The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1869-08-06


nobody could answer.
And one night the Hlage constable
walked in and arrested Rachel Miner on
| suspicion of murder
Murder = echoed Rachel, turning IS
whom on earth should | murder
! Come, none o that" said the man OF
Office: you know as well as we do that 1t $
old Mr.. Ray. When DID you do Il, and
what have you done with the body
Mr.. Ray" slowly repeated Rachel.
But why should you suspect me
There's reason enough, spoke mp one
of the accompanying neighbors. w ASH.
you always ouarrelling? And didn't
Andonirom Jenkins here you say, with his
own ears, that You'd be revenged on the
poor old man, on the night before he dis
appeared p
Stop" said Rachel, with her tremb-
ling hand to hca forehead y let me remem-
her. "Yes-yes, did say that but meant
it aught but an idle word. y
Its easy Sayin' So" said Adoniram
with shrug of his shoulders; but where S
old Jacob That's the question. Come,
Rachel Miner, you may as well confess. +"
Il cannot replied II chel, TREMENDOUSLY.
there be, as the babe unborn But be
is not dead he will surely be back one day
Only wait p
We've waited just about long enough"
said the constable gruffly 'and you're
my prisoner So come alone the quieter
the better
Hubert will be on tonight, won't he?"
questioned Adoniram.
Yes, if he got the te 'egram, answer
ed another. Hello what's up p
For Rachel had sunk on her chair, with a
slight agonized cry, as the words reached
her ear. 80 Hubert Ray to CO come home
and lind her under arrest. And On suSplc
ion of having murdered his Oh, fathea
could it all be am awful dream
1T is impossible it can't be !" she
walled wildly. "Oh, let me go. He will
come back again You will see how I'M
founded all your fears have BEEN. Let me
go !"
And with sobbing moan, she tainted
away.
Its better so,' said the constable,
rhlegmatically WED a-had scene if
she had her senses Women hain't no
self control. Lend a hand, Adoniram,
and we'll get her into the wagon lime
enough to bring her to afterwards"
When Rachel Minor returned to her sem
ses, she lay on warm pallet n one of the
most decent rooms in the village locked
up, with the keepers wife deluging her
forehead in burnt vinegar and hartshorn
and tender face beding over her own
Hubert |"
Eyes, Rachel tits T. Lie still, darling
don t look terrified
But, Rupert DO you know"
Il know it all, Rachel-and | know, too,
I that You are innocent as lilly bud my poor,
outraged darling 1t viii all come to right
some time. My poor fathers murderer
must be tracked and you will stand forth
in the sight of The world as pure and holy
as you really are
She sank back on her pillows, while a
look Of unutterabe peace came over her
pale counter ance.
+" don't mind it any longer. Hubert /"
she murmured softly. Ley them all ca II
me guilty, as long as yoW believe in my IN
noccnce u
The village of Wceksdale had its nine
days wonder the stream of gossip was
was at high tide now That Hubert Ray
should persist in the innocence of the girl
who undoubtedly had Killed his father
thathe should no even break their marriage
agcment-surely the Idle tongue OF RI
NOR needed no more delicious morsel than
this |
Rachel murder MY father - he cried,
contemtuoualy. Nv ny, Rachel never hurt
as much as "a butterfly in her life"
"WelI, then, who did it p persisted
Adoniram Jeukns Il beerd herself say
she would be revenged on him, only the
night aore he disappeared"
1t was an idle word--a foolish worl,"
said Hubert, with slight cloud on his
frank open brows, but she never meant it. |
would stake my own life on Rachers in.
nQcence.
The time of trial drew near, and still no
light shown in upon the dark and troubled
mystery, and day or two before the sit,
ting Of the court. Adoniram jenkins storm
cd his OK team once more before Farmer
Ray door Old Goody Parker, who kept
an eye on things, was out In the hen
yard, gathering her apron full of eggs ana
AdonIram went straight into the kitchen.
The fire was burning brightly on the
hearth, and there, before its ruady glm,
mer, with staff and bundle beside him. and
shoes all dusty with tokens of travel, sat
old Jacob Ray in his wanted chair.
Adonlram jenkins uttered choaked sort
OF cry. He was not Supersiitious. yet at
that moment he fully believed that he saw
before him the ghost Of the murdered
nan.
What ye croakin' at?' demanded .Ja-
cob, in his ordinary abrupt mood
where's Rachel What's old Goody
Par ker doin in my ben yard I? Why
don you speak instead of standn' starn
thereY'
We'll, [ am beat" said Adoniram,
dabbling at his forehead with the crown of
his hat. $50 you amt murdered, arter
all "
Murdered No, but I've come as near
as a man need come
And old Jacob Ray told the tale of how.
trudglng to town In the early morning to
deposit In some bank hoard of ready
money he had contrlved to accumulate. he
had been knocked down and robbed by
ruttlans, who, seeming the money, had
logged him some distance, and how bis
body, the life totally extinct sthey believ
ed, no doubt, had been left on the beach,
hidden under pale of overhanging rocks,
when the first tide would bear it off to sea.
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