Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-04-30
A WEIRD MYSTERY
Tracing a Dark Crime.
BY ALEXANDER ROBINSON. md.
CHAPTER xxvl.-fContinueeil,

CHAPTER XXVI.-fContinuedl.
We had reached the Seabury mansion,
and he had recognized il.
Yes, )" replied; ~here."
~But-B
ASK no questions"
You are going in there?"
EYES,
@Why?"
Follow me and see.
Doctor"
We had just entered the cato as Cain
uttered the startled word
He had, too, grasped my arm ner-
vously, and scanned the street search
ingly.
~What is it, Colonel?"
81 saw some one"
"A passer-by?"
NO"
"a lurker?"
Yes. A man. He passed the court
yonder as if shadowing US.
~YOu imagine that"
@No, he lodged out OF view as ]
looked"
@NOnsense!"
Il am afraid.
~Of what?"
%The police"
slave 1 not promised you protection?"
Cain acted treasured, but nervous. I
led him to the side garden Where q
bower had been, and where broken
trellises ana vines only now remained of
Ii, l chose rustic seat
~Sit down." l said.
He Obeyed me.
The mansion looked weird and gloomy.
Cain shiveTed at my ominOus proceed
ings.
@Now, then. Colonel. " began, eve are
here"
Il don't like il.
~This was the scene Of the murder?"
ayes"
Proceed, and relate TO me everything
you did the night Of the tragedy"
In low tone OF suppressed excite
ment, Cain began his story.
He told how he had tried the trellis to
each window and had failed.
Then he had pried open the pantry
window with the steel instrument l had
found under IL.
stray silver spoon only rewarded a
search in a cupboard. Then he assembled
the stairs
Footsteps had startled him. He ran
down the hall. At its end an open win
dow showed
He reached it and crouched low on a
veranda- A minute later woman came
down the hall She had a light in her
hand.
She disappeared down a side corridor,
and then door opened and closed
~The balcony 1 was on" continued
Cain, "lOOked out from two other win
dOws. i CHANGED TO look in. A man
stood near a chair, as if rejecting.
~Who was it?"
@Dr. Abraham Seabury."
"And then?"
Il started, for, as I raised my head TO
SciOuS that a man was near me. He had
just climbed the trellis. He glanced
eagerly into the room Then"
~Who was he?"
Theodore Parker"
@The Doctors son?"
Yes
aid he see you?" I asked.
@He did. In q flash he seemed to
recognize in me a burglar, in him an
officer. He sprang at me. About TO
clench cry of alarm reached me.
glanced within the room"
SAnd SAVE"
"A woman rushing upon DR.. Seabury. n
1 quivered with suspense.
~The same woman you saw in the
hall?"
aYesn
~She was alone?"
~Alone She had in her hand knife
a creese. She lifted it. 1 saw it de-
scend-the Doctor sink back. Then
there was a crash and the lamp was ex-
tinguished."
land the woman?"
/ was in anguish. 1 anticipated his
answer. I knew that /, interested in
the beautiful Leonore, and striving to
save her, had placed the capping-stone
of evidence that signifed her doom.
"LOOki loOkl"
OF sudden a light appeared at one OF
the windows.
A woman's form appeared and drew
down shade.
1t was LeOnOre, looking sad and wear
led, and as If about to seek rest after a
restless vigil.
~LeonOrel" breathed. wildly.
~Who?" demanded Cain, sharply.
SLeOnOre.
ais that her name?"
SYeS.n
swell, she's the woman whom 1 saw
kill DR.. SeabQrY-she is the assassin"