The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-03-07
CHAPTER XIX
Out the lights all,
And ended Is our play

1t vas two days after the exposure of
Beatrice Vernon and the Villa had settled
down to it's ordinary quietude. But for
the scandal which had SO marked the dis
closures in regard to the late mistress Of
Myrtle Villa, there was a strange silence
all over the house, for when the excitement
of the affair had passed, Colonel Adams
was Frustrated with fever, and his daughter
was in attendance upon him night and day.
Eugene Allerton also had experienced a
relapse In the presence Of Myrtle Adams
all his softened and better nature was
drawn out, and he lost all the vengeful
nature he had possessed, for so many years
III quest of this woman who had so falsely
deluded him. He had seen Beatrice Yer
non borne away to the prison he had
seen Ronald Darlington, or a mangled
mass Of humanity, draws from the well,
and had witnessed the fact that life was
not yet extinct III him. But he felt grief
now which was not as any other emotion
Of his own mind, for all the old love for
Myrtle Adams was again becoming awak-
ened III his inmost being
Ronald Darlington, who had laid in the
we'll for twenty-four hours, had not in all
that time been at all conscious. He had
received the wound from the dagger in the
hand of Beatrice Vernon, and had lain
there insensible from the morning OF the
day previous. He was very weak and in a
manner very severely injured. The timely
discovery of Eugene Allerton Of the beetles
which had been attracted by the blood Of
the wounded man, had been the means Of
saving the life of the man. In a few days
Ronald Darlington was able to sit up, and
to realize how fierce was q woman's anger
when it was fully aroused.
To him Eugene Allerton told all, bring
ing it down to the time Of his arrest by
the detective in Washington. He had
been led to the train, but had not proceed
ed far towards the north, on his way to
the prison in Philadelphia, when he was
discovered upon the train by his former
two friends, Robert Garrison and Thomas
Barton. A long conversation then ensued,
and the result was that at the solicitation
Of the former friends of Eugene AIlerton,
the prisoner was not released entirely, but
was allowed to 60 free, and given an op
pOrtunity to vindicate his character, and
to return to Washington; money, Of course
had an influence in the affair, and so, III,
der the close surveillance of a detective, lie
had been allowed to proceed to Myrtl.
Villa.
Here he had pledged the detective t.
remain until he had conveyed Beatric,
Vernon to Philadelphia, whittier he ant
Cyrille Eyting were to be summoned few
days later.
1t was only brief trial that of the wo
man Beatrice Vernon, and it was ther,
shown that she was guilty Of murder, anC
that Eugene Allerton was innocent. Tha
she was conducted to the prison to awai
sentence, and the man whom she had s,
falsely deluded, and had so bitterl,
wronged, with the witness, Cyrille Eyting
returned to Myrtle Villa.
When two weeks had passed away, anC
Colonel Adams had recovered to his usua
health, the Villa was again quiet.
Ronald Darlington had gone to his hom'
in the East, and Cyrille EytiDg was at he
hons with her own father again. To thu
members of the Villa came q temporar!
shock, for it was rumored and subsequent
ly substantiated in the prison, that tn,
woman Beatrice Vernon, had concoctea
plan to escape, had carried it out, and he
companion, Vane Evelyn, had fed togeth
er to q foreign country
What their lives were on the continen
of Europe no one ever knew, for the.
were never heard of again.
Whether they carried on the same nefa
rious schemes N in America, or whethe
they were content to subside into the quie
life which the great cities there allow to b.
spent by any one 20 inclined, was not TO
a time ascertained. But there came ru
NOR that woman, an American, had beeI
Imprisoned in Italy for disgraceful at
tempt At swindling operation against
consul, and her companion, who was no
known, had escaped. When they had lef
from the hand of America, however, the.
we're virtusiiy lost from al honor, fo
their future lives wsrs moe known to IN,
ono.