Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-11-13

The death. charm? What car
you mean p

you mean?
| Lady, let me see it, please
Impressed by his manner Lull
unfastened the clasp and handed i
to him.
For moment be gazad inteptly
upon 1t, and then, to The surprise 0
The maiden touched a spring, tbs
existence of which she knew not OF
and il few open like Iocket
i knew | was not mistaksn--it i.
the death-charm See hore, lady
do you see these little marks thai
look like engraving Well, they
are holes through the gold back. al
you see when hold it up to th,
light. There. you see this sponge
within this wire case?-this is satur
ated in deadly poison-poissn tina,
you inhale day by day until you
gradually die, and none know the
cause ofyour death. Lady the one
who gave you this whished to muir
DEF you
As white as snow, and trembling
with excitement. Lulu cried
mo no no! It was given me by
my dear governess, Viola Hale"
Viola Hale | The first name i.
here; she must be the one who il
your foe, lody IL tho woman you
speak OF in this house.
As the gypsy spoke the governes-
glided into the room, and as her
yes fell upon the tall form near
Lulu. she stopped. turned livid, and
with a crY upon her lips, sank upon
the floor.
"On sir call the servants, for she
has tainted cried Lulu in alarm.
"Lady; let her lie there whils l
tell you that she is not worthy of q
Kind thought. Ihat,oomen is my pife.
"Your wife?" whispered Lulu.
Eyes, lady, she is, like myself, q
gypsy, and at IA years of age be-
came my wife and queen of she band
A year after the birth of our boy.
whose life you have saved, she ran
away from me TO 60 With an Italian
prince, and when she had squander-
cd his money she left him too, to
attach herssifto 81 anard sorcerer.
and the man made this death. G arm
| hold in my hand. She killed him
with his own poisons and came back
to me protesting repentance. Ais.l
I. Was from desire to get her boy;
81 l still doubted her, she gave me
this very charm 10 wear around my
neck, telling me i: would bring back
my love for her.
"Accidently | found a paper one
day that told me the secret of the
death. charm and it's poison, and l
accused her of her treachery. and SO
great was her assumed gri that L
did not make known her intent to
kill me to my band.
.The following day she disappear
ed and carried the charm with her.
Since then | never knew what be
came Of her; hit thank heaven, l
came here to-day T.
In horror Luiu had listened to the
awful story, aud then she felt thai
it was all true, for it came to her
now now her old nurse had said the
govrrness wanted to marry Fred
Delaney herself; then how che
had insisted that for love of her the
death-charm should be worn day
and night, and from the time she
bad put it on her health began to
fail
oh, how could she be so wicked p
cried the girl.
1t is her nature, lady. Alb she
is recovering consci' usness, and the
gypsy chief stepped toward the pros
trate woman, and, in his own Ian
guagc, spoke to her sternly.
With every nerve quivoring, and
her black eyes looking wild with
terror, the woman arose and stood
before her master. thoroughly CON
quered
Lady, farewell. Please send this
woman's things 30 this address in
the city and Carl handed Lula .
card, while he continued: keep
that death charm, bat take from it
that deadly poison. Keep il as a
souvenir that Captain Carl repaid
the eervice you did his son.
Then turning to the guilty, trem.
bling woman, he said to her simply:
Come i''
Without word and with bowed
head. she followed him, aud Lulu
was left alone in horror and grief
Thus her father found her, and from
ner lips heard the terrible story
He folded his daugh; or 10 his arms
in rapture at her escape while he
said:
i do believe her guilty now, Lulu,
for l remember / believed she loved
me at first, yet her manner changed
as soon as met with financial mis-
fortunes and it was evidently her
intention to kill you and marry Fred
De Lancy, for she frequently asked
abon, his riches. / will order her
trunks sent off at once. / wonder
what her eand will do with her p
Il cannot tell, father
Then we will drive to their camp
to morrow and have talk with Cap
tam Carl, who seems 70 be splendid
fellow
And uext day Lulu felt SO much
better that she. drove to the gypsy
encsmprnent With her father but
The wanderers had departed, and
when they returned again to the
neighborhood, FIVE years alter, Lulu
was Mrs. De Lancy, and little boy
whom they had named Carl, after
the chief, who, with bis con came to
Sanford Hill TO visit them.
The gypsy boy had grown into q
handsome man, and Captain Carl's
locks were nearly white and look
of settled melancholy rested in bis
eyes
When asked by Lulu and her hus'
band about Viola, he said in low
stern voice:
She is dead, lady ; our tribe SEN
fenced her TO die by her own hand