Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-02-07

she replied uneaSlly, on KNOW lndI
the orders are that you are not to be ex-
cited or distressed. When YOU are quite
strong you shall know everything
1t only worries me, having news hid
den from me. Why can't you tell me
what | want to know" he exclaimed
peevishly. II shall not sleep now unless
you tell me abou, 1t. won't get excited
you need not be afraid
"Well. she said, after few minutes
hesitation, lit was bad news about poor
Captain turgis."
"'What? What bad news?"
'He is dead.
"Sturgis dead? Nonsense,
eyes, dear. Now don't be upset, He
died very suddenly on the night that he
left this house-and in fearful man
ner.
'Poor fellOw!' said Atwood quietly.
"Tell me how. Tow did he die"
ale was murdered In his chambers.
Murdered. | can hardly believe it.
Who could have murdered him?"
ALAS, | fear that the evidence points
TO one whom we all know" replied Mrs
Atwood, much a ectel.
- ne we all know?" he inquired slowly.
"Yes-Iohn Delaney.
'.lohn Delaney? What, is he then sus-
ected of the u urder
Eyes, George: and fear that there are
but too good grounds for the suspicion.
He was beng hunted Tor by the police on
account of that dreadful dynamite affair.
lie left here with Sturgis, and at the in
quest the eabman who gave evidence
swO that he drove both OF them as far
as licca lilly Circus. There they got out
and walked i'm the direction Of FALL Mall,
lii Aal
That was the last seen Of Captain SturgiS
alive-D Delaney has never been heard OF
since.
"John Delaney suspected" muttered
George Atwood. How very awful! What
what Oh ect could he have had in kill
ing him?'
Money" replied Mrs. Atwood. 81
would never have believed him capable of
harming anything until that night" she
sobbed, as TIE memory of Their last inter-
view cross al her mind, and how she had
promised o look after his mother and his
sister While lie was away. ''He must
have suddenly gone mad, " she continued.
lit was known-indeed, II you remember,
Captain Sturgis himself mentioned the
fact to us-tEat he had a large sum OF
money in his possession; but how John
Delaney could have heard that l can't
imagine. .
George Atwood wiped his forehead with
his handker hief, and sighed.
"Well?' he said, as if he wanted to
hear more.
Perhaps Sturgis told him that he had
this money" she said perhaps he told
him while they were driving along in the
cab Outcast as he was, and tempted be-
yond measure by this knowledge, he must
have suddenly resolved to become possess
ed OF the money. and
"And so murdered SturGis-that sounds
possible
"ies. Oh, George, It was too awful,
the-the way the murder was committed!
When was it found out"
'Not until late the next nigh. 1t seems
that Captain st rIis had given orders to
his servant never TO dis urO him until he
rang. He was fire. emily in the habit OF
sleeping until midday, and sometimes
even late in the afterno n, 50 his not
having rung created no surprise until to-
wards nightfall. Then his man raped at
the cham ber-door-it was locked or bolted,
as lie then thought, upon the inside
afterwards it was discovered to have been
locked from the outside. as the key was
found lying under a couch IN the saloon,
as ii it had been flung there. The servant,
receiving no reply, be, anne alarmed and
called up the landlord OF the house. Al
last ii was determined to force open the
door. When they did so a dIeadful sight
met their eyes-Captain Sturgis lay dead,
street.-The across the bed. His body seemed
| literally TO be hacked 10 pieces. as If the
murderer had cut and slashed at him in
an outbuTst OF ungOvernable fury. The
! bedclothes, the walls, and indeed the
whole apartment were stated to be covered
with blood"
shocking" rurrured George Atwood.
"IIOw very dreadful
''les. " said lanche, weeping. "Only
/ to think that .'ohn Delaney should have
done it. he weapon which had been
used was an Indian scimitar. 1t was
| foun lying upon the foor
81 remember Sturgi5 showing me such
sword remarked her husband.
"A cash-boy, which usually stood upon
table near his bedstead, had been burst
open and ri ed. -
WAS it known what money lie had for
certain?
ct was known that he had ,ust received
two thousand pounds in no es, and also
that he had good sum Of gold by him,
which lie kept, a q rule. for everyday ex-
| NNlHlllS Bub lIO HiOHCg wa
touched, though as the papers all remark
ed, the rooms were full OF many valuable
and costly things. 30 it could not have
been the work of any ordinary thief"
"And The number of the notes, " asked
Atwood -'were they known"
Cautiously enough, not one. He had
received them from several different peo
pie in various sums and not one OF them
had troubled to note the numbers down. ,
'Ha! And there is no trace of John De
laney? That looks adj.
~ one at all. l was called upon to give
evidence mt the in uest. You also were
summoned, but of course your Illness
made it inT ossible for you to attend. AL
| could say was that both Sturgis and De
laney were here that night and that they
left the house together at about half half
past ten. The cabman deposei to thei
going as far as Piccadilly Circus, wher
they walked oil arm-in-arir. fear there
can be 10 POSSIBLE doubt of his having
committed this awful cri re-"
II am rather tired now - sa d Atwood
after short silence. II think ! coulC
get little snoO g il you would leave m,
for while. Thanks for telling me all
ABOUT 1t. Poor Sturgis, Jack DELANEY
eh? Well. wellp'-and in few minutes
he was last asleep.
Eroun TINT dov CaorOo AtmooJ ooop, I'd