The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1891-01-08

day or two before his death by your late
husband. In that paper no accuseS you
Of trying 10 poison him. He detected
you, but said nothing. He preferred to
Die by your hand, since be had loved you
70 well that 10 live on would have been
. horror. Iquote almost sexAct words.
And there iS no doubt about the authen-
ticity Of this paper that he left. Bren-
dA, here, received Il from him and
placed II secretly within his breast after
he bad been laid in his coffin. Ifound
Il there. In II he also states that not
long ago he forced from you certain
confesdon regarding man named Ar
chibald Clay, and that he has reason to
believe you hide at the present time
Q packet Of letters from this man and
one or more bottles Of poison as well
within particular cabinet upstairs. I
have secured search warrant and must
therefore"-
At the word ''search warrant" Natalie
dRrted toward the door. Gerald followed
her, after swift Sign through the wide
piazza window. he sprang up stairs,
knowing the house % well that the cab
met to which his friends letter had al
luded and the apartment In which It
stood were both well remembered by him.
But quick as he had been, Natalie
reached the cabinet before him. He saw
her meeling at one Of its open drawers.
The next instant he saw her lift some
thing to her lips. Almost Immediately
after that she fell heavily backward.
There had lain o swifter poison here In
the cabinet than that stealthy one which
had doubtless wrought her husbands
death.
She was quite hfeless when they picked
her up. Afterward, when rigid exam-
nations were made as to her previous
life, 1t seemed slight wonder that such
woman should have preferred to end by
suicide the final collapse Of her evil hopes.
She had undoubtedly been the wife Of .
certain diHeputable Englshman called
"Capt." Clay, and one Of whose aliases
was Leveridge, long before her marriage
with poor infatuated Louis Bond. From
some Of the letters from this man found
In the cabinet It was only too evident
that she had planned Louis murder with
his full knowledge, and that the two en-
pected at some future day 10 enjoy tho
wealth which would thus vilely have
been secured.
During the following autumn occurred
Gerald's marriage with Brenda, greatly
to the delight Of MrS Ravelow, whose
health had now regained its usual gentle
state Of invahdiSm. Some time before
this event Brenda had visited the vault
where her brother lay, and had first or
dered with her own hand what disarray
had been caused by Gerald's weird visit,
and afterward quietly obtained aid for
the restoration Of the injured coffin.
But Gerald could never be induced TO
accompany her on either Of the several
little pilgrimAges which her task in
volved. mo, Brenda" he would say,
"there are memories connected with
that place which will haunt me till I
die. No need Of making them more
vivid than they are sure to be already"
But once Brenda said; perhaps you
are quite wrong in believing, Gerald,
that anything supernatural really 90
CURED that night In my hurry and
agitation, seiEing q moment when she
was not present, I thrust the paper with
in poor Louis breast. Il may be that l
lodged It insecurely, and that the move
ment Of the coffin afterward displaced
II still more. When, a. you say, you
dispartsd the flowers that lay on the
breast Of Louis, the paper may have
been half concealed by these, while its
whiteness corresponded to that Of the
flowers themselves, all being seen In q
dim light. Hence. when the candle
telI"-
"FellT interrupted Gerald. why
do you state that Il fellS"
Brenda smiled ever 90 family, .cBe-