The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-11

There have been a few stopping OF and
on here, or taking rooms IN the village, the
landlord answered: ''but dOn'5 think there
has been anyone fishing on tho stream for
the last few days"
Il don't mean that class; | mean
tramps"
That can't tell you" the landlord re-
piled; 1--WE don't take tramps in here; they
in general go TO Vikings beershop at the
other end of t e village. he can put up
four or five for the night, and IN summon
he is often full, fer we are JdSt about
long days tramp out from Plymouth, and
they often make this their first stopping place
out, or their last stopping-piace IN, but it's
getting late for them now, though may
come along after the harvest Is well over.
Still, you know, there may have been one
there yesterday, for aught know.
Il Will go round presently and ask. Any
one who was here the night before might
well have lain in the woods yes-erday, and
gone no and done it.
Il don't believe as you will ever lind
anything about it. There's a curse on
Carne's Hold, as everyone knows, aud
curses will work themselves cut. Il l were
tho squire, | would pull the place down,
every stick and stone of it, and | would
build fresh one a bit away. 1 wouldn't
use so much as a brick or q rafter of the
old place, for the curse might stick to it.
bottom
Yes, 1 have heard of the curse on
Carne's Hold" the detective said. a man
who worked with me, and comes from this
part of the country, told me all about it as
we came over to-day. However, that has
nothing to do with this case"
It's partly the curse as that heathen
woman as Sir Edgar brought home us his
wife laid on the place." the old clerk said,
positively; land it will go on working
as long as Carne's Hold stands. That's
what | says, and I don't think as anyone
else here will gainsay me"
That's right enough" tho blacksmith
agreed, 81 think we are all with You there,
Mr.. Clarhurst 1t ought to have been
pened there. Why, If Mr.. Carne was to
say to me Have the house and tho garden
and all rent free, Jacob Carey. as long as
you like, L should say Thank you, squire,
l wouldn't move into it, not # you give
me enough besides to keep it up / cali it
just flying in the face of providence. Only
look at Hiram Pc wlett there; he sends his
daughter up to bs Miss Carne's maid at the
HOl. and what comes of it? Why she
5umbies down the hill a-goin up. and,there
she lies three weeks with the doctor coming
10 see ner every day That was a clear
warning if ever there was one. Who ever
heard Of n girl falling down and hurting
herself like tnatl No one. And it would
not have happened if it hadn't been for the
curse of Carnes Hold"
Il shouldn't go SO far as that" Hiram
Powlett said. "What happened to my lass
mad nothing to do with the Hold; she might
nave been walking up the hill at any time.
and she might have slipped down ut any
time. A girl may put her foot on a loose
stone and fall without it having any
thing to say TO the Hold one way or the
other. Besides, | have never heard it said
as the curse had aught to do except with
the family"
Il don't know about that" the smith re-
piled. That servant that was killed by
the Spanish woman's son; how about him?
It. seems to me as the curse worked on him q
bit 100"
$50 it did, so it did" Hiram agreed. ~
can't gainsay you there, Jacob Carey: now
you put it So, l see there is something in it,
though never before have heard OF there
being anything in the curse except in the
family"
why, didn't Miles Jefferes, father of
one of boys as is in the stables, get his
trains kicked out by one of the old squirrels
horsesw
$50 he did, Jacob, so he did; still, grooms
does get their brains kicked out at other
places besides the Hold. But there is some
thing IN what you say, and II ! had thought
go up there to service. / Thought it was
all for the best at the time, and you knows
right enough why | sent her up there, to
be away from that George Forester; still |
might have sent her somewhere else, and [
would have done if | had thought of what
you are saying now. Sure enough no good
has come of it. | can't hold that that fall
of hers had aught TO do with the curse of
the Carne's but this last affair, which seems
ho fret
enough comes from the curse"
Who is this George Forester, if you
don't mind my asking the question:? the
detective said. You sec it's my business
to find out about people"
"Oh, George hadn't nothing to do with
this business" Hiram replied. Hes tae
son of a farmer near here, and has al
ways been wild and a trouble to the old
man, but he's gone away weeks ago. He
got into poaching scrape, and one of the
Keepers was hurt, aud | suppose he thought
he had best be out of it, for time; any-
how, he has gone, but he weren't that sort
of chap. No. there was no harm in
George Forester, not in that way; he was
lazy and fonder of a glass than was good
for him, and he got into bad company down
at Dareport, and that's what led him to this
poaching business, Il expect, because there
was no call for him to go poaching. His
fathers got tidy farm, and he wanted for
nothing. If he had been there he couldn't
have wanted to steal Miss Carne's iewelrv.
be was passionate enough, 1 know, end
many quarrel has he had with his father,
but nothing would have made me believe,
even If he had been here, that old Jim For
ester's son bad hand in black business
like this; SO don't you go 10 take such no.
ton as that into your head"
He Gould not be likoly to have any
quarrel with Miss Carne," the detective
asked.
"Quarrel?-no," Hiram replied sharply,
for he resented the idea thai any possible
suspicion of Margaret Carne's murder
should be attached to 4 man with whom
Ruth'S name had been connected. 81 don't
suppose Miss Carne ever spoke a word to
him in her life. What should she speak to
him fora Why he had left Sunday
school years before she took to seeing after
it. 'Tain't as if he had been one of the boys
of the village"
AS jacob Carey. Reuben Claphurst and
the landlord, each gave an asserting muir
muir to Hiram's words, the detective did not
think it worth while to pursue the point
further, for there really seemed nothing to
connect this George Forester in any way
with Margaret Carne's death.
"Well," he said, taking up his hat 81
will go round to this beershop you speak
of and make inquiries as to whether any
tramps have been loafng there. 1t is quite
certain that she didn't put an end to her
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