Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-09-21

rooms, hers and mine. were smut OIL
from the rest of the house by door,
barred and locked ut night for fear OF
burglars, was, thought, unpleasant,
especially as once in my room Tor the
night there was no possibility OF getting
out of it, the key of the door of the pas
sage not being even allowed to remain
in the lock, but retiring with Jane, the
canary cage and other valuableS into
her own apartment. | demonstrated,
but soon found Jane had not remained
unmarried for nothing. She was decided
on that point. The outer door would be
locked as usual, and the key would be
deposited under the pincushion in
her room as usual, and it was so.
The next morning, asJane and went
out for stroll before luncheon, we had
to pass the house to which ! had driven
by mistake the day before. To our as
constituent there was crowd before
the door, and policeman with his back
TO it was guarding the entrance. The
blinds were all drawn down. The image
Of the pale lonely woman sitting by her
little fire, whom had disturbed the day
before, came suddenly back TO me with
Il strange qualm.
what is it?" | hurriedly asked
bakers boy who was standing at an
area railing rubbing his chin against the
loaf he was waiting to deliver. The boy
grinned.
Its murder" he said with relish.
"BurgilcrS in the night. I've supplied
her regular these two months. One quar-
tern best white, one-half quartern brown
every morning, French rolls occasional:
but it's all up now" And he went off
whistling a tune which all bakers boys
whistled abont that time, called My
Grandfather's Timepece,' or something
similar.
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 moring 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.
1T might have been me- she said
over and over again that afternoon.
Wishing to give a turn 10 her thoughts
began to talk about Sir Johns legacy,
i'm which she had cvinced the greatest
interest the night before, and greatly to
her delight showed her the Jewels. l had
not looked at them since Sir John had
given them to me, aud | was myself as
tonished at their magniticencc as |
spread them out on the table under the
gas lamp.
Jane exhausted herself i'm admiration,
but as l was putting them away again,
saving il was time for me to be dressing
and 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
irmer, and in the end | allowed her 10
lock them up the tea caddy, where
her small stock of ready money repoSed.
met Carr as we had arranged and
we had a very pleasant evening Poor
Carr. who had seen the papers, had
hardly expected that / 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 nv sister had moved and had thus !
been spared all the horror OF the event. |
The dinner was good, the play better,
| should have come home feeling that | |
had enioyed myself thoroughly if it had |
not been for little adventure with our |
cab driver that very nearly proved Serl- |
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 l began |
TO make out that the cabman was going /
wrong. and Carr shouted to him to stop; /
but thereupon ne dashed up his horse |
and away he went like the winds, up one
street and down another, till ! had lost |
all idea where we were Carr, who was
Young and active did all he could, but
the cabman. who am afraid must have
been intoxicated, took not the slightest
notice. and continued driving madly'
heaven knows where.
At last. after getting into very dingy
we turned up crooked
dark street, unlit by any lamp, street
so narrow that thought every moment
the cab would be overturned. In an
other moment saw two men rush out
of doorway One seized the horse,
which was much blown by this time,
and brought il violently to standStllL
while the other flew at the CAP, ana
catching Carr by the collar proceeded to
drag him out by main force. l suppose
Carr did his best, but being only an
American he certainly made a very poor
fobt of il: and while | was laying into
tho man who had got hold of him l was
suddenly caught by the logs myself from
the other side of the cab. ! turned on
my assailcnt. saw heavy stick leVeled
AT me. caught at it, missed it, beheld
series of fireworks and remembered
nothing more.
The first thing | heard on beginning
to come to myself was u series OF sub
ducd but evidently heartfelt oathS' and
I became sensible of an airy feeling un-
nleasant in the extreme, proceeding
rom an open condition of coat ana
,yoiscoat. quite unsuited to the time OF
year. A low chorus Of muttered WINS
nering was going on round me. As l
groaued invountarily it stopped.
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