The Herald, 1907-07-19, Page 3Tf',�I 1FFOR LIFE
et once, dearest, And let us have some 'Upon learning this fact, Sir Vincent
champagne and drink the health of the Lester had dccrosd It expedient • to en -
new Baron. and .Baroness Etheridge," said lighten the unhappy woman up on two
the duke, drawing her arm within his, points—firstly, that he himself was the
end leading her back to the table, where witness of Thugssen's crime; secondly,
they rejoined Laura and Ferdinand, that the crime was not ordinary murder,
1)00 week from that day a large party but damning parricide! Upon hearing
was assembled in tI'e sumptuous library this awful disclosure; Helen became a
at Beresleigh House, It consisted of the raving' maniac, end was conveyed •to a
Uuehess Dowager and the young Duke lunatic' asylum, whore she soon after
and. Duchess of Beresleigh, the Baron and died.
Baroness Etheridge, the widowed Lady These`,. facts were gathered, partly
Lester an rex son, Sir Rnithven, Colonel from the confession of Thugsen, and
Haetings, and lastly, poor Ruth Rue- partly from the statements of the par-
sel. ties present in the library.
They were brought together by a com- Several practical goods resulted from
"She passed the night in patient, silent reversion of the oldbarony to his own mon interest in the confession of Rob -
anguish; this morning she may scarcely family," -• art Thugsen, through whose'atrocious
They were interrupted by a rep at the crimes nearly every one present had
be said to live. But do not be alarmed; door, Cassinove, or Lord Etheridge;. as
we must now call him, opened it,
Mrs. Maberly stood there to' ingiiire
whether "her ladyship," as she had never
ceased to call Laura, would have break-
fast nerved in her ebamber, and whether
Mr. Cassinove would join the family at
the breakfast table, He replied that he
would breakfast with his lady, if they
pleased; and soon after an elegant little.•
breakfast was served in their room.
At noon that day Lord and Lady Eth-
eridge sought an. interview with the
Duke and Duchess' of Beresleigh, They
met in the library, and when the doors
were closed and they had seated them-
selves
hem selves around the central writing:table,
Lord Etheridge laid before the Duke• of
Beersleigh a package of documents that
he requested him to examine.
the news that I shall presently carry to
her will bring back her life, Yes, Ca-o-
sinove, this is my firm conviction, that
if . you had died this morning, she would
not have survived, until night."
"Oh, good friend. . w111 you not go to
+ her immediately, and break this news to
her ,and prepare her to see me?" said
Cassinove, turning anxiously to Mr. Wat-
son.
"Patience, my young friend; I must
consult her physician first. Will it not
be dangerous to communicate this intel-
ligence in ner present exhausted state,
doctor?"
"No; I certainly think not; it is just
the sort of shock she requires to bring
her back from the borders of the grave."
"But the dangerous effects of sudden
joy?"
"Circumstances alter cases. The sud-
den joy that would kill a person in the
full ppossession of health and strength,
would only electrify to new life one dy-
Ming of grief. It is the principle of the
antidote. So come with me, if you
please, Mr. Watson, to Mrs. Cassinove's
bedside. Come, Cassinove,'+ said ' the
god doctor, leading the way upstairs.
When they bad reached the chamber
door, the doctor paused, and said:.
"We must use caution in applying this
electric shock, however. You two had
better remain outside a few moments,
until I go and prepare her."
We will draw a veil over the awaking
of Laura from her stupor. and agonized
joy of meeting with her husband. As
soon as she bad sufficiently recovered
her self-possession, Cassinove, with his
form dilated with pride, and his eyes
beaming with joy, informed her that she
was again the Baroness of Etheridge, and
that the title camp through him. That
was t he secret Colonel Hastings had
communicated to him. Be was no long-
er Ferdinand Cassinove, but Ferdinand
Etheridge, the son of te late baron and
Mary Coke, the beautiful daughter of
his gamekeeper, whom he had married
before running away with her. After
his second marriage (with Rose's moth-
er) he had hesitated to own his son; but
on his deathbed he had told the whole
story to Colonel Hastings, placed the
necessary documents in his hands to es-
tablisbthe troth, and requested him to
see that his darling boy wah put in pos• the theta
The duke,- in some surprise, took up
the packet, and looked over the. papers
carefully .one by one. Rose ,entirely ig-
norant of what was to come, awaited in
preplexity the issue of the investigation:
Ferdinand and Laura anxiously watch-
ed the countenance of the duke, which,
as he picked up and read one document
after another, exhibited much astonish
ment, but not a shade of grief or die -
pleasure. When he had finished and laid
down the last one, he arose, with a
deeply suffered.
'` The confession of a notorious crimin-
al is not a pleasant subject for review
in detail. Vet it is due 'to the reader to
throe some little light upon the early
career of this man,
Robert Thugsen was the unac-
knowledged son of a nobleman in one of
the central countios of England and had
a legal right only to Isis mother's fam-
ily name. His father had purchased him
a commission in the army, where the
hereditary vices%of the young man rap-
idly developed themselves in a career of
profligacy which ended in his dismissal
from the service.
Disgraced and impoverished, but still
handsome and fascinating, he eloped with
the daughter and heiress of a wealthy
manufacturer in Leeds, The deeply
wronged father sent' his erring daughter
a thousand pounds, but refused ever af-
terward. to see her or her profligate
husband, and dying two years afterward,
left the whole of his property to his
patron, Colonel Hastings. Captain Thug-
sen
hub
sen having spent his wife's small dow-
er, and being disappointed of the for-
tune, and weary of the woman whom he
bad married only for 'her money, soon
abandoned his wife and children, leav-
ing then in obscure lodgings in Lon -
cheerful smile, and, extending his hand don, and betaking himself to the fash-
across the table to Caeainove, shook ionable watering -places, where his hand -
hands with hint cordially, saying: some person, fascinating manner and
"Let me be the first to congratulate ready cunning, enabled him to get on
you upon your accession to your title, in certain sets.
Lord Etheridge." Then, turning to his At these places he always passed as
astonished wife, he continued: 'And let a single pian, and uponoccasionchanged
me congratulate you also, .my dearest his name. It was in Brighton that his
Rose, for you have gained a brother. first real passion led him into his first
Ferdinand, embrace your sister, while I great crime.
salute my dear sister-in-law." Here he first met the family of Sir
And going around the table to Laura, Vincent Lester, and with them Mrs.
he took her hand, and Missed her cheek, Ravenscroft, a young and beautiful wi-
saying: dow, the sister of. the baronet. She a'ied
"I wish yotz a long enjoyment of your knwn to be engaged. to Lord Bailing
recovered possessions, my dear sister." ton, an old and brokendown bachelor,
Rose, who lead received the embrace` whose enormous unemenmbered fortune
of her brother, now turned and threw had temputed her family into persuad-
herself in the arms of Laura, exclaiming: ing her to accept his proposals of mar -
"Oh, niy dearest, I am so 3iappyI hap- ridge. From the moment Captain Thug -
pier than I have ever been in my life sen met Mrs. Ravenseroft, he resolved
before, for I always felt like the usurper to win her love, The circumstance of
of your rights." Then suddenly remem- his own marriage seemed of no more
Bering that the vast estates gained by importance of his own fact that she
Ferdinand and Laura were lost• to the ,,was the betrothed of another. Indeed.,
Duke of Beresleigh, Rose timed plea to a man of Captain Thugsen's disposi-
dropped the hand of her fri>j , �ti tion, those impedinie to only added zest
to the pursuit of they. In a word, he
C. won the passionate love of this modern
Helen. The Iovers met in secret, and
took long walks on the loneliest part
of the beach.
Thugsen urged her to fly with him
so the Continent, but Helen was scarce-
ly prepared for such a desperate meas-
ure. She said that if Lord Earlington
were only out of the way, she would con-
sent to become the wife of Thugsen. She
never dreamed of the deep depravity
that could put a fatal construction upon
her words, and dare to obey their sup-
posed meaning. At this time Lord Earl-
ington, whose suspicions had been arous-
ed, wrote a civil note to Thugsen, re-
questing the latter to afford him a pri-
vate interview at his earliest conveni-
ence. Thugsen smiled with demoniac
pleasure at the receipt of this
note, and wrote a reply request-
ing Lord Harlington to meet him at sun-
set in a certain secluded coont,be in the
downs.
Lord Earlington kept the tryst, and
Thugsen, awaiting him in that solitary
spot, sprang upon•hin and buried a dag-
ger to the hilt in bis breast, and it was
only then, from the lips of the dying
anon, Thugsen learned that Lord Harling-
ton was his father, who; -in a late repent-
ance, had sought that interview with the
purpose of aeknowledging his; son, yield-
ing up Helen to the latter, and endowing
the young couple with a portion of ha:
large fortune.
Transfixed with horror, Thugsen could
only stand and gaze upon. the face of
his dying parent until he was aroused
by the presence of Sir Vincent Lester,
who, having followed the hounds all day,
just chanced upon this rencontre.
The baronet, who saw at ,a glance
what had happened, and who, indeed, had
been a witness to a part of the .conversa-
tion, summoned Thugsen to surrender,
and s,ecompany hint back to the town.
But Thugsen sprang into tits saddle, and
;fled with the sin of a parricide blacken-
ing his soul!
With the after part of this criminal's
career, the tender is already acquainted.
Sir Vincent had the body of the mur-
`'ilered peer conveyed to Brighton, where,
upon his. person, was found the note of
Captain Thugsen summoning him to the
fatal tryst. Helen Ravanscrof�t was in,
.formed of the death of Lord Earlington,
by the Band of Captain Thtigsen, and,
though site never knew. the relationship
session of his sights. Hastings' had be walked away to ie t
The duke, instinctively surmis
cause of her agitation, went after her,
aad putting his arm around her waist,
drew her to his side, saying tenderly:
"How is this, my darling Rose? What
distresses you?"
"Oh, Berealeigh, it. is as I said; I al-
ways said that my possession of the
Swinburne estates would be `transient,
and when Colonel Hastings threatened
to produce the rightful heir, 1 more
than half believed that he could do so;
and even sometimes thought that the
alleged heir might be the sox& of my fa-
ther's first marriage with that beauti-
ful girl that he took to the Continent.
And even so you see it has proved."
trayed his trust, for the es4 a of aggran
dazing his son: but ssli his plans had been
thwarted by Providence, and the terri-
ble death of Albert had at last brought
him to repentance.
"Will you value the rank and title,
the less because you must reooive it
from me?" inquired Cassinove of Laura,
in a voice that was every moment be-
• coming more agitated. "You gave me
your hand in marriage when I was a
poor prisoner in Newgate, with no for-
tune to endow my bride except sorrow,
danger and ignominy. And now, Laura
now, I come to you with vindicated hon-
or and with the power of replacing on
• your brow the lost coronet of Swin-
. burnel And, oh! my Laura! this is a
power for which I would have bartered
—Heaven forgive me—I had nearly said
my soul! For never did earthly saint
love heavenly angel with a purer and
; more fervent love than that which my
1 heart has lavished upon you from the
first moment my eyes fell upon your
face. From that moment, your welfare
and happiness has been my one aspira-
tion—my one prayer! And if. fortune
had offered me a choice of her best gifts
I would, above all others, have chosen
this .privilege of restoring you to your
rank and title—this privilege that I
would have purchased with my life! Oh,
my dear Laura! say that you do not
value the old barony -lees, now that you
receive it from me, tbsn when you be-
lieved it yours in your own eight."
"No, no; I value it a thousabd times
more as your gait! I love to owe every-
: thing to you. But is this all true, be-
yond doubt?" inquired Laura.
"Beyond the possibility of doubt. I
have the names and addresses of the
minister who married my parents, the
physician who attended my mother, the
chaplain who baptized me, the nurse olio
took care. of me, the guardian who ewe
needed her, and, finally, I have the per-
sonal evidence, of Colonel Bastin,. "
"Oh, how does Colonel Hastings justify
his long silerce as to your position and
rights?"
"He does not even attempt to justify
it. If ever .1. saw a man btnken down
by disappointment, sorrow and remorse,
it is Hastings. He was not naturally a
very bad man, but a very haughty end
ambitious ons, and he was tempted by
the prospect of a great fortune ,and the
"Well, sweet r=ose, are you not very
glad that this son proves to be our
young friend Ferdinand, the husband of
our dear Laura, who is by this means
ones more in possession of her rank and
title?"
"Oh, yes! as far as I am concerned, I
am, or should be very, very happy; but
oh, Beresleigh, to think that you, when
you supposed you had wedded e. richly -
dowered baroness, diad wedded only a
penniless maiden!"
"But the very sweetest maiden that
ever was made a wife; and the loveliest
wife that ever man was blest w'ithi
Sweet Rose! dear Rose! could you be-
lieve that any circumstance could make
me prize and love you less? No, darling
of my heart and eyes, you ars and ever
must be to your husband a treasure be-
yond price," said the duke, with deep
emotion. -
Rose turned on him a smile radiant
with gratitude and• joy.
"Besides, dearest, you are very tar
from having been the penniless bride you
desoribed. You surely forget that you
asie, in the right of your mother, still
the possessor of Laurel Malls in
Norfolk, and of Forest Park, ,in.
Kent, two estates tbat, taken togothee
are quite equal in value to Swinburne.'
"Oh, so I am. I had quite forgotten
that my mother's estates must descend
to me, I had taken it for granted that,
as the inheritance came to me as it,;
whole, it must go from me undivided
Oh, I am very glad I have my niothelts
fortune for you, dear Beresleigh; for
now I can rejoice freely with dear. Laura
and Ferdinand."
"'.Chen come and rejoice with them
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these disclosures; first, Colonel Hastings
refunded •to Ruth Russel, or Mrs. Thug -
sen, ne ,she°should be called, the property
of her father; secondly, the proven fact
of Thugsen's first marriage showed his
atteiapted second marriage to be an im-
posture, and vindicated the honor of the
young Duchess of Beresleigh.
The Erihl before the House of Lords
might ha,''e been arrested, but the friends
of the'young duchess deemed at least in-
vestigation of that affair by that high
tribunal essential to the triumph of
right. Consequently, upon the appoint-
ed. day, the trial came off, and resulted,
as everyone foresaw, in the triumphant
vindication of the fair fame of the
Duchess of Beresleigh; for the decision
of the peers was accompanied by the
strongest censure of the parties who had
charged -her 'grace upon such trivial
grounds, and the highest euloginm upon
the :character of the young duchess as
it had been revealed to them through
the investigation.
Thus the result of that trial was a
most triumphant vindication of the
honor, of the Duchess of Beresleigh.
,Lead nod. Lady Etheridge had only re-
mained to,see the end of this inve:stig
tion, and to congratulate their sister
and brother upon its happy conclusion,
before they set out upon a late bridal
tour over the Continent.
They were absent three months, and
at the end of that time they returned
to England, and sent their servants
down in advance to prepare for their re-
ception at Swinburne Castle.
The people of Swinburne, let it now
be confessed, had never been reconciled
to the change of local dynasty that had
given them' the laundress' daughter as
their liege lady. They lead never be-
lieved in the claims of Rose, and had
always looked upon her as a usurper.
When, therefore, the servants of their
own Lady Etheridge arrived at the Ethe-
ridge Arms with the intelligence that
then lord and lady were coming down to
the castle, nothing -could exceed the joy
of the villagers and tenantry.
The same group that had assembled
two years before at Etheridge Arms to
see the arrival of the coach that was to
bring the bridegroom, who was about to
marry their lady, gathered once more in
the taproom, to get all the news they'
aoiild from the servants, who lead stop-
ped *„here for refreshment on their way
to tht• ' Oistle, }Thither they were bound
that existed between the, murderer and
his "victim, and that her lover's soul was
blackened by the awful'erime of parri-
cide, yet from hearing of ,the crime, and
the flight of Thugsen, she lost her Tea-
eon,though, alasd she never lost her mad
passion for the criminal.. Wigle the oun-
nin'g of partial insanity, she listened; un-
til trhe learned that her brother possess-
ed the note of Thugsen that had sum-
nioned Lord Earlington to the meeting.
With the cunning of the maniac, she
tvatehed her opportunitq, and stole this
eiote, and waited until she found a way
of putting it into the pasession of Thug-
sen, which she did by throwing it to him
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HOW ALBATROSS FLIES.
Snapshot photographs are constantly
adding valuable facts to the stores of
science. They are able to detect ana
analyze motions too quick for the e
to follow. A recent instance of the 4 -
plication of photography to a dLeputpd
question in natural history, says •tt
Philadelphia Recorder, .is an experiment
made oei a vessel from British Columbia
to San Francisco, one of the passengers
thereon being a scientist in the employ
of Uncle Sam.
A large albatross had been fallowing
the steamer and keeping pace with it for
several hours, and' the wonder grew
among the watehers on shipboard as to
how the bird was able to fly so veal/
while apparently keeping its wings 'e;C-
tended without flapping tkem. As tilts
is a common manner of flight with the
albatross, the explanation has been of-
fered that the bird takes advantage of
slight winds and air currents, and so is
able to glide upon what might be culled
atmospheric slopes.
As the albatross sailed alongside of
the ship about fifteen feet away, the eel -
elitist snapped his camera at it and ob-
tained a photograph which astonished
him and his fellow passengers.
The photograph revealed what no eye
had caught, the wings of the albatross,
each some five feet long, raised high
above its back in the act of making a
downward stroke. The explanation nat-
urally suggested is that more or less
frequently the bird must have made a
stroke of this kind with its wings, al-
though the eye could not detect the mo-
tion, and that the camera chanced to be
snapped just at the right moment.
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SUMMER COMPLAINTS.
to nit' p.;xeceptioai of the baron
and 'Hess, who stere coiling nett
weelw '. •
There was the village smith, and the
old- laborer from Swinburne Chase, and
the old cashiered groom, and all the
others.
And none were so poor that they could
not invest a sixpence in drinking the
health of their beloved lady, whom they
quite regarded in the light of a restored
queen.
And there were none so niggardly as
not to spend their money and labor in
adorning and illuminating the village for
the reception of the happy pair who were
coming to reside among them.
So that the next week when the Baron
and Baroness Etheridge of Swinburne en-
tered their feudal village, it was with
the state of a king and queen entering
their capital city, amid the parade of
the county militia, under a triumphal
arch formed of evergreens, and over a
road strewn with flowers by the village
maidens, who stood each side the way
singing a joyous epithalamium.
(The End.)
At the first sign of illnese during
the hot weather give the little ones
Baby's Own Tablets, or in a feet
hours the trouble may be bei
cure. Baby's Own Tablets is the beet
medicine in the world to prevent sum-
mer complaints if given occasional/ to
well children, and will as promptly mile
these troubles if they come unezpocf-
ly. But the prudent mother still not watt
until trouble comes—she will keep ser
children well through an oocasionnl apse
of this-:,snedicine..,. Tktie Tablets omelet,
therefore, be kept in the house at ,$lf
times. Mss. Chas. Warren, Nevis, , ik„
says: "My little boy was grantlr'trua-
led with his stomach and bowels, blit a
few doses of Baby's Own Tablets wrought
a great change In him, I would not Am
without the Tablets in the house." Saeid
by all medicine dealers or by mail at
125 cents a box from The Dr. Williams'
f Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont.
The Foreseeing Muskrat. '.
In the month of _larch, before the riv-
ers have opened, en the enow around
the heads of the creeks and about the
air -holes in the thick ice may les seen
the, curious trail of the muskrat. It can
readily be recognized by the firmly -
planted footmarks, heavily and slowly
impressed, and the sharp after -drag of
the long, scaly, blade -like tail. All
through the cold winter mouths these
heavily .furred animals have lived warm
and comfortable in their well-eonstruct-
ed houses, rearing their third and last
litter. 0110 house erected about Sep -
temper seemed planned with almost hu-
man foresight. dere with their long,
sharp teeth and strong, inch -long claws
they had cut and cleared wide paths
through all the marshes -paths so deep
that.tliree feet of ice did not close them,
so wideaihat we have often paddled
along them, marvelling at .the great
floating masses of torn -up aquatic vege-
tation. These paths were a hundred
yards long and four feet wide, and were
cut through, a mass of tangled cover
high enough in most places to thorough-
ly conceal a duck hunter and his canoe.
In the winter months the muskrats can
easily dive from their houses into these
Linder -ice channels, and the whole marsh
is before them to choose their meal
from. 'The long yellow roots of the flag
and the juicy tubers of the wild onion
(the muskrat apple is the more poetic
Ojibwaay) hang exposed before them, or
are readily torn out.—From. "Hunting
the Muskrat with a Oamera," by Bonny-
caetle Dale in the Outing Magazine for
July.
le es.
A Suggestion. '
(N, 1'. Sart.)
Mathes—Yea, chlidren, Sant, comes do''eii
00 chimney so quietly that you never hear
item the carriage w iidew while she was a mi»v —Why dneen't pe try' taming bosses
driving in the park. late.: that war?
A Child's ..Laughter.
All the bells of heav n may ring,
All the birds of heaven may sing,
All the wells on earth may spring,
All the winds on earth may bring
All sweet sounds together;
Sweter far than all things heard
Hand of harper, tone of bird,
Sounds of woods at sundawn stirred,
Welling water's winsome word,
Wind of warm, wan weather.
One thing yet there is that none
Rearing ere its dime be done,
Knows not well the sweetest one,
Heard of main beneath the eau,
Hoped in heaven hereafter;
Soft and strong and loud and light,
Very sound of very light.
Heard from morning's rosiest height,
When the soul of all delight
Fills a child's clear laughter.
Golden belle of weloome roiled.
Never forth such notes nor told
Hours so blithe in tones so bold
As the radiant month of gold
Here that rings forth heaven.
If the golden -created. wren
Were a nightingale, why, then,
Something seen and heard of men
Lat be half se sweet as when
ughs a child of seven.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne.
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Profits of the Meat Business.
!n a lawsuit relating to the division od the
stook of the William Davies Cempasy, it is
shown that dividends have hem pail In de-
cent years as follows : sor the year coding
March. 31, 1893, 68 per cent,; 1894. 84eta
cent.; 195, 40 ner cent.; 1898. 45 nor eello.i
1807, 100 per cent.; 1896, 120 per ewe.; Sb
82 per cent.; 1900, 60 per cent.; 1901, 27 1-2
ner cent.; 1905, 41 per cent.: 1906, 25 Der tent.
These figures will, no doubt, produce com-