The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1889-05-16


on business Of the utmost importance Lock
the door and go into the back once 80 that
no one can interrupt US I've get 70 get
back to the Hollow on the fly just as soon as
1 have your opinion"
.sYon have Il now, them he returned
with q good-nafured laugh ~ consider
you the Widest maddest girl in ten coun-
tics"
Gomez
where he soon had the gas Lit, and then she
drew forth a small bit Of folded paper and
!, laid it in the doctors hand.
TEL me what that contains. please.n
"a small white POWDER" he said, after
opening the paper.
"Yes, but what ts its''
perhaps / may not be able TO tell to
night, t" he returned, tasting IT,
"But you must tell just rs soon as you
can possibly do so,S urged the girl, throw
ing herself into chair. and removing her
jaunty hat
With coed -humored smile the doctor Liz
a lamp and retired into small apartment
that he was pleased to term his labora-
tory. The time passed slowly 70 Lura after
the departure of the doctor She was
consumed with eagerness and impotence
and was soon up pacing the floor.
Slowly the minutes waned-
Lura thought of Grace and Lucy, and |
| wondered il Captain Starbright would en- |
deavor to effect an entrance during her
absence. She was in n ferment until DIR.
Cotton returned after an absence of half an
hour.
sWeIli" questioned the girl, Is she
gazed INTO the grave face Of the doctor. He
folded the paper and punched it tightly be
tween his fingers and regarded the girl be
fore him fxedly.
where did you get this, Lura Joycel'
s.At Lone Hollow
do you suspect what it isr
Medicine"
"No-poisong''
al thought sor' exclaimed Lura Then
she stood for some minutes regarding the
doctor with clasped hands, palng checks and
labored breathing.
"Where did you get itr' again demanded
Dr. Cotton
ARTHUR, took that powder from stand
IN the room occupied by Grace Penroy at
Lone Hollow; it is one Of many similar that
she has been swallowing during the past '
three weeks" :
aGcod heayensi This can not be true" q
SIT e true, and Grace still lives, al &
though she has been sinking day by day
under this drug that you say is poison" o
but no physician would be guilty Of a
such indiscretion, such criminality," Dried D
tie doctor. III
aNo, perhaps not; but Captain Star r
bright's haLd is in this, and Grace would
have been dead in forty-eight hours had 1 =
not made this discovery"
Then Lura proceeded to give an the par d
ticulars IN the case to one who proved to be q
amost interested listener. q
at is tune to check that villain in his q
career Of crime. - said the doctor, when he s
had heard and digested the story Of Lura 4
Joyce il
'.Yes. You viii assist me to that end,
DR.. CoItonln If
''You know 1 will"
For fully an hour the girl and the doctor
talked, at the end Of which time Mss Joyce Z
left the ONCE, mounted Romeo, who re- .
manned waiting patiently for the return Of p
his mistress. and galloped swiftly on her re- n
turn to Lone Hollow.
The girl had made horrible discovery, s.
and she realized that it had come none too a
soon-it might be even now too late to save e
poor Grace Penruy- u
No one was about thepremises when Lura
Joyce rode into the yard She hastily dis g
mounted. led Romeo into his stall and then
sped to the house
She found the outer door locked She al y
once passed to the kitchen TO find this Sc
cured against her. Then back to the great
front door she sped and rang the bell
Twice she sounded the bell ere the door was
opened.
$50 you are back again, Miss JoyceF' y
II was Captain Starbright His voice was =
pleasant enough, however, and he seemed =
TO have been reused from q sound sleep, -
since he yawned and rubbed his eyes =
sits a pretty note for you to be galloping =,
over the country at such uncanny hours,
Mss Joyce 1 think I shall forbid il in the g
future. Mrs Penroy has been terribly -
worried about you" m
How cool he was after what had happened -
earlier in the evening. =
Indeed retorted Lura aAnd you have y
worried, too, no doubt, betwfxt hope aud Il
fear. IT'D broken my neck you would be
profoundly happy" d
''You continue to think harshly of me, my
dear girl.'' ..
.sYou are deserving Of i'm %
II protest that you wrong mep
How is Gracel'
81 can not tell you 1 haven't been per Fl
mitted to visit the sick-room. II is con-
trary to your orders, am told How humble "
we poor male bipeds have to be when there's
q woman running affairs" OF
There was q tinge Of sarcasm in his deep q
ly-modulated voice that did not escape NJ
the notice Of Lura. She realized that the
man she had 70 deal with was not an CO
ordinary one; that he was cunning and Il
slippery as an eel, and tonight she had &C
learned that he was constituencies II
Il will go up at once,,' returned Lura h
He detained her with touch q
Lnra, how long is this to continueFs
HIS question sounded like demand
How long is what to continued" o
Z S-ea
part. Certainly you must be aware how DIS
tasteful it is TO me lam virtually master
here and may not choose to tolerate your =
insOlent interference
II was dark in the hall and she could not
see his face. but she guessed readily the -
ugly look that rested there. Although his =
voice did not -tremhle, she realized that
he was terribly angry.
She was angry as well and her face 8
showed it, but the darkness was As KIND 70 :. =
her Is TO him
This is my house, sir.'r she retorsed with y
al the calmness she could assume, with the y
hot blood Of Indignation beating fercely !.
against cheek and brow Morgan vandible 7.
invited me here, and until his granddaughter =
orders me hence. 1 propose TO make it my :
home No enc has . better right to care for
Grace than ], and yo1 will ohlige ne much =.
BY keeping your fingers entirely out Of the -
pie" =,
She eluded his hand then, and swept up -
the stairs to the door OF the sick room She I.
quickly fitted the key and unlocked the door, =
Lucy was snoring IN her chair, and Grace,
with wide open. restless eyes, lay quietly in %
her place -,
sob. Lura. cousin, 1 am so glad you have NJ
come Somebody has twice tried the door ~
during the night and-and haven't heea ~
able tosleep- You won't leave me again. m
dear, will your m