The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-05-25


With his eyes fixed upon Its livid face,
the man backed slowly for some PAGES.
With violent effort and little scream,
he seized the door, swung II to, and
bolted 1t on the inside.
Then, for the first time, the dead
woman trembled.
She seemed strangely nervous and
agitated now. She casped the paper
closely, then put 1t in her bosom and
glided from the room.
1 had got over the sudden terror in
spired by such a strange light, and had
made up my mind that had detected
some terrible imposture. There was
slight pause in the lobby, and the noise
of a garment being drawn off; then the
outer door opened and the visitant
passed out on to the staircase.
followed as quickly as could. The
staircase was lighted with gas. AS /
trod on the second landing the ghost
heard the noise and looked up. She was
dressed in an ordinary black costume
now, and her face was a natural color.
To my intense surprise she neither
screamed nor attempted to run away.
She stood still, and beckoned me to her
side.
What are you going to do ?'' she
said.
To give you into custody"
"Are you friend of hiss'
answered Yes,' mechanically.
sc Then let me go free if you value his
life.''
If let you go l am your accom-
plice," l murmured; "your accomplice
in some vile imposture.'
No. If you are my accomplice to-
night, you are an accomplice in the
holiest deed woman ever wrought.
Pass me through the gates If you doubt
me watch me; follow me home; give
me into custody if you like; 1 don't
care, I've got what wanted"
took her arm as though had been
policeman, and said: "Pass through
the gate then, and if you attempt to
get away from me L shall call for
help"
She nodded to the proposition. The
man at the gate was half asleep. 1
reused him, and from his box pulled the
cord and let us pass through the wicket
door into the Strand.
then listened to the strangest story
that ever mortal lips had uttered, and
there was no doubt that every word of it
was true.
The confession which the trembling
wretch had written at her dictation-as
he believed at the dictation of his dead
wife-I had read. 1t was q plain state
ment of how he had poisoned the poor
girl whom he had married in q fit of
mad jealousy, and how he had concealed
his crime; how at the last moment he
had overheard whisper that some one
suspected foul play and how, fearing
the body might be exhumed, he had,
with the assistance of an accomplice,
since dead, stolen the body that night
and re-buried it in the garden of house
in lonely part of the American town
where this accomplice lived.
This woman was his wife's sister, and
she had suspected foul play from the
first. She was an actress, and was away
on a provincial tour when Blissett
Emerton wooed and won Drusilla and
took her abroad with him. Emerton
had never seen this sister. The marriage
had been secret and hurried, and he had
seemed strangely anxious to leave the
country. They were to be back in five
| months.
Drusilla-poor trusting fool l-idolized
the man and obeyed him. To her he
was knight without reproach.
But soon his conduct to her altered
strangely, and she began to suspect that
all was not right. He grew cold and
cruel, and she was miserable and un-
happy.
She wrote secretly to her sister, told
her troubles and how quickly her hus-
bands conduct had altered. The sister
urged her to leave him and come home.
She was expecting her to do so when
there came the news of her illness and
death, and then of the mysterious dis
appearance of the body. From that
moment Drusilla Emerton's sister made
up her mind to fathom the mystery and
bring the guilt home to the murderer.
She refused to accept the explanation of
her sisters death. She believed Blissett
Emerton to be quite capable of carrying
out carefully matured plan to get rid
of her. The disappearance of the body
strengthened her suspicious. She con-
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