Delaware inquirer. (Wilmington, Del.) 1859-18??, 1860-02-25
$500 PER ANNUM.


house to hear your noise they are all sent off
except Mrs. Sayall, and she is sitting laughing
at your outcries, suppose, in the front parlor
you need not think the people in the street
could hear you either, for you are good way
from the front Of the house here, and besides
your voice is none of the strongest"
~ shall be heard cried ~ shall not be
quietly robbed by you in the midst of thou
sands of people, all ready to give assistance,
did they know my situation. have chance
of being heard from this window" and pro-
ceeded to the window which looked out TO the
rear of the house. "Ishould quietly stay here,
and endure your insolence till the morning,
but that wish to get you punished for your
conduct"
: He rose quietly, and suddenly placed him
self between me and the window
~ want no noise-ro womanish-looking out
cres-I must manage the business quietly"
made momen,ary demonstration of trying
to obtain forcible possession of the window,
but It was only fora moment; l shrunk from
personal contest with a man so base.
"Yes,l lie cried, with malignant snccr
"you would fight you and where is your
strength" He looked from my emaciatcd, en-
feebled figure to his own square and very strong
proportions. "what chance could such
creature as YOU have with me ?--could not
crush YOU with the most extreme case, if I so
wished? But want no violcnce-I hate the
sight of blood do, indeed 1 only want that
little sum in your pocket-book, to which Ihave
proved to you that I, lpoverty-stricken man,
have right. However, must let you see
that, if please, can shortly settle your puny
noise and resistance. Look, he drew out pis-
tol. g il is ready loaded, and fit for use at any
u.oment so look to yourself-the pocket-book
I must have without force ifI CAM
Every lingering doubt of the mans inten-
tions vanished at this, and saw before me the
determined robber and murderer.
aYou shall not have the pocket-book-yo
shall murder me first" / said recklessly as
seated myself on the old chintz-coyered sofa.
He made no answer, but still grasping the
pistol, he fixed the hard, piercing looks on me
which had at first disturbed me, and filled me
with yaque fears. knew not whether it was
the effect of his singular gaze, or of the over
excitemerft acting on nv weak system, but
felt stealing all through my frame subtle,
drowsv sick sensation, such as in all the long
illness / had endured Ihad hardly experienced.
Nv head became piddy. and I was conscious
that nv face was blanching, my Iips psrticu-
,orlv becominO dry and white. At that mo-
ment the hour of midnight-one oclock-was
struck in various parts of the great city, and
the sound yibrated on nv ears with a strange
dstinetness.
| aTbe effects are beginning to appear at last"
muttered Sayall, in a kind of half soliloquy,
Int still watching me without ceasing.
The words seemed to me hardly to have been
snoleu nv his Inns. so deep and striking was
their intonation. and inyoluntarily uttered I:
| g What effects ?r,
nTbe effects of the poisonn he answered,
camlv
| uPoisont-what poison?n
aPoison which administered to you in the
naous. which vou will recollect prepared for
YOU in the Italian manner, as I said, at supper
Al this sat without speech or emotion.
Don't be very much alarmed,n he con-
timed in the calmest tones, ait is a peculiar
rorco,;c no;sou administered TO YOU. and Il
Won drink the antidote some of which have
in this phial the poison will only operate as 9
medicine, most excellent medicine even, the
only unpleasant effect being slight stupefac-
ton at first. I knew well that unless drug
ged you in some such manner, could not OBJ
tain possessions of your pocket-book withou
violence ;-and now shall pour out some of thu
ant;dote?" ?" He held up the phal.
nGiye it to me- cried, with the instinct o
self-preservation.
"Well, when you hand me the pocket-book
the phal shall be yours"
HThe ockct-book-villain you shall no
have IT,"
As said this felt, or fancied felt, til
symptoms of a horrible stupefacton throug
, NV frame; there was a whirl of dull, dream
like confusion in my head, a strange soundin
, in nv ears, and my eyelds, despite my effort:
, weighed down at times with leaden heaviness
' the very agony which naturally possessed m
when heard and oeheVed was poisoneu Ma
, nothing of the activity and wakefulness
healthful agony; it was plain that was be
ginning to labor under the effects OF some pow
erful narcotic.
D "Foolp exclaimed Savall, "you must
. aware that shall certainly have the pocke
l