Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-05-19
EYRE'S ACQUITTAL.
By Helen B. Mathers.
PART I.

go-by,' said Digges with a bitter curse
as he crushed the Woman's white arm
In his coarse hand; lust you try it,
and he breathed hard and thick: IF sc
be as I've sold my soul for you. I'll
git my pennys worth, an where / &C
you'll foller. | allus knew you was
q bad lot, but your first fancy man'u
be the last, for Ill kill the pair o We
I've half the mind to tear 'em off yel
body this night an 'ess to the truth
The woman laughed as she put her
free arm about his neck and kissed
him her beauty held him i'll bondage
yet. III the lower ranks of life it is
seldom that man ill-uses his hand
some mate 50 long as she is true to
him.
Didn't | promise to love you if you
could give me diamonds like madam'S, "
she said, sickening at the constrast Of
their two faces III the glass, land I've
worn them once. Tonight Wen I'M
pick them from their settings and hide
them for the last time"
we maun bidc awhile afore we
makes move" said Digges, who had
relapsed into lis usual stolid self; may
happen the neebors'H keep their eyes
open yet awhile"
'1Ihey'ye got over Suspecting long
ago." said Josephine, folks that dress
themselves in wooden must be yirtuouS
and poyerty's Il grand cloak to hide
ones sins under"
She was Haunting backward and for
ward before the mirror now, and be
You'd her lay the pure, simple back
ground Of Madcap's chamber, arrang-
I'd Just as she had left it when She had
ignorantIy started on her last long jour
ney without farewell kiss or word to
the husband and children she so pas
siOnateIy loved.
There stood her white bed, and be
side it tie table that held her Bible,
Prayer book, and portrait Of her hus-
band alone and her two boys together;
near them lay the broken toy that
her boy had dropped when he had
paid her his last visit, and Wcpt at
leaving her, not knowing how soon he
would share with her that sleep which
knows 10 waking.
80. 1onder, too was the cabinet of
which one unlocked drawer held Il
secret that defed Mr.. Eyre, while by
its side the easy chair stood in which
Madcap had been 'tWinnd Of her
sweet life" unknoWing. ....
On the borders Of the half light Dig
ges lowered fearful to remain, rs to
depart, alone, his round eyes resting
on anything rather than his wife. All
at once the blackncSS Of the windows
attracted Josephinc's attention.; it
would make Il longer looking glass
than the one in which she gazed, and
She approached il, Seing but night be
yOnd, for Mr. Eyre covered his face
with his mantle as She advanced, 50
that she saw the jewels flushing like
suns rays upon IN inlIy pool.
II It lis She looked. some horrible,
tightening impression Of gazing at dark
against dark seized her; involuntarily
size pressed nearer, and rs the heavy
mantle slipped, and Mr.. Eyre's eyes
met hers through the glass, his feat
uI.es ncnacing and stern, pale and
haglaFd rs Il nan now risen from the
tomb, icy terror concealed the very
blood in her veins, and slew in her
tic power to cry out to stir Ignorant
and snpclstitious, She never doubted
that this was her dead master i'll his
cere-cIothcs Gene to confront her with
tile witnesses 10 her crime upon her
body $1,000. and reason tottcrcd, but
was not overthroWn, until dashing
thc easement wide, he then stretched
lis arms and seized her. -. then her
wits fled and even as Mr.. Eyre knew
ii, and saw the chamber door open,
and Diggcs gone, he knew that once
more the secret Of Madcap's death
Lad escaped him.
Chapter w
Mr.. Eyre cursed himself for a melo-