Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-06

the Spanish wonan's son; how about him?
1t seems to me a. the curse worked on him
bit too"
$50 it did, so 1t did," Hiram agreed. "I
can't gairsay you there, Jacob Carey; now
you put it so, I see there IL something In Ii,
though never before have heard Of there
being anything in the curse except In the
family"
"Why didn't Miles Jefferies, father ofone
kicked out by one of the old Squire's
horses?"
$50 he die, Jacob, 20 be did; still, grooms
does get their brains kicked out at other
places beside the Hold. But there is some
thing in what you say, and If had thought
of it before, I would never have let my
Ruth go up there to serve. 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 For
rester; still, might have sent her some
where else, and 1 would have done it if 1 had
thought OF what you are saying now. Sure
enough no good has come Of 1t. / can't
hold that that fall oe hers had aught to do
with the curse of the Carnes, but this last
affair, which seems to me worse for her
than the first, sure enough comes from the
curse"
"who is this George Forester, if you
don't mind my asking the question:" the
detective said. "You see it's my business
to find out about people"
"Oh, George hadn't nothing to do with
this business" Hiram replied. "He's the
son of a farmer near here, and has always
been wild and trouble to the old man, but
he's gone away weeks ago. He got into
poaching scrape, and one of the keepers
was hurt. and I suppose he thought he had
best be out Of 1t, for time; anyhow he has
gone, but he weren't that kind of chap.
No, there was no harm in George Forester,
not in that way; he was lazy and fonder Of
glass than was good tor him, and he got
into bad company down at Dareport, and
that's what led him to the poaching busi-
ness, 1 expect, because there was no call for
him to 60 to poaching. His fathers got Q
tidy farm, and he wanted for nothing. II
he had been there he couldn't have wanted
to steal Miss Carne's jewelry. He was pas
sionate enough, know, and many quar-
rel has he had with his father, but nothing
would have made me believe, even If he had
been here, that old Jim Forrester's son had
a hand in q black business like this; 30
don't you 90 to take such notion as that
into your head"
"He would not be- likely to have any
quarrel with Miss dhrne2" the detective
asked. -.
'Quarrel-no," Hiram replied sharply,
for be resented the idea that any possible
suspicion of Margaret Carne's murder
should be attached to q man with whom
Ruth's name had been connected. 81 don't
suppose Miss Carne ever spoke q word to
him in her life. What should she speak to
him for? Why he had left the Sunday
school wears 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
murmur 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 60 round to this beershop you speak of
and make inquiries as to whether any
ira mps have been staying there. 1t is quite
ce rtain this young lady didn't put an end
to herself What we have got to find out is,
who is the man that did it?''
(To be continued neat Saturday,