HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1889-3-28, Page 6A LOVE CRIME.
(Tuatia SaaTan SAO* Valt Fnialecea, AX G. Itioets.)
does nob dare. to ego in, She la afraid. She
weeders mend it. She cell* out.
"Oliver 1 Oliver r
R000dy 44bWera.
"Ra doubt be hm Pot COMO*" he eayi to
herself. Realieuredamad lighter of haw, !he
knewe WA why, ehe pea in.
Ated then thecorpse lies before her, !Mil"
ing it Needy emile, & shocking sight„,
It was the: cepy of Meuborgue'ss lettere. doesn't °nee turn round, Soch are the Her fright end horror are ao avail that
4ames be vain atrove to meintant bee sirlf, I thoughts which weighed upon his mind, she Le allied with, a sort of trance, 4 glee
compoeure. Why reed a letter he knew Art the edge ot drier:Ad TIM* rhe reioeci paws ever her eyes, mod for some minutee
by heart.? Ile muld not keep hie, eounten- 'ant where lifel?el *Ad bletethe had felted A idea teineikait without eanseionsnetaa etretched
=ea. g wto. tumble to remswer, The Marefuge and Oliver: pea into it,, gut beeirle the eorpee, '
grate pitied, him. "The truth over, Jernee Wen Ilhanelf in the bitehert and $he meagre, hertelf and rises,
whelent youn he said, "Yoe canmet and waits. "I an afraid.° the ,reept, "an Will not
singlewor'd to excolpate year brother, goold he have Made an eppeintmentet eeneain here;"
Yes. I pity you. You were trying at Any If ata With Win= With IsebelPerhaPol Rut on the threshold, blocking op the
eoet to awe you father. You de ire are Whet oculd be he wanting'? Wart he bed,
taiolvbut at whet a Watt 1 At the •cost of lug himself in order eo throw the police off
the liborty, peritepe the liteof your brotheri the acute -
You ere worthy of ali my reepect and gym- At the eocl Of rter 01 an hour nobody
On. the thresheed he sopa, undecided, ateed
patby. sir." Am4 come. Then ernes approselwathe hnt.
WOOS COUld hardly WAY* SO profoundly
wan he troubled, Helefteir.dehleuves' office with annn4enab1e fear and anxiety- Then
painfully aed so blinded be Mars thet he he goes in hastily,
did not see label who waa sitting waiting Oo a heap of broom at the hack pert of
far her Mina and who roes up when he appear- the hovel, Oliver wee eittingwith his bead
Th
ed. e Magistrate Called her in ami the nd. e buried in his hae. Ile thinking arid
went at ono, heart nothing. James went up to him and
" bledsone,"seid e hfauveo dryly, "will touched him on the ;shoulder.
you, kiedly recall whet Teak/ w you the firth Oliver raised hie bead, "OM 134 brother,
time, When solicited, from you all the in and aid brinepeely
formetien yeu could give me. I :said that " Yeti here 1 What de yo e want 1"
your informetien might prevene justice from "1 am an antOnished an you are he
ZUltnakea Whieh are alwaYo Possible and God you hem, What axe you doing for
always creeL Grave indications seemed to youraelf,"-
point to tbe Triarenia et Bargemont as the 14 eke° Dower to you. I want to be altoles
murderer of Metottergae, and so my doty ea hoe§ me."
Wall, to order hie arreat, dastita WAS &VOW. "e. waa looking for you, 1feed
";1140 0004140. VAO Metcpala IR not 104 inn% erel eo 8)3401, reeeefaee
guilty euel the reel murderer is Immo," "Ton were looldeg for me t" wail Oliver
"I pat you Ma your gusted, eire 1 t,old, you etoreeuee. ft why ;
to be caution% Ma know* but you are " g -fore yea AMMO good metre."
deceived agefial" Tell it theo, we hairtVet been 'avowed
"The murderer is OUver de Bergesnene in that way tor soma ume,,,,
ate trembled, hut dhl not leee ber ae1t*P°4' 4t Father him been set at liberty,"
session. Wishisog atilt, despite whet bed ogle Ineeoenee ilea been eceagefeeo, has
been twa her, to wave the Bargemente, ehe
repeated, an on the firat day.
"Pe prudent, sir, awl take one what you itoa -the teal ethoho4
dOt" 44 are sear
klin, and will
"Yee meethave guttered greatly, attached ertainlyThey arrest him very v "
44 you were te the Berfiemout forollY. "Ma name?" he mid to a husky voice.
Nevertheless it waa your duty to heve, 'Fete- 44 Oliver de Bargemont,"
en Qat WheU Yon sew thetjestlee was Twang The miserable man fell back AS if he had
WrOngdireedone°, been knocked down OA the broom heap where
"1 loneve nothing At eel" eke oemenatety a'amee had found hire,
pereisted, Whe told you? Who told you?"
"WW yea Oen year refusal to epesier
" Reed *Iola paper.4
Yee," the bravely eel&
"Sign then,"
She walked to the deek. The, Magi/A-rate co"ete4orlwaagItgrtgiri tol0.1116,t411:,a
rem to give her Iola met and held out his pen hock tho to Amex hia halui tte3
She etooPed dowua repeal& ber' eY's in by MUM supernetural force. trick"
" ;daubs/A.40's writing 1"
to hex. so that taervireemed to home bin= a
4 vague, distreoted wort of wey over the ireazd oo rat area forged,'
rem which were Woad out before bor. "I shall no longer attempts to deloy
where able rend tbe Mune oi Oliver 40 Birgo• bendingforwerd,,Tamea added hta law voice.
merit. It WM the copy of Mauborgue's letter, 44Axa, was you who how him so otdot
She read it at a gleuce, thou her trembling to recover the nett* which wero plot. to
band wrote a signature that wos almost dishonor.you Ma all of ue
" Oliver le bet now " she said to herself Hove himself. "It was I, it Wall
uticieuly her look faateeed iteolf on *letter wretched me wratched man 044
Hiegihie."Yea: be maid with eaert7 $4 It to re -
levee not been able to prevent it. If he Jams ttoogoa from him.
could only have cleared himself so far as to nyvtotohea mbur he tAhl,
esmsPe Punishment could hero wished it, There was long Ocoee bateau them
not for lob sake, for I have a horror of him, ita thou jamoi agg
but for his mother's and for 4144111.7 "Lieten to me, iour crime is knowo.
The megletrete released her. You run the risk—the only one which
"You are not through with the business *should MAO 4/ Bareemout tremble—ofahatne
et." be geld, " have still to Answer and (Immune We are only a ehee,e dee.
tbe President of the Court of ZailiZagt 40., tepee from the frontier. In half an hour
en perhaps you will he sufficioutlY tni- you oan be out of the reach of the Prom:h-
ewed not to tell feleehoode." police and saved"
Jentee lied grown cool, ;drama ettem, hub
CHAPTER IV, etrauge pallor overspreed hie face and
his eees bed tbe bawl glitter of stool.
she
was going out, the kept repeating lie drew a revolver from hie pocket and
yx'4 aver nano,
must warn Oliver. But how! ill re Tam the, end rue
tossed to his brother:, ha oad,
each him in time 1" aim bent forward' and put out hie hand
When she got be* to Giromagny in the to catch it, but be was too fate, the weapon
evening she found *letter awaiting her, Sho atruck a atone. There was a sudden report.
did not kuovr the writing. Htudily tearing it Toe revolver had gone off, For a moment
open ebe looked at tbe contents. It was they stand looking at one mother in terror.
from'Oliver and this waa whoa said, Then one of them tame pile, ;staggers, puts
"Isabel I must see emu, I mat speak with his hand hie breast, and rolle over on the
you, Yon know alb label. I am nee ig- floor.
noraut of it,, On that terrible night I saw It was Oliver. Ife had received the
you quite neer me in the forest ; then, over. bullet fuU In the breast. His eyes oloso.
ethelmed by what I hed just done, 1 fled. Hardly any blood comes fret:tithe wound.
It was like a ghost of youreelf I saw, under Ene it flows from his lips. One hoarse cry
the moonlight, :led in tire white raeieuce of of anguish escapee him. His lirabs are
the snow. You have aid nothing to the Minted in convulsions. Then he remains
magistrate, you withed to save me. I must motionless. His wide open lips dieolose his
see you I must speak with you Ah 1 what blood stained teeth, and he has the appear-
tortareI suffer; and do not think that tnY ance of laughing, a horrible and mournful
keenest 'suffering cornea from the thought of eeegh,
my mime. Ah no, it arises from the love I Hob aoaa.
bear you, I, miserable wretch, unworthy, A prey to horrible oppressive anguish
and one who must be an object of horror to James lake at him. He doea not know
you. But I must see yon, I must speak what has happened. Be fancies there is
with you, for I feel that everything is giving some illusion, some dream or Other. But
way under me, and I mast have a friend. how vivid it was 1
Toenorrow morning at daybreak, 'Isabel. Then he drops on his knees.
be at that old house where Martha and von "Oliver 1 Oliver 1" he eriea in a voice
were found. Donic rebel% roe, don't reject stifled with emotion.
thie prayer. It is the last time shallows Oliver does nob answer. He places a
yon. Forgive me, Isabel. Have pity on band over his heart and then recoils with
the misety of my life and the agony of my horror. The heart had ceased to beat.
heart" But the 'hand was reddened with the atill
Oliver is lost," she said to herself. " He warm blood.
will be arrested this evening, if he is not al- Then, seised with sudden madness he ris-
ready. Too late to put him on hia guard. ea hurries from the hovel, rushee through
God's will be done 1" the forest, deeperate, haunted by the idea
When James de Sargemont returned to of that corpse, the sound of the revolver
the castle he asked for his brother. Angina" ceaselessly in his ears, the last con -
He was told that Oliver had gone out that veered smile of the dead man constantly be.
morning at the same time as himself, and it fore his eyes, and repeats over and over
was not known where he had gone. He was again.
also told that about ten o'olock two police- 'It was, I, it was I who killed him I" His
men had come to the castle with an order hands are pressed against his face, his nails
to arrest Oliverand take hiznitoRemiremont. tear the flesh so that the blood flows.
They had nob found him. James waited for "Cain I Cain I" —he says to himself.
him all evening and all night. He went into
hie brother's room. Nothing there was
CHAPTER V.
changed. Everything appeared as usual.
There were some papers on the little desk On the morning of that day Isabel had
and on the floor, some newepapers and torn said to herself.
pieceii of paper. James looked at them. A "Oliver has certainly been arrested. But
name, that of Isabel, caught his eye and nevertheless, supposing he should not have
made him tremble. a been! Suppoaing he should go to the
He picked up the pieces. It was the end rendeevoue 1 Supposing he should not know
of a freshly written letter and contained thet danger is so near and so serious I One
only one sentence, "Isabel, I must see you, could see him and follow him—he would be
I must speak to you." ruined 1" And after a moment's relleetionshe
Oliver apparently had torn it up and added. "He must be warped I shall go."
thrown it aside to commence another one. And so she seta out As it is cold, she
He was evidently hesitating, perplexed, a puts on a woollen cloak which covers her
prey to the roost frightful moral torments. head, neck and shoulders. She embraces
Did he write one at last? ' said James to Martha, who was still asleep. She embrac-
himself. "What is there between them ?
Do they then love one another still in spite
of all ?"
He went on musing.
If he wrote to her, she must know
where he is hiding. She shall tell mei
I 9.121 determined on that. The gray
dawn of the morning atiVir him going
through the forest on the way to Giroin-
agoy.
It was the saine hour that Oliver had as- she thinks she was deceived, when looking
*lived to Isabel for the meeting in the forest. closer she fails to see anythim
It was hardly daylight when James set out. Suddenly a roan runs past, elose to her.
He v, alked slowly, oppressed with mournful
thoughts. Suddenly at the end of the path
he was following, he saw a man whom he
knew. The man was not coming towards
Lim, but appeared to be taking the same
road es himaela ja,eree walked along slow-
ly. But he recognized the step and the bear-
ing.
"It is he," he muttered, " there is no
doubt about it. It is roy brother." The other
the Mantilla awoke, dressed, came down- TER FLORIDA EVEROLADES,
stair* and asked for Clotilde.
She hurried to him. IP* dry tone ;silted Dark LlibTrioths ralakOW4 Maa,
`he'r‘Rwellehreao°betetrawbseint for throe 'UM" the a they canoe into the waters Of tbe :Seance
Five years ago single white Man dropped
replied, River and made his way dowu to the Gull of
The wretolled olme *Mb have crm°d• rbe Mexico entered the Calooseleatelde Rivers
border. amended it, and paddled Uhl way into the
In Spite of hintaelf he sighed. Watt ib great dismal water, waste of Okeechobee.
foga regret or WWI . this shoreless Wand Sea Of 04014 he
"Lawrence, sad the itfltrobkonese•Your "e" wanderee for eight, days and nights, search-
nocence established since they have bet ing for the mourn of the Kiseimmee Biver,
you free," bob the police are aftea Oliver. This 'timely adventurer was Me,Eirkelonroe
Is it he who gutity ? .an. beef riNeevere tYhoartkh.eawnelaothtehroe oieroeovewrbyitowerostolon or
•
forger,w0( ,1e1;;Yg :49711 ty 4B:arag. it: aielP ert aI and—tn! thoee t II tt ow the e ot lakefromner'r t whoItegulf. took a
Since
murderer 1 And etill alive. Such thing* then, efajor Willieme, of the leew Orleans
eTiototureeeTtbemoocgrreeato, witolitahodanseeep4 flroormingrbenektY10,.
eitomee, and several sureeyora and civil
gineera have also creased a portion of the
&weal lake.
Beyond this little is known of Florida'
great Wand ea= and the vast swat:tab, or
Everglerlee, entr000dieg which **really
only an expaosion, of the leke Tare
is '10 1044ge to t130 lake, beal dense swampa
of saw-grese and half -submerged hourmake
encircle the clear -water sheet on every hide,
on which neither reptile, animal, nor man
hex ever yet found footing. Inamenee
bodia of water lettuce. a SPaelee of air and
water phone. 00a0 000 on the *UriaeO Of
doerweY, two polreemen auddeoly "weer, do nob kelt °Del'
pething her beck. One Of thelat bertha! to Clotilde wiped e her hernia and forehead,
wrOlte: while the °time 'holds her by the Her headkerthief wet* (Pito web with Pere'
piration,
The one Taloa) is examining Oliver, soon "Murderer," she aid 44 & son of Minn ie
rises,raingi "1* le tee tete, The man ia murderer
dead,' "Ana What etheat mites ?" asked the Mer,
They both two to Tsai* tor MO explainta gide, don't knew what), hae beleremet11
James left *0 Cattle at a, VerY' late.heur,
tion of the (server,
ovate instead of meklog her Wee her prea- • violent deliriem. He is le bed and miring
She reflects. The necesaiert of madden. jest a little While ago he Mune back he se
wee of mind, gives ber self-pasemien. She all the time and when' vale to him he
hes beeente ealne and strong again and. *elf- dom net reregnize me, Titere m more my.
controlled. Into her WO 'ewe*, e little Oen, yet!
worn awl wow!? by *le Inteeeeiltela of dramee " //AMA'," Said CIO tilde, as, She heat over
tic mcodente, comes& the light of geitetenn "dot you beer me, deo t y. on reoeg-
devotiou. nice Me 1 Rens Is irtnir, fether—your father
The often meet have seen &MOIR at the whom they arreeted for a Oaten he multi
moment he woe runniog from the **bin nt, not have committed. You were thereat the
tearing tbeee insensate WAN* Their euspi- time of the erred. aames, my eon, don"'
done might teat on Were they going yen reelleMberf „Pone) he ill arty longer,
to bey thee it wee AMed Wha had Lames, Return to reuee. an frighten
brother; Oliver woe OeWard..-a. %MAO an, We Iwo only yea AIM What- Wilt
'bOOanaa murderer 7,—e. °word lameum beceme of no yon fall us! %Ad turniog
Maubergnele letter which the reed on Mr, to the blarfLUIS WIMP *toed !sombre end ellen;
de hlellYeit table revealed itr—because he the added,
hod hem *forger. Oliver being a coward, "Lewrence, hue you oethiog eer Pay to
bad got bed the courage to commit etneitle1 him 1'
and the revolver whielo lay near the corpse A. violet* struggle was going on in the old
elots recognised 'bum 4'ssonese feverito weapon, men's, 'wort, end his wile woolly f glowed. tile
whith he never wee without In hie jouosteye Obese of it as they 'showed themselves Pohl&
throegh the .foresta, end she hood olten eeen eyee.
it in bands* The Matadi wee recollteg bet lifee
lesi it a case of suicide or of murder.* !eget:, that eeeriet was @MAUI in
TlAT teethed heed at label, her love lettere, end he was eeyiug Ulm-
" Whet were you doles here, rennin oaf,
about the wood* when 10 le hardly day- "Sloe loved Allies Merode, Merode Wed
light!" ther childee life when very yen% Ifebeara
She did not =ewer, and they set them. the very name Of the elector. It was she
olvee agate 'tin eaatilline the cerpses. who wished to give thee ante."
"A, aeleide" Never /a the Werld, have. The Marobleuese clasped her bands in
etal Weide% Men people Sheet there.. treaty,
vea with A revolver they put the weapon "Ieowrenoe," essid, d
closse to them, mom to the eitin, and thee alwa,ye doubt me 2"
re to always* lerp bum The skin, le a bowed and said, "Yea,"
eround the bursa and the clothes "Listen to me, am going to my
_ ere black sod botreed, There nothieg thing horrible. but God will Pardon
like Out bore. The wound, Is elem. The James is very in. Rim life le In daogar.
ahot must hare been fired at ramie length Ifvesso though we ewe 04, we may not be
way, or low able to neve his rumen. Well, If oou mo con -
Imbed trernibles melon listens to whet they time to doubt rne, limper 14 yon thot
are saying, for It 11 James WIMM they are pray to God. that Re will take him to Rim,
asecususg. aeli, for it would. be better tir,ust he eloould
The cfacers are spealtiog together in a low die,"
voice and appear to be forgetting Isabel. "Speak, what bm happenei neve?"
She catohea some of tho wow" 411 they are "Mr. Oliver I Mr. Oliver
rapidly prom:mooed, The MATT& took a atop • forward, and
"Ile was running very fast, And did you instluctivoly said,
boar hat be was 'toying. "Cala, Cabo 1" • "Arreated 7'
or something like that, 1.san not gents sure "Dead, Sir Marquia, dead. They found Thu whale lailduth af marahaa. wet
Theree not a doubt duo it boll/UAW they hie body In A .ruipod. hut in the bred, that anvananba, and imam ia drained nu
ere talking about% hut that was burned by the P Inn@
nun-- hire every rade by. rivers of afferent dimension!.
Ile •Is loses if they suspect him. She is Pantomime are bringing a The St. aolues drains It on the north t the
sure that Jima if arreated and, seeettened carriage. Re is there on the courtyard." "8 Ludo Gramma, Janitor Haw Batton°
wUl not defend himself, Cloolde and the Marquis; troth teenibling
the sea, and, Ina the treatheroue willeothe-
wbp deceive the eolitary travelers who
venture into that lonely region. The mouth
of the calO0eaheenle thill often closed up
by the fleeting Pimoes elect the deripg oz14°
vex' wenderers'aroleed fax' day* before he an
get hie bearing. The only asp theft mark*
the mouth Of. the river le a eMall barrel,
which the lest party of enrveyore plowed oa
the top of * cypress' txelo that Mande far
Mat lAto the take like SOMO eolitary eentioel
an duty. It le the enly mark of Men vielitie
withia *Maine of nearly 100 Mike, and if It
had nos tem for the water a000meeedetitnee
of the tWo rivers flewing irato the lake the
region would *till be unknown and num-
plerOd.
The Evergledee proper begin just aoth of
the lalte, and are holly 100 mile* long end 70
breed, over which PO Meer:Me Obeill
ever berm 'stretched, andat which all know-
ledge ie ea isonleotured Oa of the interier of
the dark Continent beyond the path et
Stauley, Oct reaching the level of the glade"'
e vmt ineetlew le expanded, apparently oe
helladieee all tile Wen. Peeving on tiorough
the winding lagoons you fled yourself in
oust xeglon, partially lugs:Oat-ed, and re-
emblle an iromeoose bike etudded with
esson II of ielmils vinTiog from fractiom
an sore to Imudzede at acne in extent,
ming the Winter 144101% thO W40i4 grimy
border of tiro eavannalo and pinkie land
border of the lake b covered with
water, but not so deep es to We the
which Is very thick and tall, The
which skirts the Evergledes posies grad -
ruddy Into rocky, pine lard, which forms
the rim of the beim occupied by the glades.
Thie rho Is on an average some 20 feet
about the lea, but oacseionelly it slow to a
much greater bight, in Setae place reach -
lug nearly 100 fecal Above the Atlantic.
deftly coveeeel up that no one has yet hiwo -
able to follow it. To get to the yillOigU.
0414002 have M .1;1! wed,- and the Indians
. .. ..,_ ....
earefully ceeceal. their "smell rIngeonts. from
• thawoite man* oyes. ,.• :' •
•
Although generally frieodly, the Smits,
• solee. do net.inteenrege the pale feet* ta come
expletrlag tea neat their hornets:. A nate,
b9tit and . wet), ito the hands of a surveyor
er explorer aggrevatee them, and ;such *
pemen is likely. to receive redo :treetment.
The. oewhoye.• who go among thetit einli4
to barter geode, go ettongw#4 them ,-.01.0 boo
for 0,14 to-Athoo., .
When the drat survey .Wee .Mede on the
herder of thegladea the erespleteae SeetinOlea
did otoe like the invasion, attd. they "dewed
it by their nlennere and Ando treetutene of
the party. The SOVVOY was made, heetevera
without any quarrel, but two yam. Were
when ene. of the survey went over the ewe
ground, he mode an ;mooing rileeovery, In
trying to reach the most •weeterly mernablp
line he onoderteek to de It by .fellowleg the
: surveyor's vette. .Thie Should hate taken
him dee WOO, bet hiacOmpaaapelittod. out to
-
nen that he was going 'aorthweeta After
going out of hie way for some dogma of miles
he &Opted the UMW, that the Iodising had
Iplayed opeo him. Not liking the • beim of
tha meat° poem which eingited Out the
tiovelossbirse, the wily Indisseshed takers them .
„ up after the surveyeme departure two ye,sra
• heiOrea and plaeOttatheta in A line leading off
in another ehrectsone The eurpresed. Mir,
NOY.Or had tbne Non following: a felse geld.°
for some day.* ..
About lefernila sorrtheat of Kissimmee ,.
an COW Creek ' Slew, ie. .ones„.• of these typicel. •
Indian .villegee.., eitua.ted an * etnall TOMId ..
"hammeek" ef 15 or 20- oeree.. The villege .
genet**. ef 0 QV 19 toneea,. built of :9 .
Ian* three On * 4404 Omit 0 .feet high. .
. hey are .sibout 18. feet equereon the .grionad, -
wIth dome elevated .abeets 3 feet from the
ground, and the mote ate thatehed, .with •
pelonetto leave* The 'villoge. •Caltailte Of
about 0.0 'outage, tele ef •witecti are men, and
the remainder women And Children* • Tha •
plem is -called Perkertown after tea chief. .
Wh otie awe is iterker. They heves seined, .
an impetieet .koowledgoefEnglielt..frem the • •
• eowboye, and In egliVernatIOn they Only
+speak the leading worde eta senteece, • OA
Cypress Creek, ,t0.rellee math of Cow Slew,
Is mother Samuels/ •vithoge of 50 tribebit, .
outs. It is not laid down .9.14 any map, bee
is known as the Notrooltiwokage, wblelo•
'MOUS the place where the Fiethesode Uve.
The elders mono is •Olti Tiger, of the Semita
Ole war fame. Wetly have flelde ef cora stud
pumpkin% which ate cultivated by the woe
Meo, while the leen hunt end See, They.
care their meet without the nett of tale,
' Tbey nee Wirsehester rifles to kin their '•
game, -
Down near the BigCeprtes. Swamp, on the
west ald.e of the RifergladON are eeverid
oth.er Indian village" that hem tan visited
WO° white men. -" If you go down there
yon had hotter take a uigger with you," one.
will hear often from the liee of a cowboy,.
The remen, aocording to their explanation
is a very good one, too, for you can all the
uegro be the Indiana for enough to pep all
of your expeneee. Not a few negro SIMMs.
lara owned by the Indians he 'this region, Who
know nuthing abont.tite War that wag.. fought
, to set them feet* They have been 'brought
up as Slaves Among the Indiana, rend they
: ere little better than brutee, .2he Indian
- 1 women will .ocesolouelly mud) each. other%
: hair with their fiugere, bat the negro eaves
• le this; . wilderness; . never think .• of
math a thing. Their word becomeo
filthier and more repubile.lookinv than
that on the back of •shoop before
they aro washed for the ,clipper's "bars.
They are far below thcandians in .their.
livieg and habita, and it la herd work to.
I . 'being.
. . , ,
. Oneetoelly "the Indians get bold of *
:-ntere. olvIlized black, and /tarry him ewey
. to their .forest home,. whore they mike him
work their gardens and fields of corn and.
vegetables. Whether they hew:been stolen
or bought, It h not on easy leaden to
anewer, but :oertaiu it le that .the storitie
brio been circulated around so freely ,about
the negro slaves ;mono the Indians! .that A
stranger cannot .get a :darkey to necompeny
him in a journey to the Everglade* They.
are suspicions of ono at orree .when. *eked
to take auch a trip, and probably it Is 'Inc,
to this feet that South Markle has so .vory
SOW :regrow.
o o au Malt Ott the Best, and the Sake
So thee he muse be "eyed. very much, tried to go down, bet they were
She half-olone her eyes al if the better to overcorne by faintness and could not. Ton Seallow_. Celoosahatehle and Memo on this
west. Behind Cape Florldso the glades ap-
Mirage into what etto Ia &elect° sap tell tho servant whet room ey Clout have 4-
Cces tun to the Seta With Er t s ifto .
she said in a firm vowel 7 'you, aro the body taken to. To penetrete the Evergledes 1*01. daring
mistaken." Murmuring sounds were beard In the endeveskie sea, none hue the cowboys Of
°Vial/ beivy steps on the stairway, and
hen the servant appared apin and libido
"Wo have taken the body into the room
on ordered, Sir Margais."
(ro zit ooNeetralto.)
oneattreto all her power, end puts all her Marquis scarcely bad strength enough to &roach within 12 miles of the Corot, and the
The tlEare turn quickly roundilo
cure yordixelareations, curt orders, a
44 ram aretahtakert. Mr. Oliver de Barge- I
moot didn't oommit suicide."
Near 1 Ala 1 had my clonber of it."
"He wax killed." 11
They approach nearer andlook at her with
some anxiety.
She hesitates. Her lips are quite white. T
WIll she speak? Yee, she will sacrifioe ber.
alt, Only yeaterdey they drove her from
tbe castle. Since then James himself
hes treated her as if she had been unseat*.
ful for all the previews kindness. But she will
Sacrifice heraelf. Her devotion will force
the Marquis to feel remorse, and James re
pentance. james whom sit *doves, and who
treeted her so cruelly."
"Do you know who killed him?" meld one
of the men.
tt you.14
"Tell no then."
"It was I."
"Yon ? Why?
Tilley seem aurprised. Evidently it was
not an her their auseicions hid fallen, She
had not been deceived in thinking their
minds had been running on James.
"Von want to know why, do you ?" she
said in a harah, trembling voice, and paint-
ing to Oliver added, "that man had se.
duced end then abandoned me. I begged
him to do me justice. He refused, and I
killed him."
She threw heraelf on the ground, when
she had said this, and burst oub sobbing.
CHAPTER VI.
James wandered long about the forest, a
prey to feverish excitement which robbed him
of his self-possession. Be is unconscious
Where he g000. Instinct alone conducts him,
and it is matinot and not reason which brings
him back to Bargemont. He sits down on
the steps, instead of going. into the house.
Be does not know what he as doing, and has
not recovered hie reason. The fever has
gone to his head. Unintelligble words come
from his mouth. The servants in great sur-
prise come near and speak to 'him respect-
fully. He does not recognize them. He
neither understands nor replies to what they
are saying. They listen while he sanders ,
worse and worse. Presently he is at the
"Bear's Head," and directing the drill.
He is mad," they say to one another,
fearfully. "Re is mad."
They hurry to tell the Marohionese. She
comes with all speed, folds her son in her
arms, speaks the tweet worda of endearment
with which her mother heart inspires her.
She draws him inside. He allows himself
to be taken, but does not recognize his
mother any Imre than he does the others.
•
es her twice, feeling as if some instinctive , The brain fever continually. increases. He
presentiment made het...dread a catastrophe. 1 does not think of hinnielf as at Bargemont,
Martha sleep on so soundly that she does but always as „at the head of his soldiers.
nos waken. The Marchioness obliges lihn to lie down,
Iaabel goes out An hour afterwards she sends for the doctor, and establishes herself
1
is not far from the cabin. Several times at his bedside. ,
she thought she heard steps behind her. The poor woman at times feels her own
She was on her guard. She turned quickly (head becoming, weak under the enormoua
round, and fancied she saw in the forest a i burden of excessive misfortune which has
uniform, the uniform of a policeman, but c made her life miserable,
"It is too muoh," she says to herself some-
times. "It is too much. I have not de-
served ao mutt: taouble The departure of
.South klorta over offer to guide avengers
into the dismal waste. They bave beanie
more or lees familiar with the borders of the
world.famous glades in hunting their cattle
through certain evell-beetea wake Along
the Betake of the rivers; but beyond that
they wilt not even go themselves. Dangers
WO Business Men Meet and Ant Promptly. from rettleenakes and elligetore, which are
A man 14 scribbling at a desk in an office as numerous as hair on your had and of
O Beekman street yesterday, when some gigantic size, they &spin ; but when It
no walked briskly through the hall, opened comes to facing starvation lu a traokleas
he door and asked: wilderness they weaken.
"Anybody in?" Theyloare not mon to get frightened at
"Want your coal carried up?" along the borders! of the Everglades they
nothiog either. Brought up In the woods
"Haven't got anyle beve agent moat of their time in wandering
"Going to have?" around tbeow, web swamp.
471Tho'sensiyr.o'ul worldn't want it carried up?" in places a sorb of quieksand will suddenly
The land in the glades is treacherous, and
agsTo air.
"And I couldn't carry it up if I wanted living grave. The bottoms of many of the
eink beneath one's feet and land you he a
tor'
"No, sire° lagoons are also so soft that one muse swim
across them and not trust to wading. A
"Thetas all. Good day. Glad to meet a heavy rain. will Make the most marvelous
man who does business in a business way: changes in the country. Small streams will
See you about some fly screens two months assume gigantic proportions itt one night,
later." te and by Morning you 'will find yourself ship-
-act Way She Would Manage. wrecked, as it were, on a small island, out
off from all surrounding lima by long
stretches of uncertain water, If the rains
Mrs. Da Culture--" Horton 1 Going to oontjnue for
severalaye or weeks, an 19
marry that young Mr. Hayseed I Ate you often the case in the rainy season, the great
crazy? He eats pie with a knife.' inlani lake will continue to rise and the
Mies De Culture—" I know it, ma, but islands in the Evorglades will grow pro.
love him."
portionately Small. Yon find your ialand
You'll die of disgust."
gradually melting away from under your
"No, I won't. ru never have pie.' feet, and you strike out for another and
larger one. The waters carry you along
A Gentle Hint through the overflowed swamp, making
"If you don't want me to know where swimming an eaey work. Game of all de.
scription are keeping you company, and
you've been, Henry, when you come home
this way," said his wife to her late and when you finally reach a larger and safer
island bears, deer, wild oats, panthers, alli-
somewhat demoralized husband, " you had
gators, rattlers, and moccasin snakes are al -
better run rip stairs when you are coming to
bed." ready there to give you e welcome.
But the general inundation has calmed the
"Why sbo,m, dear ?"
savage brutes, and there is no danger from
" Bemuse, by running up stairs you will
them if you give them plenty of room. The
oee your breath."—(Boston Courier.
rattler raises its head and sends out its alarm
at the approach of every creature, and the
A Hopeless Case. larger brutes grumble savagely at the hissing
One day a hatless and breathless individ- reptiles. The alligatdrs alone stein their ele
ual dashed headlong into M. Pasteur's labor- ment, and they improve their opportunity by
atom devouring a few of the more harmless ani
"Oh ?" he gasped, his eyes rolling with mals.
terror. " l've been bitten! I can feel my- They will not, however, attack a man un -
self going mad I" . less he first begins the battle, and then they
The professor examined the wound. show &savage front. There is noesoapefrom
"Surely, this is not the bite of an ani- such prisons until the waters subside, and
mal?" even then it requires many days for the most
"No," gasped the victim ; "I've been experienced woodsman to find his way back
bitten by my minim. n-)sw 1" to civilization. Streams have to be forded
M. Pasteur gazed at him sadly. "There's that are up to the neck and trails followed
no hope for you, my friend. Science has that have been nearly obliterated by the
no remedy for such a case." water. If one does not starve to death in
such a journey he is likely to be prostrated
He Had a Room on Hand. many days afterward with fever and exhaus-
He had come to Washington to remain don'
At oertain seasons of the year, however,
until after the inauguration, and had been portions of the Evergladea can be explored
all over to find a room that wouldn't coat with comparative safety. During the Sum -
more than a house and lot were worth. mer the ground is often dry and hard for 10
Meeting a friend, he asked: miles frokn the timbered land; and abundant
"Do you know of a room I can get on any- game roams at large over it Many of the
thing like a reasonable figure ?"
"Yeo,' said said a friend; "I have one on islands then are simply high elevations in
mY the surrounding country, and half -beaten
ode that you can have cheap."
trails of Indians lead to them. For on these
' Thanks, awfully, old fellow, Where ia fertile islands the reinnant of the Seminole
?" "On thy hands, I tell you. See? Indians have pitched 'their tents and hut
Itrhoum."—[Washington Post. 'eillages. There are about A10 of them,
, most of which live in the Big Cypress
Senator Jonee, in The North American Swamp, where there are plenty of inland
eview, diecusses the qnestion, "Was Clay: islands. The cowboys occasionally trade
o's murder apolitical crime ?" killing wIth them; but no white man has ever yet
Mall because of politics is a political crime, penetrated to their main village, supposed,
ere is no reason why killing a man for his to be somewhere in the centre of the lades.
oney should not be called a financial crime The trail leading to it is so obscure and so
•
kap
Queer Tasted Magee,
"Well, did you get my lettere, Jeannie
asked jock Tamson of his buxom sweetheart,
to whom he had retuned after six a rcoathra
"24e13Ayle? an' yer klame too, Jholr," Jen.
nie4OehlY,ItYie crosses," laughed Xook. "They
1 ablVtv vhrgeael, ruis‘, textAellnneenaar.gupturnedjleyn liIakeeedebaaaetwl ilfreetastevhcaeteeeydbPih6o when as ert 70t filgayt hae 8. a'pc'ellanseeolgo: Wt ea rl e
' a body's whisker," she added, meditat-
ively. "I declare I wid niver akent ye had
put two wee spurtle-like things into my
Then there wis a wee bit dirl geed a' thro'
ban's, and then garaid ix:ea steek my e'en.
another dirl, an' then smack cam anither
ane, an', I declare, I got a' the twenty ye
down to the telegraph office, an' tell% the
clerk what I was expeoting the beat waY I
ceovil. He took me ahint tbe counter and
queer hoo the telegraph takes awe' the effeek
could. He looked puzzled kin' at first, but
ma, an' then smack cam the first kiss, then
sent in less than a twinkling. But it's .
after he understood the thing he was real
"Of course ; what for no ? Sae I geed
rant,"and he bestowed a hearty amok on
"Weel, I'm no sae sure, though they've
h," J .
"By telegraph 1" echoed jock, in an
amazed way.
Jeannie. "Ye see, 1
never kent what the creases at the fit oarer
letters were for till se thief speired Jess
Meyers, an' she tell't me they were a,
receipt for twenty kisses ye had sent to me
by telegraph, 'an' that they wid be lyin'
no," said Joolc, as he
strode off in.:march of thebeardless telegraph
clerk. .
When that worthy appeared the next
day with a Fatah on his left eye and his
arm in a sling heethought it necessary to ex-
plain to his friends that he had met with a
severe accident in consequence of the zealous ,
discharge of his official duties.
Snot an Ordinary Hoof.
Counselor Harrington was examining a
witness in a White Plains court recently.
The,querstion was about the size of certain
hoof prints by a horse in sandy oil. "How
large were the prints?' asked the learned
counsel. Were they as large as my hand?'
holding up his hand for the witness to see.
"Oh, no," ineid the witness, honestly ; "15
was j ust an ordinary_hoof." Then tite.ex.
s.tnination was suspended while everybody
laughed.
rut
He seems demented, and utters unintel-my daughters, the loss of our honour, the
ligible iwords. Be is extremely pale; and t arreet ot my husband, the approaching arrest it
his eyes are haggard. It was James.She 1; of my .1,1,4so.., James's sickness. It is too SA
could' hardly recognize him. much, my Ged, h MOI Ailuch chastieement,
hig froM? - and that • " broken
Where is he`going ? Where was he corn -1 am not so guilty. My heart alone sinned,
behold,R
,
She wante to 'step and Volition him, but : crushed, withhold thy hand, my God, with. to
long before she had reads up her mind hold 'thy band." ' a
James had disappeared. . • But the poor woman had not yet drunk th
She premeds to the, ruined home She the dregs of her grief. About eleven o'cloek m
. An Irishman, re,erring to a lately dee
ed • friend, said : "If he'd lived till to-
morrow, h'd be dead three weeks."