Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-07-18

A E$SSSSSSSSSSSSiD TT e l-h d i M &SSSS$SSSSSSlproved his bold | .@SM V8SSSSSSSS1ness by remaining 1 ESSSM $&$I<S&lin the vicinity, l S@wSSSS&Awhen everything l
 seemed to indi- 1 cate that nasty flight would be most ben eficial to his interests.
 He seemed completely cnvironed by foes, and no matter which way he turned 1t did seem as though he was bound to meet some enemy; but he only shut his teeth the harder and determined to beat them all yet.
 There were several important things that menaced him about which he knew nothing.
 The first of these was the escape of Nora Warner for the second time from the mad-house. and the fact that she and brave Jack, who loved her so we'll that he was ready to die in her service, were even then closing in upon the man npon whom both had sworn a mighty oath to be avenged.
 Then, again, there was another Httlo fact of which the Captain was ignorant the restoration of tho Russian detective to life.
 He had not the least idea in the wide world but that the fellow had been dead in the chimney for days; and not know ing that the old mill was occupied, and haunted by fear lest his secret should become known, should any one by acci- dent discover the body of the man. tracker, who might be really recognized as the person with whom he had left Richmond Terrace on the night when his | marriage had besn so abruptly broken off l by the flight of Carol, assisted by valiant Roger, he was even now on his way to l the old mill with tho full intention of for ever hidingsthe body of the slain detect l ive-for he was absolutely positive the 1 man was dead-from the view of man. | kind. .... | He had started out with 0 trowel and | some lime intending to make some mor- tar and brick up the hole in the chimney in which he had dropped the body, but when he came to think 1t all over, there were several objections to this plan.
 In the first place, any parties visiting the mill through idlo curlosity-as they were liable to do any day, and this it was that had urged him on to the step he was about to take-could not but notice the difference in tho mortar; the patch would be plainly seen, and their curiosity so ex- cited that nothing would do but an OK animation when the truth would be speed. lily disclosed. ....
 This had so disgusted him that he had hurled the trowel and little sack of lime into the bushes, and with a curse was about to turn back when he suddenly be- came seized with brilliant idea.
 So stupendous was this new thought, coming after his late defeat, that he be- came excited, and, losing no time. at
 once recommended his walk toward tho
 mill
 1 It was far into the night, and the bright
 stars looked down from above as though
 rebuking the dark thoughts that had been
 engendered in his brain.
 His new scheme, which had appeared
 to him as one yell calculated to bring
 success with it, was to tear down the
 chimney, remove the body to some other
 part of the mill where it would get the
 full benefit of his further actions, and
 then gathering combustibles about the
 dead man, set fire to the old mill.
 The great structure would burn like
 finder. and his secret would be well , kept.
 , Full of this idea, he hurried along thu
 path he had taken the other night, when with such herculean strength he hat , borne the body of the detective from ths
 spot where he had struck him down. tt the denser forest where he had afterwart ss brought his horse to bear the body to tn, mill.
 If he could dispose of the detectiveI body one great object would be accom-
 plished. He felt that when he struck tn, man-tracker down to death he had ac complished much, for in spite of his non , chalance in his presence he had feare,
 this man like poison.
 When this work was accomplished h 5 could turn upon his other foes one by on 5 and demolish them.
 Filled with these thoughts he hurrie, ], on through the gloomy forest. U The mill was quite distance away and yet he took no note of the passage o
 schemes that almost before he was awar' of tho fact the old building loomed ul
 before him.
 To the surprise of the Captain ho sa, o lights in two different parts of the mill l. one on the lower floor remote from tn 1t place where the body had been concealed d the other higher up in a sort of loft. fol # merly usod by the miller for some pun It pose.
 e Tho first he could comprehend, for b y To be continued.
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