The Herald, 1903-10-23, Page 3eeeneelrede
The Rose and Lily Dagger
A TALE OF WOMAN'S LOVE AND
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" I did. And heard them. I' was
•standing near them, behind the shrub-
bery. I heard every word."
What passed ?"
She moistened her lips, but her
eyes did not move, nor her voice
falter.
"Hie made love to ber. He want-
ed her to break off with the mar-
quis and promise to marry him."
"And Ishe refused?"
"For a time, yes. Then he threat-
ened her, and she yielded; she con-
sented to break with the mar•
quits."
"Go on. Give your account -if
what followed. Did you hear more?"
"Yes, but not so distinctly; they
spoke in lower voices. Mies Detaine
was agitated; Captain Sherwin, I
think, threatened her."
"Do not tell as what you think,
speak only of what you are sure."
"1 am sure lie threatened tier. She
seemed desperate and hard -driven,
and in the midst of the words I saw
her raise her arm and something
flash in her hand. The captain
cried out"—the voice, almost mo-
notonous, grew hoarse suddenly—
"anti I eaw him fall backward over
the rale of the bridge !"
,The crowd could not restrain its
pent-up excitement longer, and a
cry of amazement, incredulity, and
then horror, rose and filled the
court -house. That beautiful, sweet -
looking girl—Elaine, the major's
daughter, had committed the crime!
,Gerald Locke sprang to his feet,
white with excitement, a
shriek rose from the group
of ladle.' by the bench, the usher
yelled for silence, the policemen
roughly pushed and elbowed the
seetning people swaying to and fro ;
for a full minute, under the shock
created .by the few quiet words of
the small, white-faced woman, every
person present lost his head.
,And yet not every one. One man
alone stood calm and watchful, and
it ivas the prisoner. As if be had
been expecting this statement, lie
stood, his eyes 'fixed upon Fanny
Inchley's wax -like face, his hands
clinching the dock rail. He beckoned
to Gerald sternly, and as Gerald
pushed his way toward him, leaned
over the front of the dock.
"She lies !" he said, in a voice
audible to those near him. "Watch,
watch ! Be careful! Look at her 1
She is lying !"
"Silence 1'' shouted the usher.
Tho ;fudge held u.p his hand, his
thin, cadaverous face as stern as
it had ever been in the moment of
passing sentence, and at the uplifted
band and before the terrible face
the tumult died away. The sergeant
bent clown and whispered to Saun-
ders, teen raised himself, and eyed
the white, set face with grim in-
tensity.
▪ You saw Mise Delaine stab Cap-
tain Sherwin ?"
I did," came the reply, slowly,
unflinchingly.
" Where did she stand—before or
behind him ?"
▪ Behind him—at the side."
"Hie fell at once?"
"At once."
"You heard him cry out twice ?"
"No! Once ! Once only 1 I aid
once 1"
(rhe sergeant nodded.
"Yes, es, you said once. What did you
dos Mob !" for a movement was
beard near the entrance.
"My lord, I must ask your lordship
!]ileo stopped, for he saw that the
movement among the crowd was
caused by the entrance of Elaine
and May and the major. He stopped
and looked at the pale, isorrow-strick- 1
en face of the girl Who had just been i
accused of the hideous crime, and
faltered. In all his experience—and
how marvelous and varied it had
been 1—be had never known of a
case to equal this.
Fanny Inchley's eyes wandered
from the wall at which she had been
snaring, and followe4 Elaine as she
went to her seat at the solicitors'
table : followed her with an expre,s- 1
slain of irate and malevolence w'hieh, 1
though it was as fleeting as a pass-
ing shadow, was seen end noted by
many.
"After you bad ,seen Miss Delaine
stab the deceased, what did you do?"
lA cry, a faint cry of horror, broke
In upon the question. It came from
Blaine; and she looked round, and
then at Fanny Inchley, as if she
doubted the evidence or her. own
ears.
Fanny' Inchley, fixed her eyes on
the aid spot on the wall.
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"I ran away."
"You ran away ? You saw the de-
oeased stabbed—you saw him fall—
there was only another woman —
a woman like yourself—and you ran
away,'?"
"I did. I—I Iw;as frightened."
"Where did you go ?"
"Home—to the castle, to my room."
Elaine sat, both her hands tight-
ly clasped in May's, her eyes fixed
with wile amazement and horror on
the white face of the witness, her
breatn coming and going In pain -
fat gasps.
The sergeant sat down. As he did
so, Saunders whispered to his fellow
detective, Brown. and he quietly
made his way from the court.
Gerald Locke rose.
"You cross-examine the witness,
Mar. Locke ?" said tete judge gravely,.
"Yes, my lord 1 lviy client is inno-
cent of this crime, but neither he nor
I will accept a verdict of acquittal
on the evidence of this woman."
A murmur of applause arose, which
was instantly suppressed.
"You say, you saw Miss Delaine
stab Captain Sherivin. ?"
"I did. I saw her. She cannot deny
it !" came from the thin lips, and
the gray eyes, like a w'olf's now,
dropped on Elaine's face.
"Attend to me, please," said Gerald,
sternly. "And you went home and told
no one of what you had seen?"
„Not,
"Why not ? An innocent man was
accused, wrongly accused according
to your account. This that you have
said in court to -day would have tend-
ed to clear him, save him. Why did
you not speak out at the examination
before the magistrates?"
"Ah, why ?" said a voice in the
crowd.
Fanny Inehley's thin lips set
tightly. s,
I—I did not want to be mixed up
in it. I didn't' want to send a fellow
woman to death"
"You bore no grudge against Miss
Delaine?"
"1 ? No."
"'You and Captain Sherwin were
friends ?"
"Yes—friends."
The slight hesitation gave Gerald
the clue.
"More than friends?"
She hesitated again, and her oyes
hid behind the long lids.
"Answer 1 You knew Captain Sher-
win intimately, did you not ? You had,
brought him to the bridge, you know.
Tou—" the insnlrateon came in a [lash
—"you were lovers?" 1
She started, and her small hands
clinched.
"It'n—it's Riot true !" she exclaim-
ed, panting. "It's a lie, whoever says
so! I -I--",
"It is ? Then why, should Captain
Sherwin come to the bridge at your
bidding? You say, you did not know
that he was in love with Miss De.
lathe and had proposed to her ?"
The sharp gray eyes looked ground
the court cunningly, just as those
of a fox look rotund at the moment
the cry of the hounds breaks on his
ear.
"Answer, please. But take your
time."
"I don't know. When I gave him
the letter--"
"The letter! What letter ?" de-
manded Gerald, swiftly.
She looked roused again.
"The letter—the letter she stab-
bed him to get."
Elaine leaned forward as if about
to rise, but May, held her down.
"This is the Iirst time you have
spoken of a letter," said Gerald.
"Whitt Was this letter?"
"I -I don't know."
"But you gave it to him, you say."
did not!"
"Yes ! `You did. What letter was
it? Come 2"
The marquis leaned forward, his
"Ask her 1" broke from him stern -
haggard face set hard and stern.
"Silence!" cried the usher warn-
ingiy.
"Come!" repeated Gerald.
She glanced down at him.
"'I don't know. I—I made a mis-
take."
"I have no doubt you did. Butt I lent
it pass, for the present. You ran
away when you saw Miss Delaine—as
you say—stab Captain Sherwin ?
Which way Slid 'you .go ?"
"Which way 2 '
"Yes 1"
She looked down, and seemed to be
endeavoring to remember.
"Round by the long walk by the
lawn."
"It is a lie 1" said a voice,
Gerald Locke moved his head in the
direction whence the voice had come,
and saw that the denial had sprung
from the white lips of Luigi Zanti.
The blind man had not uttered a
single word, bad scarcely moved,
since he had entered, but had sat,
his head leaning on his hand, his
sightless eyes turned to the person
who might be speaking, listening in-
tently, breathlessly.
"Wllo uttered that improper ex-
clamation 2" said the judge, sternly.
The blind man rose, pale, but sin-
gularly co: eased.
"It was I, my cord," he said, re-
spectfully, "I leg pardon. The
wortls were wrung from me."
"Leave the court," ,said the judge,
Luigi fumbled for his stick, and
the marquis bent down and. touched
hes shoulder pityingly, tenderly.
"The poor gentleman a great
friend of the prisoner' -s—. blend, my
lord," whispered the clerk.
,"Stay," said the judge. "Resume
your seat, sir."
"No, my lord," Mid Luigi, with pro-
ound respect, "It is better that I
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should retire, for 1, too, sba.il be a
witness," and he let Ingram dead
him from the court.
Fenny Inchley had watched this
incident under her half -lowered lids,
and those near her notice:I that she
was breathing quickly, and in a con-
strained fashion, but sha turned at
once to Gerald as he resumed
"You cannot have forgotten the
wlay you went from 'the bridge to
the Castle. Do you still say that
you event round by the lawn ?"
"I do."
"Now, then, for the letter. What
Letter was it that you gave Captain
Sherwin, and for the ppssession of
which, you say, Miss Delaine asked
him ?"
Fanny Inchley was silent for a
moment, then ehe mid:
"I refuse to answer.''
The judge looked up.
"What 2"
"I refuse to answer," sh'e re-
peated, and in her face was clear-
ly revealed, hard as she tried to
mask it, her inward fury at the
slip of the tongue by 'which she
had mentioned the letter.
"You must answer the question,"
said the judge, "unless you think
that it will incriminate yon."
She was silent, and looked under
her lashes from side to side.
"You say that Miss Delaine got
the letter from Captain Sherwin 2e
"Yes," sullenly.
"Very good," said Gerald. "Now,
Miss Inchley, one question and I
have done. Had Captain Sherwin
promised to marry you ? Be care-
ful. Take your time."
She hesitated. It was evident to
all that pride and caution were
battling together in her bosom, At
last she raised her white face, and
flashed her gray eyes round the
court.
"He had !" she said. "He would
have married me, but--" she stop-
ped, but her glance at Elaine fin-
irehed the sentence as plainly as if
she had added—"but for her!"
Gerald motioned that he had done
With her, and she turned; and left the
Lox. The people were massed close up
tohthit, but she forced her way through
iem,
"Let me pass," site panted, "I am
ill—faint."
And they made way for her.
The sergeant rose. •
"That Is my ease, my lord," he
said. "After the evidence of the last
witness I should not be justified in
calling upon Mos Delaine to con-
tinue her evidence--"
"No," said the judge, gravely, but
Gerald sprang to his feet,
"My lord, without exchanging one
word with Miss .Delaine, and not-
withstanding that Fanny Inchley's
,statement has taken nee as much by
surprise as it has my learned friend,
I ani convinced that' Miss Delaine
is willing—yes, and anxious, to con-
tinue her evidence."
Elaine roue. The marguts, after a
look of doubt and terrible distress,
raieed his head and looked at her.
The judge frowned in deep thought.
"The decision lies with Miss Des
!eine," 110 said, solemnly. "No one
morWill faxpect her to y one word
&' My
Elaine drew her hands away from
May, and stepped to the place in
which she had stood when she was
giving firer evidence, and though her
face was still pale, there was a
light in her ey0s which made the
poor old major's aching heart throb
with pride.
"I wish to tell all I know, please,''
she said, in a low, distinct, voice.
The judge sank back, and folded
his hands with' an air of resigna-
tion. There had been so mime In-
formality already that It is to he
presumed Ire thought 'that to ins
sist upon strict legal form now
Would be inconsistent:
The sergeant sittei ged els shoul-
ders. • ;Venslble for to MAW,' !1's as the
"When interrupted by the indis-
position which we ail regret, Miss
Delaine, I visas asking you whtat et
was that captain Sherwin head told
you which induced you to consent
to his proposal that you should
break off your engagement with
the prlsoner. I repeet that pee-.
Von
r f �
'Elaine looked steadily at him:
It Was a letter which Captain
Sherwin gave me," she said.
"Then there was a letter 1" mur-
mured the crowd,
"A letter. Can you tell me the
contents? Perhaps you have pre-
served it ?"
"I hare.''
She put her band in the bosom
of her dress, and took out the let-
ter and handed it to him. •
As she did so the marquis bent
forward eagerly and sawit; and
as bo recognized it an exclamation
broke from him which electrified the
whole court.
"My God!" ho exclaimed. "1 see
it alp !"
CHAPTER LXXVII.
All oyes were turned from the let-
ter whicli the sergeant held In his
htand to tho marquis as he uttered
the significant words, "I see it all 1"
and the judge looked across at him
keenly and with a. grim smile as he
said;
"It may bo all plain to the pri-
soner, but it is anything but plain
to me and the jury, 1"
"1 will read the letter," said the
sergeant, gravely;
"'My Dear Ernest'—the prisoner's
name is Ernest, gentlemen of the jury,
Ernest Ed.ivynd—'My dear Ernest, r
arrived here 'quite safely, but very
tired. I quite agree with you that
for the present our secret should re-
main a secret still, but I tell you
rankly that I am getting tired of
this mystery and concealment. I
didn't bargain for all this dullness
and dreariness, and I don't think you
can expect me to endure it much
longer. Please send me some more
money—I know you will wonder what
I've done with that you gave me, but
money and I are soon parted ; besides,
it was a bargain that I should have
as much as 1(wanted ;, and I mean to
keep you to that part of the con-
tract, anyway. My cough is just the
same as ever. 1 don't Laney 1 shall
like this place; it seems a dull hole.
l'd rather have gone to earls, where
one can buy decent things and amuse
oneself. I hate being bored, as you
know. You'd better send me a cheque
for two hundred pounds while you
are about it. Did you buy ine that
pearl ring I fancied ? There was a
necklace went with it, I think; if so,
you might get that at the same time.
Anil doe't forget the shawl I saw at
the Oriental place in Regent street.
Your affectionate wife, Pauline.'"
A profound silence followed the ser-
geant's reading of the letter. It was
a day of surprises, and the amaze-
ment of the audience ivas too great
to admit of utterance.
The marquis, with pale face and
now flashing eyes, bent forward and
seemed about to speak, to hddress
Elalue, who stood with tightly -clasp-
ed hands and downcast eyes ; but the
usher sternly called silence, and the
marquis closed his lips.
"And it was this letter, which Cap-
tain Sherwin gave you, that decided
you to break o.ff with the prisoner 2"
said the sergeant. "You saw by it, in
short that lie was—already mar-
ried ?"
"Yes" said Elaine, almost inaudibly.
The marquis seemed again about to
speak, but Gerald Locke held up his
hand.
"Lot the jury see the letter," said
the Judge.
The letter was passed to the jury,
and then to the judge, who handed it
to Gerald.
Gerald examined it, hie brain feeling
hot and bewildered. The marquis
already married 1 It could not be
true, the letter must bo aclumsy
forgery%
Tho sergeant continued his exam-
inations
"Tell us what happened after you
had read this letter, Miss Delaine"
Elaine raised her sad eyes.
"I left the bridge then, left Cap-
tain Sherwin. I—I was ill, and—I
think I fainted in the shrubbery. It
was dark, and I lost my way. I re-
member that the thorns cut
hand---"
The marquis started.
"And then I must 'have fainted and
i'alleae; "
"1iiow long did you Ile In a, faint?"
as1 ed tale sergeant,
She shook her head..
"I do not knows,' .1."14';'4
w.
"Did 3;0S1 hen anything, any cry,
such del gree apaken of be the other,
witne"N4 ises ?" t' t • t t. , , 1
"You knew nothing of teel'death
of Captain Sherwin 2"
"Not until, I read it in the paper at
Lucerne, before my, illness. I wish to
speak of the—dagger," she added, in
a low voice.'°
"The dagger ?" said the sergeant.
"Had you seeds it before or after the
murder ?"
"Before. On my first visit to the
castle; and on the day or the murder
I found it 'behind the settee in the
hall. Signor Luigi will remember—t
shoved it to him."
The court listened breathlessly.
Was she going to convict herself ?
"What did you do with it 2" asked
the sergeant.
"I laid it on the top of the glass
case 1p the hall," answered Elaine.
"And 1 Have not seen It since—until
now," and she glanced with a shudder
at the horrible thing, as the sergeant
held it out to her to identify.
The sergeant paused. "1 have no
more questions to ask you, Miss De -
lathe,' he said, gravely.
Gerald rose, the letter In his hand.
"Will you tell us ivhy you believed
this letter t , be genuine, Miss De-
laine? Did it not occur to you that
it might have been a forgery con-
cocted by Captain Sherwin for his
owai purposes?"
"It did. But—" she hid her face in
her hands for a second—"the mar-'
quits admitted that It was genuine."
"You saw him, then, that evening?"
"Yes," she replied. almost inaudi-
bly. "I saw him in the drawing -roost,
and—and—" her voice broke into a
sob, "he admitted it all !"
"Never 1" burst from the marquis,
in passionate denial and entreaty.
"Elaine : Look at me--"
"Silence !" cried the usher.
The crowd swayed to and fro.
Elaine raised her eyes to hie with'
sad reproach in them.
The marquis leaned forward and
touched Geralu.
"There is a hideous mistake !" he
whispe'ed hoarsely, all his calm
gone, hne manner now agitated and
passionately earnest. "See the date
of the letter'?"
Gerald handed it to Blaine.
"Will you read me the date of the
letter, Miss ttelalne ?"
"July the 171n, 1888," she read. .
The marquis raised his hand.
"No!" he exclaimed. "It is 1885.'
No orie cried silence; every one
was too astounded to speak for a
moment. Then the judge motioned
for the letter to be handed to him.
• (To be Continued.)
A Sultana's English.
The ladies of the Levant, it would
seem, are not afflicted with the
"cacoethes seribendI." They do not
worry the book reviewer. They sel-
dom write a letter, and when they
do their style is naive, and their
technique almost a matter of pri-
vate enterprise. Here, for exam-
ple, is a note from a sultana to
her commissioner: "Constantinople.
—My Noble Friend : Here are the
featherses sent. My soul, my no-
ble friend, are there no other fea-
therses leaved in the shop besides
these featherses? And these feath-
erses remains, and these featherses
are silky. They are dear, who
buys dhese ? And, my noble friend,
we want a noat from yourself.
Those you 'trot last tiro were beau-
rlful. We had searched. My soul, I
tvant featherses. Again of those
featherses. In Kalada there is
plenty of feather. Whatever been I
only want 'beautiful featherses.
want featherses of every desola-
tion to-morroete" Though frank,
the lady is cautious, and only signa
herself, "You Kno'sv, Who." --Lon-
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