San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-04-01
ONLY GRLAT OVERLOOK
By FRANKLIN FYLEs.
Copyright. All rights reserved.l

/ " udJ Is UudUt no oudlply dohOu' LILO
seized the arm and smelt OF the spotted
fabric. 1T is bloodl Let me see your
knife"
l. 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 vet.
The storm was overhead. A first peal
of thunder broke loudly. 1t came at the
instant when Gerald Heath was aghast
with the revelation of his awful jeopardy
at the instant of his exposure as
murderer. 1t impressed them and him
| with shock of something supernatural.
The reverberation rumbled into silence,
which was broken by OReagan.
"There1l be no need to catch Eph,"
he said in tone of professional glee
This man is the murderer"
Again thunder rolled and rumbled
angrily above Overlook, and the party
stood aghast in the presence of the man
| dead and the man condemned.
Bring him to the telegraph station"
| O'Reagan commanded.
Nobody disputed the detectives meth
DDS now-not even Gerald, and 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-
tiers, while 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
Il wish to send message" said
OReagan, stepping forward.
The eyes of the girl rested on him in
quirin .ly, 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: 81 will dictate it
slowly, so that you can transmit it as
speak Are you ready?
Mary's fingers were on the key and her
bright, alert face was an answer to the
| query.
ITO Henry Deckerman, president, the
detective slowly said, waiting for the
clicks of the instrument to put his Ian
guage on the wire; "Tonio Ravelli, a
sub-contractor here, was murdered last
night"
Mary's 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 it. The shock of
the news that man had been slain, and
that he was a man who only the pre-
vious day had proffered his love to her,
was for a 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" ORea-
gan resumed deliberately, where it
had evidently been placed in vain at
tempt to destroy it."
A shudder went through Mary, and
she convulsively 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. 1t was love affair" Here
the girl grew whittier still, and the clicks
became very slow, but they did not
cease. OReagan's voice was cold and
ruthless, THE motive of the murderer
was revenge. His name was Gerald
| Heath"
| All but the name flashed off on the
wire Mary WARMERS power to stir
the key stopped at that. She did not
faint. She did not make any outcry.
For 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 zigzagged down the
blue clouded sky.
Go on" said O'Reagan.
1 will not" was the determined re-
| Spouse.
"Why mott?
Because it is not so. Gerald Heath
| navar mnr6erad RayalG