Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1869-03-19

ly-with his club. Horrible fight to
look on! | would give anything to
tear myself away from the telescope, or
at least to cosc my eyes and shut out
the sickcning spectacle. But the butch
cry is nearly over. The grey-harcd
man continues yet to struggle and resist
but only for Il little while In a very
abort time the contest, rs plainly sec,
will be over. The conquered man, max
ing one more suporhuman effort, rises
nearly to his feet, receives another
crushing blow. fails suddenly to the
ground. is still. Mcrcitul heaven what
is this? Who are these two mon? Do
| know them? 1t cannot he that that
l. iry dear old friend lying helpless on
Che ground, and that the other is the
man whom | took note of just now in
the rcctory garden. II cannot be that
this deed of which | have been witness
inactive, powcrlcss to help or savc--is
murder
/ felt for a moment as If all presence
of mind and power of action had desert
ed me. What was | to do? That wa.
/ all that | could say, over and over again,
as | sat still, gazing through the telc.-
cope, with an instructive feeling that |
must not lose one single ingredient Of
/ the scene before me. All that happen
ed must see. | recalled my senses by
mighty effort, and reasoned us men do
in q crisis. What was to be done? The
place where this horrible deed was be
ing committed was so far on-about
thrcc-quartcra of a mile as the crow
flies-more than Il mile by any road |
knew of-that there cou d be no posi-
bility of my getting there in time to he
of the slightest service. The end, if it
had not come already, and | felt GER
tain that it had must most surely have
come before | could traverse that dis
lance. There was but one way now i'm
which could be of the Sigh test service,
and that was in securing the detection
CT the murderer. | must remain at my
post and watch his every movement,
besides endeavOring to render myself
certain so far vs. the glass would enable
me to be so, concerning his appearance
and dress. SO there | sat- helpless and
spellbound, but watching with devour-
ing eyes. There was Il sudden stiffness
where there had been before so much
of struggling and movement.
The blows had ceased to fall now. The
deed was accom- plshed, and there was
no more need for them. The man him
! self, the murderer, was still, and made
: sure of his identity. There was the
red hair, there was the led beard, there
was thoscarlct cap laying on the ground,
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patch in front. There was no doubt.
Alas wa there any doubt either about
that other figure lying on the grass be-
side him? The light-colored Summer
; coat which he had worn when 1 last
; saw him the white hairs. 1t wa.
| nearly too much to bear, but a savage
craving for vengeance came to my aid,
+ and braced up my energies. | dispelled
J by an effort of the will q dlmness which
) came before my eyes, and straining
, them more intensely than ever, saw the
| man with The red cap start up, us if
) suddenly conscious that he WAS losing
; time, and set himself to work to rifle
5 the body Of his victim. AS far as
: could see, he was engaged in emp:ying
the poor old mans pockets, and once
+ thought | saw the CLEAN of something
} golden but this might have been fam
: cy. At all events, he continued fol
, some time to turn the body over and
5 over, and then, having / suppose, salts
, fled himself with what he had secured
, he got up, and dragging the corpse af.
ter him, made his way to the little wood
l close by, and entering it disappeared
/ from sight. And, now, indeed, a crisis
t had arrived when it was difficult in the
= extreme to know how to act. What il
that disappearance were final? What
f if he should get out of the wood at the
: further extremity and should see hin
1 no more,
10 be Continued.