the city, but the other, being an
old resident of Greenville, was soon found. She was quite an elderly
woman, with no family except one daughter. The latter was a seamstress,
and Mr. Miller soon made her acquaintance by employing her to make some
shirts for him. He kept up friendly relations with them by taking both
mother and daughter out riding occasionally in the summer evenings; and
in various ways he ingratiated himself into the old lady's confidence.
It was not long before he was able to draw out all the particulars of
Mrs. Pattmore's illness.

He learned that when she first became seriously sick, Mr. Pattmore began
to show a very tender solicitude for her health.

He even insisted upon preparing her medicine and giving it to her
himself. Mrs. Pattmore, however, did not seem to appreciate his watchful
care, for she told the nurse that she did not like to take her medicine
from her husband; she also asked very particularly whether the medicine
which she took was that which the doctor prescribed.

Mrs. Reed, the nurse, said that she did not like the effects of the
medicine at all. It was put up in small yellow papers, and when Mrs.
Pattmore took a dose of it she was always taken with violent vomiting;
her bowels and stomach would become very hot, and the pain would be so
severe as to cause her to scream terribly. Then Mr. Pattmore would give
her a dose of another kind of medicine, which would soon relieve the
patient and cause her to fall into a deep sleep.

When Dr. Forsythe called, Mrs. Pattmore always informed him very
carefully about the effect of the medicine, but he treated it as a case
of common occurrence, and said that those symptoms invariably
accompanied an attack of dysentery. After the Doctor had gone, Mr.
Pattmore would return to the room with the same medicine, and his wife
would exclaim:

"Oh! has the Doctor ordered that horrid medicine again? I cannot stand
it long. Oh! what shall I do?"

Then her husband would tell her that it pained him almost as much as
herself to see her suffer so, and that he would willingly take it
himself if he could thereby save her from pain; but she must recollect
that she was very dangerously sick, and that a failure to obey the
Doctor's instructions might prove fatal to her. Mrs. Pattmore would be
too feeble to protest long, and she would take the medicine; the same
symptoms as before would then result, and each day she seemed to grow
weaker and weaker.

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