St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-11

walking up and down in front of Mr..
Hermann's office. suppose she eX-
pected to meet him."
ssSurely,'' [ answered, 'sshe is at lib
! erty to walk on O certain street; she
cannot avoid it because his Office is on
| it," But could not convince Miss
| Rand.
In November called OH Mrs Dever-
eaux. She said her husband was away
| and Alice at school.
''You must be lonely" said.
mo-" she replied; II have good
| deal of company"
As she spoke l heard bell ring, and
presently the servant ushered in MI.
Hermann.
| So they kept up the acquaintance.
One afternoon in the winter / was
reading in my room, when Mrs. Dew
| ereauX was announced. went down
| to see her. and we chatted pleasantly
for some time. She told me her huS-
band was very much troubled with dys-
| pepSfa. There was large bottle OF
white powdered pepsin in our medicine
chest. l gave her a small vial full OF
| the powder.
II am afraid he will not take it," she
| said: stbut can put it in his food, al
! though that would look as though were
trying to poison him." And she laughed
| in her silvery tones: SPY the way, how
strange that MIR. Hermann should call
| On the very day you came! l have not
| seen him SINCE"
She had hardly left the house when
Miss Rand came in.
II saw your divine Mrs. Devereaux
| driving yesterday" she said. 'Mr.
| Hermann was with her."
ssShe certainly could not forget so
soon," thought.
About month after this Ireceived a
kind note from Mrs. DeVereaux asking
me to drink tea with her OH the follow
| ing Wednesday. Mr.. Devereaux was
| glad to see me. He told me that one OF
our last summers friends was coming
since last summer. Presently the friend
arrived. 1t was Mr.. Hermann
sWhy, Mr.. DevereauX!" said. "Mr.
Hermann and met since last summer.
One eve"
Mrs. DevereauX, just then calling her
husbands attention to something
which had fallen in the CRATE, could
not finish my sentence, and finally for
got to mention that had met Mr.. Her
mann at that very house.
Before we sat to the table Mr.. Deve-
reaux brought from another room the
glass vial of pepsin which l had given
his wife.
lit does me no good, but / take it to
please her," he said.
She placed little on the tip of a
spoon. THAT is not enoughW l eX-
claimed. "You should take three times
that AMOUNT
This is plenty, she said, as she
Inl !, IN 70 h11c
II shall do as Miss Cash SayS!" crled
he. and taking about four times the
amount, swallowed it. :.
l heard a faint rustic. Turning.
saw that Mrs. Devefeaux had moved
| little in her chair. Her face was CHASTITY.
Il feel i'll myself she cried. smiling
in a forced manner, II shall take some
pepsin, too, Think
She did take about half spoonful,
and talked and laughed in an excited
way. Her husband was unusually still.
Suddenly she started out of her chair.
and throwing up her hands wildly, fell
to the floor. Her face, as it lay on the
white furrug near the fire, looked weird
and strange.
.'Go for doctor!' cried excitedly to
Hermann, who stood transfixed with
horror. He rushed from the house. and
in few moments returned with ply
sician.
The latter looked at the PROSTATE
form. felt the pulSe-"Death from
poisen,'' he said gravely. Then, seeing
MI. DeyereauX, who was sitting half life
less in his chair, he exclaimed: ''What
is thiS?"
After a close examination OF the
seemingly unconscious man he gazed at
us searchingly. traces OF poison here,
to-" he said. "How has all this hap
pened2" 80
sGaspingly we told him, while the SER
wants stood gaping in the doorway.
"Let me see the vial"
We handed it to him. He took some
of the powder in his hand, rubbed it be-
tween his fingers, tasted it, afterwards
rinsing his mouth with water, threw
some of it in the fire, watching it as it
burned, and pronounced it stfychnine.
II cannot see why her husband is7not
dead, too," he said, "unless 1T is that he
has been accustomed to very small
quantities, and SO requires more to take
effect"
i Shall neverforget Henry Hermann's
face as he bent over that PROSTATE
form. The eyes that had been wont to
open wide with such childish inno-
cence were closed forever, and the long
dark lashes lay on the pallld cheeks.
The glow from the burning fire gave a
reddish tinge to the golden hair, and its
Pickering light seemed to linger around
her.
When he arose he was strangely
white, and his dark eyes shone large
and unnaturally bright. Seeming to
divine my thought, he stood before me:
81 have been foolish, but not guilty."
believed him.
Next morning there was paragraph
in the newspapers recOunting horrl-