San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-10-28


I Thefeis an air of mystery over the Whole
place. can't endure it, The servants
talk together in whispers, and each one
of them suspects all the others. Only a
moment ago heard the cook Boosting
| that she could have told the officers a
thing or two The horrid creature!
She had better stick to her biscuits-and
! her bOttlel A dozen persons might have
passed through the kitchen to and from
the passage between seven and eight last
night without her knowing it.
Even Mrs. Winters
There: that makes me think. Where
has the housekeeper kept herself all day?
EARLY this morning | saw her coming
| from the coachmal's room. Her face
| was winter than that OF the dead man
inside, and it was easy to see that she
| had been crying. She tried to hide her
face when she saw me looking. but my
eyes We're too quick for her No one has
seen her since. She must have locked
herself in the room An hour ago
heard Mrs. Melville asking for her, and
no one could tell where she was.
IL wonder if she regrets now the hard
words heard her say to the dead man
only two nights ago They We're stand
ing together in the passage over the
laundry and stood By the kitchen door
just out of sight, but not out of hearing.
~ expect you to keep your promise,
word for word, | heard her say, and
leave the rest TO me. | warn you that
am not to be trifed with. | tell you,
once for all, that if you break faith with
me now you will regret it to the last day
of your life!'
The last day of his life! Poor fellow!
That was not so very far away them
What could she have meant by talking
in that way to the coachman? There
was always something between them
that no one in the house could under
stand, although every one seemed to no
tiCe it.
They had plenty of quarrels the last
week or two of his life. Less than
week ago heard them talking together
in the upper front hall You speak fair
enough heard him say, but all your
actions are against me. | believe you
are in the conspiracy to keep me ont of
my rights. Take care! | have every
thing at stake. No one shall come be.
tween me and my own.
How the police officer would have
stared if had whispered those words in
his ear and told him from whose lips
heard them! | wonder if did wrong in
keeping what | heard to myself! Per
Il L. I.
meaning now that have put them on
paper They never seemed important
before. Besides, the cook and the chore
Toy heard as much Of their privacy us
did Why didn't they tell? Why did
he cook, when questioned by the Off
GERS, stop with the bare assertion that
,he hOUSeGeeper lad been heard to threat
| Al the cOachmaL:
is 1t possible that the hOusekeeper
'i'shaw! People who kill never vol
unfairly 20 back to look at their work!
At least have heard people say so. But
then all people are not alike.
Where was the hOuseLeeper between
seven and eight o'clock last Friday night?
know She WAS in the carriage house
| saw her leave the carriage house door
! was looking from my window She
passed up the side street wringing her
lands, and came in at the front of the
hOusc. | did not see her again until the
"ry o. murder had been raised i'll the
iitcheu. stood by the door of the car
mage loft when she came up the passage
over ti.n laundry. She looked pale and
sick Soc was wringing her hands just
rs had seen her wiring them on her way
to the front door! Her first words were
addressed to me. remember what they
We're:
'''.{" can't be dead He can't be dead!
Oh, my God! Look, some one, and see.
Will no one go for surgeon
NJ that time no one had put into
words the horrible deed that had been
done There had only been general cry
of murder and an excited movement to-
| ward the carriage loft when the chore
boy had raised the cry. No one but the
housekeeper knew what had taken place
until they .tood over the dead body in the
room How did she know?
Il never thought of all this until be-
gan to write. Now that have come to
my senses what ought to do? know
Nothing. Mrs. Clark Melville is strong
in her defense of the housekeeper. The
| police officers have located her in the
house between those fatal hours ! will
speak only when some person whom |
believe to be innocent has the hangman's
moose about his neck. | will leave this
house tomorrow. can't restrain myself
if that woman speaks to me again"
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