The Irish standard., 1888-05-26
CHAPTER Xxx.

CHAPTER Xxx.
TEE DEED AND THE MOTIVE.
The inquest was over, and Norris and Un-
Gle Amos, having given their testimony,
went away together.
:tSup1ose we call on Edison while we are
in his neighborhood," suggested the former.
~ have not heard the conclusion Of his
story, and there are some points not yet
CLEAR to ne. You don't seem to fear that
time, Uncle Amos"
"Scarcely," and the old man chuckled.
"You sec, Everleigh has promised not to
be bard on him, but ! thought it best,
with all this other business stirred up, to
get him out of the way for a time, SO the
truth is, I've sent him out to the cottage"
"You are a lannon's detective" said Nor
ris, with laugh. "First run your man
down, and then give him a home for life
for that is what it will amount to-,
81 am only afraid that he will not live
very long, poor fellow Certainly, Norris,
you need not object, since you refuse to live
with me, and Edison would find it hard to
get a situation where he could support hinl-
self. No one would care to employ him
with that blot Of dishonesty hanging over
him, and, besides, he is not now fit for any
thing except to potter about a place like
mine"
"Al eninently good and satisfactory
reasons, Uncle Amos, but am to wait until
pay you visit there to learn what he saw
in the bank that night3 Evidently, you do
not regard him as Lyman Childer's assail-
anti
"No. Lyman Childer's own hand COM
mitted the crime against himself; you may
know why, though you keep so quiet about
it. This is what Edison says"
1t was only what the reader knows with
out telling Hidden in the expectation Of
finding Childer engaged in some scheme
like that which he had once carried out sue
cessfully, Edison had disclosed himself just
in time to thoroughly startle the other as he
turned the pistol against himself and sent
the ball crashing home, meaning 1t to still
ife's pulses forever.
Edison had not doubt but that this had
been done.
Never brave man at the best, and rem
dered more cowardly by a year Of fugitive
existence, he was appalled, by the conse-
auences which might reflect upon himself.
Who would believe that he could be in that
place at that hour for any purpose but evl9
It might be, even, that his story of the
others suicide would be doubted, and him
self suspected as Lyman's murderer There
was that still unexplained between the two
men which made this supposition probable,
and he had yielded to his fears and made
good his escape, first taking pains to obliter.
ate all marks of his presence there. He had
brought these dust-covered volumes from
their neglected shelves and piled them up
in the little closet where he had found a
hidinR-Flace, and in the absence Of childer
and Ingst, no one had noticed the change.
This vas all that Uncle Amos could tell
The sequel to that nights attempt, the key
to the one mystery of how Lyman Childer
had robbed the employer who trusted him,
came later, when the sick man was 80 far
recovered that heeould move about. though
only the shadow and ghost Of himself. Then
one day, at his request, MI. Everleigh came,
bringing with him gentleman with whom
he had q business acquaint ance, the: division
superintendent Of the express company.
under whom Norris had formerly worked.