The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-01-22
ING THE PENALTY.
BY Mrs. Meta Victoria victor.
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CHAPTER /.
The scene opens in the Morgue, New York,
when the body Of 9 handsome young man has
just been brought in, and where it lies under
the dripping of the iced water, which falls up
on it to arrest the progress of decomposition.
The man who attends to guard the dead did
not observe aslim female figure, which seemed
to arise out OF the earth, SO silently and sud
denly did it stand there. She was bending over
one Of the five marble slabs on Which lay the
dead body of a splendid young mamie could
not have been more than 3d.
"Who are you@ said the attendant, sudden
ly becoming aware of the girls presence.
st am Liz" she said; sand that is my hus-
band lying thcrew 81
"Doyou wish him sent home? said the man.
"Heavens-what use? have not cent to
bury him~
Come now you had better 60 home. It's
getting late"
She glued her forehead to the glass again. standing
there motionless, until the officer, not urgently, put
his hand on her arm and drew her away.
said pitifuily ~ - : 80 - 49,
c. II wouldn't want to il we're vow my poor girl
Sop!o, CoHlc! uo"o ~ tn6 OeSb place. ZOE you.
sreets-I shall, always live on the streets. George
rcGmnnSs sso;ss
lisht'y down the steps Of the morsus and stood
1Sta s sonfh ;s anad
be better suited, The merest chance, too!' Them
turning to the attendant 81 stand in need Of subject
sny ne claimed it?" - 80 '1"'"' "A"' "''. -
THE chaps wife was here-said she was too poor to
bury it-dOnt think it wi q claimed doctor -
"4a an IN, have vel it to nights'
"Good Casey, know can trust to your discretion.
This body not to go into the college, 1t is pri
You viii be of duty heie at midnisht. want YOU
then to get ambulance and bring this to at
have policeman that beat the way At
hour. You ana can bring 1t in Here is fifty dollars
tight doetor I'll be 9Th there 10 the eG mnate
and many thanks. My wife vii. make 81 this
The great surgeon left the morgue; his carriage
waited him outside the hospital gate and div
CHAPTER II.
On the previous day Dr.. Fordyce had been
summoned to the house of his next door
neiehbor, 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-
atcly wounded by pistol ball in the right
side.
"How did it occur?"
4 moan from the neither was her only response.
ooh, doctor. IL he dead p" whispered Flora. ST
ct quite my dear, not quite. His heart BEATS
The surgeon turned down the sheet to examine the
and as he stopped over the patient heard yioIsnt
Tlnglng OF the bell and knocking on the street door,
A tap at the door soon followed 80 Doctor Fordyce
himself responded to it. stepping into the corridor
1.-THE officers are here with warrant to arrest our
%a5 ST. r. sir Eta What shall do? told Fem he
possible: Twill speak to then l :" ''i' no's' as
words: No tricks now! We can't be hambasged ~ y
people here's N's tl51@N - n = -
What do you want my men ?"
I'VE here to arrest Clymer Remington" answered
one of she tW0 m from paper or the killing
shocked "' ''i' gu s'''' nt''n
"As door nail" .." ~
We'll, the man after is not much better off,
il all human probability he will not live the night out
move him. Step in and take look at him; YOU viii
see for yourselves the condition the boy is in.
that few minutes would close his mortal career:
When Liz found that her lovers body thad disan-
idea of what Dr. Fordyces object had been In buyinr
her husbands body Gambler and rogue as he had
been, she loved linn, and with brains sharpen ed Tih
destituton she resolved to make her market out
secret.
81 will make hose proud creatures in silk know III
am match for themr'
She smiled haggardly herself to think that George
would be spared the horrors of Potters Fedthat he
tuberoscs and cape asmnes in his fine rosewood coffin
WITH the sod 81 yer handles It almost deadened the
splendid funeral her George would have jolaed along
in sumptuous hearse for miles and miles, and to-
avenue IN their gitering carriages, driven by fellows
In !. capes and by buttons innumerable;
tons and be On hand to her lover in the
with the B1ehop himself to read the prayers.
CHAPTERu1.
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
tho Palisades ~ .s.5M
The house to which the garden belonged was called
the Hall, and was the home OF Madame De Viyo q
widow lady OF French descent.
The lady had married Can't. De Vvo after reaching
this country. Both were wealthy and had purchased
and improved an elegant place on Washington Heights
The Captain had died after fifteen years of
lily passed in his American home leaving two children
boy of fourteen and girl of five.
True to her race, which had always been military i
widow had placed her son at West Point grateful to
know that he was within few hoprs travel of his
home viii he fitting for the beloved of ali
true Frenchmen. ~ 49, ~
+. Edouard De Vtvo grew up toward manhood with all
the faults and virtues of trus cadet He was proud
hsry vain, handsome, honorable and brave. alas
poor boy! What matters it us what he might have
oeen, since he was doomed to so early death?
us go back TO that bright sweet afternoon in late
May when Dulce De Vivo lovely tile girl of H. sat
IN her bower quite lost in the destinations of volume
of the Arabian Nights " =. =
Her brothers particular friend, Clymer Remington
uao DCuSnG ner This DeWltchlng book IF there a
person in the world whom she ored it was Mr. Rem.
1ogton Dulce had ardent and atFectionate little
heaTt as ever beat in child's BOSOM She loved her
mother, her old grandmother. her brother: but the
1eellng she had for Edouard's friend was kind of
While she WAS musing on Clymers perfections the
dead body OF her beloved brother was brought home
lie had been slain in a duel with Clymer Remington
CHAPTERIV.
The mock funeral over, and the gambler and the
scapegrace George was buried in the vaults of the
hemingtops when Liz the gamblers wife, made her
appearance at the stately mansion of the Remintons