Telegram-herald., 1891-06-11

where sal concealed behind the cur
taiIs that he looked psler than asasl,
but il must have been the hight that
made him hook ~.
am told BY the servants that the
housekeeErr threw herself Ia Richards
way great deal before his engagement
10 me was known in the house. Perhaps
the foolish creature had hopes that he
would make her his wife. i never real
ICED before how presumptuoas the lower
classes can become under favorable cir
cumstances
OF one thing l am quite certain
Richard never encouraged her unwo-
manly advances IL their relations
toward each other were ever other than
those Of master and servant, the fault
was not Richards.
The only wonder is that Mrs. Melville
did not Elotice what was going on. Ii
WAS the talk Of the kitchen and the
stable. The dead coachinan rernon-
ssrated with the housekeeper time and
time again. The cook heard him. The
chambermaid heard him. Every person
in the house except Mrs. Melville knew
that the coachman and the housekeeper
quarreled. Everybody except Mrs. Mel
Vile knew what they quarreled about.
1t was because the coachman objected
to being put aside for Mr.. Richard Mel
vile.
am told that the coachman followed
the housekeeper into the family. Mrs.
Melville told me with her own lips that
they came into her employ within week
Of each other. and that the housekeeper
came first. The cook knows how they
behaved toward each other when they
met ia the kitchen for the first time.
They Dlundered over each others names
after being presented, and made hard
work Of becoming acquainted. In two
days time the cook found the coachman
standing saAlenly against the wall in the
passage over the laundry and the house
keeper crying and wringing her hands
before him!
don't believe the housekeeper's name
is Winters. / don't believe the coach
mans name was Moore. don't believe
they met for the first time in Mrs. Clark
Melville's kitchen. | don't believe the
honsekeeper ever lived in lady's house
before. l believe Mrs. Melville's coach
to be the first one the coachman ever
drove.
Mrs. Melville told me herself that the
housekeeper came to her without refer
ences. l can't understand how, under
such circumstances, Mrs. Melville came
IN civ hAv. WhatArar h.r
motive was, she laid the foundation for
a pretty mess when she did it. The
papers are full of the affairs of the family.
1t would scarcely surprise me now to see
my own portrait displayed in morning
pa per side by side with that of the house
keeper or the murdered man. The au-
dacity of the press ought to be restrained
by law.
wonder if Mrs. Melville knows what
sort of a place her housekeeper left to
enter her employ. She may have es-
capped from prison. She may have
abandoned surroundings which no virtu-
GUS woman would even attempt to de-
scribe. know where she ought to go
when she leaves this house. / under
stand there is an institution where in
sane criminals are restrained from FUR
ther mischief. She ought to go there.
| She ought to 20 at once. Idon't feel safe
with her in the house.
She may murder me next. The only
wonder is that she did not take it into
her crazed brain to walk into Mr.. Rich
| ard Melville's arms over my dead body.
Now that the thought that my life is in
danger 30 long as she remains in the
house has suggested itself. many small
circumstances of the past few days con-
meet themselves together
Only this morning she loitered about
my door when | was dressing for break
fast. l knew she was there. / heard
her footsteps IL the hall. l know she
paused at my door more than once, for
when the footsteps ceased heard her
dress rustling against the castings of the
door, thought then that she was wait
ing to tidy the room during my absence.
know now that she never fingered there
to gain an opportunity to do the chamber
maids work.
When / stepped into the hall she ad-
vanced to meet me. The next instant
| she hesitated. Before reached the place
where she stood she turned away and
| walked to the further end of the hall
AS passed down the stairway saw her
looking at me in the strangest manner.
Her eyes betrayed desire TO address
me. Her body shrank farther into the
corner where she stood when my own
eyes commanded her to speak Her mind
was urging her into an interview for
which she was physically too weak.
j now recall many similar occurrences.
Once she asked me for a moment OF my
time in matter of the highest impor-
tance. Before she could come To the
subject in hand we were interrupted by
| Mrs. Melville in person. who sent her
away on some trifing errand. was
sorry for the interruption. The house
keeper seemed relieved.
| / can't make out what she wanted to
tell me. / can't understand why she
don't speak If she has anything on her
poor crased mind that abe imagines con-
Germs me. She has aged terribly during
the past month. / am told that diseases
| of the brain are quite likely TO produce
| the physical changps I notice in her