VIII

"Dear Mr. Garret, I daresay to confess my vile acts as I have decided to attempt this for the sake of teaching these bastards a lesson, they had incessantly rejected my request to even have a quick meeting with you, I must say, do not hold any such bad feelings for me as I had my intentions to say a lot about myself."

Those words of Evelyn were on the lips of Mr. Garret as he was reading the letter that was provided by Mr. Burton, he could see all the garish lights on Mr. Burton's eyes such as the sadness and paleness as if he had witnessed her attempt of execution and was seized at the moment to do anything else in the advantage of poor Evelyn.

   "What do you suggest? Mr. Burton?"

   "I must take you with me otherwise I am afraid while we are engaged in a conversation she might make a threatening attempt to harm herself once again, oh yes she can certainly do that!"

While Mr. Burton was talking about her, Mr. Garret stood still as his mind stood afar and made up his own conclusion. He took a seat and smiled at Mr. Burton.

   "Dear, you should eat something, in my eyes you do not look as good as you were when we first met,".

   "I am very much annoyed and disappointed in you Garret, How can you be so calm while we have the matter in regard to someone's life on our lips?"

   Mr. Garret greeted him with little or nothing of his former civility and perhaps in the eyes of Mr. Burton, Garret had displayed a show of mania as he formed a smile on his cheeks.

   "Oh dear Mr. Burton, you do not have a single knowledge of how her life works, but I suppose I have as I am accustomed to reading her letters, your anxieties are of no use dear, I know that she will not do any such thing that means to give her such harms, there must be something that is beneficial in her name,"

  "Dear Jesus, how can you be so sure? Her hands were raging with blood and she was unconscious and out of breath, If the guard had not his suspicion about her malicious art then only god could speak the ugly truth. If any such malicious events occur to her then I am afraid this land will be barren, the rioters are waiting for the time to come to terms with our non-existent cruelty to humans, they do not mind if they are murderers or murderess, I must apologize to ask of you this early in the morning but your presence is required, not for the sake of your employment but rather the safety of poor Evelyn."

  Mr. Garret agreed and gave his regards to him and walked to his room, all dearth of his interest and the fatigue on his face had whisked away in a haze when he entered his room to get dressed, the feeling of nervousness was bearing with him quite benignantly the decision when he got to know about the sudden meeting with Evelyn, he soon walked out and informed about his departure to the maid. Mr. Burton was waiting patiently near his chaise and lingering nervously, though he had the sudden urge to put his trust in his newly illustrious friend yet he could not deceive his eyes as the vicious scene was now detained to lie within himself for the rest of his life, she had cut her veins in hope of dying amply, and as the guard held her in his arms she had muttered the vile words, "LET ME BE GONE!" her blood recoiled onto his fingers, her tears were meant to be the answer for satisfy any man's doubtful feelings and as the guard could say any such words, she was gone, dispersed away from her pangful world where no one dares to forbearance her in any way perhaps it was least in the mind of Mr. Garret before the doctors announced the satisfied answers that hindrances the prescient troubles for his exertion, he had the knowledge of future trouble that could arrive with her departure from this world. Before he could know Mr Garret had intervened his preposterous thoughts and as they indulged themselves in another conversation they took a seat in the chaise.

   "Have you seen her by yourself?" asked Mr. Garret.

   "Oh yes, I was there when it occurred,"

   "May I ask why you had shown your presence in an asylum?"

Mr. Burton seated well and had the silence within him when he heard the aggrieved words of Garret that could only mean his own suspicion, then he glanced at the road and decided to speak.

   "Do you mind to explain your suspicion towards me?"

   "My profession is as to say a lawyer so I am to hold my suspicion for every person, and for question perhaps it is quite suspicious to be at a certain place where a person acts as if he is filled with anxiety for the sake of the said person yet when he was there some malicious acts occurred onto the said person, it is quite suspicious, Well least it is in my dictionary,"

  "Well I am afraid that your suspicion is of no avail, it has no evidence, I suppose it should not as it does not exist, I have never even thought about harming her in any way possible and I am sure that no man in a similar position like I am will ever think about harming any live animals as well, only a wicked person can do such vile acts of the judiciary against such a feeble and helpless young woman, now you shall rest your suspicion and heed onto more serious matter,"

  "No murderer will ever admit their crime, so Mr. Burton are you the wicked person?"

Burton did not budge to say a word when he felt there was no such need to speak for his innocence, he heeded his eyes on the streets.

  "We have reached our destination so we must hold our conversation, and you must not fret, we will continue this topic when you are done with Evelyn."

   Mr. Garret nodded and departed, he could see the ugly walls and the decomposed guards but when their eyes heeded onto Mr. Burton, they bowed down and greeted him with their tranquility. Amply they traced their feet onto a room raged with only the frosted windows.

   "You must wait here, a guard will return with Evelyn."

Mr. Garret rested himself and locked his eyes on a guard while he left him with preposterous silence, he rose as soon as he was alone and the sound of perils had caught his attention, the utterance of view was cruel when he seized the backyard onto his eyes, a prisoner was on the ground and an inmate was on the top of him, his obstinacy to had him dead was the most preposterous and the tremendous act that Mr. Garret had ever caught, he ceased his punches when the guards had appeared until the inclinations of his rage, his struggles were never meant to be affirmative and though the guards were helpless without the trouble of making him unconscious then they dragged his sojourn of the lifeless body away from the limited sight of Mr. Garret. Amply the sudden knock on the door stole his attention from the perplexed matter.

  "Sir, your requested person has been waiting patiently for your approval, I am afraid without your consent she will not come inside,"

  Mr. Garret gave his approval and the guard bowed and left, Mr. Garret promised to use the influence and took his chair onto the window that was damped with the scenery of ordeal and waited eagerly for Evelyn, though it was just a moment before she entered yet it felt somewhat more to Mr. Garret as he was eager to have her against his own eyes. Her hands were slender and pale, her eyes had the darkness that no man could hesitate to not accept the request to asunder it from evil. Mr. Garret saw her hands that were wrapped with a white shed of cloth and the red was peeking through, she sat down at a chair that was situated against him.

  "Myself Joseph Garret,"

  "Oh dear, how anxious I was to meet you, I know you very well Joseph Garret, I suppose we must take ourselves to the important matter,"

  Mr. Garret nodded and tumbled upon the question that was lingering in his mind until the announcement that Mr. Burton had made at a place for his sojourn, in regard of her attempt.

  "I am afraid I need to ask of you in regard to your melancholy move, I know you did not have any evil intention to kill yourself,"

  Evelyn smiled and positioned herself in a very composed manner before she could proceed with her conversation with Mr. Garret.

  "As I had expected from a gentlemen like yourself to have the knowledge about myself, perhaps I was eager to meet you, sir, perhaps I think I may share information that may hold some release of your vexation perhaps we must talk about it near of the time of our departure, we must not oblige ourselves with the conversation of perils of sorts, least not at the start,"

  "Well then, I very well be engaging myself in any of your topics if you are to be willing to answer my questions,"

  "I am intelligibly ready to satisfy your dubious minds, one way or another,"

  "What fun conversation you are to talk with me?" asked Mr. Garret.

  "No fun, I am afraid I have no fun, though I may not bore you with my dismay, sir, I want us to have a conversation in which we will not indulge me or my troubled life,"

  Mr. Garret took a pause and ventured onto his own thoughts and locked his eyes on the dreaded face of hers that felt like an innocent one.

  "I suppose this is a hospital Oh pardon me if I am wrong it is an asylum and not a prison,"

  "Oh yes, it is an asylum for mad blokes, I am to think that I am mad though I will not!"

  "You formed any friendship here?"

  "Oh no, these wicked walls know no meaning of friendships, my treatments by the fellow inmates' resemblances with torture only, though it is what I had expected,"

  Mr. Garret took a pause once again, her eyes spoke as if they had the dearth of comfortable sleep, her nails were ruined and her face that Mr. Garret was in avail to imagine once to be an attractive one but now it represented complete sadness.

  "Am I allowed to ask something of you?"

Evelyn gave her approval, knowing it could prove her distinctness of anxiety and nervousness yet she had her mind settled onto the prescient question of him.

  "Say, has Mr. Burton happened to be any harm to you or maybe looked rather an ordeal to you or any such patients,"

  "Oh why sir, what has given the thoughts of such sorts, he is such a gentleman like yourself, I must never expect it to be imaginable,"

  Mr. Garret decided to take himself to silence, his false suspicion was now put to rest. Before he could speak another word he first glanced to the room then heeded his attentive eyes onto Evelyn.

  "I suppose it is enough for the trifle conversations, now we must heed onto important regards, say why were you anxious to meet me?"

  Evelyn gave the look of indisposition and had the whimsical chuckle before she could mutter and when she did the expression of melancholy and aggrieved deepened on the face of Mr. Garret.

  "What do you see there to laugh at?" asked Mr. Garret.

  "Nothing sir, forgive me if my behavior has been impertinence in any such way, now let me venture to talk in regard to the reason for our meeting, I have asked of your presence here to speak to you in a very important matter, and you will therefore excuse me if I say my prudence has not allowed me to trust the officials as I had some essential information that I will never oblige myself to write in letters sir or that I would speak against the eyes of these corrupted bastards, I had to tell you by myself, I know that my words in those pale pages are not enough for any sane man to pour their trust on and for that purpose I am here to reveal perhaps what can win me a little bit of your trust."