The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1877-01-04
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andtwen,y wears ol age, wita pleasant
spd good-looking face of horld oompieh'
lou, aud a. ret unmarried.
Iie sat, thls igeezlng winters hlghis
with his feet restiog upon the brass fen
der, medical book ia his hand, and a
pipe daaaN ang from bss mouth, -
7 The contents o. tie book did nostetnn
% entirely euchain bis attention, fer
every isS aaomenis be would raise his
eyc. ana gianee up at ibe clock on iee
mantci
The clock struck twelve.
Midnight, mnliered the doctor, aloud
Che meu are fully an hour behind their
appointed ;ime. What can delaylhem
sof
Tie words had scarcely len hls lips
when the bell pealed loudly.
I Doctor Deane laid down bis book npon
the table.
He unlocked aud opened the front
door, sud beheld two men standing bo'
I fore him ia the clear moonlight, carrying
between them something long and heavy
which wa. concealed in canvass bsg
The two meu Immediately entered
with their strange burden, and Doctor
lDeane followed tbem into BIS pdvate
troom.
They laid lbe hesyy canvass bag upon
alhe long table, which stood behind
green bsize curtain, lbd was hang BY
brings on brass bar running from one
end of the room to the other.
3 Without utterng word. the ine''
Illowy drew on ihe great bag covering
and human form, rigid aud half nude,
was disc!osed TO view upon the table
The fellow said 10 the last Thai hc was
-tibe wrong man, III, exclaimed one,
4 winking bis ey ., said aud, swore lbai
lie was innocent. lie died like man.
lsir.
A moment later ibc two body bearers
bade good night 70 The physician, aud
were ont iu the cold street, -.
Deane, having Dolled aud locked the
! door after lhcIn, returned TO the room
fand, having pushed The green baize cur
/ taus aside to the waIls, stood looking at
the form upon The table, with bis hands
! clasped behind him.
! The body before him @as that Of d
man of perhaps thirty years OF age, well
VI
(which even death could not rod OF It's
manly beauty; but dull blue circle
stained lhe shin Of the neck, whore the
moose of the hangmaH bad pressed and
tightened, and yet the eyes,. closed and
unswollen, gave to that dead face the APP
pearance of calm repose.
A dark murder had been done eight
months before.
For the crime man had met mar
dercrs fate upon the scatl9ld that same
J morning, and there he lay this night in
the room of Doctor Deane--ior the nn-
fortunate man had been poor aud utterly
iriendless in life, and so in death The
body had found its way TO whore it now
lay.
\ For few minutes Deane stood silently
looking at the corpse, and then he turned
upon his heel, walked over TO an open
chest of drawers, and drew out his box
of instruments.
lie took mp the candle, set il beside The
! box upon the dsseotiug table, and f1ii'
, ing up biz sleeves, opened the box sud
drew foraiIa long, slim and sharp biad> q
. knife.
With the fife. gentle touch OF his knife
upon Tie cold body, tie Young physician
sloiteaflaldthly back step DRIVE, snd,
dropping the kuile urou the floor, stared
at Tie body before him.
a slight .hiver had passed ihongh The
form upon rhe liable, and the eyelids
were trembling even now.
peatc etmpfehended ll,p hoilo
: The man was not dead
The doctor immediately 81 10 work "a
revive the inan. hom the world helieN ed
bad died hpon lie scaifJld that same
: morning.
Ills forts were soau rewarded: fur
within twenty minutes living, breath
Ing being sat upright on the ionR liable
aud swallowed the brandy that Deme
held 10 his lips
A live lnan said he, IN husky voice
as be gszed about him, and then liked
his eyes upou The doctor. Thank God,
! was not buried aliyel
Deane sbuddered
! You wilInO give me un 10 the erne
law sgain2 You will not have me taken
: back TO PRISON. Ny God! viii yot moi
. be rneH eifall 81 4ff Htll W
You were found guilty Of idntder,
George Leighton. Yoa were bro agbt ID
the sesnoid, TO day, and, BY moA
clumsy mistake, were cut down before
life had entirely left your body. By
giving lou up 70 the lasiice from which
you have for line escaped, | only &c
sn Imperative daty, said Desne
A. sm now a living man, as here i.
iieayeu above, I ara 81 Innocent man
, cried George Leighton, ieyeniy.
never committed tie deed of which | an
accased--pever, neserl was condemn
Ell upon evidence whlch Wss pareIy cir.
! eamaaatial, and no murder rests npuu
my soul
Something 10 the look 81 thn man
something IN Bis voice aud manner
caused DsAnr TO think lhat. aiier al. 'hi
being might be he victim Of citcunstan
tlAi evidence.