The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-03-27

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"You mean that Simms' murderer
was never found pn
Never said Beardsley, though
detectives were brought down from
Richmond and set on the track. Their
theory u plausible one enough too
was that Simms had been followed from
New York by men who knew the large
sum he carried from the races, and that
they had robbed and murdered him, and
readily escaped through the swamps.n
" 1t never was my belief, said DR..
Schefier, " that he was murdered at all.
IT was hinted that he had stopped in
gambling house in New York, and there
lost whatever sum he had won at the
saces; and that rather than meet his
Gamily in debt, and penniless, he blew
out his brains in the first lonely place to
which he came. That explanation was
plain enough
What was the end Of the story so
Tar as Miss Waring Is concerncd2" /
asked.
Unfortunately, it never has had an
end" said Mrs. Beardsley. The mys-
terry remains. She was i'll afterward;
iMdeed, it was years before she regained
tiier bodily strength as before. But her
.anind had never been unhinged, as Paul
Merrick thought He waited patiently,
thinking that some day her reason
would return, and she would come back
to him. But Louisa Waring was per-
fectly sane even in the midst of her ago.
@y on that night. From that day until
NOW she has never by word, or look
given any clue by which the reason of
her refusal to marry him could be dis
covered. OF course the murder and her
strange conduct produced great excite
.Inent in this quiet neighborhood. But
YOU can imagine all that. l simply
have given you the facts which bear on
SHE ease
. The first suspicion, suppose, rested
on Merrick Y'' said.
: Yes. The natural explanation of
her conduct was that she had witnessed
an encounter in the woods between
Simms and her lover, in which the old
man was killed. Fortunately, however,
Paul Merrick had not left the house
once during the afternoon until he went
out with me to meet her."
IS And then Miss Waring was selected
z,s tue guilty party ?"
No one answered for moment
Young Scheffer lay with his arm over
a,is face, which had grown so worn and
haggard as the story was told that
doubted whether his affection for the
girl had been the slight matter he chose
to represent it.
NO." said Beardsley . she never
was openly accused, nor even subjected
to any public interrogation. She came
to the house in the opposite direction
from the spot where the murder took
place. Andthe was no rational proof
that she had any cognizance Of it. But
there were not wanting busy bodies to
suggest that she had met Simms in the
woods, and at some proflered insult from
him had fired the fatal shot"
His wife's fair old face flushed +" How
can you repeat such absurdity, McCor-
mack ?" she said. Louisa Waring
was as likely to go armed as-as / ~
knitting vehemently at a woolen stock
ing she had held idly until now.
6 L know it was absurd, my dear. But
you know as well as L that though it
was but the mere breath of suspicion, it
has always clung to the girl, and set her
apart as it Were, from other women
What effect did that report have on
Merrick y'' asked.
The effect it would have on any
man deserving the name," said Boards
ley. IF he loved her passionately be-
lore, she has been, believe, doubly dear
to him since. But she has never allow
ell him to meet her since that night"
You think her feeling is unchanged
for himp"
have no doubt of it, Mrs. Boards
ley said. There is nothing in Louis
aature out of which you could make u
heroine of tragedy. After the first
shock of that night was over she was
just the commonplace little body she
was before, and could not help showing
how fond she was OF her old lover. But
she quietly refused to ever see him
again.
8 Merrick went abroad three years
ago" interposed her husband. "I'n let
YOU into secret, Floyd. I've deter
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