The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-01-31

and some shots were fired. The villainl
all escaped but one. He was wounded
but would scarcely have got away if ht
had not been; for Nora Reese hadsprane
upon him at. first, and c!ung to him like
wild cat.
cts the man that. killed my Bobby
and I know it p' she screamed.
The man fought her q little at first, bu
when she said that he stopped, and lean
ed against the wall, gaspiRg and starting
with staring eyes, while the blood fel
from his wound upon. the floor.
"What do yon mean Z" he asked: "HoW
do you know killed him ?"
II heard the others call you Carlo, ant
Carlo was on the knife, I know it was
youpl.
/. "Do you 9mean that truly?" he said
eyes, 1 did kill him. I'll own up, for
believe I'm dying myself.
Philip Fanshawe sprang forward ano
caught him -as,he was falling, and they
laid him gently down upon the floor:
SIT was the cruelest thing I ever did,
he went on in>a o regretful tone.
at was," said Philip, sternly. "Why
did you kill him 2"
The man stared at Philip.
"Why, you're the fellow Idele was te
have married." he said. "Do. you love
her YETI"
"i shall love her till dep Philip an
swered, setting his lips. "What were
you to herr"
II belonged to the gypsy band who
stole her from her fathers house a babe
I was present when the madame took a
fancy to her, and paid the band money
to give her up to her. When 1 heard
she was going to marry you, 1 thought
saw my way to make some money. !
pretended to be her father, and got her
to meet me in the summer-house that
night, and talk it over. She didn't be-
lieye me, but she said she would think
about what / said. And thenshe picked
some yellow roses, and told me if I pass
ed next morning, and saw her wearing
them, I might know she. still refused to
believe me. -.
s esAfter she had gone I went out and
found the boy there listening, and, 1 kill
ed him, partly in temper, partly because
I was afraid he would tell what he had
heard. Poor Idele !: The sight of that
dead boy convinced her I had told the
truth, OF Iywould not have killed him to
keep it from being known; and she fled
from him to avoid betraying the man she
supposed to be her father"
ssDo you know where she is now?"
Philip asked, his face ;darkening in spite
of:him., ss; Z.
..She is living with her own mother. as
lady's companion. Her mother is the
widow of Lord Tulliver. They are fond
of,each other, but they do, not guess the
truth. They are at Tulliver's Park IN
Yorkshire now"
i Such was the substance; of Carlos
story, omitting the many interruptions,
the long pauses, caused by his weak and
dying condition. -
] He died the next day. But.he lived
long enough to complete and attest by
solemn oath; all these statements, as we'll
as to tell where other witnesses to their
truth might be found: :6
fnlup IOSI Ho tilAo IL GoCeniuk LAO S"S..
love, and brought :hersback to Fanshawe
Hall as his wife, with little delay as pos
sible.
Madame. his mother, was very glad to
see her.
: 81 always; liked you my dear. You
know I was as fond of you as could be
till Philip wanted to marry syou," she
said coolly to Idere.. But had. follow
ed YOU to the summer-house that night,
and Cock Robin wassnet theonly listener
there. II wonder,,if that wretch would
have killed ME it he had found me. /
believed him when he said he9w your
father. and you know I could not let
Philip marry the daughter Of aman like
.that-a murderer, too.