The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-08-01

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/ Presently two female attendants,
each closely masked. entered the room.
carrying between them a large silver
tub full Of warm water. This vessel
they placed before the young lady.
who, without a word, immersed her
feet In the water. Then DIR. Macbride,
once more bending over the victim,
smoothing the hair on her forehead
and feeling her pulse. knelt, lancet in
hand, by the side of the silver foot
bath. He rose, looked in the victims
face, chose fresh lancet, and knelt
again by the side of the footbath. The
water was now deeply discolored. Ere
long it was completely crimson.
Bring another bath-a tuba buck
et--what you will!' said the doctor,
''and more warm water" 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 had fallen
back in her chair, her arms hanging
loosely.
"She is insensible'' said the shorter
of tho masked men.
"She is dead!" said DIR. Eneas Mac
bride. solemnly.
"How she bledr' repeated the
shorter of the two masked men.
''She will bleed no MORE" said DIR.
Macbride. "And now let me ask you
what you intend to do with the evil
dence of your, and may almost say
my guiltp How do you intend to dis
pose of the corpsep"
'.Put it into sack full of stones and
sink 1t in the Tiber," muttered the
taller gentleman.
Eat 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.
at 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.
Let me tell you that q murdered dead
body is, in 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
/ will go 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 mo 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 is"
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 accomplish, and
who accepted, with many protestations
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
businesses Of white linen, of the lady
who had been bled to death! The car
rage made route as circuitous as be-
fore to the Piazza di Spagna; but it
was then, at DIR. Macbride's request,
driven round to the entrance of the mar
row lane behind the PalazzO Carminali.
Then the burden wrapped in white lin
en- 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
trembling violently, and he had evil
IDENTIFY had enough of horrors for that
night!
Three months afterward DR.. Eneas
Macbride returned to Edinburg, bring
ing with him his wife, young and ex-
tremely handsome Italian lady of no
bic 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 with ''ll 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 DO 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. DIR. Eneas Macbride. while
pretending to execute the dreadful
behests of Don Rafaelle and Don
Antonio Cordiscoglio, had first admin
istered to her 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-
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