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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1905-07-20, Page 7I The Yellow Holly 1 (0.1111111111121 "That she might ns well confess. I declared that I had evidence to prove Afiss Bull's guilt, and that she would be arrested when she calve buck. I dee elate, Mr. Vane, I thought the girl would strike me. She was like a wild - •cat " "I wish she had," growled George. "She said it I arrested Miss Bull she would kill me. I said, 'As you killed your aunt,' She up and said: 'Yes, I did kill her, Miss Bull is innocent, and , you know she is.' Of course, when she Admitted the fact, I at once began to suspect Miss Bull." "Whydid you do that?" lAt ! "Because if Margery had been guilty she would not have owned up. But if Miss Bull was guilty, Margery would • certainly take the guilt on herself. While Margery was threatening me .and taking the guilt on herself, Miss Bull came in. That stupid girl ruu to her and fell at her feet, crying that I . knew all, but that she would die for her dear Miss Bull." "And what did the woman say?" "She asked me if I knew. I said I slid. She demanded how I found out. I told her that that was my business.. She began to smell a rat and suspected that I was bluffing. She would have held her tongue, but Margery was in such terror for her friend that sbe came out with the whole story." terhe girl is half witted. All this may not be true." "Oh, yes, it is. When Miss Bull saw that the game was up she sat down ..and admitted that she had killed Mrs. Jersey. She also said that she was glad the truth had come to light." "She was raving," said George in- credulously. "No; she wasn't. She told me the whole story in the calmest manner, just as though she were asking me to .have a cup of ten. Then she asked me to send for you and sat down to play ;patience. She is desperately anxious to see you." George shuddered and followed Bawdsey down the stairs. It seemed terrible to him that such a fragile little 'creature as Miss Bull should be sub- jected to this disgrace. He did not condone her crime. She had acted wrongly and must take the conse- quences. But he could not forget that she was Dorothy's aunt, and he wished lie could see some way of rescuing her from this dreadful position. 'Miss Bull was, as Bawdsey had stat- ed, playing patience. Seated at the very table where her victim had sat, she dealt 'the cards and seemed quite ' interested in the game. Margery was seated in a chair near at hand, looking with tearful eyes into the face of her friend. Beyond the fact that Miss Buil was whiter than usual she showed no resigns of emotion. "You have come, George," she said, .addressing him by his name. "I am glad to see you. Mr. Bawdsey, you may go." Bawdsey shrugged his shoulders and, with a glance at George, went out. .After all, he had heard the story be- fore and did not particularly care to hear it again. Besides, Bawdsey was a .kindly man, and he felt sorry that he had proceeded to such extremities. Miss Bull shuffled her pack of cards .and laid them away in a box. "I shall play that game no more. I have been playing patience all my life, but the end has come, and I am glad it has ‘come. I suppose you were a' tonished when Mr. Bawdsey told you?" said :she, looking with piercing eyes at Brendon. "I was. I never thought that you— ;you"— "That I would kill Mrs. Jersey," fin- ished the woman quletly. "Why not? She was a bad, wicked creature, and caused the death of your father. She boasted of it." "Where? When?" asked the aston- ished young matt. "in this very room,. in my presence. But to make you understand I had better tell you all." ,, • •• By FERGUS HUME, • Author of "The Mystery of a Hansom Cab." Etc, it II Cpperiitht, 1805, by G. W. Dillingham Company . When the Bowels are Constipated -'rhe whole digestive system is ' deranged and the blood poisoned. 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Dr. Ci.u.'a Backache Plaster conquers peep gad cokes, lumbago and rheumetiem. "One moment, Miss Bull. When you told the fortunes on that night did you intend to kill Mrs. Jersey?" "No. The death curd did turn up. That was a strange coincidence, George. When I came down the stairs I had no more idea than you of killing the wretched woman." "What mode you do it?" "I am telling you," replied Bliss Bull, folding her hands on her lap. "Wait and hear. Mrs. Jersey was very rude to me on that night. I intended to remonstrate with her. She added in- sult to injury by locking Margery in herbedroom, so us to keep hes' from me. I heard her scolding Margery in the passage, and • when all was quiet and Mrs. Jersey had gone down the stairs I weut up to Margery's room and unlocked the door. Mrs. Jersey had struck the poor child, and she was sobbing on her bed. I then determined to go down foe the second time and see Mrs. Jersey." "For the second time? Were you down before?" "I was," replied Miss Bull calmly. "I wondered who Mrs. Jersey had coming to see her, particularly after she had lost her courage when she saw a yellow holly in your coat." -You noticed that?" "Yes, and I noticed the holly also. I wondered why you wore it. The sight of it put into my mind that fatal night when .he"—Miss Bull brushed aside her thoughts—"but. no matter. I thought I would sec if Mrs. Jersey was seeing any one, and also I wished to talk about the yellow holly." "But why should you trouble about seeing any one?" Miss Bull looked down and then looked up abruptly. "Mrs. Jersey would have sent me back to the asy- lum if she could, and I was always afraid lest she should see some one secretly about the matter. I crept down the stairs, leaving Margery in my room playing at patience. Mrs. Jer- sey's door was closed. I heard the murmur of voices, and I put my ear to the keyhole. I heard that dancer—aft- erward I learned that it was the dan- cer—I heard her accuse Mrs. Jersey of having killed Percy Vane." "On what grounds did Lola base that accusation?" "She said her mother told her." "And what did Mrs. Jersey say?" asked George. "She denied it and made some sort of excuse. I remained to hear no more. I knew then that Mrs. Jersey had killed my Percy." "But she did not. It was an acci- dent." "I know. She explained. But she was the cause. I was right to kill her. But for her Percy would have been alive, I would have been his wife, and you, George, would have been my step. son" "What did you do next?" "I went up to my room and resumed my game of patience. I intended to THE W.NGIIAM TIMES JULY 20, 1905 turned away. I softly took this riaggex and"— Miss Bull robe. "George, you now know all. Gel No, do not shake bands. I have avenged your father, and I ex' pest Levin be hanged." Margery burst out into renewed weeping and Miss Bull soothed her, talking to George the while. "'fell my sister," she said, "that the name of Iloward wilt not be Mentioned. I will die under my false name. No disgrace wilt be brought on her. As to Dorothy" —here :Hiss Bull's eyes grew tender— "e0 disgrace will befall her. Murry iter, George; love her, make her a good husband and take this kiss to bet from a sorely tried woman." Before the astonished (George knew what she was about he felt a pair of cold lips pressed to bis own. The next moment she bad pushed bitn out of the room and had locked the door. That was the last George saw of bet. Whether Margery bad agreed to die with her or whether Miss Bull, know - lug what a miserable lite the girl would lead after her death, compelled her to take the poison will never be known, but when the door was burst open the two women were found on the floor • In one 'another's arms. On the table was au empty glass, and It was ascertained that MiesBull and Margery had taken prussic acid. Bawdsey entered the room an hour after the death, alarmed by the si- lence. IIe found that his prey had es- caped. :Mss Bull was buried under her false name, and Margery was bur- ied with her. Nothing of Miss Bull's sad past or,of her killing of Mrs. Jer- sey came to light, Six mouths later George Vane was seated in the library of the mansion in St. Giles square. It was after din- ner, and Lord Derrington occupied his usual chair. The old man looked brighter and happit r than he had look- ed for many years. Daily 'George grew a greater favorite with him, and ou the morrow George was to be married. Lord Derriugton had insisted that as it was his last night as u bachelor George should dine alone witheem uud. would not admit even Walter. "It's the last time I'll have you all to my- self, George," said the old man pit• eously. "After tomorrow Dorothy will possess you." "Not at all," replied George, "you will have us both. We will come back from the honeymoon in a month, and then we will live here. .A. lady in the house will make a lot of difference. You won't know this place when Doe, othy is flitting about" "Don't! Her mother is the kind of woman who flits." "Oh, I don't think w'e'll be troubled much with Mrs. Ward. Since the shock inflicted by her sister's sad death she has become religious." "Bah! That's only a phrase. Poor Miss Bull!" said Derrington. "I like to think of her under that name. She had a sad life. I don't wonder she killed herself. Do you think she was mad, George?" "No. But I think the memory of her wrongs, which were all caused by Mrs. Jersey, was too much for her. She was mad for the moment, but she told me the terrible story in the calmest man- ner." "And who came in at the front door that night?" asked Derrington. "No one. After the murder Miss Bull opened it to fly—panic struck, I expect—but Margery came downstairs and stopped her. Miss Bull closed the door and remained to face the worst." "Well, she is dead and buried, and the scandal is laid at rest, unless that Bawdsey revives it" "Ori, you can trust Bawdsey," said George, smiling. "He and Lola are quite happy, and she has almost for- gotten me. I got a letter from Bawd- sey the other day. He is acting as bis wife's agent, and they are making a lot of money." "All the better. He won't talk about that business. By the way, I forgot to ask you about Ireland's money?" "The money be left to me? I have settled that on Dorothy. How sudden. 1y he died," said George reflectively; Seated at the vary table where her vlettm had sat. have a talk with Mrs. jersey the next morning, but when I found that she bad struck Margery I came down at once"— "That was after 11?" "About a quarter past. Mrs. Jersey was in her room. We talked, and I told her what I had heard, She de- nied it. I pointed to the stiletto which was on the table as a proof that the girl had been here. Mrs. Jersey said that it was the same stiletto with which Percy had been killed, as Lola had received it from her smother. Thal put the thought into my head that God intended Mrs. Jersey should be slain with the same weapon with which my darling had been stabbed. "I accused bits, Jersey of having killed Percy. She gloried in the fact that it was through her he had died. She declared that if Ireland bad not held her hand she would have laid him dead at her feet. She exulted that the heeldent had fulfilled her intention and taunted me with the tact that I revel became his wife. I was very quiet, added Mies Bull, her eyes glittering, "but my blood Was boiling. Mrs, Jeri eey turned her back on, nae, with au la. solent Idugh, ttnd sat down. The stilet- to was On the table. tier Lead War DO YOU KNOW THAT BACKACHE IS THE FIRST SYMPTOM OF KIDNEY TROUBLE. "Just an hour after I left the house." "Well, flue thousand a year is not to be despised. Have you settled it all on Dorothy?" "Every penny. Don't you approve?" "Oh, yes, so long as Mrs. Ward doesn't get it." "You can depend upon that, sir, But Dorothy will have it—Dorothy, whom I shall see tomorrow • crowned with orange blossoms, and"-- Deeeington laughed, but not unkind- ly. "Well, well. Better orange blos- soins than yellow holly." George nodded. "I hope never to see yellow holly again," be said, and Der- rington agreed. So their conversation ended on the threshold of George's new lite with that last reference to the old. TAE END. THE GAME OF GOLF. A Pastime of Kings, With a Record of Over Four Hundred Years, A game with a history of more than 400 years must necessarily have some interesting records. Golf has been greatly liked by kings. In the time of James I. it was generally practiced by all classes. The unfortunate Charles I. was devoted to golf. While on a visit in Seotlgnd in 1641, as he was deeply engaged in a game news was brought him of the breaking out of a rebellion in Ireland, and the royal golfer threw down his club and retired in great agi- tation to Holyrood House. When be was imprisoned at Newcastle bis keeper kindly permitted him to take recreation on the golfing links with his train. It is raid that Mary, queen of Scots. was seen playing golf in the field beside Seaton a few days after the murder of her husband. In 1837 a magnificent gold medal was present- ed to St. Andrew's by William IV., to be played for annually. One of the earlier kings forbade the importation of golf balls from Holland because it took away "na small quantitie of gold and silver - out of the - kingdome of Scotland," and at one time "goife and futeball and other unprofitable games" were forbidden in England because archery, so necessary in the defense of the nation, was being neglected in their favor It is I and you cannot be too careful about it. A little back,. •le let run will finally cause : 3rious kidney trouble. Stop is in time. TAKE DOAN'S KIDNEY PILLS. They cure where all others fail. As a specific for Backaches and Kidney Troubles they have no equal. Here is what MR. GEO. H. SOMERVILLE, of Stewarton, N.B., writes: "I was so troubled with a sore back I could not geb out of bed in the mornin s for over a year. I got a box of Dean's Kidney Pills and before I hid them Balt taken I could see I was dialling some leenefb (rem them, and before 1 had takes them all my back was O.K. sxiti I )W1 nob bewt troubled since."' • • 0 COWARD ADAM. The Proneness' of Mau to Lay the Blame Upon Woman. "Never kiss and tell" is, I believe, an "unwritten law of chivalry." This law, so I understand, Coward Adam does sometimes manage to obey, albeit reluctantly. Because he would like to tell—he would very much like to tell - 11 -11 the story of the kiss did not in - Volvo himself in the telling! But at this juncture "the unwritten laws of chivalry" step In, end he is.saved. .And, "chivalry is the tree up which he climbs, chattering to himself the usual formu- la, "The woman whom thou gayest to be with me," etc. Alas, poor woman! She has heard him saying this ever since she in an unselfish desire to share her food with hien gave bin the for- bidden apple. No doubt she offered him its rosiest and ripest side! She al- ways does—at first. Not afterward! As soon as he turns traitor and runs up a tree she takes to pelting him, metaphorically speaking, with cocoa- nuts. Tbis Is quite natural on ger part. She had thought him a man—and when he suddenly changes into a monkey she doesn't understand it. To this cause may possibly be attributed some of the ructions which occasionally jar the harmonious estate of matrimony.— From Marie Corelli's "Free Opinions." LOVE OF NATURE. She More Alas Loses Out .1 Door Lite the More He Admirer. It, The more man has become engaged in the conflicts of eivllization, in Intel- leetual disappointment, the more be has felt the -uselessness of knowledge, the more he has turned to certain ex• presstons ot; art as an escape. Ile bus addressed 'poems to nature, bas paint- ed landscape Cuero and more, has shown in every way that such an es- cape was a dream. Art bas existed from the very beginning, even before the first man stuttered out his nam- ing of the animals and expressed their character by the sound of their name. The dances of savages, as we call them—that is to say, of people of earli- er forms of civilization—invented be- fore the arts of design, record in a po- etic way what they do and the sea- sons of such doing and even the ap- pearance of nature—the storm, the rain, the clouds blowing across the sky, the lashing of the sea against the shore. In Fiji they have n dance where the women spread out their arms like the wave lines of the surf, and the children, springing up bellied them, represent the foam of the wave crests. Frorn these beginnings we know that tragedy r ad comedy, as we call them, have grown. Then, as all these disappear in fact, they are re- corded in the art of painting. And as man more and more leaves behind him a life of out of doors in so much does he desire to admire it,—McClure's Mag- azine. The Hattie of a Week. The battle of a week was the great conflict at Tours, in which Charles Martel overthrew the Saencens, A. D. 732. The members of the Saracen army are variously estimated at from 400,000 to 700,000, and the monkish historians say that 375,000 were killed on the field. It is suspected that these figures are a gross exaggeration, but it is certain that few battles of history have been either so bloody or so de- cisive. Elephants In Uganda. "Elephants in Uganda have a pecu- liar aspect that I have not noticed elsewhere," writes a traveler. "They cover their bodies, as a protection against files, with the bright red vol- canic dust contained in the soil. This gives them a remarkable appearance, as, instead of being a slaty gray, as in the Nile t slley, their color, when thus covered !th dust, resembles that of a chestnut 1 wee." An Idle Phrase. There is one sentence iu the English language that has an easy time, and there is no prospect of its ever being overworked. It is composed of these four words, "It was my fault." THE BUDDHIST HADES. Eight ""Easy stages" of the Mort Mv- ful Kinds of Torture. The place of torment to which all wicked Buddhists are to be assigned on the day of final reckoning is a ter- rible place of punishment. This Buddhistic hell is divided into eight "easy stages." In the first the poor victim is compelled to walk for un- told ages in his bare feet over hills 'tllfek1y set with redhot needles, points upward. In the second stage the skin is all carefully filed or rasped from the body and irritating mixtures ap- plied. In the third stage the nails, hair and eyes are plucked out and the denuded body sawed and planed into all sorts of fantastic shapes. The fourth stage is that of "sorrowful lam- entations." In the fifth the left side of the body and the denuded head are carefully roasted, Yenta, the Buddhis- tic Satan, superintending the work. In the sixth stuge the arms are torn from the body and thrown into an immense vat among the eyes, nails and hair pre- viously removed. Then in'plain hear- ing of the sore footed, blind, maimed, roasted and bleeding victim the whole horrid mass is pounded into a jelly. In the seventh stage, the other side of the ..victim and his feet are roasted brown, and then comes the eighth and last stage, in which the candidate is thrown into the bottomless pit of per- dition. Ills Conclusion. Iintcker—Jones bas -joined a debating club. Rocker—No? Whom did he mar- ry? He that despairs degrades the Petty. ►-Feltham, ..rte . e. re:pee-eel . WOMEN WRITERS. None Among Theist HUN Ever Attain- ed Real Greatness In Poetry. Though the quality and range of ger geuius were deep, generous and wide, Elizabeth Barrett Browning cannot be described, if language is to be used ac- curately, as occupying a place among the poets justly designated great. In no tongue hitherto has any female writer attained to that supreme posi- tion, and were this the appropriate mo- ment, which it is not, it would perhaps be possible to explain why no woman is likely ever to do so. Not a few fe- male writers are in effect in the front rank of novelists. But prose -romance is one thing and poetry quite another, and there is a chasm between them; nor does the circumstance of novels be- ing in this age more popular than po- etry affect in any degree the inherent and immutable difference. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was, "Aurora Leigh" notwithstanding, essentially and al- most exclusively a lyrical poet. It would be easy to add almost indefinite- ly to illustrations of her being one of those who "learn in suffering what they teach in song," not one of the greater poets who pass through that experience but end by getting beyond it.—Alfred Austin at Unveiling of a Bust of Mrre Browning. Rubinstein's Chanty. Rubinstein probably traveled more than any other virtuoso. In his time he made many fortunes and gave them away to the poor in Russia. During a famine which raged among the Rus- sian peasants he journeyed to Vienna, Moscow and St. Petersburg to play for charity. The price of seats rose to un- heard of figures, but every penny of the money went to the starving farm- ers. It is said that in the course of twenty-eight years the sum which he thus disposed of amounted to $230,000. Inadvertently Omitted. "Let me see." said the great man. "Did 1 nay anything about the crux et the -pesitioll:?'F• • "I don't see anything," said Oa sec- retary, glancing over his notes. "lien!" murmured the great man. "I meant to work that phrase oft some- how." Late strawberries for preserving and The French of It. sweet berries for table use at, A. W, Web-' titer's field beside the Catholic Church. "Why do you call it a French opera?" "'Silly not?" "Well, every one of them sang in Italian." 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Its nationhood is taking shape so rapidly that it is by no means unlikely a hun- dred years will see Canada exceed Eug- land itself as a power of world import- ance. Perhaps there is no great country extant, Argentina and Chili excepted, of which Americans have been so goner - ally ignorant. The great expanse that the States folks have so long looked upon as a frigid waste is in fact almost certain to house fifty millions of people iu com- fort before the night bells ring in the year 2000. Not only is London farther north than Winnipeg, but the beet para of all Europe, including France, Ger- many, all of the British Isles, and the bulk of Russia, are north of Ontario's southern lino. The 20,000 miles of rail- way in the Dominion to -day may ex- pand auother cipher in lees than fifty years." 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