The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-04-03

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"Oh, nonsense, my dear fellow; you
know | had the key while you were absent
No one could have gotten at The box win.
out my knowing it,
"Yes; but supposing you did know itY"
"Luther, what can you be thinking or
You surely do not mean TO insnuate-"
al insinuate nothing, ] know the papers
In this box have been tempered with, Tie
deed TO Helen's mother OF the Tenniel place
Ia gone, and there are other evidences
Courtney, for Gods sake tell me all man.
You know that for old times and for old
friendships sake will help you If | can;
but must know ALL"
A moments silence, and then comes the
impatient reply; Youare raving, Luther"
IL know more than you think, Court
ncy. This very day ] have seen note
bearing my name, which ! never signed,
How comes Sterne TO hold n note purport
ing to be mine, unless il be as a renewal OF
that which you had the funds from me to
take up? have given you a last chance,
and you have rcjccted-aye, you have
scorned it, and now have but one duty to
perform. 1t is to dcnounce you, Merton
Courtney, as forger and theft Justice
shall take its course
Richard Courtney had during this dia-
logue lain back in his chair, scarcely
breathing and as these words issue from
The machine he almost faints, but still the
inexorable thing ruthlessIy proceeds to tell
its tale, and by mighty effort Richard
controls himself Poor fellow, even as the
truth dawns on him, he refuses TO believe
il. A minutes silence follows this dcnun
citation. and then, in Mr.. Tennie's voice
uttered in tone so solemn as to inspire
every man present with fear, come the ter
riblc words
"Merton Courtney, THIEF! FoRGERl
AND NOW MURDERER then the sharp
ring Of pistol shot, and the sound as OF
the falling Of a heavy body on TO the floor
and--the murder Is ont!
The listeners have scarcely recovcrc'
themselves sufficiently to draw a lon
breath, when scream issues from tn
room adjoining and Richard Courtne
falls heavily to the floor. Two or three
| his friends crowd around the latter ant
carry him from the room. One or two, in
| GLIDING Mr. Fellows, enter the room II
which Mrs Tenniel and Helen are, ant
| Helen is found seated ON the floor, holding
| her mothers scnSclcss form in her arms
In a few moments Mrs. Tcnniel has re
vived. Helen is pale as ever save for {;
bright red fever spot on each cheek, bC
ewes aglow, but she is calm and triumph
ant She bcgS her mother to leave then
| and see what she can do To comfort pool
Richard, and then is the first TO remlnC
| them that there may be something more
recorded that may he Of interest.
Mrs Tcnnel takes llclens advice anC
the grand Jurors and few others GROVE
round the table. Yes, the photograph il
sill in motion, and in a few minutes more
all that transpircd in that fatal chamber
from the moment of Lcight0n's entering i
and discovering Mr.. rennicrs body, as re
lated in an earlier chapter, is faithfully re
produced to the astonished listeners
Ieightons cry of horror, his EXPLANATIONS
of dismay as the thought occurred to him
that he would be suspected, and then his
fall as lie swooncd by the side of the corpse
all these are reproduced, and soon after the
machine stops 1t has run down AT last
The monograph witness has spoken, and
| now its testimony is ended, and how faith.
! fully and well its task has been performed
Helens triumphant love and poor Richard
Courtney's crushed manhood are the eIo
quent witnesses.
CHAPTER XI.
Little more remains 10 be told, The tcs
timony of this most wonderful invention
Of this or any age was unin. pcachable,
The arrest of Merton Courtney was at once
ordered, and the proper steps taken to
hiring him hack Ia Edredge. He never
came back alive. The news OF phono
graph ON the witness stand was tclcgraphod
everywhere, and read the following morn
ing in the newspapers all over the country
and during the course OF the day Mr. Mcr
ton Courtney was found sitting in an arm
chair in his room--dead, shot through the
head by his own hand. A copy of Wash.
ington paper, containing a report Of the
Photographic testimony, was lying on the
table beside him, and on the floor, at his
feet, Iay small poclietpisoI.
Within three months afterwards q double
marriage was celebrated At Eldredge, the
contracting parties being Edward Leighton
and Helen Tennicl and Arthur Fellows
and Mrs Mary Tennel, the Older couple
| thus realizing The dream Of their youth
and people said they both looked ten years
younger on that happy day. It must be
admitted, however that Mr.. Fellows reju
venatcd appearance was due in great
measure 10 the tailor, for, in honor Of the
auspicious event our eccentric scientific
friend donned the first ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
suit of clothes that he had put on for ovel
twenty years.
Both couples live together in tho Tcnnc
mansion, and n happy iNmily they make
The old firm Of Tenniel q Courtney is now
Mordaunl & Leighton. Mr.. Mordaunt being
the gentleman who became Mr. Courtney,
partner upon the death Of Mr.. Tcnniel,
And Richard Courtney Poor follow
He has lived abroad ever since his father
terrible death, but he is now about to re
turn, bringing with him little Frcncl
wife, whom he lately described in lctte
10 Helen, as the sweetest little woman IL
the world, one whom TO know is to love
and in whom, il you will so receive her
you and Edward will find sister for sh
has already learned TO love YOU" from al
of which we are surely at liberty TO pre-
sumo that the past has faded from hi
memory. Oh, Of course he got over il
just like MI men, our lady readers oxclaim
quite possible, fair ladies, but if SO, on
the more true 10 nature. still the dee
facial lines and the prematurely gray hail
for Richard Courtney Is scarcely thirty
five, tell Enthusiastically that the past wa
indeed a terrible reality, in which he playe
his painful r0ie like the true-hearted, gen
crous manly fellow that he ever was Thel