Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-04-06

was fornnato enough =" No. ~
one, going NJ coming. regaincd tlie
room. pusbsB open the door and. md.
ing everything in order pro ,, Nv
once to the bed. upon when, a'o'
taking on p,y hat and cloak and care,
fully concc,lins'tbcin, lay down ana
deity covcs j myself up
My idca : y. this-tIat by some ines
mcric inaoenco Of which she was
ignorant a. nurse had been forced
to either posa tho glass herself OF
open the az, for another TO do i. II
this were % ,hc or the other per. son
would he ,,blig,d to pass around tue
foot Of thsial In order TO reach the
glass, and should b. surc TO see II, Tor
did not pe,end 10 sleep. ny tie low
light cnous could be disccrIed I9f s''s
movement about the room anu not
enough to make apparent the change
which had been made in the occupant
OF the bod I waited with indoscriba-
BILE anxiety and more flian once iancird
heard stc,s II not a feteri-h brenth'
ing, Close a. my bed bead; bus no one
appeared, nni the nurse III her org
chair did not stir =,
At last 1 new weary, and, fearful ol
losing control over my cyclids, ! liked
my gaze u,,on the glass, as " In 80 doing
I should fnd tnlisman to keep me
awake, VII ca. grai Godl what was ',
that | saw A hand, creeping hand
coming finn novhcro and Joined to
nothing, closing about that glass ana
drawing a slowly away I'LL II disap-
pearcd en,inly from before my cycsl
gnsped--I could not help it-but !
did not Stir For now I know was
nslcep and dreaming But no, pinch
myself untler the clothes and find that
am ycc wide awake indeed; and
thcn--looi looki the glass !. return
Ing; the banda woman's hnnd-s
slowly setting It back In It's place.
| and
With a bound have that hand In
my grasp. 1t Is a living hand. and 1t
Is very wrm and strong and hcrec'
aud the gIas, has fallen and Hes shat
tered bet,een Us, aud a double cry Is
heard, one from behind the partition,
through an opening In which this hand
had been thrust, and ono from tho
nurse. who has jumped TO her feet and
Is oven now assisting me In holding tho
struggling member, upon which have
managed 10 scratch tell tale mark
with plscc Of fallen glass. At sight
OF tho iron like grip which this latter
lays upon the intruding member at
once rcl@sc my own grasp.
',Hold onl' cried, aud, leaping from
tho bed, / fastened Inst to my patient,
whom carefully treasured, aud then
into the ball where found the land.
lady running to sec what was the mat
ter. II have found the wretch" i
cried, and drawing her after me, hur.
ried about TO the other side OF the par
tition, whec found closet, and In II
tho woman had met on the stairs, but
glaring now, like u tiger in her rage,
inonancc and fear.
That woman was my humble little
patients bitter but unknown enemy.
Enainorel Of man who-unwisely,
perhaps had cIprcssedsn her hearing
his admiration for tho pretty type
writer, she had conceived the idea that
no INTENDED to marry the latter, and
vowing Vengeance had taken up her
abode In the same house with the In.
nocent prl, where, had II not been for
the fortunate circumstance OF my meet
Ing her on the siairs, she would certain.
ly have carricd out her scheme Of vile
and scent murder The poison she had
bought b. another city, and the hole In
the partition she had herself cut. This
had been done at first for tho purpose
Of observation, she having detected IN
passing BY Miss Wilcox's open door that
q banner Of painted silk hung over that
portion 81 the wall In such way rs TO
hide any aperture which might DO made
there.
Aftersarl, when Miss Wilcox fell sick,
and she discovered by short gllmpses
through her loopholc that the glass Of
medicine was placed on n table Just
under this banner, she could not resist
tho temptation to enlarge tho hole TO a
sixe sufficient to admit the push.
ing aside Of the banner, and the
reaching through Of her murderous
hand. Why shc did not put poison
enough In the glass to kin Miss
Wilcox at once l have never heard.
Probably she feared detection. That
by doing as she did she brought about
the very event she had endeavored to
avert Is tho most pleasing part of the
tale. When the gentleman OF whom |
have spoken learned OF tho wicked at
tempt upon Miss Wllcox's life his heart
took pity upon her and marriage en-
sued, which have every reason TO be-
licve Is a happy onc.--Anna katharine
Green b. llpplncott's.