Telegram-herald., 1886-09-05

NJ F-nton. aa1 J shall ts es1Aiiy frank
sith yo1 Ne have discovered 1rsr - 1
have tod yo4 tAat sir Aaaisverer was pos
sl1e1 b. s1sFcan-A. and nfzs t1at Ms
Srsnelife hsa qsi-oa ~ t141 description pa
her possession saaIt.v Letore his death
th.ls even so-gfall.ng tAat ste had Fte
poison. 81 .Fllel 4 ElnW lell ~ lt Iu1si
have len 1ol t1 -sus naaaell purpose
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saafa8 il 5crliar lone +. 81 aen f1u are
sone g. ralsea one I'd Year fr-ea1s. you
Loa & go fL- chemists ans $40. GIVE nle =
elzs ar s.rFclll- tlal m4F set rla ~ ola
Brown it = sieazs rails taai yo1 "aat .
ior A - = aulitHe et-, Aes every f'otf
else Nh.u s1e beasLI ltle polsen she
oouglt s. iaI fas teuelt n tle rats
-kuf , assure sea. 4 myself know that
Lortau HaI >earf.el VITA rails heard it
from Mss 81 ueIihes o~n AIs y hl.e 4 ~as
there.
Perhaps -. but it IS unfortunate that II
Is noi ths rats tut Air Mauleverer. whe has
heen killed. But ] think We must wait =
little before q scussing this question. sbal
h~ very glad 4 the poor young lady can te
proved innocent As for the story you have
told me- hink We must no~ Try and Lay
hold OF Gnsgson He may not b. prophet.
but at an events We must admit that De
made lucky hit " ben lax declared that muir
der would fe done az Great Lortou-
~But may II not have been case of sui
cidesn
NO. replied the chief constable, with en-
phasis. i have thought IL al over, and /
cannot make it into suicide You may de-
pend upon d that IT IS case of murder II IL Is
anything al all
The night was now far advanced, bat l
could not leave him until / had learned
something as 10 the possibility OF my being
allowed 10 see Daisy lie told me that, II
she herself desired H. he thought an Inter
yiew letween AS might D. managed without
difficulty. anI he promised 20 do everything
in bis power 10 further my wishes. lott
him with ana unshakeu belief Ia my darlings
innocence, Int oppressed by the conviction
that the evidence against her was strong.
and that il was upon my wreiched head
that the responsibility for her present
position must rest
passed a night Of sleepless agony al the
hotel And here let me say that II utterly
fail % bring home 10 the mind Of my reader
all that / suffered and continued 10 suffer
after learning the news Of Daisys arrest, II
is not lecause 1 failed 20 realize my own
share in that terrible event, nor because
/ was not bowed down 10 the earth with grief
and remorse az the thought OF the injury
! which / had unwittingly done 20 her. But
my duty now is not TO dwell upon my
own feelings or 10 tell how j grew per-
| ceptiblv older in a few hours; how before
/ Daisy was brought % trial my hair was
streaked with white and my haggard face
was hardly 10 be recognized 10y those who
had known me before. / have TO continue
the story of that strange series of events
/ which must te forever connected in my
memory with ife reat tragedy of our lives
| Let the read than. try 10 understand,
without further words Of mine. that was
well nigh mad with grief and horror at this
period of my career. and that i should un-
doubtedly have been quite mad if it had not
been for my overpowering consciousness Of
the fact that l had one paramount duty TO
discharg rge-the duty of rescuing my darling
| from the web OF evil circumsi 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
l found my beautiful darling in the Office
| OF iue EONtlAtI. iol Atl poH4Ai'lis hcA ScA,
and the fact that as yet she had not been
committed for trial, enabled the prison Off
cials 10 exercise a considerable degree of
| leniency IN their treatment of her
She was terribly changed since / had seen
her last on that happy night when we plighted
our 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 tine desert
when 1t is in confinement; and her figure,
clad in the simple black dress, looked very
frail and unsubstantal.
With a cry that went up from the very
bottom of my heart l 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 ct each other under circumstances
so trag a. And yet | can declare before
high b, aven that in all my life there has
teen no hour more full of bliss than that
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 to exchange some
word on my side of passionate devotion, on
hers of love as true and deep as mine,
though thousand times more pure and
tender.