The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-10-08
nut may it not have been case of sui

out may it not have been case OF sui
cidei"
"No," replied the chief constable, with en-
phasis. IL have thought it all over, and
cannot make it into suicide. You may de-
pend upon it that it is a case of murder If 1t is
anything at all !"
The night was now far advanced, but
could not leave him until l had learned
something as to the possibility of my being
allowed to see Daisy. He told me that, if
she herself desired it, he thought an inter-
view between us might be managed without
difficulty, and he promised to do everything
in his power to further my wishes. l left
him with an mistaken belief in my darling's
innocence, but oppressed by the conviction
that the evidence against her was strong,
and that it was upon my wre;chsd head
that the responsibility for her present
position must rest.
passed night of s,eepless agony at the
hotel. And here let me say that if utterly
fail to bring home to the mind of my reader
all that suffered and continued to suffer
after learning the news of Daisy's arrest, it
is not because l failed to realize my own
share in that terrible event, nor because l
was not bowed down to the earth with grief
and remorse at the thought of the injury
which had unwittingly done to her. But
my duty now is not to dwell upon my
own feelings or to tell how l grew per-
ceptibly older .in a few hours; how before
Daisy was brought to trial my hair was
streaked with white and my haggard face
was hardly to be recognized by those who
had known me before. / have to continue
the story Of that strange series of events
which must tie forever connected in my
memory with tho great tragedy Of our lives.
Let the reader. then, try to understand,
without further ords of mine, that was
well nigh mad with grief and horror at this
period of my career, and that l should UNI
doubtedly have been quite mad if it had not
been for my overpowering consciousness OF
the fact that i had one paramount duty to
discharge-the duty of rescuing my darling
from the web of evil circums' ances in which
she had been enveloped
1t was not until / had spent two days of
suspense at Barton that Mr.. Eastmead
brought me the glad news that Daisy, having
received the letter which addressed her on
the morning after my arrival in the town,
had successfully applied to the magistrates
for an order admitting me to the prison.
found my beautiful darling in the Office
of the governor, for her position, her sex,
and the fact that as yet she had not been
committed for trial, enabled the prison Off
leniency in their treatment of her.
She was terribly changed since had seen
her last on that happy night when we plighted
cur troth in the garden at the old hall. The
color was gone from her face, the beautiful
lines of which had grown painfully sharp;
her lovely eyes had the strained look which
one sees in some noble animal of the desert
when it is in confinement; and her figure,
clad in the simple black dress, looked very
frail and unsubstant:al.
With a cry that went up from the very
bottom of my heart ran to her and clasped
her in my arms, needless of the presence of
the matron. We were in a prison; she a
captive lying under the most terrible of all
accusations; /, the man who had been the
wretched cause of her being brought there.
Never surely in this world before did two
lovers meet each other under circumstances
so tragical. And yet can declare before
high heaven that in all my life there has
been no hour more full of bliss than tina
which we spent there, in the mean room of
the Jail, under the hard eyes of the female
warder, clasped in each others arms and
hardly speaking, save 10 exchange some
word on my side of passionate devotion, ON
hers of u love as true and deep as mine,
though thousand times more pure ard
tender.