New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-11-21

had bowed my head. His face was colorless
when | raised my eyes TO it, But still it was
doubtful, perplcxed. "You . you have killed
Foukc Dorian?' he sied, at length.
| "Ycs."
"lou are not mad. Ohio you seem mad
81 have killed FoullSc Dorian
| "IIush u
With that word delivered in a wholly new tone,
[ perceived all distrllst of my sanity vanish from
his face.
"Wherc, where is he. Ohio? Tell me-
"On the shore opposite the cottage
| Come
| lie took my We left the house together
lie did not sTca until we had almost reached the
spot. Then he rauscd.
"Whcrc ?" he said.
l made gesture lie went forward, leaving
me alone. Suddenly the same boat to whose
voices | had listened before. was heard with its
HIGH sweet choric song. / listened standing
alone 1t seemed like the song of angels to a soul
etcrnally lest
A little later Casimir returned. His face. plain
| in the moonlight, had the HUGS of death
"You did this, Otho-you!' he murmured
"Yes
The look that he gave me was an agony lie
suddenly flung his arms about me. What he did
was like what woman might do, but it had none
of q woman's weakness
"You, Otbo You, high and noble Tell
me that it was not your act Tell me
All. / see Ohio you did do it. My God You"
"Casimir" | said, disengacing myself from his
embrace, "the crime has been committed
What is to be donc?7
lie swept his look over my face in a way i'm
petuousy questioning. "Can you ask that?" he
mOancd "Otho we've must act -
Act p | said.
"Yes-you and for Gods sake don't lose your
shencth now-now of all times -
is it not best to give myself up?' / asked.
PERHAPS it is best. 1 will do as you say"
Give yourself up?' He laughed as he spoke
1t a laugh made of fearful falsettos. "Otho
you must save yourself You cannot mean that
you will attempt anything else All what
would | not do to save you? 1t is horrible; it is
a calamity never dreamed of. But you must be
saved This man came here to-night?'
"Ycs7
"Do you know by what train he came Pr
"NO l know nothing"
Wait he said, and left me. / sank down on
the rocks, with my head on my breast. | do not
know how ong it was before he returned But
he may have been absent full hour. AS his
touch at last fell my shoulder l started to my
feet.
"Wcn?7 l questioned.
Come he said, d awlng my arm within his
We were presently stan ling near a sort of clasm
IN the roclis-a fissure filled with gloom. and some
what narrowed at its opening. This whole pOr-
non of the shore was unusually wild and rugged.
1t lay several yards beyond the where the
cluster of trees grew and at the base of the lit
rromontory thus formed. A path-thc continual
ton of that lea linz from the vii age-wound in
among the trees short distance further inland
That was the ath which Foullle Dorian hal taken
tasmr pointed to the long. dark clcvice. Il
have thrown the body there. he whispered. at
has fallen SIX feet at the very least You
the tides do reach to here. And even if
they ever should they could not dslodgc the body
iOr have fastened To ii great piece of stone.
Lave made no mistake. Unless there is very |
close search he can never be found That blood |
the roclls-l have had to wash il away ms best |
could. think there will be no trace OF il IN the
morning, but | must return early and see .
Us soon as VIC can Otho. we must leave this place |
if possibe-to New York first, and ten sewhere.
"c will be gone two or tmec weeks eulainn,
here would put too fearful a strain on both OF us
We can come back aiterward."
"Aterward :" | muImured "What |
does That word mean for me? oh, if | could dle
to night Ny father ulcd to kin himself after
without failure. Ii Is the only tins lett me"
Casimir, who still held my arm. tshtened his
srfSp upon it; Let us 20 back to Rocksde now"
lie said " There is danger IN our c,ntinulns here
too long. We may already ha' C been observed. a..
Come"
He led me away. We re-entered the house rs
softly we could. Til dawn we sat together,
taking. | had never dreamed till now OF the
ma nltude of this mans love for me. OF comse
his Ing differed fioni mlno, yet in its way II
WAS just as keen. lie had wholly ceased to re-
Zach me. 1t was broad daylight and the birds
had be- un their CHIPPING outside in the chill au-
tumn air, when he SAID TO me:
If you could get little sleep now-Only
few hours of It, OHIO you might gam strength
and composuIe.'
- 4 oil |, -
der if | shall ever sleep ain"
Not lon5 after this Caslmir quilted the chamber.
knew. without asking. WHITTIER he had gone To
the shore, that he might search for some tel tale
81 us of the murder He had already destIuye,
those garments be Onging 10 each of us which bore
a SMILE bood-stan he had cut them into strips
fist AMI then burned item TO ashes, altcrward
scattei in these forth TO the nightwlnd. No pre-
caution had been forgotten by him; the very water
with which we cleanse our hands he had feared to
lace with the ordinary utensils.
viii all his alcrtness Lroft anything p I
member asking myself swim it keep me from
the scafold where my father persisted And what
if it does not? Such an cnl will make slight
a dine ence now Shall die thous and deaths
from remoIse, even if do not die that one death
by Justice
A sort Of dcvil-may-carc torpor was over me
If Casimr had reappeared TO tell me That my crime
had been disco, cred and that my arrest was imm
nent should have scarcely made an attempt to
ny hIle we had tall<e | together my speech had
been but series of despairing replies. AN
sat stunned and apathctic during the absence of
my frienI.
l had the sense of lying manned at the bottom
OF some huge abyss and of gazing upward 10 see
the lieht Of heaven far and dim mere spccL of
hope ess blue. IL not strange that ina ina
ton wrought this graphic allegory within my
bra n for the feeling OF ha in fallen or been
hurled downward from lofty height was perpet
uay active. so many other men pass by slow
de.Iees toward the mental deg adation which
makes them murdeIers. | had slipped into mine
with hardy insants warning There hal
been, with me, no pre- ious alienation from moral
stan arts no clImblns away OF principle no
subtle erosion Of manhood and honor Sly life
had suddenly crashed about me- SO TO speak I'm |
a pang ruin but the fragments were still fair
ana sound; they told Of the shattcrins lightning
bot rather than tie slow decay II my sin had
been that of some known monster could not have
ecarded II with greater antipathy AMI my ca
acity To do thls-to reach plain, frigid estimate
Of ust how deep and b acI the sin tself-to