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Zurich Herald, 1926-06-03, Page 6ust Drinli Its superb flavour satisfies. ' ti.74'...e.,,Vri,P-.4atfeM0441WelMeale .teetetae - THE SHOT IN BEGIN HERE TODAY. The writer of this story, seeking nocturnal adventure, walks toward London from Woolwich. He stops to rest in front of a long, -low house of interesting _architecture with front covered with white stucco. Tall French windows lead into the gar- den, Li one of the French windows there burned a light. A revolver shot is heard. The writer lifts the latch of the gate and tiptoes up the walk to peer into the iight4.-!ci window. He sees a man seated in a desk chair. He steps into the roern and tinds the man dead. A door opening into a dress- ing-reom is ajar and from that room comes the sound of sobbing, NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY There was a big armchair covered with cracklieg chintz, heavily flow- ered in b:ue. Upon it, or rather upon her knees on the flour and thrown face down upon the armehair, lay a woman, whose shoulders conyiesive- ly heaved a' she wept. Evidently site had just in from her bed, for over her Ilressingegown of green si:k, unboend eur13- red hair flowed in heavy waves. I watched her for a momthWSS ent. for ere SOE111-7.thillg j a..,,,...te. Zier arrns were eutstrezahed a:ress the chair: tears. I had a quee..- she were as IF sew:- to death. Her peet.p. :aee ,reite arms earae tee et' silk teeeeet. I wr:!; :es: her, when. „- .f bards a rev -r e.atetesi. . . r _ gssear.: Ives she gr.., ?eel iirsel -hog e. eel el, et : • :y fern,. e W 1-.4! E, why. the etwho h,e1 -zetee raern Bet -1-,e 7.eurs :et -sir -red • we!: the :egiee areasieuity•1 ?lee r:e. she egree. end .x,my 1,X :,6f1. serns.reity. pie ep r hv7, temforting hand ere!: a sheel•lee thet heaved. exp....ted her re star up with a syssain. iett I had forgetten how mush s'ne must need rhe comfort of hulaae .entact. for. instead, she suddenly raised hr head, gripping my hand. Looking up at me with a stsined, i•lotcheil face, she mur- ninred: "F.,r God's sake, don't leave me." She reseed her eheek against THE NIGHT "Now," 1 said, "quick. You've no time to waste. What happened?" She seemed to find speech di•fficult, but she tried: "I can't tell you . . ." "Oh, nonsense!" I spoke harshly on purpose. "It's no use trying to hide. I've just been through that room and I found your husband, at least I suppose it's your husband. . . . Don't begin crying again," I said angrily, as her mouth opened., "It's your only chance. Tell me what h•appened. You shot him, didn't "Yes." I caught the whisper. • "Well Low, what's to be done?" She was rapidly becoming coni-, poeed: "There's nothing to be done' except send for the police." "I suppose I ought to," I said. "But I don't want to if I an hello it. Oh, whatever made you do this?", She was not listening to me, for she replied: "Is he dead?" "Yes, he's dead," I told her, "1, ;looked. But. by the way, you haven't asked Inc what I'm doing here," She shrugged her shoulders. ; "Yes. 1aeree with you; it doesn't matter. 1. was passing outside; I. heard shot, and I came in:" "Well, you'd better send for the police." -Why ehold I?" I 2ook-;ed at her service. Mother said he wasn't the right class for me. They won*. let me, marry bine He was only gl, and he wasn't earning much. Oh, I was had, bad." She stopped-i..end I said: "How de you mean, bad?" "Oh, I ought to have stuck to hien. I promised him, I told him I'd wait. But they wanted me to marry • . I the man I married; Be was rich, very rich, and we were so poor. Oh, I ought to have stuck to him, my boy Dick •. , , but they were tOQ !krona. for me, I cou:dn't. I was only 17. Oh, you do understand, don't you? I couldn't. They were too strong." "Yes," I said. "I understand. Cro on." "Wel:," she went on, "I mended him. 1 couldn't help it, Seven years ago. Ile wasn't unkind to Inc et first. He said lie loved me, and et suppose he did. And I tried to love him, too. I did my best; I swear to you I did my best. But I couldn't. I was always thinking of my boy Dick, far away, and the dreadful let- ter he wrote me when he heard that I'd married. Re was right, but it hurt me dreadful:y, For a year or two things went well enough. I was very wretched, but I didn't• show it. And my husband, he seemed pleased. But one day, I don't know how, he found out about Dick. I don't 'see why he minded. I'd married him; that ought to have been enough for him. I was a good wife to him; s'wear to you I was. But' he got jealous. Jealous of my poor boy Dick, so far away, whom I hadn't even seen since I married. My hus- band began to talk to ene about Dick. , I tried to say it was just a boy and girl affairbut my husband understood. 'couldn't help seeing I that I didn't hive him. Be thought it was Dick's fault, and so it was in a way. He began to hate him. 1 -le I was jealous of him-, just because I Moved him. He hated Dick, and he hated me. Oh, you don't know what it's like. I hope you'll never know. To live with somebody who's got a grudge against you, and who's trying to make you suffer, trying all the time. I don't know how he did it, but, you see, he was a rich man. My husband began to take an interest in shipping. He bought shares in ships, and opened an office. And he made a lot of money, .for he was ever. Oh, I couldn't bear it." "But how do you mean," I said. "I don't quite understand." He began to follow the move- ments of Dick's ship. It was quite easy. He used to come in in the evening, and say, 'The Cheronia has been sighted off Sandy Hook, Would you like to send Dick a wire- ess, darling?' I didn't say any- thing, but it hurt. Or again. he told me when Dick was promoted to sec- ond mate. He found out; he told me. I don't know; he must have made spying a business. He told me how much Dick was getting per month. He even invented stories about Dick and other women, month after month year after year Almost every 'day. he had something to tell nese I gritted My teeth together, tried not to burst out, but it was too much. My husband was Using Dick as a cant phrase. Instead of saying: *I fore-: my umbrella today, how careless.' he'd say: 'I'm just as care- :- s• as And, in a restaurant, he w.iced me whether I'd like pudding a ;a Dick. But I didn't get used to it; it orly got worse and worse. Year after year. I was going mad with it; perhaps I am mad. But it didn't stop my heart bleeding; perhaps I ou:d have stuck it out, however . Perhaps he'd have got tired of it. For my 'husband loved me, you know, in his way; indeed, it was always after I'd cried, when I lay weak and sick with hysterics, that he'd take me in his arms and cover me with kisses which I hadn't the strength to resist. (To be continued) • • more careete.y. Instinctively, she; had wiped her hese: no doubt it was her zeauty which ine:ined incto reerey. I realizeti :hat when all was we wieh her. :his woman would siege: n: s: beautiful fee -es -res. The. eesse hair hung in tanged ses had O.N...1": raveleel out • 14 my hand. Her .'obs ware louder now. "cif ceerse I won't leave you," I said, in a soinforting ione. -oh. don't leave me," she said again. "Now, try and pu:1 youreelf to- gethee" I rsmarked. "It's no use cry":." At. this her sobs increased so es to became almost, screams; I realized whst a foolish thing I had said1 did not know what to do. cou'ri 't stay indeflaitely to be dis- hy the servants perhaps. So I used a besois rertusly. *Freeing my band by a violent effete, 1 seized her by the .-hon7ders end forced her to her feet, shaking. her vigorously two er three times. She gave me a moan, a gasp. end suddenly her tears stopped. Shs was staring at me with open eyes, her mouth still convulsed, but si'oet. for 11 the "1. 4...":4" It makes them smile-- am. it's sure ( "416 worth while. Ife-1041j -Virl'ortvc • : e..03 ISSUt No. 22,—"2,, No doubt :t washer inclined me to beauty which mercy. of its plaits, for a green how hung at the end of a strand of hair. It grew low upon the white brow, where it made seven beautiful points of bright bronze. Under gleaming golden eyebrows, large green eyes were looking at me piteously, and a very red mouth trembled. "Look here," 1 said, "suppose I'd passed your house five minutes later, I shouldn't have heard. 1 shouldn't have come in, Then you could have escaped. Now, look here, get your clothes on, and go as quick •as you can; otherwise you're sure to be caught. You'll go to prison for years. Get your clothes on quick. By the time you're ready I'll be gone," She seized my arm with her free hand, having evidently forgotten the revolver in the other: "Don't go," she whispered. Then, tensely: "If you go, PA shoot myself, too." "But . .. but," I said, vaguely. "Don't go. Yes, 1 )tiled him. I den't care. I couldn't help it. I had to, It couldn't go on. 1 couldn't stand it," she said on a louder note, which made me fear renewed hys- terics. But suddeely she grew calm; I dont knewwho you are, and I don't care. I don't care about any- thing. I don't care if they hang me . I wish they would." • "Of course they won't hang you." "Listen.Let inc tell you. 1 want to tel you. I suppose you think I'm horrible because I'm a murder- ess. I couldn't help it." She released my arm and sat down heavily in the armchair, as if her energy deserted her, but all through her story her voice was • now audible, though monotonous: • • 'The man you've jest seen, who's dead in there, was my husband. We've been married for seven years. When we married 1 was 17, and he was 45. 1 didn't want to marry him. I b wanted to marry somebody else . . my boy Dick. My Another, well, she didn't iiko Dick. You see,' we were what is called nice people, awl Dick was third mate on a ship in the merchant • Minard's Liniment for burns. • 0. K. Thee. "You should never marry a girl un- less she has a special "Well, my girl is a telephone oper- ator." Index of Character, IIt is said that a can can successfully Ole with his eyes, belt not with his mouth. 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