Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-06-20

[FRoM THE Peoples MAGAZINE. ]
An ENaLIsII STORY.
MR.. VINEYARDS WARD.
BY HoLHE LEE.
AUTHOR OF "sYLvAN HoIy's DAUGHTER. !
CHAPTER K

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The mother continued much the same; now
high--prating, laughing, ibabbling now lo,o
weeping silent, detected Each morning
news of her was carried to Rood, tol her
father and Mr.. Tindal. The latter was
growing hourly more impatient for the dis
closures that he looked to, to deliver him
self; while Pierce, with a strange fatuity,
was retiring on his old doubts and droads,
and repeating over and over again to him
self, to the doctor, and even to his master,
that 1t was not "a certain thing his Alice
was the guilty person. He did not kno,p
she was. He might have feared he would
not deny any longer that she was at Rood
that fatal day, but more he could not say
Was 1t for him to condemn his own flesh
and bloodr If they put it to him on his
conscience, he did not believe that it was
in her ever to do such deed; no, not for
jealousy, nor for revenge. GhN
'Don't talk to me, Pierce; there is q
moral certainty that she did It," cried the
doctor, in arage. @ II .}
people said there was moral certainty
Mr.. Arthur did 1t but moral certainties
don't stand for proofs. go back to my
former ground, sir-I don't know who
murdered Mr.. Hugh Tindal, and l don't
wa,at to know"
"You have been taking council with
somebody besides yourself is the way
in which you damned your MASTER
II n'tdeceive you, sir have been
consulting Mr.. Hargrove. lie knows the
law, he knows what is evidence, and what
isn't evidence and he says he sees no
sound reason at present for reversing the
popular verdict"
"Mr Hargrove ought to have more sense
than to talk about popular verdicts. How
ever, ifyou have opened the business to
him, it might as well be opened to all the
world. You'had better go and see Alice;
shall name her to the matron. The guar
dians meet tomorrow, and you will have
to remove her." Asf q
With that the doctor drove off, saying to
himself that whatever chance publicity
would give Mr.. Tindal, he should not lack
It. He went straight to the poor-house, and
saw Alice, who was, as he believed, drifting
into the outer darkness of insanity, where
anguish could no more reach her. To
screen her longer, would be q sacrificing of
the living to the dead. The matron came
at his call. .......5.
"This woman belongs to Rood, to decent
people there said he. sI have let her
father know the state in which she is-Mr.
Pierce, a servant at the Abbey. In, all
probability you will have him over. If he
should wish to take her away-which most
likely he will--it ought to be only to an
asylum. will sign her certificate, and SO
will jackson, but he had better not be in any
hurry"
In crossing the market-place, the doctor
met the curate who had the spiritual care
ofthe paupers at Allan Bridge, and to him
also he made his statement
''There is small hope of her recovery"
he added, 'if, indeed, it would be anything
TO hope for tits miserable story. That
child you buried was Hugh Tindals, and
she was the undiscovered woman in the
wood that day he was shot. Her father
has known 1t from the first"
"You don't mean that she--I have always
heard it charged on his brother" stammered
the clergyman.
Very unjustly, as Ithink." The doctor
nodded, and went on his way, left his gig
at his own door, and proceeded to the law
yer's office. Mr.. Hargrove was engaged at
the moment, but wouldb be with him shortly,
said his clerks and the doctor, who had no
patient watching for him, that he was aware
of, sat down to wait.
well, Grey, is 1t your will, this time ?''
cried the lawyer boisterously, as he appear
ed after the lapse of about five minutes.
mo, Hargrove, it is not my will yet II
IS that old story Pierce has been to you
about from Rood. THE lawyer immediate
" became serious, got behind his desk, took
up paper-knife, and composed himself to
listen. A closer observer than Doctor Grey
might have discerned anxiety as well as at
lcntlon in his countenance. ''Did Pierce
lell you his daughter is here, in the poor
mouse No! I thought as much. Crafty
Ola knave, that can't understand it is as
necessary to be open with his man of law
as his man of physic. She is here, at al
events, and for what can see, is likely te
80 to worse place-Norminster ASYLUM
most probably"
MIR. Hargrove made an inarticulate noise
expressive ofsurprise and commiseraton.
IF Pierce did not tell you she was here
what case did he bring you This is what
mine turns on-she cant keep away from
hood. She has confessed TO me that SHE
saV Hugh Tindal shot she was, therefore
mat woman who was lurking about between
Tue Grange and the Abbey, of whom there
was some suspicion that she might have
uone 1t. Now I'll undertake to say that i
mad been known the woman was Alic'
ficfce with her bundle of wrongs ant
n'serles on her back, the suspicion woul,
nave become conviction in the common
mind"
me lawyer thoughtfully bit his lip, an,
a'owed that 1t might have become convic
,oh IN the common mind, but proteste,
uial 1t would not have become conviction
u MS. 'In fact" added he, with an air @
sanaour' my prejudice went from the frs
Against Arthur Tindal and 1t was YER
sirong.n
49,. never heard you say SO before,
answered w.. the doctor, aghast. .'Never, an,
"e nave talked it over score of times"
and may talk oft score to that again,
said Hargrove.
nut my impression was that your opir
nh Went all the other way" persisted III
M ihen your impression was mistaken
n. ne lawyer was rather short, as if he di
,n ,u - .nis insistance, and would put sto
>" but his present client had an excelle,