The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-07-03

land more warm waterr' Then he
continued, hastily holding his wrists
around the ankles of the patient, while
the first foot-bath was taken away and
another substituted for it. This will
finish the work"
How she bleedsr' said the tall man,
who, with folded arms, was watching
the scene. The young lady l. Lad fallen
back in her chair, her arms hanging
| loosely.
| .'She is insensible!" said the shorter
of the masked men.
'.She is dead.' said DR.. Eneas Mac
bride, solemnly&
How she bledr' 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 evil
dence of your, and I may almost say
my guilt? How do you intend to dis
| pose of the corpse?"
| '.Put it into sack full of stones and
| sink it in the Tiber," muttered the
taller gentleman.
cat the risk of the sack rotting, the
weights becoming disengaged from the
body. and of the corpse floating, or of
being washed on shore and the feat
ures recognized.
BURY it in the garden" suggested
the shorter man.
'It 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 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
tragedy as well as the preceding ones.
| body is, in a civilized city, one of the
most difficult of imaginable things to
| get rid OF. But since have gone with
you so far in this abominable business
l will 60 yet further and help you to
conceal the 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 highland I'll dissect her. By
| which mean that in less than twelve
hours no recognizable trace will re-
main of your deceased relative-if
| relative she -"
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 protestatiops
of thanks, large purse of gold Sc
quins. Again he submitted to have
his eyes bandaged, and again he was
conducted to the coach in waiting be-
low; 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 car
| riage made a route as circuitous as be-
fore to the Piazza di Spagna; bus it
FaS thh thhHrRd HrRduahu uahtu Dr. JMacbride's- reauest.
row lane behind the Palazzo Carminali.
Then the burden wrapped in white lin
on was carried by the doctor and the
taller of the masked men by the back
door into the dissecting room and laid
| like stone on the table. The doctor
noticed that his fellow-bearer was
trem bling violently, and he had evil
| IDENTIFY had enough of horrors for that
| night!
Three months erward DR.. Enea5
| Macbride returned 10 Edinburg, bring
| ing with him his wife, a young and ex-
| tremely handsome Italian lady of q no.
bic Roman family. Pope Benedict
| XIV, the enlightened and humane
Lam mbretini, had had much to do with
bringing about the union of the hand
some young lady with 'u Dottore
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
very large fine to the apostolic cham
Der they should be prosecuted with the
utmost rigor of the law for having
basely attempted to the murder of
their sister by causing her, as they
thought, to have the veins OF her ankles
opened. DR.. Eneas Macbride, while
| pretending to execute the dreadful
| behests of Don Rafaelle and Don
Antonio Cordiscoglio, had first admin
istered to her a potion which speedily
reduced her to complete insensibility,
and had next mingled with the warm
water in which the feet of the patient
were immersed the contents of the
packet of cochineal which he had pur-
chased at the farmacia Panciaretto.
The poor girls only offense had been
that she had imprudently, and in mere
girlish folly, encouraged for short
time the address of a young man much
her inferior in rank; but by her
naughty and vindictive brothers this
transient Irritation was esteemed a
crime which her death alone could ex-
plate. How fortunate it was that DR..
Hneas Macbride was so much addicted
to making anatomical preparations. "
necessitating the use of cochineal for
their perfection. l fancy, however,
that after his marriage he ceased to
dissect small dead animals, and con-
soled himself with covering small live
ones with kisses. - Georgia augusta
iSald in Boao Bells.