The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-06-20

pleXy, and that Mr.. Eyre might die UNI
conscious; but there was no likelihood
of change for probably another
twenty-four hours, sf
Later in the day came another visitor
to the house, who took Dody on his
knee, and asked to see his toys, listen-
ing, rs II in play, to his chest; then at
ter awhile, laid him gently back in his
little bed, and thinking Frank the
father, told the truth.
The child might live three days, it
was possible that he would not last out
two. There was lung mischief OF long
standing, precipitated into violent in
hammation by a severe chill.
Dody smiled, and waved his hand to
the great man when he went away, but
during the night began to wander, and
by daybreak had gone long, long step
OF the journey that was to take him to
his mother.
They had found Doune at last, rigid
with cold and grief, beneath the sheet
iby Madcap's side-her chill hand in
both his own, his aching head pressed
to the bosom that would never shelter
or warm him any more. But he did not
resist when they brought him away, nor
did Dody's Illness seem ~ move him
he crept into the darkest corner of the
nursery. tlirusting away the food they
would have had him eat, Frank real
lied then, as he had never done before,
the intense power of loving that lay in
that little heart, and knew how of the
two, Dody's lot was the happier.
The tllmu II OF confusion and horror
without, at the crime committed, could
not penetrate To the sick-chamber in
which, night and day, Frank sat. He
would see NO ctse, take no steps to assist
justice; for him the sick iancies OF the
diving child WIRE OF more moment then
than the bringing TO death the slayer of
hs lost Ma6cap; and All day long, fast
ing and sle@pless. he looked at the piano.
rama of Body's short young life that
the chila's babblinys unrolled to his
gue-all the great little events Of his
three years, all told---his childish trOu-
bles, Joys. thOuglits--each secret of
the little crystal mind laid bare be-
fore hirE- I wonder how many there
are of us who could bear such a scrutiny
AS that TO which achild unconsciously
abandGns itself. We sti1e OUT i'm
pulses sor disguise them, but the child
aaas mo art to hide his. If we had time
to pause and study the drama of the
child, we should no longer dream of
Tod but understand Him; and so long
as there is an innocent little one in our
midst, there is not one among us who
| shall dare to say it has not been given
to him to look into an angels heart.
And while he tossed lin his little bed,
Josephine, grown old and haggard-look-
ing in the night, passed to and fro. mis-
tress of the situation. virtually of the
house, recognized even by those who
sllrank from her, as the sole person who
had been able to meet the awful emery
gencies Of the night and day.
To the questions of the detective,
who had already arrived from town, she
replied with q brevity ana sense that
eontrasted favorably with the confusion
of manner exhibited by the other serv-
ants, and even when asked if she had
made that speech to Digges, to which
the cook swOre, she replied in the af-
tirmative, but remarked that the man
had no more to do with the crime than
| herself.
If it had already crossed more than
one mind that she herself. with Digges's
assistance, had committed the crime,
no one dared utter the accusation in
her presence; though when she was
alone an awful look Of fear came into
her face, and shuddering memory of
the gallows she had seen erected for
Janet Stork, took possession of her
mind.
All that day justice waited, or moved
in the wrong direction, while the search
for the missing diamonds was carried
on from attic to cellar, with the excep-
ton of that room i'll which the dead lay
and the nursery.
AS the night drew on, Dody became
much worse, and wandered mOre-talk-
ed of his little kitten, begging Joseph
inc to take care Of it while he was away,
and lay it in her bed each night to keep
it warm-thought it was prayer-time,
and repeated verse of his evening
hymn, breaking off into merry laugh
as he cried out, ''iSd,D the Princess of
Wales, mummy!" then, as though in
answer to some question of his mother,
added earnestly, "She looked very
,ludy!"-babbled of his little baby-girl,
and of how he would wheel her about
in his little 'pram"-whispere in
Franks ear that lie was going to get up
early to pick mummy a birthday flower,
but he must not tell Doune; then, as he
grew weaker, talked less, but lay quiet
ly in Franks arms, patiently enduring
those useless remedies that had been
ordered, and that gradually the young
man ceased, feeling them to be need
less cruelty.
Doune looked on with bursting
heart, he knew they were going to put
his mother in great black box like the
one that had taken away grandfather,
and he feared they were going to take
Dody away in it too. But mother was
silent, and Dody could talk and laugh;
perhaps it was all ugly dream, and
he would wake up tomorrow to find
everything just as usual-and he climb
ed into his brothers bed al last and fell
asleep beside him. But rs the night adj
vilnced Dolly grew rapidly worse, and
Frank, who had sent Josephine TO bed,
took the little restless body III his arms
and walked with him TO and fro.
In the deadest hour of the night,
when the silent house showed from the
outside but three lights from its win
dows, for the dying. the unconscious,
and the dead, Frank heard footsteps
coming heavily up the stone steps from
the garden, and moment after a hand
cropping for the lock.
3 His heart beat SO violently that Dody
stirred in his uneasy doze; in that mo-
ment he knew the awful fear that had
haunted him, and which now took
shape in what stood without. not daring
to knock and demand admission.
For awhile he stood rigid, his eyes
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