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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1909-01-14, Page 7Te Opal Serpent By FERGUS H UME, Author V "atm Myattry f a Hammen Cele" "a'teMetela 'fist's frau." Etc CO pYRIGIi T, 1900' f, BY G. W. DILLINGIUAM COMPANY �G 1�•4444•44•1•4 "Humph!" said Aaron, resting his +ebbe on hie hand and speaking more tB hireielf that to his assistant, "Sou1rray. was on the vet. Eumpht'!, Batt, hav- ng brushed himself, moved behind the ;counter and took up what Hokar had left. "Why, It's brown sugar!" he ex' claimed, touching It with his tongue, !"Coarse brown sugar --a handful." ile ;stretched out his paha heaped with the tenger • to Tris master. 'What do that 'furreln pussou mean by leaving dirt about?' "I don't know, per do I care," snap. ped Aaron, who appeared to .be ant of temper. "Throw it away," which Bart e-' 1, after grumbling again a1 the im- 1•' Fence of the street hawker. "omen did not go upstairs, but do- le ended to the cellar, where he busied ' _self In looking over the contents of 1''3 three safes. In these were many ;email boxes filled with gems of all !kinds, cut and uncut; also articles of !jewelry, consisting of necklaces, brace- tlets, stars for the hair, brooches and tiaras. The jewel§ glittered in the ear - Ing gaslight, and Aaron fondled them as though they were living things. "You beauties,' he whispered to hime self, with bis one eye gloating over his Ihoard "1'11 sell you, though it goes to my heart to part with lovely things. But I must -I must -and then I'll go - not to America --oh, dear, no -but, to the south seas. They won't find me: there -no -no! rii be rich and happy and free. Sylvia can marry and live happy. But the serpent" he said in a harsh tone, "oh, the opal serpent! The pawnbroker's shop. St4wley yes• -I know it. .,I know it Stowley, They want it back; but they cha'n't. I'll buy it from Beeeot by giving him Syl- via. It`s lost -lost." He looked over lila shoulder as he spoke Ina terrified -whisper. "Perhaps they have it, and then --then," he leaped up and Bung armful of baubles he held on to, deal table, "and then -I must get (away-nastyM `• Me pulled eft three or four coarse ;sacks of a small size and filled these Iwith the jewelry. Then he tied a• ;cord round the neck of each sack and !sealed it Afterward, with a sigh, he !closed the sate and turned down the' gad He did not leave -by the ttap, which led through the shop, but ep- lened and locked the back door of the feellar, ascended the steps and went �t into the street through the side passage. "If they come," he thought as he walked into the gathering night, "they won't find these. No! no.!" and he bugged the bags closely. Gveynne istreet It -was sot a let able thoroughfare, and atter ni few people came that waw o'clock there was not a soul Even the one poiicemaa who as perambulated the streeta•a'as ous by his. ebeeu�ee, Sylvia in her bed bed tallen i troubled sleep and was dreamin PanI, but not happily. She •seem see Mni in trouble. Then she aw suddenly with all her senses .alert sat up. Faintly she heard a wild. and thea came the twelve strokes the church bells announcing midnight, Breathlessly she waited, but the was not repeated. In the darkness s t up listening until the c med. Then the meastueed.f of a policeman were heard dowel the street and dying a via was terrified. Why oho knew; but she sprang•froaze •her.b hurried into Deboraifs room. up," she said, "there's some Wrong." Deborah was awake in a. mom lighted the lamp. Oa bearing Seri story she went down the 'stairs lowed by the girl. The doer at bottom, strange to say, was not to Deborah. opened this • and, peering the shop, gave a cry•of alarm and ror. Lying on •the floor was. Aaron, hand and foot. &Sone shitalti Bbda uauiy conspicti- in. * g THE WINGHAM TEM, JANUARY Id 1900 Weak Women To weak and ailing woolen, therm is at leaatone way to help. c u >1. ut w �it. s h that tw"43' mutt he combined, One is local, one treatments, stitsuu,' tic nal, but both aro Important. both essential, Dr. Shoop's Night Ciera is the Local, Dr, Shoop's Restorative,, the Constitutional, The former -Dr. Shoop's Night t:tu is -is a topical mucous membrane suppository remedy. while Dr 6aoon's Restorative 1s whoily an internal treat, went The Restorative reaches throughout th. -entire system, seeking the repair of all nerve all tissue, and all blood ailments, The "Night Cure", as its muco implies, does its work while you sleep. It soothes sora and Milani. ed mucous surfaces, heals local weaknesses and discharges, while the Restorative, cases nervous excitement, gives renewed vigor and ambition milds up wasted tissues, bringing about renewed strength, vigor, and energy. Tato Dr. .hoop's Reto tine system.I'or positive ;nasi help, use ass» till D. : i ' br n,1 O ..' is ' r e WALLEY'S DRUG STORE. o tke`bodY'wiiT seaIe'd'.lipgae am.' 414 tering jewel, and leertleg.: against thee • wall were the twaso-women,•. Debate& l staring het her •leachmsster''•Ztut with. Sylvia's. eyes pressed. .against her t bogo>a ne' that she might>;raot witness t17 the terror., �irtd•theasis>l> ,deepened. I weirdly: every. moment Sylvia tried 'tie moq+e'Sh ltead,..but 1 Deborah pressed•3telose her',hr t;.: • _sr.- "Don''t,_ :my tty-tion'!;" *she Ia1dd pered 'harshT� • ed "1 mast -e -agar' gate gir1-�[ireed�•her 1 bend from those, kind anus 'with it wreath and looked at 'the `ga'ewsonlee' ' sight. She staggered' forward a few ' enL.anQ, steps and that fallback. Deborah -we! j attoa teived her In her arms' and, tb �;! rod that Sylvia had fainted, carried ber up met the stairs to lay the unconscious girl eked. on her owe bed. Then she descended into rapidly, locked the door leading from hosts the shops to the stairs and again looked at the body. The time she had been bound away was about seven or eight min- utes, and the body still remained with the one open eye staring meaningless- ly at the ceiling. Deborah, drawn by pre,; fascination like a bird by a serpent, heel crept forward and touched the head. eel It moved, and she again tried to lift it. This time she found she could do so. The head she lifted against her. her; breast and then laid It down again with horror when she found the bosom of her nightgown was stained with le blood. Pulling her wits together, for she felt that she needed them every eete one, she examined the head and neck. ti To her horror she found round the throat a strong thin copper wire, which disappeared through a hole in the floor. Apparently this had been pulled so tightly as to keep the head down and to choke the old man, and so cruelly as to cut deeply into the flesh. With a the moan of horror Deborah dropped the head and ran to the trapdoor in the corner. If anywhere, those who had murdered Aaron Norman were lurking in the cellar. But the trapdoor would not open, and then she remembered that it was closed by a bolt underneath. She could not reach the midnight as- sassin that way. "The front door," she gasped, and ran to unbolt it. The bolts were easily removed, but the door was also locked, and Aaron nsuakly had the key deposT Ited nightly in the cellar by Bart. Re- pugnant as it was for her to approach the dead body,. Deborah again went forward and felt in the pockets and loose clothing. The man was com- pletely dressed, even to an overcoat which he wore. But `she could not find the key and wondered what she was to do. Probably the key had been hung up in the cellar as usual. Neces- sity being the mother of invention, she remembered that the window glass was fragile and ran up In the hope of breaking through. But the stout shut- ters were up, so Deborah found that she was sealed in the house. Almost in testate of distraction, for by this time her nerve bad given way, ehe unlocbted fife door to the ;stairs and ran up, three steps at a time, to the sitting room. Here she opened the win- s doer and scrambled out on to the ledge among Sylvia's flower pots. Just as Ishe was wondering how she could get, down the ;measured tread of a police- man was heard, and by craning her I neck Deborah saw bite coming leisure- ly along the street, swinging his dark lantern on the windows: and doors. It teas a moonlight night and the street was extraordinarily von Lighted, as the ,noon shone Straightly between the houses sting her slxength_for a CHAPTER .VII. 16 0 RACE. go back, my coos!" cried Deborah, first thought being how spare .Sylvia the sight, But the giri, remembering that ;zed ery which had awakened . faint and far' away as it wens tai, pushed past the servant and ran'rin the middle of the shop, The lamp, be high by Deborah over her head, cast bright circle of light on the flog,, in the middle of this Sylvia saw father breathing heavily. Itis h were bound behind his back in a:. ful way, his feet were tightly and his head seemed •to •be attached, the floor. At least, when. the !!oily it seemed from its stillness) .anddei4.y writhed, It• rolled it one aide;, but head remained, almost motionless. two women hung back, ebntcbiieg• other's hands, and were aimoattooJe rifled to move at the sight. look!" cried Sylvia, gaspinte moutiar Deborah looked and gave-. moan. Aaron's mouth 'setas closed tmder a glitterieg reL Sylvia upstairs waited anxiously for g1 the return of her father from the hos- pital, as she both wanted to hear how .her lover was progressing and what he said about the permission to marry 'being given, But Aaron did not come to supper, as was his usual custom. l:3art said, when inquiries were made, that the master had gone down into ?the cellar and was probably there.. cin ` l,feanwhile, according to his usual hab- t, he put up the shutters and departed.' ylvia and Deborah ate their frugal meal and retired to bed, the girl much ;disturbed at the absence of her father. !Outside, In the street, the passersby' ;diminished in number, and as the night' grew darker and the lamps were; tglated hardly a person remained PEOPLE SAID SHE HAD CONSUMPTION e..orah bent down, still moaixin�ppq eat did the horror•at he.thing lyze her speech, and saw the lights. flash back from many .dhamondss. saw banish gleams and then .at sparkle like the ray •o!• tate setting ;a It was the opal serpent brooch, Aaron's lips were !!asteued together with the stout ping. Oshhls:•„ , .." .,. hi across s agonized face in wheat 4h one eye gleamed with terrific ` the jeweled serpent summed to •w ai "011, poor scald" cried Deborah, ing on her knees with the lump held above her head. thiel. 1h see' r The girt gasped again .afid. ly knelt also, trying with fingers to 'unfasten she-erael pS>n sealed the massif lips. 1•i'e• tt'llI. for they heard Ulan hreatlatng,. ,andderyly the gieau,fng eye., brat even ,as ice: looked the flee grew, opened and cloned„ orah est down the lamp a tat raise the head. She vosdd not nit it ttQ 4 from the floor. Then the bamnd feat swans In the air and £I !:again With e dull thud, Tlie eye r'eraained open, staring In a essay muster, breatl''?ng had mopped, and. the was !motionless. "E(e s dear'' Deborah, Ieeglng to•her feet ned:A: att flan' ing. aware* girt "Help! help! Ser lined voice tram *fiercely through the empty shop and echoed 'Woad end round. But there eeme • ntr tasessedIng cry. Not a sound ctedd be heard in thea dreet. On the bare floor woe the in Bed,y c r Three Months" Bead how MiT tare. T. G. Buck, Bracebridge, Ont., was cured (and also her little boy) by the use of DR. WOOD'S NORWAY PINE SYRUP slid writes a "" X thought 1 Would write and let you know the benefit I have re, veva(' through the use of your Dr. Weed's Norway Pine Syrup. A few years ago 1 was sobadee troubled -with my lunge people said I had Consumption and that I would net live through the fall. I !rad two doe tors attending me and they were very much alarmed about rte. I was in bed three months and when 1 got up I could not walk, too had to go on my hands and knees for three weeks, and my limbs seemed of no WO to rite. X gave up all hopes of over tgotting better when I happened to see in allele Almanac that Dr. Wood's Norwa Pine Syrup was good for weak lunge. T thought I would try a bottle and by the tithe 1 had need it 1 was a lot better, so got morseand it made a oomplete cure. /1.1yyy little boywas also troubled with weal,: lungs and it cured him. I keep it in the house all the time and woald not be 'With.out it for anything.'" Price a S berate at ell dealers. Beware of imitetionsf of Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Symp. Ask for it end insist on getting the origin xl. Put rip in a yellow wrapper ,bad *boo I treat site lads mark. i• • 4 aI I ; "Zook wan tried AIWA 000fai „ Istuljf Mated oft tlstt r } As a Family Medicine For biliousness, constipation and Kidney derangements Dr. A. W. Chase's Kidney -Laver Piths easily sand first, Lots of suffering wauld be avoided and much serious disease prevented if every family did as the writer of this letter sug- gests. She hos found out from experience that there is nothing so good as Dr. A. �•i : Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills for biliousness end tot stipatieh. Such diseases as Bright's disease, dia- betes and appendicitis almost invariably eriso from neglect to keep the liver, kide nest's and bowels regular. Keep Dr, A. W. Chase's ,Kidney -Liver Pills constantly on hand. Mips Julio Langlois,, Manor, Assn.,, writes: -""Por years,I suffered froin liver complaint and biliousness and could get nothing to help me until rased Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pilie and was cured " last effort, I7ebort yelp. 50 osiy sale' could yell end saw the startled officer spinnf;lg round, looking up and down and sideways to see where the attrieka came trent. "[i la -^up --oh, ook 1 up, yoR fool!" screamed Deborah. "Murder- ob, murder! Burst in the door! Coil • the police, drat you! Help! Help!" By this time she was the center of a circle of bright light, for the police-, man had located her and his lantern, Was flashing on her white nightgown, as she clung t0 the window sill. "What are you snaking that noise for?" called up the officer gruffly. "Murder, you fool!" screamed Debo.. rah. "Master's murdered. No. 45 -the door's locked -break it open. I'ollcet • Pollee!" Before she finished the senti?nce the officer blew his whistle shrilly and ran to the door of the shop, against which he placed his shoulder. Deborah climb- ed in again by the window and ran' down again, but even then, in her es citement and horror, she did not forget to lock the door leading to the stairs, .ao that Sylvia might not be disturbed As site descended she Sung a thick shawl over her shoulders, which she had caught up when leaving Iter room, though for the rest she had nothing on but a nightgown•. But the poor woman was too terrified to be troubled by any scruples at the moment and reached the shop to hear heavy blows on the i hl door. Between the thuds Deborah ' Iy could hear footsteps running inward w from every quarter. "I ain't got the I key,"' she shrieked through the keyhole. an "Break 1n the door, drat you! Murder! as Murder!" pa From the noise she made those with- w out concluded that some terrible crime this was taking place within and re- I doubled their efforts. Deborah had just time to leap back after a final to scream when the door fell fiat on „NV the floor, and three policemen sprang fo into the room with drawn batons and Ba their lights flashing like stars. The be lamp was still on the floor shedding er 7 handling be; tlettly, learned: bad taken place on that terri from the time Sylvia hard sta i1} sod at the sound of that fur of cr9, a 80tt1 in agoa�. An t[rota what Wes Sylvia says," ended Deborah, "`wee just before the church clock strgek the boor of 12." "You came down a quarter Of au hour later?"" "I did when Miss Sylvia woke me," said Deborah. "She was .frightened out of her seven, senses and couldn't get up at once. Yes,, It was about twenty minutes after the hour we come down to see -at," And the woman, strong nerved as she was, shuddered. "Runlet!" said the inspector. assassin, had time to, escape!" ""Begging your pardon, sir, them, or hire or her or it as murdered master was below in, the cellar when we saw the corp -,-not that it was what you'd calla Corp then." ""WiM you say precisely what you mean?" Deborah did so and with such wealth f detail that even the hardened in- spector felt the creeps down his offi- cial back. There was something ter- ribly metiless about this crime. The span had been bound like a sheep for the slaughter, his mouth had been sealed with:the brooch so that he could not cry out, and then, in the sight of s child and servant, he bad been slow - strangled by means of the copper ire which comm1inteated with the cel - 1,. One of the policemen brought up auger which, evidently had been ed to bore the hole for the wire to ss through, for . the fresh sawdust as still in 'its whorls. "Who does belong to?" Prince asked Deborah. is Bart's," said Deborah, staring. 3e was using it, along with other tools, make some deal boxes for master, ho was going away. $1 expect it was and in the cellar in the tool box, for rt allays brought it hi tidylike after 'd done Ills work in the yard, wean - being fine, of course," ended De - rah, sniffing. Wbere is this Bart?" 'In bed, like a decent man, if he's to my husband, which he le," said ss Junk tartly. ""I told one of them e bobbies to go and fetch him from oomsbury." One has gone," said another pollee - an. "Bart'Tawsey, isn't he?" Mr. Bartholemew Twomey, if you ase," said the servant grandly. "I y hope he'll be here soon to protect e." "You're quite safe," said. Prince dry - whereat there was a smile on the ete of his underlings, for Deborah in.1 disordered dress and with her swol:, flushed, excited face was not' sty. "But what about this brooch say is the cause of it all?" eborah dropped, -•with as air of fe- e. ""if you kill meal can't talk of it w," she protested. "The brooch bei' aged to Mr. Pani Beecotat it • where Is he?" In the Charing Cross hospital, if you' nt to know,` and' as he's engaged to pretty you needn't think he done It; there." am accusing no one," said the ire tor grimly, "but we must get tot bottom of this /terrible crime." all thet ble night rted. up distant to t d that its heavy yellow light on the corpse bo ";Master!" gasped Deborah, pointing , a shaking Beget "'Dead -the -the cel- lar -the"- and here she made as to be drop. A pc ''^.clean caught her in his Mi arms, but tee woman shook herself tell free. "I sb:•' "t faint -no -I `sha'n't Bu faint," she gasped, "the cellar-look- look"- She ran !orward and raised "„ the head of the +lend man. When the officers saw the dangling slack wire Pie disappearing through a hole in the onl floor they grasped the situation. "The m passage outside!" cried Deborah, di- recting operations; "the trapdoor," iy, she ran to it, "fast bolted below, and fee them murdering people are there." her "Flow many are there?" asked a po- licemen, while several officers ran corn round the back througb the side pas- you sage.tigu D "Oh, you dratted fool, how should do I know!" cried Deborah fiercely; !a "there may be one and there may be twenty. Go and catch them -you're ., paid for it. Send to 20 Park street, art Bloomsbury, for Bart." m Deborah ran up the stairs to Sylvia's room, where she found the _ea poor girl NI still unconscious. spec Meanwhile, an inspector bad arrived, the and one of the policemen was detailing all that had occurred from the time Deborah- had given the alarm at the window. The inspector listened quiet- _ ly to everything and then examined the body. "Strangled with a copper fast wire," he said, looking up. "Go for had, a doctor, one of yon. It goes through bust the floor," be added, touching the wire seers which still encireled the throat, "anti polls must have been pulled from below. mut Examine the cellar." stran Even as he spoke, and while one this zealous officer ran off for a medical was man, there was a grating sound and Th the trapdoor was thrown open. A. pleas policeman leaped into the shop and brow saluted when he saw his superior. mat By this time the gas had been lighted. brown "We've broken down the back door, hat a sir," said he, "the cellar door it was face locked but not bolted. Nothing in the brown cellar, .everything in order, but that ed ra wire," be pointed to the means used The for strangling; "dangled from the ceil- the n tug and a crosspiece of wood is bound descr to the lower end." 1fr. it "Who does the shop belong to?" Amin "Aaron Norman," said the pokiceman in the whose beat it was. "He's a second- ly ed !land bookseller, a quiet, harmless, you k timid sort of man." et the In "Any one about?' `at ""No, sir. I passed down Gwynne nee w street at about a quarter past 12 and would all seemed safe, When I come back one te later -it might have been twenty min- as he Utes and more, say twenty -five -I saw way, the worsen who was down here cling- the r ing to a window on the first floor know and shouting murder. I gave•the sum- should mons, sir, and we broke open the sale], ' door." err:iiu Inspector Prince questioned not only tee el the Gwynne street policeman, who had four b given bis 'report, but all others who t'.;cy wv bird been in the viclnitit. But they et!. re could tell him nothing. No one ens- idem,' Melons had been Seen leaving Gwynne " Cssn street north or South, so, finding he ;ssn!siil could learn nothing in this direction, Tac Petted turned his attention to the Berle ., ant "bow, then, wheat do you kno'pr?" neat t he asked. "Don't day anything likely Tete. S to incrittinate yotasself." posed f ""Mel" shouted IJeboxah, beuneing up ededi with ti ilei' fate. "Don't you be tek- odd t i ing ratty my character. Why, 1 knout Ilia wo no more who have clone it than a babe usYborn, and that's Stupid enough, I e mo 'epee Mr. Polieeman. Ho, indeed! flies And we pays our times to be insulted the mo by you, Mr. Policematir' She was very I ni erw aggravating, and many a man would came w have lost hid temper, Batt Inspector client imanded 0 CHAPTER VIII. NE of the first people to call on Miss Norman was a dry, wizen monkey of a man, who anr�ouuced himself as Jabez 1, the solicitor of the deceased. Ile so he said, executed Aaron's legal ness for years and knew all his. ts. Yet when questioned by the e he could throw no light en the tier. But he knew- of something ge connected with the matter, and he related to the detective wino now in charge of the case. is officer was a chatty, agreeable, ant faced man, with brown eyes, n hair and brown skin.. Also, to ch his face, no doubt, he wore clothes, brown boots, a brown nd a brown tie-in fact, in body, and bands and dress he was all and this prevalent color produc- ttaer a strange effect. browvn man, who answered to ante of Burd, or, as he genially ibed himself, hilly Hurd, saw ash, the lawyer, after he had ex- ec. every one he could Lay hold of hopes of learnlug something Iise- eltfcidate the mystery. "What do now of this matter, sir?" asked 'own man pleasantly. li screwed up his faee in a man- vortily of his monkey loots. Ile have been an absolute i.uage of nth a few nuts in his cheek, and talked in a ehatt'ring sort of very fast said a trifle tueo!,erent, e.se.nblance was eosn '1 ate. ""I nothing why my esteemed client -meet with such a death," he 'but I may mention that on the g of leis death he callus round to e and deposited iu my eher„ie age of jewels. At 1eiaet he said ere jewels, for the begs ore wal- let of course' I never opened I see those bales?" Asked Burd y. legal monkey hopped into the coal and beckoned Hurd to fol- hortly the two were 1ool;ing in - interior of a safe wherein re - our bags of coarse white canvas and tier! with stout eorclte "The ng is," said M1; X'ash, eltewving ids and looking so absurdly Ialte man • that the detective felt in- to call him "Jiwcko," "that on ruing of the murder and before anything about it a stralsger ith a tote from my esteemed asking that the bogs should bo ever," Prince ,was a aiuiet and silt controlled One pill a dote, `b5 mate & box. ' At all officer dealers or Edmanson, Bates 8 Coe Toronto, violen D A.W.Ch se's : iii• and knew how to deal with this t elass of women. tie simply Deborah had exhe sted he*. and then g�tntly asked her a few+!. end, 1, inding he wet reasonable, became reasonable en her Slid replied with Breit fetelligenett,, few Whitten tb+o i , btu Kidney and quest; Deborah Liver* Pills air t "What sort of a 'mit?" 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