Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-01-23


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turning to the attendant. Il stand in need Of subject
and this one is exactly What want Has
bury iTdeat tsiak III Be Claimed, dootor '''' ~
Il Should ssy - so o: "nisn''
This body not to 60 into the college is for pri
y*te use Ct f. my and M to b. sent to my house
then to get an and bring this one to me
my home wilt be there to receive it'll will
hour. You and lean brinz it in Here IS atty dollars
ZOE y1ur trouble snd7yo1 are to make no REMARKS
and m ny thanks My wife viii. make gool use of this
The great SURGEON left the morgue; bis carriage
en- rapidly toward home.
CHAPTER1I.
On the previous day Dr.. Fordyce had been
summoned 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 a
bed was stretched the unconscious form of
Clymer, the son of Mrs. Remington, desper-
ately wounded by pistol ball in the right
side.
"How did it occur?'
AT moan from the %st5e g. was vas her only response
Not quite; my dear not quite His heart beats.
The surgeon turned down the sheet to examine the
wound which he found of the most critical character;
and, as he stopped over the patient heard violent
He abssp1ed the two ladies' shive If from Sow
A tap at the door soon followed. Doctor Fordyoe
hear What the servant had 10 say
The officers are here with warrant to arrest our
wasn't fit 10 he laid nds on
Ask them to step stairs With az little noise as
Presently two widea wake officials came up with an
on faces hsh 6s
that game! We're going to do our duty If are rich
What do you want my men,,
I'VE are here arrest Olymer Remington" answered
OF Of the a or the killing
Is young De vivo deade" asked the surgeon, much
As door nall"
wen. the man You are after is not much better off
He is shot in the right lung 1t imposible for
move him. Step In and take look at him you will
IN on m
that few minutes would close his mortal career:
When Liz found that her lovers body had disap-
peared aod heard Of the duel she had AN instructive
idea of what Dr. Fordyces object had been in buying
her husbands body. Gambler and rogue he had
been, she loved MIN, and with brains sharpened with
destituton resolved to make her market
secret
Il will make those proud creatures in silk know tina
an match for them"
She smiled hagg ardy to herself to think that George
h IN an
S ts and I in his fine
e to ef
splendid funeral her George would i've jolted nj ng
owea prosd ladies' eentemsa Of Tfh
in their gittering riages div, by fellows
in capes and buttons innumer abe.
Astor herself he would take cheap ride to Green
wood by cars ind ont the family plot o; 'hs Reming
with the Bishop himself to read the prayers.
CHAPTER1II
beautiful child of eleven years was sitting In a
summer house in the midst of most blooming garden
overlooking the broad, blue Hudson. as it wound by
the Palisades
The house to which the garden belonged was called
the Hall, and was the home OF Madame Dc Vivo,
widow lady of French descent.
The lady had married Capt. De Vivo after reaching
this country. Both wero wealthy and had purchased
and improved elegant place Washington Heights
The Captain had died after fifteen years of tranquil
ity passed in his American home, leaving two childrsn
a boy of fourteen and girl of five.
True to her race, which had always been military
widow had placed her at West Pont graef
know that he was within q few hours travel, Of hi
e Edoas1d b Xiyo toward manhood with a!
poi boy What matters t to u what he might have
been, since he was doomed to so early death?
May when Duce De Vivo, lovely tie girl of II, sa
Of the the " ARABIAN Nights i 'n' ''' u '''0'D
a
person In the world whom she pred it was Mr. Rem 1
mother, her old grandmother, her brother: but tn
feeling she had for Edouard's friend was kind o
| NinyQ
While she was mus ng On Clymers Projections, tn
dead body Of her beloved brother was brought home
| He hal been slain in duel with Clymer Remington
CBAPTER1v.
! The mock funeral was over and the gambler and tn
scapegrace George buried Ia the vaults of tn
Remingtons, when Liz, the gamblers wife, made he
appearance at the stately mansion of the Remingtons
Here she tells Flora what she has discovered and de
| mands hush money.
| " on didn't hurt my husband; he was dead afore
Yoa gave him splendid funeral; But your secre
Flora Stretched out her white hand, where larg
diamond sparked and thrust her purse in her visitor
"Teere are five hundred dollars thsre-a'l the none
All right You have lots more in the bank. want
%9 T xs ss 81 much
"d IKE that ring on your shines So mis-
| That Jewel had been in the Remington family a geo
| many years, but Flora Immediately took 1t OF an
passed to LIZ whose bac eyes gittered greedi
when shall come to have the writing drawn u
| an signed? I"
! "In q week."
| S"Very WE'LL You caa have Doctor Fordyce to fix
for you. won't bring 40 witness; but you must give
paper. So, good night, miss, and don't worry to
much abo;t It, III b. as silent as he is, If you do tn
Liz, hiding the purse in bosom, and turning tn
diamond her finger inward hide it from the rap
cious eyes OF McDonigle Alley, made courtesy an
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