Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-09-13

And the devil has got his due my lads
 Sing hoi but he waits for youi
 'Both waiting for you, MT. Trenowcth, your sweetheart and the devil Ladies first you would say. Aha l am not so sure. By the way, might give guess at your sweet hearts name? Might it begin with a c! Might she be a famous actress? Claire per haps she calls herself! Aha!
 The sound of Claire's name had maddened me. 1 broke out in fury.
 Dog and devll I shall be lying with all the other victims of your accursed life.
 Hush, Mir. Trenoweth" and he toyed gently with his knife; also remember that l must be at Dead Mans Rock at half past eleven tonight"
 Ficnd :" continued, you can kill me you like. Take my life as you took Claire,s, if ever man"
 "Clare-Clare deadH He staggered back step, and almost at the same moment 1 thought l caught sound on the other side of the partition at my back. l listened for moment, then concluding that my ears played me some trick, went on again.
 Yes dcad-She killed herself tonight at the theatre stabbed h"rselt-oh, God Do you think 1 care for your knife now? Why, I was going to kill myself, to drown myself. at the very moment 1 heard your voice and came on board. 1 came to kill you. Make the most of it--Show me no mercy, for as there is a God in Heaven 1 would have shown you nOnc.
 What was that sound on the other side of the PartitionE
 l swcrod quietly, flor have sworn to show no mercy to your race. But listen.
 ''Tnerr iS many soul crying in heaven and hell for vtnE@"ns , on your raeG eqt bo yonr UT the peculiar joy of one. You guessed that your grandfather had crimes upon his soul, but you did not guess the blackest crime on his account. the murder of his dearest friend, Listen. Know, then. that when your grand father was rich man by this friends aid after with this friends help, he had laid his hands on the secret uI the Great Ruby, in the moment of his triumph he turned and slew that friend ill order to keep the Ruby to him. self
 That fool. your father, kept a journal which no doubt you have read over and over again. Did h" tell you how 1 caught him on Adam < Peak, sitting with this clasp in his hands N''f"r' d hu"Ous. yrhven stone? That stone WG, cut ill gha$:ly N!pcEery of that friends tac": the bones tha; lay b.neath it were tlr,' bones of that friend. There, on that face, dld his father, Amos Trenoweth. strike down my father Ral i1h CulIivor
 Let me 90 on. As if that deed We're not foul enough he caused the old priest to carve being Skillul with the rhisel, that vile di5tor tiOn of his dead friends face out of q huge boulder lyIng hy, and then murdered him, too. for th, hulE sake and Jumb!ed their boltlr"' int" the trough together. Such WlS Amrs TreQOWrth. Ar"NOu proud of your dcScCpt:
 Il never saw my father. was not born until three months after this, and not until was ten years old did my mother tell me of his fate
 '.Your grandfather was a fool, Jasper Tren- Wrtu to d,'spisc her, for she was young then i}nu could wait. She was hcautiful then, and Amos TrcroWoth himself had loved her. What iS she now? Speak ,foryou har" seen her.
 As he spoke l seemed 10 see uEalu lhut vel low f;4re those awful aOulless eyes, and hear her laugh as she gazeu down from the box upon lily Iyin, love"
 "Wc!l we settled in Plymouth, and 1 Vas tlN.N, still with the S:!lur purpose. Then learnt ol Amos rrynoWrth- affairs, hul only to a crr- tain rNirnt for Ui inc Wealth which he llau aU llUodly wul l could discover nothing: aud yGt l knew he l"'SS, .SSt'G riches. Net for al! noQtu di#rpy.'r, his possessions were simply thoev 8: ~i irN&-lines farmer his husin"ss ;tl- SOlut@y nptllnS. W&s tlMIpSt HrSptrTlt", when one day Il tall, GA"ht and aged man stepped into Glr office, ;.akt:i for my employer and gave tn, name of Amos TrrnOWcth. And how little did he guess that tae clerk of whom he took no moro notice than O! stone, would one day strike his descendants of the face of the earth ami inherit the wealth for which lie had sold s euul-tlr :,r.'at l.E!y of Ceylon!
 He Was uneasy about hl.' WiA-the fool and did hot know that all his, possessions would necessarily become his Son'S. In nly heart 1 laughed at his iynorUucc; but l learnt cnouSh-enOugh to wait patiently for years and finally to track Ezekiel Trenoweth to his death.
 It was about this time that I fell in lov,.
 
 been cursed with the toulrst luck; but ill this, as in cvrr>thinr els nv patience has Non Ill the end. Lucy Luytrrll lowed another man | called Railtun-JOhn Eulilun. He W;,e another | fOol-VOU arc til fools -hut she married hin. Nnd had < d',u-Arr. l wonder ii you Gall g,.o7.s who that daughter w;ls:
 He ',rk ke ofT and looked at me with 1endish malice.
 Railton-Clar" Luttrell; and you murdered ! her father as you say Amos Trenowrth muY- | dcrCd yours.
 Right, he answered, cooily. 'Quite right. | Oh the arts by which 1 rEtirci that man tn 1 drink and then to crime! Even now I could | sit and laugh over thcm by tho hour. Way, man, there was not a touch of guile in the fc!- 1 low when took him in hand, and yet il was ! he that altrrWard took your father life. He ! i.jeA jt once in Bombay and buaglcd it sadly | he did il ue&tly enough though. on tho lin- boom of the l@,A Fortune. l lent him the knife: would have done it myself, but Rail- ton WAS hcarer; and besides It Is always better | to bc a witness.
 What was that rustling sound behind tho partitionE Colliver did not hear 1t, at any rate, but he went on with his tale. ! Il had stolen half the clasp beforehand 1 iron, tir .:;hin floor where that stupcndou1 l idiot, l,-:eHirl TrEnQweth, bad dropped it. Railton caught nin2 It,foro be dropped, but did not know he had time 10 get tho !,o@ away before the next We both jumped for tho Rock Thought that Railton must have heon sucked back, for 1 only chung on miS4N by the Iuc&- fest chance. 1t was pich-dar& and imposs:(p> 1 to see. called his name. but he either could not or would not hear for the roar, or did nOt choose to answer, so after a bit 1 stopped. thought him dead, and he no doubt thought me dead, until we met upon Dead Man Rock
 Shall 1 finish? Oh. yes, you shall hear the whole story. After the inquest escaped back to Plymouth, told Lucy that her husbanc had been drowned at sea, and finally per
 Shaded hc, r. leave Plymouth and marry me When came @aek found you: found you, ,arc struck again. Bin again my cursed luck stood in my way and that damned friend O yours knocked me senseless. Look at this mark Gn my cheek?"
 Lock at tlo clasp and you will sec where your blow was struck"
 'Ay, that was it, was it." ne said, examining
 the clasp slowly. 1 suppose you thought i
 lucky at the time So it was-for me. For
 though made another mistake in the fog tha
 night, get quits with your friend at any rate
 Your father did lot escape, neither Will you
 and when I think of the joy it was to me t
 know that you and Claire of all peOple--'
 But l would hear no more. Mad as l wa
 ISith shame and horror for my grandfather
 Grnelty iHeW this man, notwithstanding his
 talk 0f ra%(n!;r, tu bs 8 vile and treacherou:
 sseoundrel; So when he spoke of Claire,
 lsDOr this is enough 1 haze listened l.