The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-09-13

4 During this occupation he grnned and gib-
bered with Qeyillsh satisfaction quite appalling.
| flood OF light burst In ON the ClOuded
brain OF the unfortunate Dame Chariot. She
spTang from her feet as if electrified.
"BertTam Oh, the monkey the monkey
| My poor murdered master There! The mon
key--the murderer ~ and pouring out incohe-
rent sentence after sentence, she fell senseless
On the floor.
The true murderer was found.
In the hurry and tumut on the night of Donna
Bstevan's death, nobody had thoue hit OF the ape
who had for three months since that tragicai
event held entire possession OF the premises,
living how and where he could. This ape was
one of the animals which Winter had in mis-
little menagere, and from his halt human pro.
pensties and his tameness, had been allowed to
rove through the house and garden at will.
1t is well known that monkeys will most
faithfully and accurately initiate the transac-
tions of human beings. On he night of the sup.
posed murder, the black ape had been watching
old Winter in the laboratory until sleep over
came the latter.
IL will be rccollected that the phial of AQUA.
fortis had been unfortunately LETT by the necro-
mancer on the table. The ape, eager to imita, @
the motions OF his master, had seized the
phial. But there was no other phial at hand
into which TO empty it, for the remainder were
locked up.
Suddenly thought flashed on the monkeys
mind. There were phials outside the door on
the bracket, and he would use those. As the
charlatan had left open the door on account of
the neat, TINS was easy, and the ape accom-
plished his design.
This performed, the ape Bertram, with the
sagacty which distinguishes his tribe when they
have been perpetrating mischief, left the bottles
he had tampered with in the place where he had
found them, and seereted the unlucky phlal
which had been the cause of all the misfortune.
Dame Chariot at midnight found the bottles
precisely as she had placed them, and uncon-
sciously was the agent of destruction to the
poor Spanish lady, That was the first act of this
tragedy.
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tragedy, in which poor old Winter had played
the chief part, could not be recalled. The cur
tain had fallen on it forever.
Happily the third act was never performed.
Gretchen speedily gave the alarm, and the
house was soon full of sympaLhizing towns
people. The ape was secured, and 1t was found
that one of the two pblals which ne held when
the woman first observed him was the identical
one which had held the aquafortis.
For the second time Antwerp was in an up
roar, and the upshot may be readily guessed.
Our old friend Dame Chariot received her rea-
son (Which the shock had brought back-such
cases are not rare) and she lived to see hun
dred years. The repentant townspeople would
have erected statue to the memory of the
poor Decromancer, who was the victim of a
monkeys freak, but they changed their minds
and did still better. They raised q competence
Tor the now happy Chariot As her master had
left no heirs, the State made over his wealth to
the old lady in part compensation for her many
trials, and she resided till her death in the old
house.
The tide of ill-luck turned. The house be-
came fortunate. Madame Chariot" as she
was then called sent to Venice for her great
nephew, famous ieweller to come and set up
his trade IN Antwerp Probably with the old
lady's guilders and for1ns in view, he did so;
lived with her nearly twenty years, till she died
in her hundredth year, when it was found that
she had left all to him. The goldsmith amassed
an enormous fortune, became ultimately emo
bled and a member OF the State CouBcil, and
his heirs in Antwerp have, to this day, Tor their
arms, a monkey prasping an empty phial, with
the motto, "Out of mischief rose fortune"
Thus was a monkey the cause of the deaths of
three innocent people, and the founder of a
whole family's prosperity