antiquities, some good specimens of wood carving. Who would go? 1 was anxious to see Bickerslade church : so also were several otliers ; and soon after breakfast, eight or ten of us, including de la Bouge-Cnntenac, Mrs and Miss Shooter, and the plain Misses Vcre, started off on n coach which was dexterously tooled by young George Dudley. We put up the horses at the little village inn, and strolled away in twos and threes. De la Rouge- Cantenac, who, during the drive, had sat on the back seat of the coach with Miss Shooter, and had had a low but rather excited conversation with her, was in a very bad humour ; and I was_ exceed ingly annoyed to find that he persisted in accompanying her and me in our rambles. She, however, was more than usually polite to him, and I, although he scarcely be haved with ordinary civility, affected to take no notice of his sour temper. We went, at once to the church, of which we had obtained a key from the clerk. The chief treasures of the place were, as we had been informed, to be found in the vestry, where we discovered five or six beautifully carved and very massive oaken chests. On a table in the middle of the room lay some old registers, yellow ami mouldy with years: and, catching sight of a familiar name on tho open page, I began to examine the volume, De la Rouge-Can tennc and Miss Shooter meanwhile admir ing the cotl'ei'3, several of which were un locked. Suddenly I heard a dull thud, an ex clamation in French, and, starting up, I saw to my dismay, that the heavy lid of one of the chests had fallen down, crushing the fingers of Miss Shooter's left hand. In an instant I released her. She had not uttered a cry. " Are you much hurt ?" I asked anxiously. But, instead of replying, she blushed," and, clasping the mangled hngers with her rWit hand, turned to the French man and said, haughtily, " Sir, you may leave me ; and, remember, I do not desire ever to have another word with you." Whereupon, to my great astonishment, the Count grow red in the face, bowed stiffly, and, without opening his lips, quitted the vestry. ' " Are you much hurt r I repeated. " Oh ! It is nothing," she replied, with a slight but troubled smile. "Let me see to it. Let me at least cut off your glove ?" "No, if you please, Don fc think any more of it. It is really nothing." And she nervously lifted the maimed hand into tho pocket of her jacket. "I am very sorry," I said. " How did it happen '! Let us go back to the inn, Miss Shooter." " Can you keep a secret, Mr Smith ?' she asked, smiling more freely than before. "It is very stupid; buf I don't much care about having it generally known. The truth is that, fortunately for me, my left hand is a false one." " A false one !" I exclaimed. " I never suspected it. Then happily you are not "No ; not in the least. I hurt my hand by an accident when I was a child ; and to day I am very glad of it; - for, do you know, I am quite certain that tho Counfc intended to do me an injury. He was hold ing the lid of that chest, and he let it fall. He told me, while we were driving here, that " " That what ?" I asked, for she hesitated. " Welly; I had better tell you, I suppose ; for I am still more than half afraid of him. He asked me to marry him, and I refused him, and he told me that he would never forgive me." Miss Shooter said this with a degree of nervousnness that showed me she was really afraid. " You need be under no further appre hension," I said. "He shall not annoy you any more." " But you won't betray my secret ? she pleaded, winningly ; and" she held out her ': right ungloved hand.

"No!" I replied: and. as 1 clasped her j finger, I noticed, but not, perhaps, with ! a start of surprise; that the ring-finger w:is, longer than the middle one. "Are you a beliover in palmistry?" I avk;:d, still holding her hand. We wore now in the church-porch. " Xo ; of course not !: I examined tho palm, and hazar'lod, " Why, Mi»s .Shooter, yen surely lurt your hand in America !"' 1 It was her turn to =■ t t i i-t. " I few do you know that ? But 1 suppose that my .v.'.nt has told you." " No ; she did net tell me, nnd my true reason for knowing mu-t be a secret for t.ie present." That day we saw no more oi the Count until the evening. He had walked back alone to The Stack.-, and on the following morning he departed. When we returned I went to the ne.ire.-t telegraph cliiec and wired up to tho Temple, the result being that on the next day a small package reached me by parcel post. In the meantime Mi« Shooter had kept her left arm in n sling, and had, privately, of course, sent to a surgical in:-i.i ument maker in London to have her artificial hand repaired. At 11 o'clock everyone waf> on the lawn. I went out and begged Miss Shooter to accompany me to the library. "Can you bear a little phocl: ?" I asked. " Do you mind my showing yon a great curiosity ?" " If it is nothing very dreadful." "Well, it is a little dreadful. But I shall show you. It will interest you." And I showed her my paper-weight. "That, I believe, is your little hand," I said, and I ■told her the whole history of my treasure. " How marvellous !" she exclaimed, when I had ended. "Yes, it is indeed mine. What a dear, poor little tiling it if ! I should so much like to have it, Mr Smith, jf »! " 01), you may have it," I said. "Thank you ! Thank you so much—" " But there is a condition. You must give me the other." I need not tell you the rest of the story at length, for in the end she did give me the other, and we were married last Christ mas. The tale is a bib of family history now, and 1 ought not, perhaps, to reveal it, even although 1 have Clura's permission to do so. But I think that the extraordinary recovery of that missing little hand deserves to be chronicled in type. 1 need only add, by way of explanation, that shortly after I quitted New York, the child in the Bellovuc Hospital was claimed by its mother's relation!?, who, if course of time, sent it over to England to bo adopted by its dead father's childless brother, Colonel Gregory Shooter, of the Moorshire Regiment.

SUGAR REDUCED FROM 40 TO 2 PER CENT.

*. —_—. — Axcastox, S.A., October 7, ISS6.—Nearly three years a<;o 1 found 1 whs wanting away, and [jussinjr more urine than 1 ought. 1 was persuaded to consult « hormeopafcliie physician, who told me T tmd a Sugar Diabetes. His treatment failed t.o give me any relief. I then doctored with one of the leading physicians in England, Itut I was losing nosh,- and was itxlncecl to a skeleton ; passed 7 quarts of urine in 24 hours, 40 per cent, being sugar. 1 suliercd intense pain, and feeling that my earthly career was fast drawing to a close, 1 relin quished ray businc*?, and settled all my worldly aliairs. .Fortunately, I heard of Warner's sate diabetes cure and determined to give it a trial. After Laki:;jr tlio contents of 15 bottles, and observing the diet, I fulfc a wonderful improvement, and the sugar was reduced to '2 pei cent. lam free from pain, pa^s the normal quantity of urine, and have increased in. weight.—James Tjieloar.

THE AUCKLAND EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, APRIL 16,, 1887,

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