Dodge City times., 1884-06-19

He rose, looked in the victims face.
chose fresh lancet, and knelt again by
the side of the foot-bath. The water
was now deeply discolored. Ere long
it was completely crimson.
'.Bring another bath "a tuba
bucket-what you will!'' said the doc.
tor, ''and more warm water!' Then
he continued, hastily holding his
wrists around tho ankles of the patient
while the first foot bath was token away
and another substituted for it: '.This
will finish the work"
'.How she bleeds!'' said the tall man,
who, with folded arms. was watching
the scene. Tie young lady had fallen
back in her chair, her arms hanging
loosely.
.'She is insensibler' said the shorter
of the masked men.
''She is deadr' said DR.. Eneas Mac
bride, solemnly.
'.How she bled:" repeated the
shorter of the two masked men.
''She will bleed no MORE" said DR..
Macbride. .'And now let me ask YOU
what you intend to do with the evidence
of Your. and l may almost say my,
guilt? How do you intend to dispose
of the corpse?"
'.f'ut it into sack full of stones and
sink it in the Tiber." muttered the
taller gentleman.
LAT the risk of the sack rotting, the
weights becoming disengagcd from the
body, and of the corpse floating, or o:
being washed On shore and the features
recognized"
"Bury it in the garden" suggested
the shorter man.
ut is still dangerous" resumed the
doctor. ''Thc bodies of buried people
that have been murdered have been
disinterred over and over again. One
was, you know, last year in that vine
yard close to the Appian Way, and the
assassin was brought to justice"
That is true. "
''When you planned your little
scheme, gentlemen, the Doctor went
on, almost banteringly, "you should
have planned the last act of your TRACE
dy rs well as the preceding ones. Let
me tell you that murdered dead body
is, in a civilized city, one cf the most
difficult of imaginable things to get rid
of. But since l have gone with you so
far in this abominable business l will
go yet further and help you to conceal
this corpse. Bring it back with me to
my surgery in the Piazza di Spagna-I
am accustomed to have such burdens
brought to me at the dead of night
and III d:ssect her. By which I mean
that in less than twelve hours no recog-
nizable trace will remain of your de-
ceased relative-if relative she be"
The victim was evidently stone-dead.
After long consultation, the masked
men acceded to the proposition of the
doctor, who appeared to have become
so completely their accomplice. and
who accepted, with many protestations
OF thanks. large purse of gold seluins.
Again he submit'e ed to have his eyes
and again he was conducted
to the coach in waiting below; but
else accompanied the party,
and was placed on the seat beside the
doctor. That something else was the
body, rolled up in many thicknesses of
white linen, OF the lady who had been
bled to death! The carriage made a
route as circuitous as before to the Pi-
azzi di Spagna; but it was then, at DR..
request, driven round to the
narrow lane behind the Palazzo Carmi-
nall. Then the burden wrapped in white
linen was carried by the Doctor and the
taller of the masked men by the back
door into the dissecting room, and laid
like a stone on the table The Doctor
noticed that his fellow-bearer was trem-
bling violently, and he had evidently
had enough of horrors for that night!
Three months afterward DR.. Eneas
returned to Edinburgh, bring
ing with him his wife, young and ex-
handsome Italian lady of a
noble Roman family. Pope Renedist
XIV, the enlightened and humane
Lambretini, had had much to do with
about the union of the hanH-
some young lady with I'll Dottore Enca
Scozzese. He had ih-
formed the young lady's brothers, Don
and Don Antonio Cordiscoglib,
Counts of that ilk, that if they did not
to the match and pay over a
very large fine to the Apostolic Chanl-
Der they should be prosecuted with the
Utmost rigor of the law for having base
y attempted to murder their sister by
causing her, as they thought, to have
,he veins of her ancles opened. Of
course they never had been Opened.
Dr.. Eneas Macbride, while pretending
~ execute the dreadful behests of I'On
Rafaelle and Don Antonio Cordiscog giio,
lad first administered to her potion
which speedily reduced her to complete
nsensibility, and had next skillfllly
mingled with the warm water in which
he feet of the patient were Immersed
he contents of the packet of coch;neal
which he had purchased at the farmncia
'ancarotto. The poor girls only Of
ense had been that she had imprutent-
y, and in mere girlish folly. encoura red |
or short time the addresses Of a
'oung man much her inferior in sank;
'ut by her naughty and vind;ctive
'rOthers this transient Irritation was es-
eemed crime which her death alone |
'Ould expiate. How fortunate i: was
hat DR.. Eneas Macbride was so much |
addicted to making anatomical ''brepa-
ions," neces>itating the use of cocai-
zeal for their perfection! l fancy. how
ver, that after his marriage he ceased
, dissert small dead hands, AMI con-
o!ed himself with covering small live
mes with kisses. - George A,sgusl,ss
'dld, tn BoW Bells.
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