Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-01-15
ATERBURY EvENING DEMOCRAT; TUESDAY JANUARY 1889
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 'Ah!"" Ahfy!" she said again; 1T understand now.n | At that Ipn Inpnnent q diversion occurred, The drawing room looked on, to the garden, and st the saa of ts gafe WIS af5 2 oSf t'q v which n; IT. Through this door had come Col. Cuaritch. .Accompanfad by Mir. Quest, the former with his gun under his ann. They had walked up the garden, and we're almost at the French window when Edward 'Cossey saw them.
 "Cohtrol youtself,", he Said in7 a; low voice,
 ",here is your husband" iH', Jts'.r. '.''H .i'f|! 9':" Mfr. Quest, advanced, and Knocked at the window, which lis wife opened. When he saw Edward Cossey he lesitated a little, and then nodded to, him, while the colonel came forward, and placing his gun. by the wall entered the room, shook hands with Mrs. Quest, and bowed co1dly to Edward Cossey. I"coming here with the benevolent intention I of giving you some snipe, so brought him ap By the short way ''t''t <fH'iF'lh" Ria That is very kind of you. Col Quaritch," said she, with sweet smile '(for she had the sweetest smile irhag gihable). M ,t'i i' "' n9'"h' " He looked at her. There was something about her face which attracted his attention, | something unusual. -"'' "2 'stV hat ar'e you looking att" she asked. .nh th 'sYou !" he said, bluntly, for they were out of hearing of the other two. .sIf I were poetically minded, 1"should say that you looked like the Tragic Muse" ,,llii s., is'Do I?' she answered;sburstingo out laugh !! ing. "Well, that is curious, because. feel shk ke, Comedy lherself.h 4nu.:L 1aIY:4 t.s. Ih ,'ilhera's something wrong with that wo- nian.' ,thoug ht,' the, colonel to himself he isxtracted two couple of snipe from his capa- sious ooat tails.t Fl, wonder " hat it iss'l r " Just then MT. Quest, and Edward Cossey, j passed out into the garden, talkinga r9,lig ., '", 'iHere are .ithe snipe, Mrs. Qnest," he said. l. Fl have had rather good luck. II killed four "eouple and missedtwo couple more; but then A had a new .gun and. one can never shoot so twell with a new Gun.p,iI ,g.< nl a.t,,,.-, l. 72 ''Oh. thank you,p ? she said, '.do pull! out the spalnters' for me, 1 like to put them in my riding, hat, and l,neger can find them my
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 ''Nery' wei, ]" he answered, ttbut must go into the garden to do it; there is not light enough here. It gets dark-so soon now"
 -. Accordingly he stepped" ont through the
 window, and, began to hunt for the. pretty
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 "ls that the new gun, Col Quaritchan said
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 '''Be careful,p ? he said ;i:L haHen'ta taken the cartridges outP i l,nAnsn hnI. ,.rt..,l., is..
 If he had been looking at her, which at the
 moment he was not, Harold would have seen her stagger and catch at the wall for support. Then he would have seen, an awful and ma 'evolent light of sudden determination pass across her face. ,.. :,..,-., TIT. ..
 "AA1l right, she said. :, II know all about guns My father used to shoot, and always cleaned his gun," and she took the weapon the locks. .,..ss t.,.'. ..... ''
 What is thisl" she said, pointing to lit tie slide above the locks, on which the word ''safe' was engraved in gold letters '
 ""Oh,,. that's the safety bolt" he said. When you see the word 'safe,' the, locks are barred, and the gun won't go of. You have to push the bolt forward before you can fire" , i'So2" she said, ,carelessly, and suiting the action to the word; ,.t.it,,.t. ...4,.. ...
 Yes, so; but plea please be careful, thegun is loaded"
 ::..Yes, I'll. be, careful,n she answered. 'gWell, it is a very. pretty gun, and so light that believe I could shoot with it myself , !. Meanwhile Edward Cossey and MT. Quest, who were walking toward them, had sepa- rated, Mr. Quest going to the right across the lawn to pick up a,glove which had dropped upon the grass, while Edward Cossey slowly sauntered toward them. When he was about nine paces off he too halted, and, stepping little, looked abstractedly at white Japanese chrysanthemum which was still in bloom. Mrs. Quest turned, as the colonel thought, to put the gun back against the wall He would have offered to take it from her, but at the moment both his hands were occupied in ex- tracting one of the. painters" from snipe. The next thing that be: was aware of was bud explosion, followed by an; exclamation dr rather cry from Mrs. Quest. He dropped the snipe and locked pp, just in time to see the gun, which had leaped from her hands with the recoil, strike against the wall of the house andl fall to the ground. Instantly, whether by instinct or by chance he never knew, he. glanced toward the place where Edward Cossey was. stending, and saw that His. face was, streaming with blood and that his'r5ght arm htng hslplesslht hia sideIf Even, as he looked, he saw him put his uninjured hand' to bis head and, without "a word or sound sink down on the gravel path" 'j'''"F