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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1886-8-6, Page 7AUG. 6, 1880, Moe. "He lives l" ho exolaiined, and there wa a keymote of relief in his voice. Already the thought of murder had bo. gun to lie heavily on his hitherto unepot. ted eoul, "Yes, and you meet bring a dector, quick," Mm. Griffin said, imploringly. Ho glanced back up the wide steir. way iuto the hall, It WAS already filled with a volume of thick smoke that was pouring out from the doorway of the room he had juribquithed, "Look I" he said. Her glance followed his. "Illy. God 1 have you fired. the house ?" she cried, in a terrified tone. "No ; but it was fired by the hand of a deformed maniac hi that room you quitted," he answered. "And she 9" cried Mrs. Griffin. "Has escaped I" ho answered. "Ole I always thought it would come to this!" cried the hoeeekeeper, ing her plump hands. "I thought she would murder us all in our beds or sot ere to the house; and he has done it, just as I thought she would. And where mos is sho, Mz. Rodney— eel in that room, surely 2" "No ; she ran awe- .fter she bad half strangled me I" he' replied, with a o lei ae Leo remembrance of the un. c. ereature. eely ,e.i thou she has escaped I Oh, v»u, will elr. Delaney say ? 1 must go Lind her I She must not leave the hienes I" cried Mrs. Griffin, breaking iron, bhu and continuing her flight up the stairs. Ho followed and overtook her. 1, Liman, are you mad?" he cried Of course oho must leave t house. Every ono must leave it. will be burned to the ground present] And hark you, if my erring child is he —if she perishes in this holocaust dame—hor blood will bo upon yo head 2" "Oli, Mr. Rodney, she is oot here 1 Mrs. Griffin answered so earnestly th he could not but believe her. "She wa here a little while, but sho went awe left her out of the kitehen door my solf. I saw her go away." "Then, where can she have gone he cried distractedly. "I do not know ; but I must find the poor cietzy soul I" she cried, ago breaking from him and fearlessly rush ing into tho smokeefilled hall. Mr. Rodney ran down the steps, flung wide the front door, and sent his voice Tinging out into the snowy night : "Fire ! lire I fire I" A distant shout answered /aim from some belated wayfarer whose ear had been caught by tho ominous words. He waited for no more, but, leaving the door ajar, ran back into hall andleaelb down by tho side of the man whom, in his murderous wrath, ho had tried to murder just now. Mr. Delaney lay quite still and motionless in the spot where he had fallen, save that Mrs. Griffin had turned him over upon his back, giving him better facilities for breathing. Tho long friugo of the lashes lay, dark and stakes, against his cheeks, but his chest heaved faintly, showing that life was not quito extinct. Strange to say, M. Rodney was overjoyed to find that ho lived. "I am glad I did not kill him," ho muttered. "For deadly as I have been wronged, it was terrible to feel myself a murderer I" He examined the wound, and found that his bullet had entered Mr. De- laney's shoulder near the breast, but not necessarily in a vital part. With care he might, perhaps, recover, "But what shall I do with him now 2" be thought, in perplexity, hearing a babel of voices outside, "He eannot remain here, and it would bo too dangerous to remove him far." }Io decided rapidly that he could dot do less than to remove him to the cottage. By some strange revulsion of feeling, he was now most anxious to save the life of the man whom but a little while ago ho had been tempted to kill. A score of men came hurrying over the threshold of the open door just then. By the help of some of these the wounded man was removed to Mr. Rodney's house, a pbysician was hastily summoned, and the men returned to the scone of the fire. The only firo- engine the small town afforded was quioldy upon the spot, and every effort was made to save the burning house. But all in vain. The devouring ole. ment bad obtained too deadly a head- way. It was impossible to beat back the swiftly encroaching flames. They leaped into the air like hydra-headed serpents, coiling and twisting in mad delight over their doomed prey; they lighted the darkness of the snowy night Into fierce and laid grandeur; they licked up at a breath the beautiful articles of virtu that generations of dead.ancl.gone Delaneys had gathered in their ancestral borne at the cost of many thousands of dollars. They spared naught that came in their way, and when the gray down looked with dim eyes at the scene of desolation, nothing remained of Delaney House but a beige black pile of smoking ruins. to ho It yi 00 of 00 at y. t in CHAPTER LIV. Ib was a strange mockery of fate that had thrown Oran Delaney, wounded and holplese, beneath the roof of the man whom he had injured, and who had iujured him near unto death. Yet so it was; and he was likely to remain there several weeks, for the play. &clan 3,110 VMS stitarnohod to attend him, declared that the wound was a serious, if not fatal one, and that it would be some time before he meld bo moved with safety. Me. Rodney who bad been temporarily maddened by excitement last night had demo to his souses now. Ho reside no THE BRUSSELS POST attempt to fly from the cousequences of C er TRAYED FRO[11 TEE PREM. (1111E WILSON FOLINDAY, hie assault upon Oran Delaney, He wont and delivered himself up to the athorities, aethorities, accusing himself of the crime. k loos et tei o undsligled,lot G,°end., Oroy 00 00 ,,bet Al ay 1st, a rod and white heifer,0 70000 old, one 4 yearling salvos, 2 of them aro hollers, ono roan and the Othur a black, all the LW° steers are rod owl rtvl aud white re. sprat/1,0/y, Any luformAtIon emotes to their recover will b 7 AT GREATLY They laughed ab him ab first—it Waft • "VV. 01 so strango for a man to accuse himself of orimo without even a witness bo tes- tify against hirri—but he insisted bhab his statement was true ; so theyput him under bonds to appear when Mr..Dolaney was woll enough bo come into court, and released In a daor t y two, When he was well enough to be Been, he told Oran Delaney what he had done. "So that, whether you live or die, your wrong will be avenged," ho said, grimly. "I do not wish it so," said Oran Delaney, gravely. "In any case, I shall not appear against you. You only did what I, in your place, would have done. No ono can blame you." Mr. Rodney said to himself that if the man's sense of honor was so lively, ho should not have acted as bo did with regard to Aline. He said nothing, how- ever—only turned Upon his pool and lea the room. His heart was on fire with anxiety, for ho had hoard no word of Aline since that snowy eve when, finding that her secret was discovered, she had fled from liar home, Neither had any trace boon found of the escaped lunatic who had fired Delaney House, Mrs. Griffin had been eo suffocated bytho smoke and flame of the hall that she had been unable to pro- secute her search far. She had been forced to retreat before she had pene- trated all the rooms. It was the same way with the men who had gone to the reectie. The smoke and flame had beaten them quickly .aele. So it was not certainly known et whether the dreadful creature bad .c lion a victiin ,to the fury of the fire hor own hand had kindled, or if she had wandered out into the stormy night and perished in some of the huge drifts of snow that the wild wind had blown together in out.of.the- way places. But the storm was over now, and the deep snow was melting away. It was three days since Delaney House had been burned. The hidden secret for whose keeping poor Aline Rodney had paid so dire a penalty, belonged to the world now. Oran Delaney, in theeeroubles that had crowded thickly taped him, had thrown pride to the winds and revealed all. Lot us listen to him as he tells his own story to Mr. Rodney. "I will tell you my story briefly now," ho said, "ancl then you will understand why I have led such a strange, retired life. And," he added, with a dark -red flush creeping over his handsome face, "you will know, too, that I have never harmed your beautiful young daughter as you think. She is as innocent and pure as she is fair." Somehow the words carried convic- tion to Mr. Roduey's heart. Ho waited eagerly fax the story Mr. Delaney had promised to tell him. His first words filled him with horror and amazement. "That poor, deformed maniac whom you saw in that upper room, who set fire to Delaney House, was my wedded wife," he said, with a shudder ho could not repress. "Great Heavens, your wife! How. could you wed that creature 2" M. Rodney cried out, startled. "How, indeed 1" echoed Mr. DolanoSe with a groan. "But that is what I am about to tell you. I was made the innocentivictina of a terrible fraud." M. Rodney began to feel strangely interested in this man whom his aveng. ing bullet had laid low upou o bod of pain. He waited eagerly for further disclosures. "Who could have perpetrated ree#V monstrous fraud!" he excla#4, CHAPTER If, Ice41: of bitter pain ethee) eicat Delemeeei handsome face at 'et., wordl from -fr. Roduoy's li,ps. "Who could have been so cruel, ea wioked 2" repeated the lawyer. And then Mr. Delaney answered. "One to whom I owed a debt of grati- tude, and who caused me to pay the heaviest price man ever paid for o like debt." "I do not understand you," said Mr. Rodney. "I did not suppose you would. My reference was too obscure. I will make my moaning more clear," said Mr. Delaney. "When I first wont ou any travels abroad, I met in France a native of that agreeable country, by name Monsieur Salmon. Our first meeting was on an occasion when be saved my life, in whet manner I will not now re. late, as my strength would not hold out for the recital. But we became friends from that hour, and in course of time fellow -travellers. I found my new friend ono of the best -read and most agreeable men I had ever met. He was clever, full of bon camaraderie—in short, alman of the world, full of wit and bet esprit. He was midcliceaged and good-looking and appeared to have the means of living well, and even extravagantly, at his command. He told me that hailed no family ties with the exception of ouo daughter, a young and lovely mestere then being educated in the retirement of o colivent ochool. Of hiseclaughter, his Were Julie,: as ho lovingly called her, he never wearied of talking and expatiating on her manifold perfections. Once he showed me a small portrait of her. It represented the loveliest brunetteI over beheld, I fell in love with hot. and hogged to be preeeeted, bub he laugh. ingly refusal, telling me that he did not intend to 110.V0 his plans for sherd Julio spoiled in that way. After awhile he told me more. eerionsly that in France the parents seldom permitted danglators CPO BE CONTINUED Oaf W.11, 1$141.1.4.1t1LigLL, anuiestolvn X', O. Reduced Prices I "RIMIE1,8 LIME WORIC9 STILL A ZEA D. viz.:—Laaul Rollers, Plows Har - We have on hand the following, 1 Ito subsorthern tette this opportunity Of re- turning thanks to the inhabitants of Itrussels and Vicinity fur past patronage, Nutt hog to state that havingwad,. several imprm ovoento in their kiln and mode of bond fig,they are now 10 )1 boLterposition than over before to supply the Tuba° with Virat•Clitse Lime. This bolog the twelfth season of our busi- ness death:gain lirussolsatu .1 harthseiven un - (00110 00 satisfaction PO fartt , the publio ou re- ly 01 receiving good treattson L and c arst.elissu article front us. First.Clotsi lino al 15 cents at the kiln, Wo also burn a No. 1 litnu !,r plastering 01the servo price. aeniembsr tho 'toot —BruW ssels Ittructworks 42 • TOWN ALLAN LINE. ROYAL MAIL STEAMSHIPS. 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Our Regulator is nearly double the length of othera, render- ing aoourato regale tiru»1. very simple 111 ter, To replace a broken Main Spring 'the Barrel can bo removed without removing tho Balance or interfering whit the regulEt- tion. Our Hair Spring Stud is so formed that two or more (mils of Spring cannot catch in the Regulator Pins and canoe the Watch to either atop or gain time at 1212 unusual rata. The Malmo 8011)00 under the round, or edge, the strongest part of the case. not as in all °there, in the centre and under the weakest part, triltee are improvoiffento that Mt not be 0101111110 hy any other inanattettirrrS. Tiler° are other advantages which the watchmaker can readily explain, o0 caw seen, en mast agree with 05 111 saying that we have the strongest and best watch in the world 001" In buying end carrying a ColnnEbns Watch you mill Save tho price of an ordi- nary watch in a few years in repairs alone to say nothing of the inconvenience and de- lay of repoirS. 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