The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-11-25
FIVE MILLION POUNDS.
Hsy II. yyENlYSS EsEgsS.
CHAPTER XIV CONTINUED.


excitement "are YOU aware that the power
of attorney which you signed the other DAY
makes me for the present absolute master OF
oil your property! You havo constituted
me your other SELF While you are in con-
nncluent here I can go whore Will md 90
yhat please in your name, rs your repre-
sentative Are you willing that should
make full use of these powers|
ooh. yes" she cried; @who can use them
tester?"
Then, darling, shall make my first use
OF them by putting veto upon YOU
want YOU to promise that you viii OH no
account allow DR.. Branksome to see you
until we meet again. You know they will
allow no one to visit you now unless you de
sire it. Will you promise"
Il will promise anything You wish"
~Then must tell you that I shall go direct
from here to Great Lorton, in order that l
may search the hall from tho roof to the
cellars, if necessary, for proof Of your inno-
cence Tire first thing have to find is that
parcel of strychnia. Can you help mel"
She shook her head doubtfully. II wish
could but I cannot recall what did
with it"
%By the way" said, "do you know this9'
took from my pocket the rusted knife or
dagger which I had found on my bed on the
nj hit shat slept at the hall
She looked at it, and then the color dyed
her cheeks once more.
9Where did you find it," she asked.
ain my betlroom-the haunted chamber"
GAh. I renember!" she cried, II remember
now where placed the poison! 1t is in the
secret passage leading to the haunted room" !"
"Do you indeed remember, my darllngf
Are you sure'"
@Quite, quite sure. Stay, let mo tell you
al. On that night when my uncle heard,
after ae had said good night 10 you, of what
had passed ietween us in the garden, he
came to my room. I had not gone to bed,
for I was thinking of all tha. you had been
saying to me. We had q dreadful scene, az
YOU know. Some one had poisoned his
mind. He told me should never see you
again, and was in despair. Then 1remem-
bered that you were to sleep in the haunted
room. and that there was private stair
leading to it from the drawing room cor
ridor. I resolved to send you letter,
so that you might not leave the nall
thinking that I was unfaithful to you.
My maid and 1 had discovered the
rassage shortly before, and knew that it led
UP to your room, which was entered by
means Of q sliding panel. wrote the note
and gave it to her to take to your chamber
when she was certain you were asleep. She
went with it; but returned almost I'M
mediately to say that she could not move
tho panel. We looked about for something
by which to open it, and I saw this OLD knife
in its sheath 1t was given to me us a curl
osity, years ago, by an old sailor. Taylor,
INV maid, took the knife, and went back to
Your room. When she returned she told
ME that she had placed the note upon your
pillow, but that ut the moment when she did
so you lad moved i'll your sleep; and i'll her
frigh: she had left the room at once, forget
ting to bring the knife with her"
@Thcn there was nc ghost but the one you
sent to me, darling! But about the strychnia;
for that is about the most important thing
of all now"
II placed it on shelf over the door by
which tho secret stair is entered 1t was the
sight Of the knife which reminded me i'm
mediately Of the plac'."
Irose breathiess with excitement
"My darling, by God's help, all will yet be
well. But | must not delay a moment
longer now"
1strained her in my arms, and kissed her
passionately Half an hour afterwards
was on my way to Great Lorton, having
disnatched telegram to Mr.. Eastmead beg
ging him to meet me at the Barton railway
station.
found the chief constable waiting for me
on the platform at Barton. Like other men
ain tho force" he was probably happier
when engaged in bringing q criminal to
Justice than when he was saving an innocent
person from m unjust punishment. But in
Daisy's case he showed as much zeal as
though he had been one OF her personal
friends, and 1 had no need to complain OF
tho interest he displayed when l told him
the errand upon which was bent, and the
important facts which I had elected during
my visit to the prison.
~ want you to accompany ME i'll my
search through the hall, Mr.. Eastmead, both
because you will be an unimpeachable wit
ness regarding any discoveries may make,
and because may neel to appeal to the aid
of the law In my task. For you will under-
stand that shall not do things by halves.
This power Of attorney makes me Miss
Stanclife,s Legal representative, and shall
use all my rights under it, not only to prove
her innocence but, if possible, to discover
who tho guilty person is
"You have set yourself hard task, MIR.
Fenton,n no replied "but thero is somo
hope of success for am quito certain that,
Us vet, we do not know tho truth"
We had to walk from Little Lorton station
t. tho hall. My interview with Daisy had
taken place in the early morning, and it
was barely two o'clock In tho afternoon
wnen found myself once moro standing on
the broad terrace in front OF the quaint old
house.
Tic first person saw was the evi!-onencd
Flintor lie came forward with an inso!ent
III nnl demanded my business
''My business, sir, might very well be to
give you into custody for tho outrage which
you committed upon me. AS it's, am lerc
in tho exercise OF my rights, and l!aYo roth-
ing to say to you"
"Tou won't get into the hail. ct all evcnts !"
DC said, doggedly.
"NoHe Of that nonsensa," interposed the
chief constable. "or snail have to take you
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