The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1891-02-12
...OuI WHAT
Not about Eph at all
About what, them"

Not about Eph at all
About what, them
Now the reply came reluctantly. "a
personal mattsr-something that had oc-
CURED between us-an incident at the
telegraph station"
The station where Eph awakened the
girl OPERATOR Wasit 10 quarrel about herS"
That il no concern Of yours You are
impertinent"
We'll, sir. the question is pertinent
as the lawyers say-and the answer con-
Germs you, whether 1t does me or not
You and RavelH quarreled about the
girlT
The young lady shall not be dragged
into thiA She wasn't responsible for
what happened between RaYelh and me.
What did happen between you and
Ravellir'
The two men stood close 10 and facing
each other. The eyes Of the detective
glared gloatingly at an upward angle
into the pale. but still firm face Of the
taller Gerald, and then dropped slowly.
until they became fixed on a red stain on
the sleeve Of the others coat. Did he
possess the animal scent Of bloodhound?
What is that" he sharply asked. he
seized the arm and smelt Of the spotted
fabric ut is blood Let me see your
knife"
Quite mechanically Gerald thrust one
hand into his trousers pocket and
brought out the knife which he had
taken from Ravelh. whose blood was on
It yet.
The storm was overhead. A first peal
Of thunder broke loudly It came at the
instant when Gerald Heath was aghast
with the revelation Of his awful jeopardy
at the instant Of his exposure as a
murderer, It impressed them and him
with shock Of something supernatural
The reverberation rumbled into silence.
which was broken by O'Reagan.
"There1l be no need to catch Eph, T"
be said In q tone Of professional glee
"This man is the murderer"
Again thunder rolled and rumbled
angrily above Overlook, and the party
stood Rghast in the presence Of the man
dead and the man condemned
Bring him to the telegraph station" Z"
O'Reagan commanded.
Nobody disputed the detectives meth
DDS now-not even Gerald, and q prison
er as completely as though manacled,
although not touched by any one he
went with the rest.
Mary Warmer had taken down the
tarpaulin front Of her shed when the
men approached. In the ordinary course
Of her early morning doings she would
wait an hour to dispatch and receive the
first kilograms Of the day, and then go
to breakfast alone at the table where the
engineers and overseers would by that
time have had their meal She was as
tonished to see nearly the whole popula-
ton Of Overlook crowd around her quar-
ters, while q few entered. But she went
quickly behind the desk and took her
place on the stool. The soberness Of the
faces impressed her, but nothing indi-
Gated that Gerald was in custody, and
her quick thought was that some dis
aster made It necessary to use the wire
Importantly.
II wish to send q message" said
O'Reagan, stepping forward.
The eyes Of the girl rested on him in
quiringly, and he palpably finched, but
as obviously nerved himself to proceed,
and when he spoke again the Irish accent
became more pronounced to hear, al
though not sufficiently to be shown in
the printed words: "a will dictate It
slowly, 90 that you can transmit 1t as
speak. Are you ready2"
Mary's fingers were on the key and her
bright, alert face was an answer to the
query.
ITO Henry DeckermRn, president, the
detective slowly said, waiting for the
clicks Of the instrument to put his Ian
guage on the wire; Tonic Ravelli, 4
sub-contractor here, was murdered last
night"
MAryis hand slid away from the key
after sending that, and the always faint
tint in her cheeks faded out and her
eyes fickered up in scared way to the
stern faces in front Of IL The shock Of
the news that man had been slain, and
that he was q man who only the pre-
vious day had prohered his love to her,
was for q moment disabling. But
the habit Of her employment controlled
her and she awaited the further dicta-
ton.
His body was found this morning in
the furnace Of the steam boiler" O'Rea-
gan resumed deliberately. where It
had evidently been placed In q vain at
tempt to destroy it."
A shudder went through Mary, and
she eonvulsively wrung her small hands
together, as though to timber them from
. cramp But her fingers went back to
the key.
THE murderer has been discovered, {"
the detective slowly continued, and the
operator kept along with his utterance,
word by word He killed Ravelli for
revenge. It was q love affair" Here
the girl grew whittier still, and the clicks
became very slow. but they did not
cease. 0Reagan's voice was cold and
ruthless THE motive Of the murderer
was revenge. His name was Gerald
Heath
All but the name flashed of on the
wire. Mary Warmers power to stir
the key stopped at that. She did not
faint She did not make any outcry.
For q moment she looked as though the
soul had gone out Of her body, leaving .
corpse sitting there. A grievous wall Of
wind came through the trees. and .
streak Of lightning EigEAgged down the
blue clouded sky.
60 on, said O'Reagan.
4 will not" was the determined re.
sponsa.