Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-06-20

body. and Of the corpse floating, or OF
being washed on shore and the features
recognized"
BURY it in the garden" suggested
the shorter man.
1T is still dangerous" resumed the
doctor. 1.-The bodies of buried people
that have been murdered have been
disinterred over and over again. One
was, you know, last year i'm that vino
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, syou should
have planned the last act of your TRACE
dy as well as the preceding ones. Let
me tell you that a murdered dead body
is, in ecivilized CITY, one Ct the most
difficult of imaginable things to get rid
of. But since i have gone with YOU so
far in this abominable business / will
60 yet further and help you TO conceal
this corpse. Bring it back with me to
my SUR cry in the Piazza di Spagna-I
am accustomed TO have such burdens
brought to me at the dead of night
aud I'll dissect 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 n long consultation. the masked
men acceded 10 the proposition of the
doctor. who appeared To have become
so completely their accomplish. and
who accepted, with many protestations
OF thanks. a large purse of gold se1uins
Again he submitted to have his ewes
bandaged, and again he was conducted
10 the coach in waiting below; but
something 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 q
route as c.rcuitOus rs before TO the Pr
All di Spagna but il was then, at DIR.
Macbride's re iuest. driven round TO the
narrow lane behind the Palazzo Carmi-
nall. Then the burden wrapped in white
linen was carried bv the Doctor and the
taller Of the masked men by the back
door into the dissecting room, and laid
like n 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
Macbr de returned to Edinburgh, bring
ing with him his wife, young and ex-
tremelY handsome Italian lady of a
noble Roman family. Pope Benedict
XIV. the enlightened and humane
Lambretini, had had much to do with
bringing about the union of the hand
some young lady wth I'll Dcttore Enea
Macbride, Scozzese." He had in
formed the young lady's brothers, Don
Rafaelle and Don Antonio Cordiscoglio,
Counts of that ilk. that if they did not
consent TO the match and pay over a
very large fine to the Apostolic Cham
Der they should be prosecuted with the
utmost rigor of the law for having base
~ attempted TO murder their sister bv
causing her, as they thought, 10 have
the veins of her ANGLES opened. OF
course they never had been opened.
DIR. Eneas Macbride, while pretending
tn execute the dreadful behests of Don
Rafaelle and Don Antonio Cordisco lilo.
had first administered to her a potion
which speedily reduced her to complete
insensibility, and had. next skillfully
mingled with the warm water in which
the feet of the patient were immersed
the contents of the packet of cochineal
which he had purchased at the farmacia
Panciarotto. The poor girls only of
Tense had been that she had imprudent-
", and in mere girlish folly. encouraged
for short time the addresses Of a
young man much her inferior in rank;
but by her naughty and vindictive
brothers this transient Irritation was es-
teemed a crime which her death alone
could expiate. How fortunate it was
that DIR. Eneas Macbride was so much
addicted to making anatomical ''prepa-
tons, neces>itating the use of co5ai-
neal for their perfection! fancy, how
ever, that after his marriage he ceased
ID dissert small dead hands, and con-
soed himself with covering small live
ones with kisses. - George augustus
Sdid, i1 BotO Bells.