Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-03-27

For moment the Jaw dropped and he
CAPPED at me in silence.
Then he recovered. Are YOU mad,
Mr.. Vaughan?' he cried.
ION the 20th of August, 1856, ut
No. - Horace street, YOU stabbed here,
| to the heart, Young man who was sit
| ting at the table. DIR. Ceneri was in the
room at the time, also another man with
| scar on his face.
He attempted no evasion. He Sprang
TO his feet with features conyulsed with
| rage. He seized my arm. For a mo-
| ment l thought he meant TO attack me,
but he only wanted TO scan my face at
tentively. l did not shrink from his
inspection. hardly thought he would
recognize me; so great change does
| blindness make in face.
| But he knew me. He dropped my
arm and stamped his foot in fury.
Fools. Idiots." he Kissed. Why
did they not let me do the work thor
oughlyr'
He walked once or twice up and down
the room. and then with regained COM
posture stood in front of me.
You are a great actor, Mr., Waugh
an" he said, with GOODNESS and cyn-
icism which appalled, me. You de-
ceiyed even me, and | am very Sus-
| piciouS."
You do not even deny the crime, you
| villain?'
He shrugged his shoulders. Why
should l. to an eyewitness? To others
l will deny it fast enough. Besides. as
you are Interested in the matter, there
| is no occasion to do so.
Il am Interested
| Certainly; as YOU married my sister.
Now, my fine fellow! my gay bride
groom! my dear brother-in-law, Twill
tell you why killed that man and what
l meant by my words TO you at Geneva. :"
His air of bitter, callous mockery, as
he spoke these words made me dread
what was to come. My hands were
tingling to throw him from the room.
That mani shall not for obvious
reasons tell you his name was Pau
lines lover Translate lover into
ltalian-nto what the word df'Udo signi-
flies i'll that language-then you will
understand my meaning. We, of our
mothers side. have noble blood in our
veins blood which brooks no insult,
He was Paulincs Your wife'S, lover, l
say again. He had no wish to marry
her, and so Ceueri and | killed him
killed him in London in her pres
ence. As told YOU once before, Mr..
Vaughan, it is we'll to marry woman
who can not recall the past. :"
Imade no reply. So hideous state
ment called for no comment. simply
rose and walked toward him. He saw
my purpose written in my face Not
here" he said hastily. and moving
away from me: "what good can it do
here-a vulgar scuille between two gen
tlemenP No; on the Continent-any-
where, meet me, and | will show you
how | hate YOU
He spoke well. the self-posSesSed vii
lain! What good could it dor An I'M
seemly struggle, in which could scarce
ly hope to kill him; and Pauline the
while perhaps upon the point of death!
Go cried, murderer and cow
ard! Every word you have ever spoken
to me has been Il lie, and because YOU
hate me, you have to-day told me tho
greatest lie of all. Go; save yourself
from the gallows by flight"
He gave me look of malicious tri-
umph and left me. The air in the room
seemed purer now that he no longer
breathed it.
Then | went to Pauline's room, and
sitting by her bed heard her parched lips
ever and ever calling in English or
Italian on some one she loved. Heard
them beseeching and warning, and
knew that her wild words were adj
dressed to the man whom Maeari
averred he had slain because he was the
| lover of his yiflf
The villain lied! ! knew he lied.
Over and over again l told myself ii
was black, slanderous lie-that Pau
line was as pure as an angel. But as ]
strove to comfort myself with these
assertions, l knew that, lie as it was,
until l could prove it such, it would
rankle in my heart; would be ever with
me; would grow until | mistook It for
truth; would give me not a moment S
rest or peace, until it made me curse
the day when Kenyon led me inside
that old church to see " the faircst sight
of all. "
How could | prove the untruth?
There were but two other persons in
the world who knew Pauline's history
-Ceneri and old Teresa Teresa had
disappeared and Ceneri was in the ST.
berian mines or some other living grave.
Even as | thought of the old Italian
woman, Macari's SANDER began to
throw forth its first poisonous shoots.
Her mysterious words, mot for love
or marriage might bear another
meaning, a dishonorable meaning. And
other circumstances would come to me.
Ceneri' haste to get his niece married
his wish to get rid of her. Thoughts
of this sort would steal into my mind
until they half maddened me.
could bear to sit with Pauline no
longer. went out into the open air
and wandered about aimlessly, until
two ideas occurred to me. One was
that l would go to the greatest author
ity on brain diseases, and consult him
as to Pauline's hope of recovery-the
other that would 90 to Horace street
and examine, By daylight, the hom,e
from top to bottom. ! went first to the
doctors.
To him | told everything. saving, of
course, Macari's black lie. could see
no other way to explain the case with
out confiding fully. | most certainly
succeeded in arousing his interest. He
had already seen Pauline, and knew ex-
actly the state in which she had been.
/ think he believed, as many others will,
all told him except that one strange
occurrence. Even this he did not scoff
at, accustomed, as he was, to wild fam
cies and freaks of imagination. He at
tributed it to this cause, which was
but natural And now what comfort or
hope could he give me-
AS | told you before, Mr.. Vaughan"
he said, 'such a thing as losing the rec
objection of the past for long while
and then picking up the end of the
thread where it fell is not altogether I'M
precedented. will come and see your
wife; but as the case now stands il
seems to me it is an attack of brain
fever, and as yet no specialist is needed.
When that fever leaves her should like
to know, that may see her. 1t will, i
expect, leave her sane, but she will be-
| gin life again from the hour that her
mind was first unhinged. You, her hus-
band, may even be as a stranger to her.
The case, say again, is not unprece-
| dented, but the circumstances which
surround it are.
| / left the doctor and walked to the
! agents in whose hands the house in
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