The Exeter Advocate, 1889-7-18, Page 2THE 0\ LY GIR,L A.T OVERLOOK
BY FBANXLIN FIFE, IN N. Y. HERALD.
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The midnight incident seemed, to bave Baran hadretained it siege the previous
come to a conclusion. It wee a proper time afternoon, when he had pielted it up Leone
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for GenId to say good nig.= and go away. Mary Watrium'e desk, Its blade was now
He still stood on the oppoette Aide of the bele re& with blood* as Gerald ehat lied pocket -
open easb, around the edge of willed), appear- ea it.
ed a email set of finger tips, which pulled 4You cowardly murderer r
the screen a little closer showing that the "Murderer ? le'ona yet, Bet I mean to
girl was minded to elmehenelf in. But a be."
heed twice as big oppeeed hers, gently yet Itendli turned off by the croas path aed,
eteenglee and in donag so it touched her, Genie prowl on.
upon which see let go awl the window flew
epee. CHAPTER III,—A STROKE (M
'Oh, you musu't Eee me," Mary exclaim-
ed, as Gerald got a vanishing glimpap of the The firt mita to go to work at Overlook
white draped figure. Good Diget." in the morning was Jim, Wilson, because be
"Noe will be afraid if tete alone," Gerald had to rouse the fire ander a boiler early
protested ; "you can't go to ;deep, nervous enough to provide steam for a seore of reek
aa you must be. drills. The eight watchman awakened him
"1 eurely meet go to aleep tensing,' was as daybreak, &wording to eestonteAuld then
her rejoinder, with the first touch of coquetry got lett)a bunk as the other gdt out of
she had indulged in at Overlook, one.
"I won't; telk then; VII only keen guerd g4 Everything All right r' Jim asked.
out lame until daylight. Epti may returu." ice gem we, tee ether replied«.13t e
"Bet there's the watchmen. Ierle hie hairret seen your boiler einee afore micheiglete
duty."
t. I a d 14." Eph was dieturbire Ataxy Mite, and to I
hune 'round her cabin pretty much tbe last
That eilenced the mvtsible inmate of the heii ee the eight.
tablet. The moon shone into 'the ermare
opening, bet Mary was •enseeesed some.
where in tee detknees thae bordered the he
some ot light.
" Shoulet I apolegize?" Gerald At length
began again, "It te like thie, 11ss Warrim
er—I need to kuow how to behave politely
pectantly, ancl eoborly ehowea a keener in-
temet then Gerald Heath. The detective
fine examitted the body. The pocket's of
Revelles clothes amities:teal a wallet, with
ins money untoachede besides a gold watch,
;tee eoleleeey was AO the abject*" mid
0"Reagen to Breinetd. "The Motive is the
• lint thing to leek for in A mom et murder.'
Neat he found bloott on the wee:sweat, a
deal of it, but dried by the fire that had
burned the Almaden and, head, and in the
halted cloth were three entre under wield', be
exposed three stab wounde. Strokes. of A
knife had, It seeuied, killed the victim 'before sponse.
etoen was coming to Overioret mapercelv- ::13Welkee,Yenecitre'd ill:Ale, Gerald Heath
he was throat partially into tho furnace,
ed, ler the men were tete much mgromed in
what lay there on the ground, ghastly and feemtiel had steed eletieeleie andetlent twelve or fourteen miles of meow valley to
berrible, topay any attentionto the clouding Now be gave away 'teen impulse ea remark-
eley. Glean was eo fit for the Meet tool able as his premise composure had been
that uoloody gave a thought 'Whence it caw% togu1.r. it there had been stagnatiOn
in
To Gerald Heath the ping out of sunlight his mind it was now diSigacedbY tntbulenee•
and the settling down oe dinky ehadowe He grasped Mary'e hands in A fervid. grip,
Seenteel a mental experience of his own. He then dropped them, and faetel the others,
ateoel bewildered, tramdeed, vaguely console "I 414 not kill the Dalian," he gad, "114
ons of peril, and yet too zumb to speak or attached Me with my knite which he had
Mir. Detective Reagan, eteeiehtenteg up
fenee over the body, looked shezeingly at
Gerald enni then glanced around at the rest,
"le there anybody here who SAW TePic
RIVteillditiasvt oniegvhatarrehpelaedak. ed.
Jim went to his poet at the boiler, and at
an unaccustomed pace, trete the point where
he Gret saw wed howl steam hinting ep.
ward from the gaiety Tale* Oa (pittiog
the eight proviOus he bad banked the fire as
usuel aud this morning he should have
found is eo slowly that an hour of
to a lacly • bus for eix yea= Ve live4 eeeeeg, revemee,eg Ewa epee atetughta
would no more than etart the machinery at
seven o'cleek, Gong nearer he foiled that
open dempere and a fresti eepply of coal had
Get the tertian; resin.
What was that protrude4 hone the
oeeen deer and. so neerly filled tile apertere
that the ereught was aot impaired)
a. glance gave the susewer. It was the
lege and bale the body of a man, Warne head
and shoulders were thoroughly charred, ea
Jim. was herrided to eee when he pulled the
remains out upon the ground,
joie ma to toll the euperintendent, au
Within A few minutes A knot of excited Men
Surrounded the hady. The getheeing grew
itt numioera rapidly. By recem of the cloth,
lug the deed awl partially burned man was
ilidentified at once as Tenth Bevelli. That
he
bad been merdered was equelly easy'
coneltnion. The murderer had apparently
sought to emulate the corm* %Ili:tether he
bed found it phydeelly imposaible or had
been frightened away coula only be on.
teetered.
wildernessez—in railreed camps—from Cate
ada. to We've had no ladies In
these rough places, no womeo, except once
in while some mannieli watherivomen or
mok. That's what niakes you eo rare so
unexpeeted ; that is why it would be e!de-
light to be a. petrolmen Dakhla your gum -
tors ; that is whyd den't with to go Away."
"Ob. ohl I am intereating because 1 are
the ()ply specimen of my lex at Overlook.
Teat feet a doebtful comeliment; it is we
cornpliraeot at All, Good mitt,"
4' You enieconstrue me altogether. I mean
"I AM Sere you, do not mean," and AOW
the tenet was pleediugly setieeeh "to reresio
here At ray window after I regent you to go
away, am, Asi you have *aid, the orily
rl at Overlook,"
"If there were a theeneand girls at
0 i'erloak---"
"Not one of them, I trust, would proloeg
a dialogue with A young gentlemeu at night
threugh the open window of her bedroom."
Bait in reapeotful deference to Mereee
unanallabIe atatement of the rule of
propriety appliceble to the altuetiore and
alt loconeiderate petulance Miming die
-
mimed, Gerald let go of the eash with an
impulse that almost closed it. Thia time
two miniature Inkubi came OUC under the
ewinging frame. Would more than ouo band
hew) beaes naturelly ueed ? Wass It not an
awkward rnetised of (shutting window?,
And Mary Wertiner Was not a clumsy crea-
ture. But there were the betide and Gerald
'gasped them. They fluttered, for freedom
"Wile cao hew done it ? ' was the (petition
inked by Superldendent Brainerd, tee Auto-
crat of Oracle*,
There was s. minute of silence, with all
gulag intently at the body, as though hell
enemies it to eetnehow dieelose the truth.
The night wetchman was fitst to speak.
"BO might have dime It."
Titan he told of the moeomaniaces visit to
the telegraphic :shalom and of the Acute
stage which his malady tied remixed. No.
body else preseet had :seen hint elm the
breed 13 i„„„ previoue evening. SoperintendantBranierd
like Wide held captive in - s'ete ordered it nevelt of the lodgioge. Tee
by completely caging finger* Then minutea were euffiolent for A round of the
be reicoverea thera, but for an instant different quarter* Eph w as in zone of them.
kept them prisoners by en& a t
61E- I' The searchers rotated. to the lame, and
wnets long enough to impetnowslykleethem. with them came Genee,eleatee,
Another second and they were gone, the
"I met Eph yonder whore the paths crone
window was Mond and the offender was
alone. not * handred.pwas from here, a little past
lie walked alowly away, accusing himself mIdnightin a6thla slid. "Re ing tendb17
i feeler and ungentiemaislinese, and he felt excited. jeTgrhaapchwarrizeirftentreehleaghekodEvitrtdeedunt;
otter upon getting out of the clear, search- '"'"
his delutionetbat his whole life was condens-
ing moonshine Into the dim, obscurangehade ed into A brief space, had driven him to a
id melt and trees, amongt 'which the path frenzy. Be apoke of walhing to Dimmers -
wound crookedly. There rapid footetep3
vine, °but I tried to quiits hins, and he
startled him, as though he were it skulkine dieeppeeeede,
evildoer, and the mitt approach of it man DimmeravilIe was a town about ten miles
along an intersecting pathway made him distant, in a direction opposite to that from
feel like taking to cowardly flight. Ent he which the railroad had worked its way
recognized the monomaniac EA who was in through the mountain% No wire connected
a breathless tremor, it with Overlook, and there was no public
"Mr. Heath, could a man walk to D:m- road for the nearest third of the way, al.
mersville before the telegraph station there though a feint trail showed the conne that
opens in the monolog" Eph asked, with a few persona had taken on foot or horse-
serrtal estate et breath, etd a reelirg
Monement of physical enables* back.
"Very likely Eph has gone toward Dim -
"You go to bed, Eph," was the reply, meraville " Brainerd argued, "and we must
ineant to be soothing 4 and I'll see that your try to catch him." .
telegram goes from here the earliest thing .
Before the order could be specifically given
in the morning. That Won't he more than
it horee and rider arose over the edge of the
eh or seven hours from now." level ground and came into the midst of the
eSix or seven hours," the poor fellow aesemblage. The roan in the saddle had a
eeploringly moaned; "I'll be a good many professional swot, imparted. chiefly by his
years older by that time. On, its awful to smoothly shaven face. In this era of rens-
have your life go whizebsg away like mine Man a bairleee visage is apt to be aseign-
-dote " and he clutched at Gerald Ivith hts ed to a clergyman, who shaves thus from a
fidgety hands, with a vague idea of slowing motive of propriety, an actor who does it
himself by holding to anormel human being. from necessity, or :somebody who aims at
Then be darted away, swaying from aide f ecial distinction without the features *mit-
t° eide with faintness, and dieappeared in able to that purpose. A countenance of
the foliage which lined the path he was which it can only be said that it has one
followeag. nose, one month and two eyes, all placed in
Gerald watched lira out of sight, and was inexpressive nonentity, and which is domi-
About to resume his own different way when
natedutterly by hair on and around it, may
the voice of Tonio Ravelli was heard. with be less lost to individuality if entirely
iteItalian extra "a" to the short words and
shaven. Of such seemed the visage of the
a heavy emphasis on the final syllable of the
dark man who calmly rode into the excite -
lone ones. merit at Overlook.
"Misr air Heath," he said, "1 raW-a. your
"Which way have you come ?" Brainerd
allectionote pareting wees Mees Warriner." _ea,
Gerald. had just then tbe mind of a cul- "`—
. "From D:mmerayille " was the reply.
"Did you see anybody on tbe way ?"
let, and he began to explain apologetically:
--"Ie was cowardly in me to insult a de- "I started very. early. Folks were not
fenceless girl. She didn't invite it. rra out of their beds ua the houses—as long as
ashamed of mYnelf." th.sre were any housee—and that 'is only for
motive of the murdeler was revenge. THAT DEATH -DEALING WAVE.
name was Gerald Heath,"
Alt but the name fleshed off on tbe wire. 10 nethettee Ste Appeuruce, and the Doty
Mary Weeemer power to stir the key Gast °tenant That nrecedel It.
stopped. et that. She did not faint. ette
04 net melte any outcry. For a Moment
she looked as though the soul had gone out
of her body, leaving a. corpse Meting -.them
grievous wen of wind came throegle the
trees, and A streak of lights:Ong eteeegged
410.nottenbel'4seater OdRecisas:aynt, ping over At 1 toVeek in the at ternoom and
thee the daeo, gave away At 3 e'coiele, /Analog
eusteined this wearing away pro:terse for
two hours, The Meeks in dohnetown Phew'
that the water reaCeled there at 4 ;07, The
wave then Was an hour in travereieg the
The nelortity of the wave is an interestieg
eebeece et ieceney. The ieformetien upon
this, point ret in Bona° respecte, puzzleg,
Yoneg Feek, the engineer ot the Sooth,Eerk
Lake. mood by the dew, and saw the water
go oyer the crest and eat out the lower aide
of it. He Ana the weter cenimeeeed ue
"I will not," was the determined. re.
the place where It did it s greetteet detnenc-
don. The felt in that dietartee ia Orme 060
feat, The velocity varied, It WAS not so
rapid in the Upper pert of the Tetley, .1T he
people. at Seutit Vern, the Gree settlement
in the way, Waved 'without exception. The
erses of lire were comparativoy Amos a
stoup. In the struggle hts bend, Yidd cu, MthlenevPr:viel)rteetreeld tlitee°14tntefrir apUbtegeheA bleueberwelhoeen,
but I took the Weapon eway from thin, Ile I ity 'KW treelenelenS, rein there to joints-
elleitted me alive aed unhurt., I never saw roWn tho ware had A straight course, and
him Again. Yon don't behove ih hievY reeved with e speed, which eau Indy be
does, Multhet is more than all elm.' eeeneeece by comparison. The whittles of
"The cireemetwee don't favor. yes% the glom& gay§ the *gnu People looked
the deteetive Warted, "they convict Y412., up the 'Valley, saw A black Maas coming,
etraighe toward them, and Wed to rran Up*
stair% The NVIder MIte$411 the houses and
mounted the Maim *goats as feat AA the Pee
pie did. At Wort that is What merey claim
as xperi .
"Revelli loved me, 'knew, awl I dovo "141 The relined Men VIII) SAW the wave tom
*wee) Mr. Roth loved met. I helievele ' the tope at Care and fora the hill' et various
hell net relaelsed lt I wo" caud'a poloie cpite peerelly mom le, edeecriptioe,
el murder between them, it Moneta he Rd" Which gives the movement the charaeter of
vela who killed Gerald." A aneCelaien of checke and man, They
"You, detested OBettgen Weed gay thee the emit !feed te teem ems;
"Iirheee end when?
"At the same place where I met Epia, and
immediately afterwarde"
" AOW we are iceeting Eph and
'Revell° *clothe* Teat looke like the Woe
tio being oudoubtedly the eteleher."
"Alta we molt eeteli him," Bnitterd in-
terpoeed.
" Ill mead ridere toward Direntermille
mutedietely."
"NO great hurry about that," the detec-
tive renuirked ; "he is too (mazy to hATean
Meer motive or any idee of escape. It wi
be eeey enough to opture
Then to turned to Gerald, And (petitioned "And y03110V6 Heetitil'
The mower was no more heeitant tbai
lore,es."
"Send the rot of my untesege," me
detective was boleteneue. "Send the u
Gerald Both la One murderer,"
He roughly seized her hand And slapped
it on the key. She draw et away, leavin
ills there, .4 blinding dull Of lightning 1.
Itunieed the piece awl What lookeel like A
MissUe of deo firm detwii the wine th the
etrumeet where it exploded. 0 Reegen fell
inseneiblefrent the eoweeful Met:erica /Aso*.
T e rest ma not altogether mope and tor
ute mitigate datad The tieing time
ey fully conopreitenaed wm that O'Rugan
was gottiliguneteadily to his feet. He wa
bewildered. Steggerlog and reeling, he
began to talk,.
Mary was firet to perceive the teapot at
bis utterance. Ho Walinerely going ozswlth
what be bad been mylug, but the mune;
ut he wetter, wee astounding,
Bc spoke with an bell= amulet and made
lien gestures,
VOA A lend xe rate sage," 44 Heath ma
Z5 murder -aro. Send A ZO meaenge, I say.'
Tonle Bevan had =wittingly resumed
hie Italia style ot English.
His plenitude et haw and whiekere was
goute and in the face thereby nueovered no.
body could have reeogu'eul liim Detective
0 Reagan but for bis lapse into tho foreign
eeeent, aud ho mild is much before discover-
ing hilt blunder that his identificetion as la.
deed Idevelli was oomplete.
Who, then, was the dead man? Why, he
was Eph.
Nothing but tile fear of being himself tem.
deemed as a murderer of the meniao, as a
part; et the gal:tern otrevenge agebese Gerald
induced Remain to explain. Ho had found
Beth lying dead In the path *for both bad
parted from Gerald. The plot to ere/mega
clothes with the corpee, drag ie to tbe fun.
ni0e, burn away all possibility of recogni-
tion, and thus make it: seem to be hie mur-
dered self, yeas carried out with all the hot
heath of jealous vengeomoo. Revelli was
nob an Italian, Although vety fAmiliar with
the language of Italy, and able by a natural
;gift of mimtory to bide himself from pursuie
for A previews orirae. Overlook bad boon a
refuge until his panion for Mary Werricer
led him to abantion hie disguise. Thereupon
he had turned hinaself Into Terrence 0 Rea-
gan, a detective, whose melicioue work
wrought happinen for Gerald Heath and
YOU kilted Revelli because you awl he were
both in Imre with thiss young lady."
"Isn't it the rejected snit= who kills the
other One for gator This was in elery
Warrieer'S Nelee# week but OM steady.
With A Strang bittertieia., •earth, etel, other wreektege whioll the Wave
14 y carried with it Canted a temporary dene te
farm 4eZ3n tiMeS the way down.
Coming to a pleat where the vetiver Entiden
liarreired the Mate of thebere aucl treat
Quid be crowded and would slew up. Pe-
ed the dam the wenn( would beck u
11 the premure heoeme too much, an
the mem would go out with A
nub, Foremen Holly of the Penney).
va road said One ef these temporary
checks oecurred near Cenuemaugh. Tao
water wee thrown beck And the spray daele.
ed Party feet high, TAO Whole atirlage bee,
el the ineeing slam eurged and bolleclk
Bet the deck wee ooly fer a few MOM -
CAL Then the AM' let go and moved
etre-iglu down the valley, striking Johnie
tom enumely in the cone, eroming them&
the heatt of the city end pitmen's over
Stony Creek and,lete Seuth Slide before
ite inopethe was Apin chocked. Foreman
Kelly then* the oeuttre of the MANI WM at
tome Althea feethigher then the outer edges.
This cake of claccirei Of the WAVe on the
emit* down le the only thing which will ac-
munt for the loregth at trine eempled Jo the
pewees." from the dam to Johnstown, The
speed Was much greater thau fourteen miles
an hour while the Wave was moving. if
their had been uo holdieg up, ;be route would
have been traversed in hell the time it was
hut the force could have been herdly mo
deatructive.
Davis, the agent Coneroaugli,
observed what others tooted, the rolling and
hellion end grinding movemeut. Teo water
was cerrying a great load, but the logo and
other obviate were being oontimelly toned
above the mien) es If the mess was full et
life.
Another phenomenon which many um
was the whoa. twit aimed of the Ways. That
wind, Foreman Kelly mid, gentility moved
houses from their foundetlone before the
wave remind them. This explains In tome
degree the declarations of ono class cf eyo
witneesee who eaw the wave go by while at
Its greatest velocity. Them 'mint that
there did not teem to be any water in the
front of the wave. The front, aconites
to their deeoription, wee *rolling collection
of execs, rooky, houses, thuberee oars, earth,
gran, and. everything eitte moving down the
valley, with a great lake pushing behind it.
Of such appeerance was the front ef the
wave, they say, until the valley widened at
Woodvale, and there the water mune for-
ward and mingled with the moving darn,
and the whole man, without any regard
• to the river's channel, plunged through
juhnetown— With° lame time a hurricane, an
avalanche, sad a flood, with *lithe destruc-
tive powers of each.
with the Mr of a crote-exeremer. Did the
Iwo me4 have any words together?"
"No," WU the ready outwear, "I don't
know Omit they even saw CaCh, other et that
time, Eph wentetaway Ali WAWA before
Rivera' came,"
"Did you Milt with Reveal?"
Yee."
"About whet'!"
"Not about Eph at all."
"About 'whet, thou
NOW the vale' camel relluoteutly.
payment matter—somethieg *het had. QC
red betNeell Incident, tee the telegre
station."
"The *Wit* where Eph Awalteued the
girl opentor t Was it a queered about her 1'
"That is tie concern et yours, Yon are
itupertineut."
" Well, Mr, the lineation is pertineut—ea
the Weyer* lay—and the newer concerns
you, whether it does me or nate You and
Bewail (panelled above the girl ?I
"The youug lady shall not be dreg ed
Into Ude. She wasn't reeponsible for w a
hsppeatid between Revell' And me"
"'What did happen. boeween you and
Bement?"
The two men @rood elm to and Wog
esich onus% Them, es of the detective eland
loatingly at an upward Angle bete the pale.
bub still then face of the taller Gonda, and
then dropped alowly, until they became
fixed an a red Main on the eleove of the
other's coat. Dld be pante tho mimalecent
of A bloodhound!
" What is that!" he dimply tithed. He
seized the arm, and smelt of the spotted
febrile, "It is bleed 1 Lee me see your
knife
Oita mechenically Gerald thrust one
hand into hie trousers pocket and brought
out tlie 'knife which he lead taken back from
Bevelli, whom blood WM Ott it .3tete
The storm wee overhead. fint peal of
thuuder broke loudly. It slime at dos In -
eta= of the assemblage's tensese interest—
at the indent when Gerald Heath was
aghast with the revelation of his awful jet,-
pardy—at the instant of his exposure as a
murderer. It impressed them and Lim with
a shook of something supernaturaL The
reverberation rumbled ieto silence, which
was broken by O'Beegan,
" There'll be no need to catah Eph," he
said, in a tone of professional glee. ' Thia
man is the murderer.
Again thunder rolled and rumbled angrily Mary Warriner.
above Overlook, and. the party Mood aghast (TEE ILID.)
in the presence of the Man dead and the man
condemned.
" 13ring him to the telegraph statien," The BalingTassion of a Deadhead.
GRespn commanded.
Nobody disputed the detective's methods A lobbyist from New York city, who had
now—not even Gerald; and a prisoner as been a railroad deadheadfor many years, was
completely as though manacle , although
not toadied by any one, he went with the
nate
Mary Warriner had taken down the tar-
paulin front of her shed when the men ap-
proached. In the ordinary course of her
early morning doings she would wait an
•hour to despatch and receive the first tele-
grams of the day, and then go to breakfast
alone at the table where the engineera and
°veneers would by that time have had their
Be bardly realized to whom he was 'meek- five or six miles, yoa know. After that--
ing. The two men were walking rapidly, yes, I did see one man. A curiously excit-
Revell' taking two strides to one of the ed chap. He looked tired out. Be asked
bigger Gerald, in order to keep alongside. the distance to Dimmersville and whether
"You ehould be ashamed--you—s, E001111- the telegraph GE= would be open by the
drel." time he gob there. Then he &tailed on
As mach of jealous fury and venomous before I'd half answered him."
malice as could be vocalized in lin words All that was known of the murder was
was in Revelries sudden outbreak. Gerald told to the :stranger by half a dozen glib
was astounded. He turned upon his cora- tongues, and it waa explained to him that
penicn, caught him by both lapels of the he had encountered the maniacal fugitive.
ecat and shook him so violently that his "I knew there was something wrong
boot soles pounded the ground. Ravelli about him," eaid the stranger. " It is my
staggered back upon being loosed, and threw business to be observant."
one arm around a tree to steady himself. He dismounted and bitched his horse to a
"I didn't mean to hurt you," said Gerald, tree. The dead body was shown to him.
"but ycu shouldn't be reckless with your
hinguage. Perhaps you don't know what He examined it very thoroughly. All the
particulars were related to him over and
• ecoundtel means in English,"
"I raw yoma kiss her hand." over. Then he drew Superintendent Brain -
"Ind you? Well, do you know what erd aside.
lel do to you, Rexene if 1 aaw you kite ber ' " My name is Terrence O'Reagen," he
bands—aa 1 did—without her consent? I'd said, and in his voice was .faintly clistin-
wring your miserable neck. Now, what are gnishable the brogue of the land whence the
O'Reagans came. " I am a goyertunent de.
you goirg to do to Me?"
"I am agoing to keel you." tediVe. I have been gent to workup evi-
The blade cf a knife flashed in Reveilles
dence in the 01180 of some Italian counter -
right hand as he made a furious onslaught. feiters. We had a clew pointing to a sub -
But the stronger and quicker man gripped contractor here, the very meaner= lies there
both of his egpailant's wrists, threw him dead. Our information was that he used
some of the bogus bills in paying off hir
violently to the ground arid tortured him
with wrenches and doublings until he had gang. Now it isn't going outside my mis-
t, drep the weapon. In the encounter the don to inveettga.th his death, if you don'e
clothes of both men were torn, and when object." •
Revelli regained lois feet blood was dripping "1 would be glad to have you take hold
from hie hand. The blade had cut it. or it," Brainerd replied. "We can't bring
the authorities here before noon, at the
"You meant to kill. me," Gerald exclaim-
ed. earliest, and in the meantime yea can per -
"1 said -a so," was the Annete menacmg haps clear itl all up."
response.
"And with soy own knife," and Gerald,
picking up the knife, recognized it.
"Ycur,a own knife—ze one zet you earve.
a Marys hatidtwith to lovingly."
bebbs-
called to his home during the late session of
the last Legislature by a telegram alumnae -
hug the aerieueillness of his wife. As hewn
waiting for the train for New York to be
made up he noticed the conduotor wasa new
man, whom he did not 'know, and then for
the first time he called to mind the facethat
he had left his artrual pass over thatroad up
at his bawdinghouse. Approacbing the con-
ductor, he introduced 'himself and told the
circumstances, said that all the conductors
meal. She was aetomehed to see nearly the knew him, and he never had to showhis pass
whole population of Overlook crowd around to them, so he hadbeen careleseaboutit.
her quarters, while a few entered. But she "I have no doubt it is all right," said the
went quickly behind the desk and took her conductor, "butI can't carry you."
place on the stool. The soberness of the "But," said the gentleman, pleading, "my
facet: impreesed her, but nothing indicated wife it very I must go to New York on
that Gerald was in custody, and her quick
thought was that some disaster made it
necesaary to use the wire importantly.
"I wieh to send a message," said O'Reog-
an, stepping forward.
The eyes of the girl rested on him inquir-
ingly, and he palpably flinched, but as ob-
viously nerved himeelf to proceed. and when
he spoke again the Irish accent became
more pronounced to hear, although not suf.
fioiently to be sbown in the printed words:
—"I will dictate it slowly, so that you can
transmit it ae I speak. Are you ready ?"
Mary's fingers were on the key ane her
bright, alert face was an answer to the
query.
"To Henry Deckerman, president," the
detective slowly said, waiting for the oliolts
of the inatrument to put his language on the
wire, "Tonio Ravelli, a sulecontersotoe here,
was murdered lest night."
Mary's hand slid away from the key after
sending that and the always faint tint in her
cheeks faded out and her eyes flickered up
in a :wired way to the stern fates in front
of it. The shock of the news that a man
had been Blain, and that he was a man who
only the previous day had proffered his love
to her wag for a moment disabling. Bub
the habit of her employment controlled her
and she awaited the further dictation.
"His body was found this morning in the
furnace of the steam boiler," O'Reagan re-
sumed deliberately, "where it had evident-
ly been placed in a vain attempt to destroy
it." •'
shuddek,went through Mary, and she
oonvuleiyely wrung her small hands together,
as though to limber them from cramp. But
her fingers went back to the key.
"The murderer has been discovered," the
detective slowly continued, and the operator
ke t along with his utterance, word by word,
this tram.
"I am sorry," replied the conductor, "but
I connot ovary you.''
"Is there anybody around here authorized
to issue a pass ? Anybody who can give me
one ?"
The conductor knew of nobody around the
depot who had that authority, but at last
touched by the lobbyieb's predicament, he
said:
"I canVcarry you for nothing, but I will
advance the money to you if—"
"Thunder and lightning 1" exclaimed the -
lobbyist, smiling all over ; "I've got a huncl
red dollars right here in my pocket," and he
ran off to buy a ticket. When he came back
he said :
"Conductor, if you hadn't mentioned
money I should never of have thoughtof pay-
ing my fare. I had forgotten that I could
travel on anything but a pass." --(Albany
Argus.
FRA.NCE'S OEOWTII IN A CENTURY
stilton,. watch enateete a Splea^'" NA.
*hum]. beveionmene,
The "Journal" of the French Stetieticel
Society has published, inaeticipation of the
centenary tete% at Versants% aomointer
eetiog tables which are inteeded to shoW the
economical Commercial, industrial and fin-
ancial progress made by Frown in the
isee ceettery, Beginning With the lout/get,
time tablee ;Mew that while the eatimeted
receipts in 1789 wete $27,654,029, they are
now 4120.480,01)0. The direet taxes have
not lenneaeed Very MUCh, fOr they are M77)-
090,000 dale year, as compared to -4:145,200,-
009 a century age, Whereael the indirect
taxes, Which produced only '990.900,900 in
1780, are now eatimaterl at M29,200.000.
The only Government mononoly tbe bted.
get of 1760 VAS ills Vost.tilace, -width Peo-
dnecd -4940,090, Whereas nOW the ptodnee
c.f the ditlerent monepellea .ge3,29,0e0.
&leo Worthy of into that While the Pose
of oollectirm for a, 'budget of dent $27.00,-
000 was -44 52%000. it 111 enlY 47.1%)..V00
for a budget of peer $1do.oixouo.
century tigo the Vane of magnet pro.
peny In France was eatimeted at not more
than 412.000,000., WhereAS it kllOw pus aft
aboot £320,090,000, Tien() Were no SAvinga
banks 17$94 tont new the depeltita JA thern
exceed 4100,094,090„ :while the total et the
natietult revenneetestimated a eentury ego
as from £120 000,900 to £200„600,000, now
exeeeda 41.-100.(00.994. Thee. again' , the
general trade ot Ponce le 1799 wee gent
£10,595,00R—ol wig* £21C40,000 Were 1M.
Ports, tied R17.040,090 exports ; while in 18'
$G the geeeral trade el Fleece reached 4974.
441,00. of whieb, X2C4,640,600 were iroperte
and £199,900;000 exports, the peopertioe
between, tbo noporte and the experoebeleg
Mita the same as it WAS At the end of last
eentvey, The vAlee of leed has Mee inereg$,
ed very numb, for while the average peice
ceetury ago was £8 per sere, it le AQW £27,
heeing touched 4'32 %Me feW yeare Age.,
IP 1789 the Acreege wheat was 10,000-
000. eutl the yield 110.080,000 buetiele, er
It bushels an Dees; DeW the ecree89 itt
wheat la about 17.000,000. and the yolk. -
291,2A000 louthele. or 18 blithe% att acne'.
The prig* et breed bae not varied ao elects
as might havebeea expected, the lour -pound
loaf, whieh 4,.`fat celitinlea in 1890, row
eelling for 85 ceettenee. liming gene to AS
Melt 48 a ebillieg in 1847. amdhavotg faUen
as low aa kiXPS41c15 in 1963 Wag% bode
in tawdry and egrieulteee. have Mem ere
ortneelly, and white the eerLielteral lalener
did not receive more then tirperlee a day he
1789, the aeerege wage is now Idt, The
Journal et the Seetietical 8eelety add* Met,
while the pay el euboodthete 4,11151ale bee
been gennelly hicreesed, the sedarlee given
to greater dieolterlea, both, dell end eeetlee
eleseicel, have hove eue down.
Trevelling was oleo muelt more expellee
as well as ale war! ler j gurney to ZIstesellles
by dingo:est took thleteth days end wet £6,
se Against fifteen bonneted, £4 ;to Toulouse,
eight days and £3 S se, as egainet fonsteee,
hours auti 111.,• to Bordeaux, six days and
£5, fut earthed Ono hours and .£8; to lenone,
five days and £3 101, Alegainet rine hours
4 48 i0,; to Snaelturg, four and a half
ay* £4, a; agaboet elevou ileum and ; to
, two (lees lima £2, as esainst eix hours
about $0% The peetege of %letter from
to Venaillea cost 25 centimee, from
o Leone 05 centimes, and from Peri*
to Msreelitas 75 ceetimee. The papule -firm
of Femme increased from 27.000,000b 1801
to 38.02%000 in 1889, the cities ot Lyons
and niersoilles inoremIng from 139.000 end
70.0d0 to 401.CG0 and 375.000.
closes to this brief dialogue, and had heard e killed Revell; for revenge. It was a
The eagerly ourions men had crowded 164
rove affair." Here the gire grew whiter
en:allele word or movement they hung ex- I but they did not =sea. • ()Reagan's
stile and the clicks loecame very slow,
the latter part of it. 0 Reagan became. in-
etantly an important peraonage, upon wnose
voice was cold and ruthlesel "The
The Hottest Spot on Earth.
STATISTIO3.
I Is roughly calculeted thet £150,000 per
annum le spent on the food and clothing el
Indoor pampers in the British metronolie.
The total area of land under green mops
in Great Briteirt last; year was 3.471.800
Ames, showlog en inereme ot 8,100 acres
over 1897. In Ireland. it win 1.234.660
acres lastyear, as compered with 1,2e.8,740
ln 1887.
Rosie is said annually to coutUtila tea to
the extent of $125,000,000 sterling. Leaden
eupplice about $15,004,000 of this value, It
is noteworthy that the whole of the London
supplies aro of China tea. Indian tea is un-
known in Russia.
There are 647 beer& of guardians in Eng-
land and Wales. At present, of the 20,000
members of these board% only 5S are women
all ot whom have gained their nate since
WRY WOMEN BECOME DOCTORS. 1875, when the elector/1 of A.eneingten were
the first to recognise the face that, according
to thePoor Lew Amendment lict pseud. 50
yews ago, a board of guardians need not be
It is said that many successful women exclusively of the masculine gender.
physicians have enterer' upon their medical
careers in direct consequence of one or the
other of two renew—a family affliction or
a deaire to benefit; physically their own sex.
One case is that of a yonngemarried womanin
Brooklyn, who lost a yonng daughter, and
had a feeling of diesatiefaction regarding
the course of treatment pursued by the
different phyalcians whom she had called
in to attend the child. This feeling, added
to grief, became so strong that an absorb-
ing occupation seenaed the only thing that
would relieve her mind, and she took up
the study of medicine, She is now studying
hard at college.
Another case is that of an unmarried Wo-
man, about twenty-five years old who feel-
ing the need of some more :serious and ab-
sorbing occupation that the quiet New Eng-
land town in which she lived could offer her,
left her luxurious home to become a pupil
in a Western medical college that has a
high reputation. Thia young woman was
born in India and passed the &at few years
of her life there, and intende returning to
her native land to practise her profession
among the native Indian women.
Dozens of women are physicians, not so
much tor the fame or money .that they may
coin as from love of the profession and a de-
sire to have an object in life, and at the
same time to do good to some one else,
which Thackeray says is the life of moat
good women.
--
Family Mutation or a Desire to do Good
'Work.
The removal of tattoo -marks is a matter
of 110 little diffioulty, and many different
mathods have been tried --blistering, suction, The hopeleesness of ohildren under a sense
• thermtecautery, counter -tattooing with of injustice is one of the most crushing force
One of the hottest regions of the earth is white powder or milk, &a Criminals some- es that can work to maim and distorta child's
along the Persian gulf, where little or no, dates pour vitriol on their 01*MB or hends, mind. He ia not able to :see beyond the °b-
rain fall% At Bahrin the arid shore has no and, letting it 0sOt for a fear seconds, plunge vioueandinetant features of the situation,and
fresh water, yet a comparatively numerous the limb in water. The following method is the feeling that some arbitrary expreseion of
population contrives to live there, thanks recommended by M. Veriot, in the "Revue predjudice is working againet liim convinces
to copies springs which burst forth from the Scientifique." The skin is first covered with him despairingly that effort is uselese, and
bottom of the aea. The fresh water is got a concentrated solution of tannin, and re- that he is being (amity wronged. The ohil-
by diving. The diver, aiming in his boat, tattooed with this in the parts to be cleared. ash nature becomes warped and embittered e
winds a great goatakin,baground hisleft arm, Then an 'ordinary nitrate.of-silver crayon is and there is perhaps no other single (motor
the hand grasping itis mouth; then he takes rubbed over these parts, whioh become black which can come into a your g life with such
in his right hand a heavy stone, to Whirl is by formation of militate of silver fin' the au- dleastrous effect AS this. The teacher who
attached a strong line, and thus equipped he perfidel layer of the dermis. Tannin pow. allows himself to gialify personal like e and
plunges in and quickly reaches bottom. In- der is sprinkled on the surface =vend times dislikes is doing an injury to his pupils,whioh
dandy opening the bag over the strong jet a day for :some days to dry A dark must can only be called incalculable. It must be
of fresh water, he springs up the amending forme, Lwhich loses 'color in three or four recognised, moreover, that children see like,
current, at the Same time closing the bag, days and in a fortnight or no :comes away, ly to misunderstand, so that an appears=
and is helped aboard. The stone is then leaving a reddish scar free ot tattoo.rnarks, of favouritism is to be avoided. This is one
hauled up, and the divenetter taking breath, and in it few months little notice,able. It is of the considerations that make the trainin
plunges in again. The adurce.of these cop- well to do the work in patchea about the' of oinldren a matter of so much delicacy an
ioue submarine epeihga is thought. to be in , Sirs of it fivedrano piece at a time. The intrieacy. It is necessary not only to trea
the green hills of Osrean, .some five or six person can then go on with his usuel come children with scrupulous honesty, but mak
hundred mike dietent. pation, i them feel that they ate BO treated.
Some idea of the extent to which the milk -
producing capacity of cows might be devel-
oped is given by Mr. Henry re Cripple who
state% in the "Field," that a shorthorn cow
belonging to him has produced upwards of
1,650 gallons of milk during the past twelve
months. Ass the ordinary retail price of G.
a quart, the value of this produce would be
096. Even at th3 low wholesale price on
the ferm of 100. a gallon, the return would
be $165—a sum which would leave a very
handsome profie over the costs of keeping the
cow, and, in addition, there is the value of
her calf to take into accoune
The total yearly income of an ordinary
English agricultural day -labourer, inchtding
both wages and perm:mites of every kind,
ranges from about $250 a year in Northum-
berland to a little over 150 in Wiltehire and
other south-western counties:. This gives
an average of 5200 a year. But it is only
the exceptionally low wages paid in a few
counties which pulls down the average even
so low as this. In the eastern, midland,
northerst, and south-eastern counties it is
commoner to find the sum -total rising to
5215 and 5220 than sinking to 5185 or 5100.
Shepherds, wagoners, and stockmen are
paid at a higher rate, and their wages aver-
age about $250 a year. Where women are
employed they earn from 51.00 to 51.25 ee,
week at ordinary times, and. from 2.50 to
53,00 in harvest.
,..41141011.-
Honestv Towards Children.
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