The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1891-05-02
ONLY GIRL AT OVERLOOK
By FRANKLIN FYLM
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know that they even saw each other n,
that time. Eph went away an instan,
before Raveli came"
Ibid You talk with Ravelliy'
Eyes"
"About what!'
mot about Eph NJ ALL"
''About what, theny''
Now the reply came reluctantly. "A
personal understanding that hai DC.
CURED between us-an incident ut tho
telegraph station"
THE station where Eph awakened the
girl operator? Was it quarrel about hery'
THAT is no concern of yours. You are
impertinent."
''Well, sir, the question is pertinent
rs the lawyers say-and the answer con-
Germs you, whether it does me or not
You and Ravelli quarreled about the
girl?'
1.-THE young lady shall not be dragged
Into this. She wasn't responsible for
what happened between Ravelli and me. :"
"What did happen between you and
Rsvelli?'
The two men stood close to and facing
each other. The eyes of the detective
glared gloatingly at an upward angle
into the pale, but still firm face of the
taller Gerald, and then dropped slowly,
until they became fixed ON red stain On
the sleeve of the others coat Did lie
possess the animal scent of q bloodhound?
what is thaty' he sharply asked. He
seized the arm and smelt of tho spotted
fabric. 1T is blood! Lot me see your
knife" .s:..,y
Quite mechanically Geral4 thift,nst die
hand into his trousers pocket and
brought out the knife which he had
taken from Ravelli, whose blood was ON
It yet.
The storm was overhead. A first peal
Of thunder broke loudly. It came ut the
instant when Gerald Heath was aghast
with the revelation of his awful Jeopardy
at the instant of his exposure as u
murderer. It impressed them and him
with shock Of something supernatural.
The reverberation rumbled into silence,
which was broken by O'Reagan.
''There'll be no need to catch Eph;;'
he said In q tone Of professional glee.
''This man is the murderer"
Again thunder rolled and rumbled
angrily above Overlook, and thu party
stood aghast in the presence of the man
dead and tho man condemned.
Bring him to the telegraph station
OReagan commanded.
Nobody disputed the detectives meth
DDS now-not even Gerald, and q 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 20
to breakfast alone ut the table where the
engineers and overseers would by that
time have had their meal. She was u.s.
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 tho wire
importantly.
II wish to send = message" said
O'Reagan, stepping forward.
The eyes of tho girl rested on him in
quiringly, and he palpably flinched, but
rs obviously nerved himself to proceed,
and when he spoke again tho Irish accent
became more pronounced to hear, al |
though not sufficiently to he shown in
the printed words: II will dictate it |
slowly, 80 that You can transmit it as I I
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" tho
detective slowly said. waiting for tho
clicks Of the instrument to put his Ian.
guage on the wire; Tonic Ravelli. a
mb-contractor hero, was murdered last
night"
Mary's hand slid away from the kew
after sending that. and the always faint
tint in her cheeks faded out and her
eyes flickered up in u scared way to the
stern faces in front Of it. The shock of
the news that man had been slain, and
that he was man who only the pre-
vious day had protfered his love to her.
was for moment disabling. But J,
the habit of her employment controlled
her and she awaited tho further dicta-
ton.
His body was found this morning in 1
the furnace of the steam boiler" O'Rea-
gan resumed deliberately. '.where it
had evidently been placed in u vain at
tempt to destroy it,