The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-07-03

| "Well be friends, anyhow, EiI", IL ~"
won't shake hands" he OF the red WHISPERS
was saving as Walter, with flashing eyes
and vcngciul looks, unseen, approached the
spot. =. .,,.,,io,r ,ho IN
,ruder violently aside. "By what right do
Won presume to annoy this young lady:
Ella uttered little scream, The man stag
gered, and nearly fell; but, reganing his
IGouillbrum, he quickly faced round, ana
dercely fixed his reddish, chestnut eyes upon
his assailant.
"WaIter Carleton, as I'm Il living, breath
ing sinner"
@Dr. Farieon?" with a violent start and
change of color Good God, you here! l
beg your pardon for my rudeness did not
see your face; it was so unexpected. why
how In the name-l mean how on earth ana
you ever turn up here?'
Oh, that is easily explained said Doctor
Farieon, with significant look at waiter,
you see after we had parted at LiVerpooI
dock
"Ah, yes; just so,' said Walter nervously
"Ella. nv dear, DR.. Farieon and | are old ac'
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and all that you know
Doctor, shall be glad to meet you; that Is
confound this lnishap; we must get II repair
ed, and get home Immediately; mustn't we
Ella"
Ella had looked with speeches. surprise
at the chilling effect the doctors sudden ap
pearance had upon her lover. 1t had com
pletely transformed him, crushing his gayety
as one brushes flower in the hand
With a supercilous good bye, Miss Good
rich - and "t'll see YOU this evening, Walter,
DR. Farieon proceeded on his way; when
with mortified look, Walter said
"Why, Ella, whatever is that man doing
lhere!"
"If YOU had not interrupted him, he would
have told you soon enough, the hateful, ue
ltestabe fellow" she replied. "He lately
bought pa s practice; and has come proving
about our house and prosecuting me ever
since; but to-day made him feel how IN,
tensely despised him. How on earth did
you ever form that Jack.Sheppard looking
sawbone's acQuaintanceg'
Merely profes sionaly in Europe" replied
Walter, dryly.
Walters attempts at cheerfuness during
the homeward drive were spasmodic failures
and after dinner gloom settled upon him,
which Ella sought to dispel. He said he had
slight headache, attributable probably, TO
the shock in the afternoon drive.
Just as night was closing in, Dr. Farleon
was seen walking in the direction OF the
house, and abruptly Walter uttered some un'
satisfactory explanation and joined him. The
two men proceeded towards the hemlock
grove, and Ella, watching from an upper
window, could see that the doctor gesticulat
ed threatningly, and that Walter, her daring
and chlvalrous Walter, seemed to make
p.eous appeals to the others torbearance
What can it mean? Oh, whatever can it
mean 2" sobbcd the yearning young heart, as
she stood, weary and wretched, watching the
retreating forms till they melted into the
darkness.
In about an hour Walter returned. He
was almost boisterously cheerful. There
was triumph in his eye and satisfaction on
his brow. Next day was Saturday, and Ella
and he spent delightful day, notwthstand
| ing that he informed her business would call
him to the city on Monday, but only for a few
days. After that he said he would return
and spend whole uninterrupted fortnight at
| Kirkland.
On Sunday evening the lovers attended the
village church; and as the congregation
were dispensing, a lad in a SLOUGH hat that
almost concealed his features, suddenly ap-
preached Walter, and, with a quick and dex
ferrous movement, placed note in his hand
and disappeared. The action was SO sudden
that the messenger had vanished before the
young man had recovered from his surprise
and although Ella was close by his side, she
neither saw the envoy nor the mlsslve that he
delivered.
| Walter was tacituIn and reflective at the
suppcr.table, and later in the evening he said
he thought he would walk over to Albany
before bedtime, sleep at the Delavan, and
get the early boat In the morning. Ella was
clearly veXed and disappointed, but she babe
| hiu,o atf lStlnIinp
| Next morning she rose later than usual
and on reaching the breakfasttable found
great excitement The parsoH and the village
druggist were there, so was the ancient Miss
Necdlcton, the scandal purveyor Of the whole
place.
! Pierced through the brain from ear to
ear!n cried the spinSer.
well, not exactly" said TIE druggist, "the
ball seems to have entered the highest portion
of the forehead rather to the left of the me
dial line, and proceeded downward through
and TO the base of the skull"
THAT seems very extraordinary, doesn't
it, put in the parson. II should have fan
cied the ball travelled the contrary direction
I-upward-and that the poor fellow was shot
from behind
"But there is the ball lodged as described"
said DIR. Goodrich.
"What has happened, pa" cried Ella, un.
able longer to bear the cruel suspense.
"Dr. Farjeon has been murdered" cried
the parson, the druggist, and the spinster in
chorus, murdered at ten o'clock last night
by an assassin, who escaped from the sur
gerry window"
20, she's faintingm cried the mother, rush
ing to her. poor darling, how the hOrrid
news has shocked her!
| When she recovered she was in her room
with her parents. Once alone, she though,
long and earnestly of the tragedy; the mys
FERROUS relations between her lover and the
murdered man, the sudden departure LAS
night Of the former, and his strange fits o
gloom since he first met the doctor. But, o
i ii couldn't bc. 1t was mOnstrouS-it wa
cruel-It was objectionable TO mix Walter
, even in imagination with such crime. No
no; it wasn't Walter. That was certain
She would at once write to him, and tell hin
what very great crime had been committed