The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-06-10
CHAPTER II.
PHYSICIAN IN LOVE WITH THE DAUGHTER-A
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or thirty years Of age-Dr. Macon-who for two
She had toyed and tr1ned with him during air that
time; but he had finally insisted upon decided
answer to his suit and on that very evening he was
house he overheard the voices OF mother and daugh-
ter engaged in close conversation, and drawing
near to the window and meanly listening he had
obtained full possession OF the terrible secret OF
Mrs. Blake's life. Madly In love, and utterly I'M
ne at once determined to make any use
vantage to secure the hand Of Hester.
On that very evening Or. Macon was engaged to
their old housekeeper returned from the village
with the intelligence that shocking railroad acct
had fastened OF to the assistance OF the wounded
On the return OF DR.. Macon he called upon Mrs.
Blake and surprised her with the information that
among the hurt was Armand Landry, mOrtay In
jured. He was accompanied by his daughter, the
halfsister Of Hester, and she had been stunned by
farm house near BY, and Mr.. Landry, knowing that
he must die, had requested that Hester should
e s o ne neN ma might nj
for her support.
And now was concocted one OF the most fendsh
plots ever devised by the human mind. II
suggested by Mrs. Blake and acquiesced in by Dr.
Macon and Hester, that the halfsster, who was
still unconscious, should be kept In state OF i'm
becllity by drugs which the doctor should Jskfuly
administer to her for that purpose and Hester
70 er he was SO cose as TO defy
immense estates entaied upon the half-sister
through her mother.
The inducement to DR.. Macon was Hester's prom
ise, on the accomplishment OF the scheme, to be-
come his wife.
which lay concealed In the bottom OF her halEsis-
ters trunk, she found among them several from
Raymond De Lorme handsome young man whom
she remembered rs her own first Over at the South,
when she was little more than mere child Those
letters were written In most imprisoned strain,
and showed that between him and his fhir CORE
spondent-Estelle Landry, Hester's now stricken
halisister-a marriage engagement existed.
No sooner had Hester discovered this fact than
her old love for DE Lorme was rekindled and she
resolved at once to have him also, as well as Es-
telles fortune, let whatever obstacles might be in
the way. He was now absent In Europe, TO remain
fully concealed from Dr. Macon but, come what
would the young man should yet BE- hers
woman with an American education, was q great
gossip, and a cunning selfish evil-minded woman
the Mrs Mers Sleeping roo sne
while their internal plot had been planned but the
suspicious woman happened TO be awake and she
had risen, and emerging through q window, crept
around where she could listen to all they said. She
too, now meant to have her profit out the
scheme, the secret Of which she had obtained un.
On the following day Mr.. Landry felt his end rap
idly approaching. He had forbidden peremptorily
that Mrs. Blake should be admitted to his presence
but Mrs. Blake had determined to see him before
he died. He was very anxious for confessor and
accessible Sister OF Charity might be obtained.
This assurance Afforded him great relief and he de-
sired that no time might be lost in sending FOR ner'
Mrs. Blake determined to improve this oppoItu-
nifty to see him, without his recognizing ner ana 10
visit him In the disguise OF a Sister .ho soon,
was dimiy lighted BY a single candle, she should 60
In and listen to such confessions as ne W,sheu 10
make In them ne spoS reg o. the dire
she had planned 10 inrict on him when he lay help.
before her breathing ms SNS e @u brn@ TO
| him m he IudIed her hardly and cruelty at the
| last sbe would have no MERCY on pinh