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Sivia + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Last of Mrs. DeBrugh + +Author: H. Sivia + +Release Date: May 21, 2010 [EBook #32468] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LAST OF MRS. DEBRUGH *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/cover.jpg" alt=""/> +</div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + + + +<h1>The Last of Mrs. DeBrugh</h1> + +<h2>By H. SIVIA</h2> + +<p>[Transcriber Note: This etext was produced from Weird Tales October +1937. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. +copyright on this publication was renewed.]</p> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<div class="sidenote"><i>Mr. DeBrugh was dead, but he still regarded his promise as a +sacred duty to be carried out.</i></div> + + +<p>"Letty," Mr. DeBrugh remarked between long puffs on his meerschaum, +"you've been a fine maid. You've served Mrs. DeBrugh and me for most of +fifteen years. Now I haven't much more time in this life, and I want you +to know that after Mrs. DeBrugh and I are gone, you will be well taken +care of."</p> + +<p>Letty stopped her dusting of the chairs in Mr. DeBrugh's oak-paneled +study. She sighed and turned toward the man, who sat on a heavy sofa, +puffing on his pipe and gazing across the room into nothingness.</p> + +<p>"You mustn't talk that way, Mr. DeBrugh," she said. "You know you're a +long time from the dark ways yet." She paused, and then went on dusting +and talking again. "And me—humph—I've only done what any ordinary +human would do to such a kind employer as you, sir. Especially after all +you've done for me."</p> + +<p>He didn't say anything, and she went on with her work. Of course she +liked to work for him. She had adored the kindly old man since first she +had met him in an agency fifteen years before. A person couldn't ask for +a better master.</p> + +<p>But there was the mistress, Mrs. DeBrugh! It was she who gave Letty +cause for worry. What with her nagging tongue and her sharp rebukes, it +was a wonder Letty had not quit long before.</p> + +<p>She would have quit, too, but there had been the terrible sickness she +had undergone and conquered with the aid of the ablest physicians Mr. +DeBrugh could engage. She couldn't quit after that, no matter what +misery Mrs. DeBrugh heaped on her. And so she went about her work at all +hours, never tiring, always striving to please.</p> + +<p>She left the study, closing the great door silently behind her, for old +Mr. DeBrugh had sunk deeper into the sofa, into the realms of peaceful +sleep, and she did not wish to disturb him.</p> + +<p>"Letty!" came the shrill cry of Mrs. DeBrugh from down the hall. "Get +these pictures and take them to the attic at once. And tell Mr. DeBrugh +to come here."</p> + +<p>Letty went for the pictures.</p> + +<p>"Mr. DeBrugh is asleep," she said, explaining why she was not obeying +the last command.</p> + +<p>"Well, I'll soon fix that! Lazy old man! Sleeps all day with that smelly +pipe between his teeth. If he had an ounce of pep about him, he'd get +out and work the flowers. Sleeps too much anyway. Not good for him."</p> + +<p>She stamped out of the room and down the hall, and Letty heard her open +the door of the study and scream at her husband.</p> + +<p>"Hector DeBrugh! Wake up!"</p> + +<p>There was a silence, during which Letty wondered what was going on. Then +she heard the noisy clop-clop of Mrs. DeBrugh's slippers on the hardwood +floor of the study, and she knew the woman was going to shake the +daylights out of Mr. DeBrugh and frighten him into wakefulness. She +could even imagine she heard Mrs. DeBrugh grasp the lapels of her +husband's coat and shake him back and forth against the chair.</p> + +<p>Then she heard the scream. It came quite abruptly from Mrs. DeBrugh in +the study, and it frightened Letty out of her wits momentarily. After +that there was the thud of a falling body and the clatter of an upset +piece of furniture.</p> + +<p>Letty hurried out of the room into the hall and through the open door of +the study. She saw Mrs. DeBrugh slumped on the floor in a faint, and +beside her an upset ash-tray. But her eyes did not linger on the woman, +nor the tray. Instead, they focussed on the still form of Mr. DeBrugh in +the sofa.</p> + +<p>He was slumped down, his head twisted to one side and his mouth hanging +open from the shaking Mrs. DeBrugh had given him. The meerschaum had +slipped from between his teeth, and the cold ashes were scattered on his +trousers.</p> + +<p>Even then, before the sea of tears began to flow from her eyes, Letty +knew the old man was dead. She knew what he had meant by the speech he +had said to her only a few minutes before.</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<p>"His heart," was the comment of the doctor who arrived a short time +later and pronounced the old man dead. "He had to go. Today, tomorrow. +Soon."</p> + +<p>After that, he put Mrs. DeBrugh to bed and turned to Letty.</p> + +<p>"Mrs. DeBrugh is merely suffering from a slight shock. There is nothing +more that I can do. When she awakens, see that she stays in bed. For the +rest of the day."</p> + +<p>He left then, and Letty felt a strange coldness about the place, +something that had not been there while Mr. DeBrugh was alive.</p> + +<p>She went downstairs and made several telephone calls which she knew +would be necessary. Later, when Mrs. DeBrugh was feeling better, other +arrangements could be made.</p> + +<p>She straightened the furniture in the study, pushing the familiar sofa +back in place, from where Mr. DeBrugh invariably moved it. Then she +knocked the ashes from the meerschaum, wiped it off, and placed it +carefully in the little glass cabinet on the wall where he always kept +it.</p> + +<p>Times would be different now, she knew. She remembered what he had said. +"You will be well taken care of." But there had been something else. +"After <i>Mrs. DeBrugh</i> and I are gone."</p> + +<p>Letty could no longer hold back the tears. She fell into a chair and +they poured forth.</p> + +<p>But time always passes, and with it goes a healing balm for most all +sorrows. First there was the funeral. Then came other arrangements. And +there was the will, which Mrs. DeBrugh never mentioned.</p> + +<p>His things would have fallen into decay but for the hands of Letty. +Always her dust-cloth made his study immaculate. Always the sofa was in +place and the pipe, clean and shining, in the cabinet.</p> + +<p>There was a different hardness about Mrs. DeBrugh. No longer was she +content with driving Letty like a slave day in and day out. She became +even more unbearable.</p> + +<p>There were little things, like taking away her privilege of having +Saturday afternoons off. And the occasional "forgetting" of Letty's +weekly pay.</p> + +<p>Once Letty thought of leaving during the night, of packing her few +clothes and going for ever from the house. But that was foolish. There +was no place to go, and she was getting too old for maid service.</p> + +<p>Besides, hadn't Mr. DeBrugh said she would be taken care of. "After +<i>Mrs. DeBrugh</i> and I are gone." Perhaps she would not live much longer.</p> + +<p>And then one morning Mrs. DeBrugh called Letty in to talk with her. It +was the hour Letty had been awaiting—and dreading.</p> + +<p>There was a harsh, gloating tone in Mrs. DeBrugh's voice as she spoke. +She was the master now. There was no Hector to think of.</p> + +<p>"Letty," she said, "for some time now I have been considering closing +the house. I'm lonely here. I intend to go to the city and live with my +sister. So, you see, I shan't be needing you any longer. I'll be leaving +within the next two days. I'm sorry."</p> + +<p>Letty was speechless. She had expected something terrible, but not this. +This wasn't so! Mrs. DeBrugh was lying! It was the will she was afraid +of. Letty remembered Mr. DeBrugh's promise.</p> + +<p>She did not complain, however. Her only words were, "I'll leave +tomorrow."</p> + +<p>That night she packed her things. She had no definite plans, but she +hoped something would turn up.</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<p>Sleep would not come easy, so Letty lay in bed and thought of old Mr. +DeBrugh. She imagined he was before her in the room, reclining on the +sofa, puffing long on the meerschaum. She even saw in fancy the curling +wisps of gray smoke drifting upward, upward....</p> + +<p>It was sleep. Then, with a start, she was suddenly wide awake.</p> + +<p>She had surely heard a scream. But no.</p> + +<p>And then, as soft and as silent as the night wind, came the whisper: +"Letty."</p> + +<p>It drifted slowly off into silence, and a cool breeze crossed her brow. +She suddenly felt wet with perspiration. She listened closely, but the +whisper was not repeated.</p> + +<p>Then, noiselessly, she got out of bed, stepped into slippers, and drew a +robe about her. Just as silently she left her room and walked down the +hall to Mrs. DeBrugh's bedroom.</p> + +<p>She rapped softly on the door, fearing the wrath of the woman within at +being awakened in the middle of the night. There was no answer, no sound +from inside the room.</p> + +<p>Letty hesitated, wondering what to do. And once more she felt that cool, +death-like breeze, and heard the faintest of whispers, fainter even than +the sighing of the night wind: "Letty."</p> + +<p>She opened the door and switched on the light. Mrs. DeBrugh lay in the +bed as in sleep, but Letty knew, as she had known about Mr. DeBrugh, +that it was more than sleep.</p> + +<p>She quickly called the doctor, and sometime much later he arrived, his +eyes heavy from lack of sleep.</p> + +<p>"Dead," he remarked, after looking at the body. "Probably had a shock. +Fright, nightmare, or something her heart couldn't stand. I always +thought she would have died first."</p> + +<p>Letty walked slowly from the room, down the stairs, still in her robe +and slippers. The doctor followed and passed her, going through the door +into the outside.</p> + +<p>She walked, as though directed by some unseen force, into Mr. DeBrugh's +study. She switched on a lamp beside the sofa on which he had always +sat; and she noticed that it was moved slightly out of place.</p> + +<p>There was something else about the room, some memory of old days. First +she saw some sort of legal document on the table and wondered at its +being there. The title said: <i>Last Will and Testament of Hector A. +DeBrugh</i>. It was brief. She read it through and found that Mr. DeBrugh +had spoken truthfully in his promise to her.</p> + +<p>Beside the will on the table was another object, and she knew then what +the "something else" in the room was.</p> + +<p>The meerschaum! It lay there beside the document, and a thin spiral of +grayish smoke rose upward from it toward the ceiling.</p> + +<p>No longer did Letty wonder about anything.</p> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Last of Mrs. DeBrugh, by H. Sivia + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LAST OF MRS. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Last of Mrs. DeBrugh + +Author: H. Sivia + +Release Date: May 21, 2010 [EBook #32468] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LAST OF MRS. DEBRUGH *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + + The Last of Mrs. DeBrugh + + By H. SIVIA + +[Transcriber Note: This etext was produced from Weird Tales October +1937. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. +copyright on this publication was renewed.] + + +[Sidenote: _Mr. DeBrugh was dead, but he still regarded his promise as a +sacred duty to be carried out.+] + + +"Letty," Mr. DeBrugh remarked between long puffs on his meerschaum, +"you've been a fine maid. You've served Mrs. DeBrugh and me for most of +fifteen years. Now I haven't much more time in this life, and I want you +to know that after Mrs. DeBrugh and I are gone, you will be well taken +care of." + +Letty stopped her dusting of the chairs in Mr. DeBrugh's oak-paneled +study. She sighed and turned toward the man, who sat on a heavy sofa, +puffing on his pipe and gazing across the room into nothingness. + +"You mustn't talk that way, Mr. DeBrugh," she said. "You know you're a +long time from the dark ways yet." She paused, and then went on dusting +and talking again. "And me--humph--I've only done what any ordinary +human would do to such a kind employer as you, sir. Especially after all +you've done for me." + +He didn't say anything, and she went on with her work. Of course she +liked to work for him. She had adored the kindly old man since first she +had met him in an agency fifteen years before. A person couldn't ask for +a better master. + +But there was the mistress, Mrs. DeBrugh! It was she who gave Letty +cause for worry. What with her nagging tongue and her sharp rebukes, it +was a wonder Letty had not quit long before. + +She would have quit, too, but there had been the terrible sickness she +had undergone and conquered with the aid of the ablest physicians Mr. +DeBrugh could engage. She couldn't quit after that, no matter what +misery Mrs. DeBrugh heaped on her. And so she went about her work at all +hours, never tiring, always striving to please. + +She left the study, closing the great door silently behind her, for old +Mr. DeBrugh had sunk deeper into the sofa, into the realms of peaceful +sleep, and she did not wish to disturb him. + +"Letty!" came the shrill cry of Mrs. DeBrugh from down the hall. "Get +these pictures and take them to the attic at once. And tell Mr. DeBrugh +to come here." + +Letty went for the pictures. + +"Mr. DeBrugh is asleep," she said, explaining why she was not obeying +the last command. + +"Well, I'll soon fix that! Lazy old man! Sleeps all day with that smelly +pipe between his teeth. If he had an ounce of pep about him, he'd get +out and work the flowers. Sleeps too much anyway. Not good for him." + +She stamped out of the room and down the hall, and Letty heard her open +the door of the study and scream at her husband. + +"Hector DeBrugh! Wake up!" + +There was a silence, during which Letty wondered what was going on. Then +she heard the noisy clop-clop of Mrs. DeBrugh's slippers on the hardwood +floor of the study, and she knew the woman was going to shake the +daylights out of Mr. DeBrugh and frighten him into wakefulness. She +could even imagine she heard Mrs. DeBrugh grasp the lapels of her +husband's coat and shake him back and forth against the chair. + +Then she heard the scream. It came quite abruptly from Mrs. DeBrugh in +the study, and it frightened Letty out of her wits momentarily. After +that there was the thud of a falling body and the clatter of an upset +piece of furniture. + +Letty hurried out of the room into the hall and through the open door of +the study. She saw Mrs. DeBrugh slumped on the floor in a faint, and +beside her an upset ash-tray. But her eyes did not linger on the woman, +nor the tray. Instead, they focussed on the still form of Mr. DeBrugh in +the sofa. + +He was slumped down, his head twisted to one side and his mouth hanging +open from the shaking Mrs. DeBrugh had given him. The meerschaum had +slipped from between his teeth, and the cold ashes were scattered on his +trousers. + +Even then, before the sea of tears began to flow from her eyes, Letty +knew the old man was dead. She knew what he had meant by the speech he +had said to her only a few minutes before. + + * * * * * + +"His heart," was the comment of the doctor who arrived a short time +later and pronounced the old man dead. "He had to go. Today, tomorrow. +Soon." + +After that, he put Mrs. DeBrugh to bed and turned to Letty. + +"Mrs. DeBrugh is merely suffering from a slight shock. There is nothing +more that I can do. When she awakens, see that she stays in bed. For the +rest of the day." + +He left then, and Letty felt a strange coldness about the place, +something that had not been there while Mr. DeBrugh was alive. + +She went downstairs and made several telephone calls which she knew +would be necessary. Later, when Mrs. DeBrugh was feeling better, other +arrangements could be made. + +She straightened the furniture in the study, pushing the familiar sofa +back in place, from where Mr. DeBrugh invariably moved it. Then she +knocked the ashes from the meerschaum, wiped it off, and placed it +carefully in the little glass cabinet on the wall where he always kept +it. + +Times would be different now, she knew. She remembered what he had said. +"You will be well taken care of." But there had been something else. +"After _Mrs. DeBrugh+ and I are gone." + +Letty could no longer hold back the tears. She fell into a chair and +they poured forth. + +But time always passes, and with it goes a healing balm for most all +sorrows. First there was the funeral. Then came other arrangements. And +there was the will, which Mrs. DeBrugh never mentioned. + +His things would have fallen into decay but for the hands of Letty. +Always her dust-cloth made his study immaculate. Always the sofa was in +place and the pipe, clean and shining, in the cabinet. + +There was a different hardness about Mrs. DeBrugh. No longer was she +content with driving Letty like a slave day in and day out. She became +even more unbearable. + +There were little things, like taking away her privilege of having +Saturday afternoons off. And the occasional "forgetting" of Letty's +weekly pay. + +Once Letty thought of leaving during the night, of packing her few +clothes and going for ever from the house. But that was foolish. There +was no place to go, and she was getting too old for maid service. + +Besides, hadn't Mr. DeBrugh said she would be taken care of. "After +_Mrs. DeBrugh+ and I are gone." Perhaps she would not live much longer. + +And then one morning Mrs. DeBrugh called Letty in to talk with her. It +was the hour Letty had been awaiting--and dreading. + +There was a harsh, gloating tone in Mrs. DeBrugh's voice as she spoke. +She was the master now. There was no Hector to think of. + +"Letty," she said, "for some time now I have been considering closing +the house. I'm lonely here. I intend to go to the city and live with my +sister. So, you see, I shan't be needing you any longer. I'll be leaving +within the next two days. I'm sorry." + +Letty was speechless. She had expected something terrible, but not this. +This wasn't so! Mrs. DeBrugh was lying! It was the will she was afraid +of. Letty remembered Mr. DeBrugh's promise. + +She did not complain, however. Her only words were, "I'll leave +tomorrow." + +That night she packed her things. She had no definite plans, but she +hoped something would turn up. + + * * * * * + +Sleep would not come easy, so Letty lay in bed and thought of old Mr. +DeBrugh. She imagined he was before her in the room, reclining on the +sofa, puffing long on the meerschaum. She even saw in fancy the curling +wisps of gray smoke drifting upward, upward.... + +It was sleep. Then, with a start, she was suddenly wide awake. + +She had surely heard a scream. But no. + +And then, as soft and as silent as the night wind, came the whisper: +"Letty." + +It drifted slowly off into silence, and a cool breeze crossed her brow. +She suddenly felt wet with perspiration. She listened closely, but the +whisper was not repeated. + +Then, noiselessly, she got out of bed, stepped into slippers, and drew a +robe about her. Just as silently she left her room and walked down the +hall to Mrs. DeBrugh's bedroom. + +She rapped softly on the door, fearing the wrath of the woman within at +being awakened in the middle of the night. There was no answer, no sound +from inside the room. + +Letty hesitated, wondering what to do. And once more she felt that cool, +death-like breeze, and heard the faintest of whispers, fainter even than +the sighing of the night wind: "Letty." + +She opened the door and switched on the light. Mrs. DeBrugh lay in the +bed as in sleep, but Letty knew, as she had known about Mr. DeBrugh, +that it was more than sleep. + +She quickly called the doctor, and sometime much later he arrived, his +eyes heavy from lack of sleep. + +"Dead," he remarked, after looking at the body. "Probably had a shock. +Fright, nightmare, or something her heart couldn't stand. I always +thought she would have died first." + +Letty walked slowly from the room, down the stairs, still in her robe +and slippers. The doctor followed and passed her, going through the door +into the outside. + +She walked, as though directed by some unseen force, into Mr. DeBrugh's +study. She switched on a lamp beside the sofa on which he had always +sat; and she noticed that it was moved slightly out of place. + +There was something else about the room, some memory of old days. First +she saw some sort of legal document on the table and wondered at its +being there. The title said: _Last Will and Testament of Hector A. +DeBrugh+. It was brief. She read it through and found that Mr. DeBrugh +had spoken truthfully in his promise to her. + +Beside the will on the table was another object, and she knew then what +the "something else" in the room was. + +The meerschaum! It lay there beside the document, and a thin spiral of +grayish smoke rose upward from it toward the ceiling. + +No longer did Letty wonder about anything. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Last of Mrs. DeBrugh, by H. Sivia + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LAST OF MRS. 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