The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-01

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 missive he delivered.
Walter was taciturn and reflective at
the supper-tab and later in the even
ing he said he thought he would walk
over to Albany before bed time, sleep at
the Delavan, and get the early boat IN
the morning. Ella was clearly vexed
and disappointed, but she babe him an
affectionate adieu Notwithstanding.
Next morning she rose later than
usual, and on reaching the breakfast
table found great excitement. The par
son and the village druggist were there,
50 was the ancient Miss NeedletOn, the
scandal purveyor of the place.
Pierced through the brain from ear
to ear - cried the spinster.
"Well, not exactly" said the drug
gist, 1.-the ball seems to have entered
the highest portion of the forehead
rather to the left of the medal line, and
proceeded downward through and to
the base of the skull"
"That seems very extraordinary,
doesn't it?" put in the parson. 81
should have fancied the ball travelled
the contrary direction-upward-
that the poor fellow was shot from be-
hind"
But there is the ball lodged as de
scribed," said DR.. Goodrich.
What has happened, pa? cried
Ella, unable longer to bear the cruel
suspense.
doctor Farieon has been muir
dered !" cried the par.on, the druggist,
IL,
at ten o'clock last night by an assassin,
who escaped from the surgery window. "
80, she's faintingi" cried the mother,
rushing to her "poor darling, how the
horrid news has shocked her !"
When che recovered she was in her
room with her parents. Once alone,
she thought long and earnestly of the
tragedy; the mysterious relations be-
tween her lover and the murdered man,
the sudden departure last night of the
former, and his strange fits of gloom
stree he first met the doctor. But, o 1t
| couldn't be. 1t was mOnstrous--it was
cruel-it was objectionable to mix Wal
ter, even in imagination, with such a
crime. No, no; 1t wasn't Walter. That
was certain. She would at once write
to him, and tell him what very terrible
crime had been committed. Of course
he would want to hear about it from
Kirkland before he read it in the news
| paper. So she wrote a long letter to
| Walter; and while she was engaged on
! that pleasant task the police and idle
! villagers were securing the country for
| the assassin. More than one had seen
him enter the doctors house the proceed
| ing evening and could generally de-
scribe his appearance.
1t was twilight when Ella started with
her letter to the post-Office, half a mile
distant, and it was almost dark when
she reached the outer grounds OF
the Kirkland homestead. AS she ap-
preached the gate, hidden among a
cIump of naples, a mans form, with
outstretched arms, darted before her,
and said in hollow voice:
4" My darling Ellap
She looked an eager, wild look a; her
| heart gave one sickening heave, and,
with a sensation of choking, she gasped
so, my God, Walter Say it wasn't
| you-say it wasn't you u
| He put his arm around her, and led
her INCREASINGLY into the heart of the
| shrubbery. Then, with tremulous earn.
estness, but with despair in every tone,
he said:
$50 help me, Heavenly Father, Ella
| 4 hllA LtOb Bu11by Ol-muIu6E
She was stricken dumb. Every sense
of her being was concentrated in hear.
ing; and she gazed tixedly at his palled
| face when the moon came out, and held
his right hand in both of hers, while he
| whispered his strange, sad, terrible
| story. Briefly, it was this
When fatherless lad he was placed
in Liverpool banking house, where he
was favorite. Gradually he mingled
in EAST" society and frequented the
| gambling table and, once, in a terrible
strait, he forged his patrons name
Stricken down with sickness immedi
ately after, and fever and delirium super.
vening, he raved necessarily about his
crime. DIR. Farieon, then a graduate
attended him, and possessed himself oil
the facts of the crime, and when he re-
| covered brought the patron to the pen.
| itent's bedside. He was pardoned on
promise of amendment, on condition
| that he would leave England forever.
DIR. FarjeOn was mortified at this dis.
play of magnanimity, and when he
| parted from Walter, said {:
"Be careful in America, or may
have to play the detective in another
role"
"You know" continued the fugitive
as the sobbiDg girl hung on his neck
you know how we met; but you dc
not know that when we were alone the
same night he threatened to expose
what he termed my ''antecedents, un.
less would pay him So, GOO hush money,
He said that he passionately loved you
Ella {; that you laughed at him and de
spised him, insomuch that he literally
raved and cursed at the prospect of oul
happiness.
"Well, last evening, as we left church.
lad put a note in my hand and, wheI
alone, opened it and found it an i'm
perative command to meet him at his
house between nine and ten. That il
why met you"
"Well ?" she eagerly cried.
CT went. He insolently told me ]
must "cOme down" with $40, 600 within
a week, or he would brand me before
the world. 1 was greatly excited.
could not raise so much money, aud ]
called him opprobrious names. He
seemed to think l meant him personal
harm, and, being naturally a coward,
he drew his pistol. / seized it, ana il
the struggle it was discharged when
both our hands were above our heads.
You know the result. I jumped from
the window and fled, 1 knew moi
whittier.
"Then, it was only a dreadful acoi-
dent, " she burst out. "You have com.
mitted no Crime. 1t was not your
fault"
All Ella, dearest, who but yourself
will helieve-will be convinced of this ?''
! "Where is the note-the note he sent
you last night? That will show some
thing" she eagerly said.
Lost, Ella"
The unhappy maiden uttered a des-
pairing cry and tainted away, and al
most at the same moment two officers
sprang through the branches and ar
rested Walter Carleton for the murder
of Simon Farieon.
appearances are certainly very much
against the young man." DR.. Goodrich
was forced to admit to his wife, as they
observed some symptoms of recovery in
their daughters brain fever. "Sin
some explanation may be forthcoming.
1 can't believe young Carleton DELHI
crate murderer"
The prisoners lawyer was working
like beaver. Yet he was unable TO
account for the disappearance of the
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