The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-07-22

and the result was that police otficer
Nsk< called in, a..d on search being
ma g the stolen notes We're discovered
in saith Taylofs cigar-casc, and he was
I |iS1 fer he robb ~ ard seEt to prison
1Gr : ight cen months was very near
&c Dug discharged for rot making the
f.r aware that Seth was engaged in
rani hing. but. fortunately. the letter
in which | had begged him TO break
of .he dangerous habit was found, and
that. OF course, was in my favor.
Set. If course. declared he was inno-
cce ard went so far as to declare that
s.lfsnhody who had private spite
ara list m had placed the notes where
the, we e discovered, and Garry Speed.
vhs,v' hmteered as a witness, related
in c.uit what transpired at the private
int rrsiew ! bad with her, and how
,ad thr atened. tina If she made known
To S.1h what ! had told her. worse
would happen to him. But the Judge
81 il was monstrous to endeayor to
ut a false complexion ON a perfectly
innocent remark made by an intimate
frierd IF the prisoner, and one who, as
shown nv the letter already mentioned,
had 2roved himself to be a good adj
wise But it didn't matter much
abotf TayloIs sentence being such a
sevss sac. He frettcd himself TO
sS .th irs prison. and oil lif-5 i've
months after his conviction.
Z. had not seen Carry Speed once
during the whole of that five months.
had no luminosity against her, but
did not care to meet her again after the
base insinuation she had made against
me at tho trial. But, to my surprise,
shortly after Seth Taylor's death, she
wrote to me 1t was all over now, she
said: but her mind could get no rest
until she had bePged my forgiveness
for what she had done. since the longer
she reflected on It the more she was
convinced that sho had misjudged me.
There was lot more in her letter to
the same effect, and with which ] need
not trouble you. You will easily
understand that | was very much sur
p, ised and pleased as well. / made it
my business Ia see her and tell her so.
All my Old lovo for her came back
when we met. aud she was no longer
disdainful. was beside myself al
most with delight at the prospect of
''-''ei, after all. OF course
man 1 d of such thing after
M Opened, and least of all
Inc of the horrible trap that
ested I'D for me. When. few
raj, Jour r. 'onciliatiOn, asked
'0- ny wife. in the quiet way
Vir. seemed natural to her she
on, by offer, and we were mar
rom Jas not the fond and cheerful
h.. hpected to find her. but no
IDuld have been moro patient
eon tEent OF more devoted to my
lnJI. A long time before / had
limy life for 800 pound sterling.
vvnuid gatsEfy mr. ES-ifa bII
y = insure her life as w,il, and for
as much as my policy stood for,
of male no objection This was
In we had been married not more
four months. A month after the
Wtanco had been made her health
81 not as good as il had been prev
". She would be i'll for day or
ind be well again for perhaps
az and then she would re apSe. We
i'm apartments and had no SER
land when she was i'll | waited
Br and never made a trouble of it,
er man loved a woman loved
;nde gradually grew to be moro
Wv unwell, and the doctor we
dus Seemed puzzled TO make out
;lAss the matter with her. A girl,
was employed by our landiady,
SS in at odd times and gave her
\s@ine and prepared anything she
\ledin the way of food. The land
was paid extra for this, but she
the servant no more than her
harry wages, so that what the latter
was not done willingly, and one
my wife asked me if | thought it
sille TINT the girl could be wicked
hugh to tamper with her food out of
tie. She had had some broth that
v, she said. and she thought it tasted
'angely. ] ridiculed the idea as a
TX woman's fancy, but the same
e noon was fetched in a hurry from
10 office, the messenger bringing the
aitling news that my wife was very
ll-near diving, in fact-and that tho
Imaid servant had been given into Gus
I ody on suspicion of having poisoned
her. When | reached home / found
such to he the case. 1t appeared that
Turing the morning the girl had pre-
jared my wife some arrowroot from n
packet l myself had bought the day
previously, and she was Immediately
hfterwaI d-before she had emptied the
FuD, indeed-taken with such violent
Gains that the doctor was sent for, and
10 him my wife mentioned her sus-
bicions of the servant. The doctor eX-
mined the remains of the arrOwroot in
he cup and thereby discovered such
nipple proof of guilt that the girl was
Ii once arrested. / felt so furious
gaipst her that / could have killed
er. As 1 have already told you l
oved my wife sincerely and would
ave suffered death myself almost to
ave saved her from harm. Happily
he promnt remedy that was adopted
verted the JnredO5hInS DANGER, anu
he same evening she was able to see
nd reply to the questioning of the
olice Inspector who visited us. |
as 1t the bedside the whole time and
card all that was said as to the strange
astes my wife had for some time past
elected in the food the girl had given
err. The Inspector wished to see the
cupboard in which the food was kept
nd moved several articles from the
helves himself and took possession of
hem.
AS I have told you, we occupied
nlv two rooms, and the cupboard was
the sitting-roOm. We Were alone
ERE. examining the things in the cup
paid. when he suddenly turned on to
with the question "Do you your
I1f avne Iraan notccu tho