San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-06-20
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founts secrerIor obvious reasons, ana
Garcia also, for reasons perhaps not so
obvious. Further than these two and
Sallie Matchin the secret had not gone.
lis she all right" was the counts first
question after the door was closed.
'As well as ever she was in her life,"
Tom replied.
docs she seem to have any recollec-
ton of the AFFAIR.""
Not the least in 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. Sallie Matchin is now con-
WINGED that it lies in my power to destroy
her whenever l 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 evidence?'
''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 a 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"
Il 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 matter of course. Those
are foibles. and become beautiful wom-
in. 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."
How do you make that out?" demand
ed Tom, who could never quite satisfy
himself as to whether this parsonage
were tiend, fool or a jester.
Being stabbed ! shouldn't mind"
Garcia went on, cor robbed, or starved,
or any commonplace matter like that
But she insulted my feelings, and that l
can never forgive. l loved her-yes-
any one may know it now. knew that
she was aiming at Trent, but she per-
suaded me that it was his money she
wanted, not him; and in that way she
used me. ran her errands and did her
dirty work, believing that it was me she
really loved, and that Trent was the fool,
and that as soon as she had carried her
point she would snap her fingers in his
face and be off with me. Yes, gentle
men, she made me believe all that, and
without once committing herself. either.
She is clever woman"
what had you against Trent" Tom
asked.
Nothing in the world. Quite the con-
trary. l met him first in Ceylon, where
he had gone to buy some jewels that
one of the native princes wanted to sell.
l knew India, and knew the princes.
acted as a go-between and got the jew
els for Trent at forty per cent. off. He
made me a present of that forty per
cent. as commission, and from that time
in one way or another was his agent.
l understood gems as we'll as he did, and
that is saying a good deal, and l was
often able to do things and to make bar
gains that would have been impossible
for him. No one knew of our relation
that would have spoiled my usefulness
but 1 put him in the way of many
good thing, and he always paid me we'll
for it. No; Harry Trent and were the
best of friends, but the best of friend
ships can be ruined by woman"
"Do you mean to say you plotted with
her against himY"
81 would have done it without
doubt if she had asked me-" Garcia re-
piled. eyes, would have taken that
numbering contract off her hands if she
had let me known she contemplated it.
But she didn't know it herself till the