The little village of Rosedale was celebrating a great event. The gossips gathered at the street corners, wondering who he was, where he came from, and what he had come for. The object of the excitement was a sick young stranger who had ...See moreThe little village of Rosedale was celebrating a great event. The gossips gathered at the street corners, wondering who he was, where he came from, and what he had come for. The object of the excitement was a sick young stranger who had engaged the star bedroom of the only hotel the village boasted, and who had come to this out-of-the-way place, so the doctor told them, to die. The doctor himself was puzzled over the case, as the man had no physical illness, and he finally came to the conclusion that his patient was a moral suicide. On the night the young man died, the nurse being asleep at the foot of the bed, he had strange hallucinations. This one man lived again, in his own confession, all the terrible scenes in his life that had brought him to his present condition. Living again his life, he passed, through the days with his sweetheart, his friend, and his mother. The sleeping nurse in the chair at the foot of the bed seemed to change before the eyes of the dying youth to the above mentioned characters in this drama of his life. In his final paroxysms he awoke the nurse, who, in her fright, called aloud for assistance, but when the doctor and the landlord and other inmates of the hotel reached the room the young man had gone to be judged for his sins. Written by
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