Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-09-19

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fingers exactly rs he pleased: Why, bet
you two to one that she had made her Will
in his favor since her arrest"
! could not command my countenance
entirely when l heard this direct guess NJ
the truth. 1t brought with it to my mind
a terrible confirmation OF the truthfulneSs
of this unwilling witness.
II see you know something about it."
he continued. well, it is Just rs l thought
it would be. They never meant the girl
to share it with them. She was TO get all
the kicks, while they got all the ha'pence.
II would have been different, though, If she
had listened to me"
Il don't want either TO throw doubt
upon your story or to seem 10 accept 1t
without further inquiry; but | must ask
you To tell me who, in your belief, Miss
Stancliffe is?'
Did | not tell you just now? No.
Well, she is the daughter, | am told of a
poor old person named Sheldon, who died
at Melbourne twenty years ago. His wife
lived twelve or eighteen months after him,
and then she died, too, and Daisy was left
a little child. without "A friend in the world.
1t was then, rs | have said, that Mrs.
BrankSOme took pity on her, and adopted
her. She VAS n good woman, was the
doctors wife, and he never dared to carry
out his plot about Daisy until she was
gone. God knows whether lie did not help
her of in the end. He was equal TO II.
At all events, rs Don as she died, Drank
some gues To poor old MauleNerer, and tells
him the whole tale-the tale lie had made
up-how he had kept the secret of DaiSy's
real birth until then, partly because of his
promise To her mother, and partly for his
wife's Sike, rs she would never have part
ed with the girl. Maulevcrer swallowed
the halt whole, and from that time Drank
some had complete command, not only
over Daisy but over the old man also.
FLOW have YOU got Ia learn all this
That's my business he said in sui
len tones. lut Immediately some swift
fear of the consequences of giving me
otfcnse took possession of his mind. "lt
YOU must know, | learned il all from m old
servant of Rranksome's whom | got hold
of. always suspected there WAS somU-
thing wrong, and after Banksomc quar-
relied with me, and got me dismissed 10y
Maulevcrer, ] wurmel the truth ont of the
old woman.
Harding and | were 81 much astonndcd
nv the extraordinary revelation thus made
Ia It's that neither of lis felt capable Of car
rying GregSon'S examination further.
Strange as it may seem, We had III doubt
rs to the truth of his story. Rascal A. the
fellow Enthusiastically WAS. he had told his
tale i'll u manner which compelled our az
ccptancr of it. ! sal bewildcrei, almost
mraly2rd, by the nature ni his statements.
Daisy not the niece of MaulcNrrcr! And
BrankSOmc the head of Il gang ut Scoun-
drclS. whose diahOliral plot against the life
Of the millionaire had only now been car
ried out, after years of cIrciul preparations
1t seemed incredible, and yet III my heart
felt certain that il Was true.
Harding was the first Ia recover the full
Use of his faculties.
will you he good enough he said,
addressing GrcgS0n. TO give us your opIn'
ion, il you have one. rs to the way III
/ which Mr.. MaulcNcrcr. was murdercd:''
IL thought You knew all about that.
Daisy Stanclilir gave him the poison IN
stead of his powder that night.
BY u look Harding warned me 10 keep
calm. DO you understand " he pursued.
that, III your opinion, Miss Stanclllr-
for 81, | think, We may still call her adj
ministcrcd the poison k~nowingly!'
"Why, put il in your own sense, sir.
Somebody gave the old gentleman his d"Sr
that night. II was not done by BrmksOmc,
or by Flintcr, or by FnSdykr, nor by MIR.
Fcnton here. Who did il? Not any of th"
English servants at Great l0rtun. There's
none of them in the S.rrCt, ] am sure.
Don't Won see il must have been done 10y
the girl who had been brought up for that
very purpOSc-cvcT since she waS Il baby!
NO. I cried, regardless of lIarIing's
appealing glance. II do act SEE II. God
| only knows how the thing was done. but
if Miss Stanclillc was the a%rc"mplIcc "I
these villains, she was an unconscious and
an innocent one.
Then will yoW tell me how the thing
was done? Why, YOU know Yourself that
neither RrankSnmc nor flintrr had been
near the hall for weeks before the old man
died; and they were a]thonSlnd miles away
when the dose WAS given
! put my hand to my forehead YEARLY.
"Ah, it | couh only tell YOU how II MAS
done. | have thought, and thought over
everything till my brain had grown glddy.
There is only one theory that has even a
chance in it, favor, aud of that, alas II 1t
br the true one, We can never Obtain ~"
proof
And what may that theory be- asked
GrrgSon. with an air of interest.
! hesitatcd rs Ia whether Ia reveal my
idea Ia him. II was one which had occur
red Ia he more than once during the long
slcrplcs4 watches Of ia" night hut ] had
said nothing To any one, chiefly, ! THINK
because il was but, aud III the nature "i
things never could lee anything more than
athcOry. Unless a miracle we've Ia happen,
no proof of it, short OF the confession 0i
criminals, could ever h" aIduced. still, II
might he we'll 10 hear GrcyS0n'S opinion ol
il.
May it not have been possible, ] said,
''fOT a powder neutrality-suspicious. Ia have
been secretly substituted by Flinter for one
containing Mr.. Maulcycrcr's proper mcdl-
cine In that case Flint"r might II" bile
to prove an allli. although hc was really
the culprit; and Miss StanclIiic may hay"
given the poison la Mr.. MauIcvrrer, al
though perfectly inherent OF any know.
ledge OF It's nature.
| heard a low clmckle AMI looked up.
RIelski had cnicIc1 the room while J MAS
speaking aud hid heard my theory:
~ b"g your pardon, gentlemen. ! knock
eI twice, but | could not make yOu hear
me. You'll cHcu4c me, Mr.. Frni1u, but ]
should like 10 tell you that You are on the
right track at last. ~ soon as MI. Hard
iny told me the facts | ~nw the trick had
been done IN that way. But lOr' What a
pity Mr.. Belmore didn't bring it out before
the jury
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