The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-02-01

erty to his beloved wife, Aurelia. Have
you, too, been persuaded to make will
to that effectp If 80, then would have
you watch your wife closely. A word
to the wise, etc.
ONE WHO KNOWS"
Three days after sending this note the
detective was visited by Theodore Darn
ley, who, after being assured that they
were quite alone, made this startling
statement, after mentioning that he had
received the warning note:
had noticed something peculiar in
her manner at different times" said he,
''and this anonymous note has given
me the key to 1t. / watched her the
past two nights, and have made start
ling discovery.
Last night, when she thought was
away from home, concealed myself in
closet in her private apartment. She
came in after she had prepared herself
for retiring, and opened an ebony cab
met directly opposite the closet, and L
could see all her movements through
tiny hole had made in the door of the
closet.
"She took a casket from the cabinet
and opened it by concealed spring,
then took out of 1t q vial with a glass
stopple. Holding it before the gas jet 1
could see that it contained a colorless
liquid, then she poured few drops in a
goblet always used when taking glass
of wine before retiring. She had taken
it from the stand where it was usually
kept in our sleeping apartment, and
after she had thus tampered with it, she
restored it to its accustomed place.
AS soon as she left the room l hasti-
ly escaped from my place of conceal
ment and also left the room, managing
to make it appear that had just come
home when met her in our bed cham
ber.
" Before partaking of my glass of
wine, / managed to send her from the
room on trihing errand to her own
private apartment, and during her brief
absence slipped the goblet in my coat
pocket and replaced it by another of the
same pattern and size. That 'tampered'
article is now in the hands of chemist
for analysis, and the vial contains pure
water, while have its contents in an
other vial which 1 carry about my
person.
81 have given her two doses of the ac-
cursed stuff already" said he, fiercer
light springing into his eyes. "If it is
harmless so much the better for her, but
if it is what 1 suspect, she shall feel its
effects as think have done. shall
take my wine as before, and in her pre-
sence if she so wishes, but am deter
mined that she shall swallow the whole
of that poison if she lives long enough
to do So"
The detective was Mortified, and en-
deavored to make him forego his terrible
revenge, but the resolute man laughed
scornfully as he said:
Had not made the discovery she
would have killed me by inches, and no
one would have been the wiser. No, Mr..
Varnoe, do not try do dissuade me. /
am actuated by noble motive-to save
my own life and to avenge her first
| victim"
Varnoe would say no more. Morally,
the man was justified in retaliating as he
did, but after Darnley had left him, he
decided that it would not be justifable
on his part to allow this enraged man to
take the law in his own hands in such a
summary manner, and he resolved to
prevent him from carrying out his
purpose.
But what was his astonishment the
next day when taking mp the morning
paper, he saw the announcement that
Mrs. Aurelia Darnley, wife of Theodore
Darnley, Esq, had suddenly died after
partaking of glass of wine. The out
ragged husband must have given her suf-
ficient in the last glass of wine to have
closed her guilty career.
He confided to the detective, after his
recreant wife was under the sod, that
the chemist had analysed the few drops
of the liquid in the goblet. They had,
of course, dried but that did not matter.
He attained his object and discovered
that it was the subtle poison known to
few as aqua TofdnG, a poison suppos-
ed to have been used by the Borgfas.-
II left no traces of its deadly work, and
defied detection when once admitted in
to the system.
With the consent of Varnoe, Margaret
Vallee acknowledged herself as having
given the information causing the send
ing of the anonymous note, and then
related to Mr.. Darnley how her brother
had been served by the iniquitous Great
ure.
When attired as befitted her age, Miss
Vallee was q remarkably handsome
young woman, and in due course of time
Darnley proposed for her hand and was
accepted, and after suitable period had
passed they were united, and the doubly
orphaned girl had fonnd mate who
made her lonely life so happy that she
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