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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1889-07-17, Page 7The Huron News Record 4.6.0 a Yescr-4}-26 in Advknea. 1ha man dues nut: du juafiia to his badiuesr Wln> rptet.ds Leas in advertitlenjQ th{rn he gees in rent. -A• '1'. S'r$WAHT, the uniffiunaire.11erchurtt of New fork. 'Wednesday. July 17tH, IIS89 TRUST IN GOD. 3Iy God, I would out lose my trust in Thee However sad or dark uty lot may be ; But like a child weaned from its mother's breast Would still iu all Thy loving kindness rest. Though o'er oto roll the all -devout ing flood, And sweep away each fount of earthly good, • Thyself the best of all doth still remain Unmoved, the life of joy, the death of pain. My God, how sweet to feet Thy loving hand Press gently mine while all alone I stand ; To feel upon toy face tity frugraut-breath , Thy kiss, when all around is dark as deaths 'Tis heaven itself, my God, Thy love to know ; And t!ti4 e'er dawns laid scents of earth- ly woe ; The sun could never rise with rosy light Were there no silent shades, no somber night. Olt. leave me not, my 0 i,1, oh, lease inc not Bumf of Thee -I cannot brook the thought. • All else may go, it such should be thy will ; I1•'Phuu remain I shall be happy still. Council Bluffs, July 3, 1889. FOR OUR STORY -READERS. THE L'\ )Y NV 111-1 'LHE IRON BRACELET. [All rights reserved.] 1 Hinton took the tickets as the train was running into the station ; iu hastily snatching up 'the change a half sovereign slipped from his fingers. It took us a couple of minutes to find it, and thou the train was lost. • "1hreo-quarters of au hour to Wait iu this hole," Hinton rroauod. "B, tier walk over the hills to Chor- ley. The train is due there at. '9: ; we can do it easily." We did it a little too easily ; the train was iu sight before we reached `.hurley. We leaped over the rail- ings and ran along the line; the train passed- up at the signal -box. and we over took it as it carne to stop. The last carriage was a third class ; a young lady, leaning through the open window of the end •compart- ment, looked toward us anxiously. "Will you be good enough to open the door," she asked, as ho drew near. We both stopped. Hinton brushed past me to render the ser- vice ; ho was younger than I, his gallantry was boundless, and the present appeal to it was made by one of singularly prepossessing appearance. It was not a common face that smiled down on us, show- ing a long row of dazzling teeth, a white, sensitive nose, au intelligent forehead, from which the air was drawn back assertively, and a pair of dark grey eyes, capable of any- thing nything ; not a common figure that stood revealed when the door was opened -tall, graceful,. simply ele- gant, and dressed with faultless taste, and the first question that mystified me wits how such a lady came to be traveling alone in a third-class car- riage and at this early hour. She stood at the open door in embarrassment that added a charm to her face. The platform did not extend to this carriage. The depth to the ground was considerable, the step awkward. She put out one neatly -booted foot, and drew it back hastily ; all the time she kept her hands 'closed in her muff, which rade the descent still more im- practicable. With a faint tinge of color in her pale cheek, and her fine eyes twinkling with vexation, she said - "May I ask you to help ole ; I have hurt my hands; they are use- less." In a moment we were on the footboard, one on each side, help- ing her to descend. As I glanced along her arm I caught the glimpse of a bluish -black metal inside her sealskin muff, she wore an iron bracelet I Was it an eccentricity of fashion, or a s,ir•gical appliance, I wondered. It was to Hiuton she smiled her sweetest acknowledgement; and when in parting she bowed to us both her eyes rested last and longest upon him. We stood by the open door watching her as she walked up on to the platform with an elastic, graceful step. `'Now then, sir, are you going on 7" called the guard with his whistle raised. At that moment the young lady turned round, and seeing us still standing by the door smiled be- witchingly, made a short step for- ward, turned again, and stopped, fixing her eyes on Hinton, who was mean itiyitlltiou that my Pry young friend was not slow to newt. "1. shall owe flu by the nest traits, Jock," staid ho, and started at once to rejoin the fascinating ltldy. The guard blew his whistle, and I stepped up Mechanically into the carriage, clueing the door, and never losing sight of my friend aud the lady with the iron bracelet. Ile had his hitt off, and was speak- ing to her as the train whisked the by. They wore both so pleasantly occupied with each other that thoy took no notice of inc. I continued to watch them until the train was out of the statiou, and then I sat down and glanced round to see if there were any other occupant of the compartment, Good God ! what was this at the other end, halt' ou the ground, ,half ou the seat? 1 started to sty feet and drew near the dark mass, with grow• ing terror as I perceived it was a police offiuer, who lay huddled to- gether with one shoulder on the seat, awl his head drooped down upon his breast. His helmet had dropped off; whorl I raised his face I found it perfectly colorless ; only the white of his eyes was visi- ble' through the half-closed There s- There was nu sign of any wound. nu blood upon the hands or face. A white handkerchief lay upon the seat.. It seemed to ine that the roan had suddenly fainted. I tried to „.raise hilt frost his supiue position: but•the dont( weight (he ryas -a large ' mar) was more than I could man- age. The carriage was open from end to cud -the compartments divided siulply by hues. There was ouly rue otter traveler in the car1•iage- a navy in tie next but one compart- ment, with his buck to me, and his Neild was 'oat of the window that .the sl'iort black 'pipe hes, ass smok• lug might mit be ol)jedeed to. I called him twice before • he heard me, and then taking his pipe out and holding it in the hollow of his hand, he looked at inc iu vacant surprise. "Come over and help ole," I called. "There's a policeman lying. here - dead." Ile spat out of the' window, rose, andleaning over the back of the compartment said : ttBeg your pardon, 'ulster, there's such a row, What did you say 7" I repeated what I had said. "A dead policeman !" he said, his little eyes rounding with wonder. "Yes, coots over and' help oto lift him up." "Nought me," he said, his face settling with an expression of dog- ged objection. •"I aiu't gain' to have no truck wi' no dead p'lice- luans, no fear. I'm a poor man, I am, and they'd have me off to the statiou'us soon's.look at me if I get utessin' myself up iu that job, no fear," and with that he turned his back on me, and sat down in an attitude of determi ned neutrality. I made what efforts I could to restore life to the dead man, to call the attention of the guard, to rouse up the navvy to a sense of human, ity, but all to no purpose. The train was express to London, and alone with my ghastly fellow passen- ger-I had to wait the end of the journey. As the train rau iuto the terminus I called loudly to a porter on the platfortn. It took the fellow a couple of minutea to overcome his astonishment. Then he did as I bade him, and ran off for assistance. Three minutes more passed before he retuned with a couple of police- men. lav that time the navvy with a pick nisi shovel under 'his arm and atag_oi'ed off, and escaped the perils t,..; ,attend the poor man in such circ•,,;Istances. While they were getting the dead man on. to !he platform the inspec- tor came ,,ver. After he had heard my brief I xplanations he took out his note book and pencil, saying he must have my name and address. I gave them, and added that I was to be found during the day at Guy's Hospital. "If you are a medical gentleman you may perhaps be able to tell the cause of death," he said. "Heart disease, I should say." "Where did you get in, sir 1" "Chorley." "Was there any one in the coin - pertinent besides yourself 1" "No." "Any one get out there 1" "A lady." • "Did she say anything about this ?" "No." He put the- pencil between his teeth reflectively. "Something peculiar in his ap- perance may have frightened her," I suggest. "The jerk of the train in starting may have caused the man to fall in the position I found him." He nodded in acquiescence. "There was no one else in the carriage?" he asked. "There was a navvy in the third compartment." I explained his behavior. The inspector smiled. "He was right. I should have had to detain him. That would scarlet to the roots of his hair. It ; have been the loss of a day's mages,, 06a1t6pe--4oa14,u't air with his !mina and atitrese, However, there's uo sign of violence. trod mewl likely' what you say about haast disease tel right. That will do, sir; thank :you- I,. expect you will be numtuoued to attend the iu- quest," The platfornt twits etnpty ; the ticket collector had conte up to satisfy his curiosity. As I was going away he said. "Your ticket, sir." I gave my ticket; ns I turned the corner by the barrier 1 saw him showing it to the inspector. 11. Aly fti•"nd Hinton, on. coining up to the lady with the iron bracelet, said : "I have veutured to follow you with the hope that 1 may continue my ussistuuce - your disabled hiu►d-" • "It is precisely for (hat reason that 1 found courage to -to look back," she said. "I felt sure that you would not misunderstand my motive," "Only tell me how I tuay serve you." "I cut ashamed to tell yoe that I have no ticket, tier] I caunot get out my purse," she explained, blushing and smiling at the same time; "and if 3,uu Would kindly get are souse sort of conveyance." HiLton paid her fare ; site said she erne front Overbury -gave up his own doused ticket, and opened the door of, to fly that stood outside the station. \Vheu she wits seated she drew herself to the side, holding her winsome heat] h little to one side, and mil ing an invitation. Hinton took the viteallt place by her side in a twinkling l\slices do you want to go 7" he •ask` t. a' Where aro you going ?" she 'laked in reply. " I have to go to the city." "Ther 1 want to go to the city, too." " City,,' staid I•Iiuton to the driver.. "I midst show you soutething„' she said, when the fly was rattling along. She raised her mull' from her knees, "Slip my 'null up my arts." " I shall not'"hnvt your hand 7" 110 asked with teudpr anxiety. She laughed aud shook her head. - Then very gently he moved her muff, and uncoveringher hands started back in horrified astonish- ment. The small white wrists were manacled together with ,it pair of iron handcuffs, " Good God, what does this mean 7" he exclaimed. "t Press the spring you see there aud 1 will tell you. • .He pressed the spring and the handcuffs dropped off in her lap. "Late last evening as I was hay- ing oay.ing a friend's house I was arrested. The last train to London was gone. I•was taken to au inu and confined there. This morning the policeman put those things on my wrists and led me to the railway station. In the carriage where you found me the police man fellasleep; when we stopped at that station I saw my chance to escape, and thanks to your help I am here." " " But why were you arrested?" asked Hiuton, in wonder. "Oh, I can not tell you that," she replied, covering her face with her hand's, "not yet -later on, if I may hope to •gain your friendship and confidence I may unburthen my heart of its secret. But look in my face" -she uncovered it, and laying her hand on IIinton's arta offered her charming face to his ex- amination. " Look, and tell me if you can find there the sign of a crime that should be punished with this shame." Hinton looked in that face and vowed he saw there nothing but suffering, love, and innocence III My gushing young friend had got as far as this in his narrative, when the hall porter ushered into our sanctum my old friend Ken- nett, a clear-headed far-sighted law- yer. " Now, you young fellows," he began, brusquely, "I've come to get you out of a mess if I can. I must know all about the affair in which you figured this morning. I'!1 hear your account first "-he addressed me. I told him my story as I have written it here. His first question surprised me " Can you bring any one forward to prove that you got into the train at Chorley, and not at Stevenham. After taxing our recollectionto the full, Hinton and I came to the conclusion that we could not find a witness to prove this. The station- master had closed the ticket box the moment after giving Hinton his change. The door leading on to the platform was locked when we reached it. At Chor`ley we had not gone through the booking office, The guard's van was in the front of the train : the porters wore on the platform ; and we were not seen till the moment when we were helping the lady to descend. Kennet look- ed grave. l "Nusy,•giye. we your Aeueu;ut, 11r. IllUIQU," Baia 110. , - Hinton Went over the foots again, stopping where ha hall stopped be- fore. "1)o you kuuw where the young lady is 14oly.I" aslietl l'ettuet, "Yes,. but I must decline to tell you until I know your reason for askiug. " Aly seater for asking 1 That's simple enaugh ; I wish to save you fellows from the consequences of a criminal prosecution." We gasped, '`What crime has been committed ?" "Murder?" " Murder I" we echoed aghast. The handkerchief that lay beside the dead man is found to have been saturated with chlulofortn." " Good heavens, Keunet, do you think we carry chloroform about with us ?" " You are mediad students." Hinton and I looked at each .other iu blain: bewilderment. " Of course you don't believe the young lady committed the murder," Kenuet said, addressing Hinton. " How on earth is such a thing possible, ! She had her wrists hand- cuffed and a inulf on• her hands." "So much the ;worse for. you. '1'he man is murdered, and the re- sponsibility lies upou you two young 'len fwd that young woman. Of e,urse I believe in your inno- cence; but that couuts fur nothing. Your fate will' be decided by a jury, and nut by rue. Now what is the evidence that will be laid before them 'V One of you is found in a third-class carriage with the dead mart, and gives up a first-class ticket .fiont Steven ham, the station at which Lit.• policuutau •pot into the ttaiu With his prisoner, 'Lie other young unitn guts the young woman. out of the train at Uhorley, pays her faro and Whisks her out of the way iu a fly. A haudlcersh•ip satur- ated with chlorofonl is found bo - side the dead than, and you two are medical students. Wh.,t is the pre- semptiou 7 'That you, seeing this attractive young women put in a third class carriage by a .policeman at Stevenham, get into the shale carriage with her. The young wo- man fascinates you and excites your sympathy. On uoaring Chorley the policeman dozes, and ono of you,' intending possibly only to prolong his sleep, applies chloroform. The effect is more serious than you ex- pected, aud while ono saves the young lady the other remains with the policeman to use such means of restoring him its your,practical ex- perience suggest. Well, upon my .honor, such evidence. as that is bound to convict. However, you had bitter let rte see this young woman at once. If we can prove her guilt your acquittal is assured, "Then you shall not see that lady," cried Hinton,in a fierce fury. "Good .God, sir, if you think I'in going to get ont of the difficulty by. shiftiug my responsibility on to the shoulder of a woman you are most damnably in error." "Then you may prepare for twenty years of penal servitude," said Kennet, brutally. IV. In all probability he should have got the punishment Kennett proposed, but for an event that never entered into our calculations. The young lady with the ironK bracelet had assured Hinton that in three days or four at the outside she could clear her character if only she was secured from reapprehenaiou in the interval. The infatuated young ratan sent her to his mother at St. Albins with a to'Jching letter that appealed to the old lady's sympathy -of course she regarded her son as faultless in all things. The young lady was treated as an honored guest. The first thing was to send telegrams to two friends in London. The old lady seems to have been almost as much enchanted as her son by the lady of the iron bracelet and at night time they departed With mutual testimony of affection- ate regard. When the servants came down in the morning they found the street door, . which had been carefully bolted over night, open and the plate gone. Later on they found that the lady with the"iron bracelet was missing also. In the evening a man was arrested on suspicion of having committed the burglary; at the examination I identified him as the navvy I had seen in the carriage on the morning of the murder. A phial of chloro- form was found in his pocket, and he was recognized by the police as one of a gang who in conjunction with a young female of fashionable' exterior and prepossessing appear- ance, had been concerned in a series of burglaries for which the "young female" had been at Stevenham. The lady with the iron bracelet is still at large, and I trust my friend Hinton may , never see her again, for nothing has cured him of his folly in regarding her as the hapless victim of a diabolical conspiracy. A BURN OR CUT will heal quickly and leave less sear it Victoria Car. bolic Salve is applied at once. 111A ERSDIRO' . Y �'4R etltilltt'j. G. H, COOK, Licentiate of Dental Surgery, Honor Gra nate of the Toronto School of Dentistry. Nitrous Oxide Gag ashainlOY tod ter the painless extraction teeth. .,. 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