The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-09
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ana 1ormluaDle parsonage. tie ual.
plenty to do. Keeping Count de Lisle's
estate in order was no small undertake
ing, but the count could not have
chosen better man, and Tom had now
got everything in good running order.
The count-for we will allow him still
to wear disguise which has from the
first been transparent to the reader,
though not to persons less well informed
Count de Lisle, otherwise Keppel
Darke, called at Bannick's Office a day
or two after the events last narrated,
accompanied by Mr. Alonzo Garcia,
whom we last saw in the role of Il Hin
doc magician. They were at once con-
Quoted to the interior retreat, and orders
were issued that no callers be admitted.
1t may here be observed that Bannick
had been made a participant in the
counts secret for obvious reasons, and
Garcia also, for reasons perhaps not so
obvious. Further than these two and
Sallie Matchin the secret had not gone.
''Is she all right" was the counts first
question after the door was closed.
LAS well as ever she was in her life"
Tom replied.
"Does she seem to have any recollec-
ton of the affair."
Not the least i'll the world! Upon my
word It's wonderful thing -this hypno-
thing business! don't understand it at
all, and | don't believe any one else does
not Garcia, here. himself.
you both understand" interrupted
the count, that there is never to be a
repetition Of the experiment. and hence
forth it had best be blank in our mem
cries, as it is in hers. 1t has answered
its purpose. Sallia Matchin is now con-
WINGED that it lies INN power to destroy
her whenever [ see fit, and yet all legal
process has been avoided"
But don't You mean to proceed against
herr" inquired Bannick. Haven't YOU
the cyidcncc:'
"Some evidence and plenty of moral
certainty. Garcia could prove the for
gerry and the fraud as to the finding of the
will, for in order TO get his assistance
she was obliged to make admissions
which, coupled with other known facts,
amount to proof. As to the murder the
evidence is of course circumstantial.
No one saw her strike the blow, but we
know that she several times was dressed
in mans clothes, that she was present,
so disguised, in Trent's house that night,
and that the papers in her possession
could only have been taken on that
night from the safe in his library. The
net is strong enough no doubt. But it
Is enough for my present purpose that
she knows she stands in deadly peril.
To bring her to trial and have her SEN
fenced would be Il relief to her. | wish
to punish her myself. She did what she
could to get an innocent man hanged in
her stead. | will keep the same rope
dangling over her head till she is ready
to draw the moose herself. There is no
law to punish adequately criminal like
her."
81 can understand her putting knife
into Mr.. Trent" observed Garcia. He
had given her the best of reasons to
think that she ought to be his wife, and,
having finished him, the manufacture of
the marriage certificate and of the will
followed as Il matter Of course. Those
are foibles, and become a beautiful wom-
an. 1t was her treatment of me that
caused the iron to enter my soul, and no
torture is exquisite and lingering enough
to pay for it."
GLOW do YOU make that ont" demand
ed Tom, who could never quite satisfy
himself as to whether this parsonage
were tiend, fool or q jester.
being stabbed l shouldn't mind"