Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-08-19

| enjoyed it Immensely, but declined to
be made Samson.
| She tried entreaties and tears. Mr..
POlwhele kissed the latter away and
| kept his secrets. Then she tried anger
James," she said, I'VE shall never be
happy until / have been in that room.
You are unkind and unjust. 1t is
wrong of you. | couldn't have believed
you would have acted SO. Take me
into the place at once
Il am very sorry, my DEAR" he said,
ito disappoint you, but / can't take
/, you. Ask me in six months time and
you shall see everything
| Mrs Polwhele bounced out Of the
room. Here was a woman burning to
know a secret, and her husband asked
! her to wait six months. She told her
mother what had TRANSFERRED
| Mr.. IoIwhele attended a scientific
| meeting that day. He came home
rather Unexpectedly. Hurrying up
stairs with that quiet step Of his h"
caught his mothel-in-law trying keys 20
the lock Of his room door.
Madam" he said, Il shall be angry
i ! see or hear Of this kind Of thing
again. ] shall be 50 angry that / will
ask You to leave my house and never
more to enter it,
Mrs, Arnold fairly gasped with as
constituent. This from Mr.. PoIWheIe.
This from the meek little man who
Lad married her daughter
She tried to express her Indignation,
bit, falling to find words ran down
stairs III towering passion and burst
INTO the room where sat the Offenders
wife.
"YOTr husband is IL Bluebeard." sh"
@aSpcd. Il am sure he is. He is a
R!ucfacard a murderer. He has been
married before and killed his wives.
Their bodies ar" in that room"
\ fit Of mysteries terminated her raw
ings
Mrs. polWhcle almost tainted The
picture her mother coniured up was
quite too dreadful. When her mother
came round she told Der story, with the
accompaniment Of signs, tears and
much shifting at bottle Of smelling
salts
She was passing along the corridor
near the locked-up room, she said.
when Mr.. Polwhele came up with in
cath and told her that if he ever caught
her there again he would turn her neck
and crop into the road.
Mrs PolWhele naturally was very in
dignant Her Indignation took turn
favorable to her curiosity.
III know what's in that room to-day
if he turns me OiIt into the road" she
said.
He is going ont this afternoon. III
call i'll Il locksmith and have the door
opened"
Mr.. TolWhelc went out and Mrs Pol
Whclc sent for the lOckSmith. The man
came and brought Il bunch of skeleton
keys.
The door was entered III ajiffffy and
the three entered the room.
No carpet. Two large tables covered
with pieces Of pottery, baked clay and
Inscribed stone. Cases of cIlriOS every
where. On the floor two oblong boxes
li,ilcSs and covered with heaps of dirty,
yelloWiSh cloth.
Mrs. Arnold removed one of the
btblS 'tlHl l'ttltdt III illt' I}OA.
She staggered back shrieking In the
hoE was the corpse of a woman
The locksmth lifted up the other
heap of cloth. Another corpse.
Mrs. Polwhcle fell to the floor in a
dead faint. Mrs, Arnold continued to
shrek
Mrs. PolWhele was too daZed to speak
4 word She suffered her mother
to haul her downstairs and into the
yard. where she stod terrified and
tTCnIbling
where is the nearest police Station?"
cried the mistress Of the ceremonies
Kun and bring back three or four
policemen. They have desperate
criminal to deal with"
The Girl ran off and speedily returned
with tire officers of the law Mrs. Ar
had taken her daughter back into the
hall.
'What's all tbis?" inquired a quiet
voice which issued from beneath Il
pair Of gold-rimmed spectaclcs. What
does this mean"
THAT'S him. screamed Mrs Arnold.
THAT'S the murderer. Arrest him"
IVY hat, Mr.. polwhcle: Nonsense"
returned the sergeant
80 | should think" said the gentle
man spoken of. BE good enough TO
inform me what this means"
1.-Two bodies have been found up
stairs, sir" said the lOckSmith
"Well. there are two bodies upstairs
They have been bodies something like
1000 years. so | don't quite see how I
could have made them bodies They
ar" mummicS, found by me near the
great pyramid in Egypt"
Complete collapse of Bluehcard'S
motherin-law. Exit police.
-" The cloth in which the mumnlies were
wrapped" exclaimed Mr. Polwhcle to
his wife shortly afterwards. is covered
with inscriptions which l am insrribing
thought YOU would be shocked if YOU
saw the mummieS without the ban
dages. So l kept the room locked up
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