Wichita eagle., 1890-03-16

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There oCaS a fash, smoke, a report.
uses, and his drs ssing room opens out OF
1t. He may be IN either"
Lady Charlotte drew aside the cur
tain, knocked at the door, aad, hardly
waiting for an answer, went in.
Heavy hogs lively, lard brisk and
energetic in sympathy with hogs. Light
hogs flexible and subject to reaction.
Alr. Potts was debating letter to his
secretary when Lady Charlotte broke in.
Dear Mr.. Potts, must speak to you
alone for one moment. Please send this
gentleman away"
Simpson, just you wait for me in my
dressing room for few minutes. And
now what can do for your Iadyship? ]
calculate you're the boss of me and this
establishment, SO just give me your or
dcTs"
At the word "boss" Lady Charlotte
shuddered. That dreadful man down
stairs, lying dead perhaps, had said the
same thing. Decidedly she had been
Ill "a bNACAAI anu SI1lON CNl MISCONCEPTIONS
to arise. Once this business set to rights,
she would drop this Yankee. People
must not begin to talk about her
Lady Charlotte explained the situation
truthfully. She reflected that if .lle man
downstairs should die, and she, an earl's
daughter, were to be accused of murder,
it would matter little who knew what
she had done. There would be but one
course open to her, and that course she
had shrunk from taking yesterday as a
means of escape from worry.
Lady Charlotte wanted Mr.. Potts to
send for a doctor and to have the wound
ed man tended, and to keep the rest OF
the house in ignorance of the occurrence.
She would play her part in the piece rs
though nothing had happened; no one
would be able to guess from her appear
ance that anything unusual had taken
place.
And when the play is over calculate
You'll be wanting to make tracks, said
Mr.. Potts cooIly.
ION the contrary, if the injury should
prove fatal, viii swear not to leave the
house"
Mr.. Potts sat silent and Mortified, but
only for few moments. 81 hook on, ="
he said at last. IF the worst comes to
the worst, I'll stand your friend. Stimp
son shall help me carry the man here;
Wen do it between US. III send a two
wheel cart for the doctor; everything
shall be done for this man, and l guess
that smart young woman rs fixes you
up had better turn nurse and do tbs
nursing. Thatll keep it private. You
80 to your room, and the less you appear
TO suspect mystery, the better it will
be for all jokers."
Even in her gratitude at the wealthy
Americans sympathy, Lady Charlotte
shuddered at his vernaeular.{ She went
to her room and sat down, feeling sick
with fear and horror. Had she COM
mitted murder? How COULD she allow
herself to be provoked TO such an extent
by a low minded and money lending
jew? What next misfoftlene could over
whelm her: She had lately considered
herself specially marked by destiny to be
annoyed.
For long time she sat in deep but
distracted thought. She felt sometimes
as though her brain would burst. a
dozen times she got up and rushed to the
door to do she knew not what. Once she
opened the window wide and looked
down at the marble terrace below. 1t
must be quite thirty feet, she thought
land instant death, but how dreadful
No, l have not the courage for it that
way
A housemaid knocked at the door.
"Oh, ii you please. your Iadyship. Mr.
Potts says can help you dress. Miss
Howden, he says, is amusing Mr.. Stimp-
sou, as has been taken Ill in masters
room
Lady Charlotte looked at her watch.
Quarter to y, and the play com
menceS at 8, and 1 suppose the people
come about !. Yes, 1 suppose / had
better dress now. That will be better
than doing nothing and thinking and
thinking until must 90 mad"
Her toilet concluded, Lady Charlotte
sat opposite her glass in doubt and hest
tation. She looked at her reflection-a
graceful figure in soft white silk-but
ghastly pallor, which seemed TO be accen-
tuated by those white draperics. fright
ened her. Il look as though had com
mitted & murder" she thought "Peopls
would guess as much from my appear
ance." There was ever present &c
her mind a series of pictures. be
ginning with a trial for murder 81
which she would be designated by the
counsel for me prosecution IS the woman
~raddock, and eliminating in = Cibbet
and an audience OF press ruen - that
anal scene.