The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-01-23
Paying the Penalty.
CHAPTER I.
ny Mrs. Meta Victoria Victor.

CHAPTER 1.
The scene opens in the Morgue, New York,
when the body of Handsome young man !
has just been brought in, and where it lies
under the dripping of the iced water, which
falls uponit to arrest the progress of decom-
position. The man who attends to guard
the dead did not observe slim female fig.
ure, which seemed to arise out of the earth,
SO silently and suddenly did 1t stand there.
She was bending over one of the five mar
BILE slabs on which lay the dead body of a
splendid young mamie could not have
been more than twenty-three.
"who are your said the attendant, suddenly be-
II am Liz She ssid 'tand that is my husband
DO You wish him sent home?' said the man..
Heavens-what use? have not cent to bury
Come now! you had better go home. It's getting
she glued her forehead to the glass again. standing
there m9tioniess until the ofiesa not unsently put
11 heT ps at hm he &
=" wouldnt want to If was you, my poor girl.
= Home l never had home! 1 came up on the
pi omised to take care Of ne-he paid for my little
me- Of 9h g
very great surgeon. indeed a man of authority-ra1
Ioosss through the glass curtain .'00u
:. How fortnsate!" he said 70 himse;f: i" 1 could
Then, turning 70 the attendant: stand II nesd Of
Has haa what
he chaps vile was here,said she was too poor
Gan have it to nfght?''
~ should say SO -
cretion This body is not to go into the college 1t
want then to get an and bring this to
will conirive to have polio man on that beat out
9t the way at that hour You and can bring it in:
to make nioy no remarks f '0ui 'o"'is' are
si RsIf sS a
waited for him outside the hospital gate, and was
| driven rapidly toward home
| CHAPTER IL
| On the previous day Dir. Fordyce had been sum-
moned to the house of his next door neighbor, Mrs
Remington. On his arrival there he found Mrs.
Remington and her daughter Flora in the agonies Of
grief. On bed stretched the unconscious form
of Clymer, the of Mrs Remington, desperately
| wounded by pistol ball in the right side.
| How did it occur?"
A moan from the mo her was her only response.
"Oh, doctor, is he dead? whispered Flora.
not quite. my dear, not quite. His heart BEATS
The surgeon turned down the sheet to examine ths
aessr end as he s stGEped De- the patient heard "a
street door Hs observed the two ladies' shiver as #
A tap at the chamber door soon followed. Doctor
corridor to hear what the servant had 10 say.
young master, sir Mnst shall do? told 'em he
TASK them to step up stairs with little noise
possible. will speak to them, -
expression on their faces which said as pla My
eh BY do duty ii you
Nv hat do you want, my men? ?"
I've are here to arrest Cl, mer Remington an.
sweFed one Of the tw" read pg e from paper, "for
mnch shocEed. Is - '''' ' "'N'N 'A' ' s''n
'Wel, the man you after is hot much better
off. In all human probability he will not live
the night oat. He Is shot in the right lung 1t is
impo. sible tor you to move him. Step and take
look at him you will See for yourselves the condition
The officers came in on tip toes, and saw at ganc
that few minutes would close his mortal Career
|
| whed Liz found that her lovers body had disap
peared aud heard Of the duel she had instinct.v
idea of what DR.. Fordyoe's object had been in buyu
her husbands body. Gambler and rogue as he ha
been, she loved him, and with brains sharpened witt
destitution, she resolved to make her market out
the secret.
"I will make these proud creatures in silks know
that am ma tch for them!'
She smiled haggard.y to herself to think tina
Field-that he would be dressed IN bruadcloth. al
smothered under luberoses aud jasmlnes IN hi
1t almost deadened the dull pain at her heart ttl
while to thlLk Of the splenaid funeral her Georg
would have, Jolted along III u sumptuous hearse 10
miles and miles. followed by haf Inc proud ladie
and gentlemen OF ntn-avenue IN their glitterln
carriages driven by t1l4ows III capes and buttons IL
As for herself. she would take a cheap ride t
| Greenwood by cars, find out the FANNY plot OF til
Remngtons and he Oh he nd to see her lover put !
| the ground with the Bishop himself to read I'll
,, prayers.
CHAPTER Ill.
A beautiful child of eleven years was sitting in
| summer house in the midst of most blooming gar
den overlook ng the broad blue Hudson, as 1t woun
| by the Palisades.
The house to which the garden belonged was calle
the Hal, and the home of Madame De Vivo,
= | widow lady of French descent.
t The lady had married Capt De yivo after reachin
this country. Both wealthy, and had purchase
! | and improved elegant place on Washingto
n | Heigh 8.
. The Captain had died after fifteen years of trar
a Qulllity passed in his American home, leaving tw
children boy Of tVuEtesn Ia aud giT Of hTe
in he instincts and ambitions Of its scions
s. widow had placed her at West Point, graef al
| know that he within a few hours travel OF b
home while he was fitting for the career beioved
e Edouar lie Vivo grew up toward manhood wit
- all the faults ami Virtues OF true cadet he wa
sISsd ss pooE bow Mnat matrers 1T to us what
n might have been, since he Was doomed to SO early
It lie! go pack to that bright, sweet afternoon
late May wheh p9lTs De Vho 1Gye nv sif gt
'e of q \ olume Of the Arabian Nights."
"a Her brothers part cular friend Cly mer Remingte
10 had bought her this bewitching book. If there WI
g q pei son i'll the world whom she adored, Il was Al
e little Geart as ever beat in a childs bosom. 81
loved her mother her old 9 her 5r0ths
:, kind of worship plug admiration.
While she was mus ng on Clymer's perfection
E, the dead body of her beloved brother was broug
"a "a home. He had been slain in duel by Clymer Rel
: | ington.
t. CHAPTER Nv.
" The mock funeral was over and the gambler al
C. the scrapegrace George vas buried in the vaults
n, the Remlngtons, when Liz, the gambl-rs wife, ma
appearance at the stately mansion of the ker