The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-11-19

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A second policeman came up the street
at this moment, and from him learned
all the little there was to know. The
poor lady had not been murdered, it
seemed, but being subject to heart COM
plant had died in the night of an acute
attack, evidently brought on by fright.
The maid, the only other person in the
house, sleeping as maids Of all work only
can, had heard nothing, and awoke in
the morning to find her mistress dead in
her bed, with the window and door open.
Strangely enough, the policeman added,
although nothing in the house had been
touched, the lock Of an unused bedroom
had been forced and the room evidently
searched.
Poor Jane was quite overcome. She
seemed convinced that it was only by
special intervention of Providence that
she had changed her house, and that her
successor had been sacrificed instead of
herself
"It might have been me!' she said over
and over again that afternoon.
Wishing to give turn to her thoughts
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in which she had evinced the greatest
interest the night before, and greatly to
her delight showed her the jewels. I had
not looked at them since Sir John had
given them to me, and was myself as
tonished at their magni6cence as spread
them out on the table under the gas
lamp.
Jane exhausted herself in admiration,
but as I was putting them away again,
saying it was time for me to be dressing
end going to meet Carr, who was to join
me at the Criterion, she begged me on
no account to take them with me, affirm
ing that it would be much safer to leave
them at home. was firm, but she was
ir1ner, and in the end 1 allowed her to
lock them up in the tea caddy, where
her small stock Of ready money reposed.
met Carr as we had arranged and
we had q very pleasant evening. Poor
Carr, who had seen the papers, had
hardly expected that l should turn up,
knowing the catastrophe Of the previous
night had taken place at the house was
going to, and was much relieved to hear
that my sister had moved and had thus
been spared all the horror of the event.
The dinner was good, the play better.
I should have come home feeling that I
had enjoyed myself thoroughly if it had
not been for little adventure with our
cab driver that very nearly proved seri-
Gus. We got a hanson directly we came
out Of the theatre, but instead of taking
us to the direction we gave him, after
we had driven for some distance began
to make out that the cabman was going
wrong, and Carr shouted to him to stop;
but thereupo1 he dashed up his horse
and away he went like the winds, up one
street and down another, till I had lost
all idea where we were. Carr, who was
young and active, did all he could, but
the cabman, who l am afraid must
have been intoxicated, took not the
slightest notice, and continued driving
madly, heaven knows where.
At last, after getting into q very dingy
neighborhood, we turned up crooked
dark street, unlit by any lamp, street
so narrow that l thought every moment
the cab would be overturned In an
other moment l saw two men rush out
Of doorway. One seized the horse,
which was much blown by this time,
and brought it violently to a standstill,
while the other flew at the cab, and
catching Carr by the collar proceeded to
drag him out by main force. 1 suppose
Carr did his best, but being only an
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