The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-06-13

"Poor wretchl'' said Mr.. Eyre con-
temptuously, as he recognized his gar
derner. ''Let him CO." But those who,
in their zeal, had already rushed round
to the outside of the house, thought
proper to secure him, so that he APP
peared to drop backward from the win
dow, and vanished in yell OF execra-
ton that made night hideous, and SEEM
ed an outrage on the quiet figure that
lay as il asleep, each feature stilled to
peace that might not be rudely broken.
"Go!" said Mr.. Eyre to the remaining
men and women, and their habitual awe
others steps, and he was left alone with
Madcap. He laid his lips to that little
cruel rift in her side, he kissed her clay
cold mouth, and swore aloud that he
would never rest till he had found her
murderer, and delivered that murderer
up to justice; and then kneeling beside
her, that beloved head on his shoulder,
he listened for the sound of horses feet
that would herald message of life or
death. When we are at deaths door,,
or in sore extremity, the man who has
made the healing Of the body his life's
| study comes to us as an angel of light,
and as Gods representative we receive
and honor him; but when he has car
ried us through the valley, we scarcely
turn our heads to thank him, and he is
forgotten till sharp necessity bids us
again summon him to our aid.
To Mr.. Eyre, the short stout man,
who at the end of three quarters of an
hour entered, was endowed with super
natural powers, when, after five min
utes' patient application OF certain
remedies, Aadcap's eyes opened and
looked into his.
And without, Frank Leaned against
the Intel, cold and sick, scarcely listen
| ing for any stir within, so sure was he
that death was there; but as he so stood,
something cold slipped itself into his
hand, and looking down, he saw Dody
in his night-gown beside him.
That terrible cry had awakened him
as well as the rest of the house, though
Doune had slept soundly through it;
and finding that Josephine was not in
the room, Dody had got out Of his warm
bed and trotted with bare feet down the
gallery, secure Of finding haven with
his mother when he reached her room.
But frightened by the confusion, and
fearing that he would be caught and
carried back to bed, he had hidden be-
hind curtain, shivering with cold, UNI
til they had all gone, leaving the door
shut.
He could not understand what they
had been saying, but he knew that he
should find mummy in there, only he
had seen his father through the half
open door, and when the servants came
out, he had not the courage to knock
for admission.
AS Frank took the little figure in his
arms, trying to warm him and chating
those ice-cold feet, somehow he realized
that no warmth could save him now
that death had struck Dody to the heart
that night, even as it had struck his
mother.
''Seep wiz mummy" said Dody, as he
clasped his cold arms round Franks
neck, and even as he said it, fell sound
asleep in the young fellows arms, so
that when Mr.. Eyre came out to sum-
mon attendance for Madcap, the cor
ridor was empty, Frank being then In
the nursery.
The dining-room presented a strange
scene. To one of the massive legs of
the dining-table was firmly tied the
man Digges, whose grimace of fear as
he looked round on his body-guard, fur
nished that element of the grotesque
that is seldom absent in any real TRACE
dy. His stupidity of eountenance was
in his favor; he seemed too utterly de-
void of the courage to conceive, and the
nerve to strike, that the deed entailed,
though possibly psychologist might
have found in the mans brutishness,
all the elements Of an accomplished
murderer.
"Why couldn't you fall in love with
one of your own Sort" the cook was
saying as the tears ran down her honest
face, "and not take up with bit of
folly like that, as sets joolery sight
before vartue? when you can give me
SEE she, for L heard her; but oh, Lord!
to think that you'll hang for that wick
ed speech as putmurder in your hearth
"Inever touched the diamonds" said
the man sullenly; II only looked at 'em
through the window"-then,, seeing the
change in the faces round, suffered in
his speech, still further deeping his fell
low servants conviction of his guilt.
Few Of the usual traits OF vulgar curl
osity and fear were visible among those
present; intense grief for what had be-
fallen an adored mistress, cast out the
horror of the crime, and they thought
less of the instrument, than OF that
young life now lowering between life
and death overhead.
They knew that she lived-that she
would probably live until her child was
born, and then-and then but il
strong and earnest prayer put up by
lips not used to pray might turn the
balance by its urgency, then Madcap's
feet would turn earthward, and not to-
ward those rushing waters that strike
chill upon the feet Of those that are fain
to tarry on the shore.
AS the night wore on. gradually the
dining-room emptied of all save the
prisoner and the gray-haired butler,
who sat by the open door, straining his
ears for the first sound that should
reach him from his mistress's chamber.
The women crept as close to 1t as they
dared. more than one feeling indignant
that Josephine should be within.
But in the awful. emergency of the
night, the French girls wit and re-
source had shown themselves in an ex.
traordinary degree; it was on her more
than Mr.. Eyre that the doctor relied al
every turn; her head was cool, her hand
steady as though nothing unusual had
| hanuened. eyen the room was restored