The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-06-29

Ask me In six months time and you snail
see everything"
Mrs. Polwhele bounced out of the room.
Here was n woman burning to know a
secret, and her husband asked her to wait
six months She told her mother what
had TRANSFERRED.
Mr. Polwhele attended a scientific meet
ing that day. He came home rather unex-
pectedly. Hurrying up stairs with that
quiet step of his he caught his mother-in-
law trying keys ON the lock of his room
door
Madam" he said, 81 shall be very an
CRY if see or hear of this kind of thing
again ! shall be so angry that i shall ask
you to leave my house and never more to
enter it"
Mrs. Arnold fairly gasped with astonish-
ment. This from Mr.. Polwhelel This
from the meek little man who had mar
ried her daughter.
She tried to express her Indignation but
failing to find words, ran down stairs in a
towering passion and burst into the room
where sat the offenders wife.
your husband is Bluebeardn she
gasped. 81 am sure he is He is a Blue
beard-a murderer He has been married
before and killed his wives. Their bodies
are in that room"
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Mrs Polwhele almost tainted. The pic
ture her mother conjured up was quite too
dreadful. When her mother came round
she told her story, with the accompani-
ment of sighs tears and much shifting at a
bottle of smelling salts.
She was passing along the corridor near
the locked up room, she said, when Mr..
| Polwhele came up with an oath and told
her that if ever he caught her there again
he would turn her neck and crop into the
road
Mrs. Polwhele naturally was very indig-
| nant. Her Indignation took turn favor
able to her curiosity.
"I'll know what's in that room today if
he turns me into the road" she said. "He
is going out again this afternoon. I'll call
in locksmith and have the door opened. !"
Mr.. Polwhele went out and Mrs. Pol
whele sent for the locksmith. The man
came and brought bunch of skeleton
keys.
The door was opened in jiffy, and the
three entered the room.
No carpet. Two large tables covered
with pieces of pottery, baked clay and in
scribed stone. Cases of curios everywhere.
On the floor two oblong boxes, lidless and
covered with heaps of dirty, yellowish
cloth.
Mrs. Arnold removed one of the heaps
and peered in the box.
She staggered back shrieking. In the
box was the corpse of a woman.
The locksmith lifted up the other heap
of cloth. Another corpsel
Mrs Polwhee fell to the floor in a dead
faint. Mrs. Arnold continued to shrek
Mrs Polwhele was too daZed to speak
a word. She suffered her mother to haul
her down stairs and into the road, where
she stood terrified and trembling.
"Where is the nearest police station?''
cried the mistress of the ceremonies. run
and bring back three or four policemen.
They have a desperate criminal to deal
with"
The girl ran off and speedily returned
with three officers of the law. Mrs. Ar
mold had taken her daughter back into the
hall.
whats all thisS" inquired quiet voice
which issued from beneath pair of gold
trimmed spectacles. "What does this
meanY"
THAT'S him!" screamed Mrs. Arnold
"That's the murderer. Arrest him."
"What, Mr. Polwhele? Nonsensel' re
turned the sergeant.
$50 should think" said the gentleman
spoken Of "Be good enough to inform me
what this means?"
1.-TWO bodies have been found upstairs
sir" said the locksmith.
"Well, there are two bodies upstairs
They have been bodies something like 4,OO(
years, so don't quite see how l could have
made them bodies. They are mummie.
found by me near the great pyramid il
Egypt"
Complete collapse of Bluebeard's mother
in-law. Exit police.
"The cloth in which the mummies wer,
wrapped" exclaimed Mr.. Polwhele to hi
wife shortly afterward, lis covered will
inscriptions which | am transcribng.
thought you would be shocked if you saw
the mummies without the bandages, s,
kept the room locked up"