The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1886-07-09
!, INDICATED at Last

Some time ago the streets in the
lower part of New York city were as
they are to-day, narrow and dirty, while
the houses we're then, rs now, in keep
ing with the streets. In q dilapidated
dwelling. in q poverty stricken quarter,
lived an English family by the name of
Marston. Robert A1arston was q
lawyer who had emigrated to this
country, with his family. about two
years before the time our story opens
The Marston family consisted of four
persons, Robert Marston, his wife Kate,
and two sons, Arthur and Richard, or
Dick as he was more generally called.
Robert Marston was man of medium
height, slenderly built his face, very
expressive one. was somewhat pale ut
times; his hair had become prematurely
gray-from want, people said, for the
Marstons were poor.
Arthur Marston, the elder of the two
sons, was twenty-one years of age, tall,
with black hair and eyes. He was
very counterpart OF his mother. Dick.
the younger of the two sons, was un-
like his brother both i'll appearance and
disposition he was tall, but his shoul-
ders were much broader. and his form
showed unmistakable signs that he
would be man of extraordinary physi-
cal strength and activity. His features
were regular, with the exception of the
nose, which was slightly prominent.
His hair was dark brown, us also were
his eyes, which were bright and pene-
trating. His complexion was fair. Both
young men had received liberal early
education in England, where the Mars
tons had seen better days.
Shortly after Robert Marston came to
this country he had been admitted to
the American bar, and with the aid of
Of superior legal qualifications. for o
time, fortune had favored him in his
profession. He rented o comfortable
house in q respectable part of the city,
and began to lay aside some money for o
rainy day. Arthur was studying law
under his fathers supervision, but Dick,
although the family urged him to
choose some profession, remained in
active without any apparent notion of
what course he would take in life. About
this time there was q lawsuit going on in
the courts, and the defendant in the
case had secured the services of Robert
Marston. There was fortune involved
in the case, and by some trickery on
the part of the plaintiffs counsel. Robert
Marston lost the suit Two days later
the bank in which he had deposited his
hard earned savings failed. Robert
; Marston was virtually ruined man.
a To add to his misfortune several
parties who had engaged him to look
after their interests notified him that
they no longer desired his services. He
was obliged to leave the comfortable
abode in which he had hoped to live so
happily, and take his family to the
miserable dwelling in which We find
them.
Robert Marston was without single
brief. while young Arthur had obtained
third rate position in banking house;
the salary was small, but it was all the
family had to live on.
One evening,as Mrs. Marston sat alone
in the house her husband and two
sons we're absent-a feeling came over
her that something dreadful was about
to happen. She had been laboring under
this strange impression for upwards of
IN hour. when suddenly her husband
rushed into the room. his face haggard
and wild look ill his eyes.
my God, Kate!" he exclaimed,
"Dick has been arrested for murder!"
. Mrs. Marston who had risen from her
seat ct the first intimation of her hus-
bands approach, fell to the floor in a
.death-like swoon when she heard him
litter these terrible words.
AS the poor woman opened her eyes
the terrible truth came before her, and