Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-06-22

chamber which had been known as Mrs. Dawson's, and this, too, had been thoroughly explored. 'Louette, who had disappeared after Doyle's tragic death, was found not far away, and the police thought it but fair that Mrs. Doyle should not be deprived of the services of her maid. Then came other additions, though confined in other sec tions of the city. MT. Pepper wired that the party known as M. Phllippes had been run to earth and would reach town with him by train about the same time that another of the force re- turned from Mobile by boat, bringing a young man known as Dawson and wanted as deserter and a very spright- ly young lady who appeared to move in higher sphere of life, but was un- questionably his wife, for the officer could prove their marriage in South Carolina in the spring of '65. As Mir. Pepper expressed it when he reported to Reynolds: "It's almost full hand, but, for fact, it's only bobtail flush. We need that cabman to f1ll."
 "How did you trace Philippes?" asked Reynolds
 "Him? Oh, he was too darned musi- cal. It was-what do you call it?- Flure de Tay that did for him. Why, he's the fellow that raised all the I money and most of the h-ll for this old man Lascelles. He'd been sharp ing him for years"
 "WeIl, when can we bring this thing to head?" asked the aide-de-camp. "Poco tiempo! by Saturday, reckon" But it came sooner. Waring was seated one lovely even | ing in 8 low reclining chair on Mrs. Grams broad gallery, slipping content edly at the fragrant tea she had handed him. The band was playing, and \ number of children were chasing about | in noisy glee. The men were at supper, the officers, as a rule, at mess. For \ several minutes the semi-restored in- valid had not spoken word. In one of his customary day-dreams he had been calmly gazing at the shapely white hand of his hostess, "an queenly ' with its weight of rings"
 "Will you permit me to examine those rings a moment?" he asked.
 "Why, certainly. No, you sit still, MT. Waring," she replied, promptly rising, and, pulling them off her fingers, dropped them into his open palm. With | the same dreamy expression on his clear-cut, pallid face, he turned them over and over, held them up to the light, finally selected one exquisite gem, and then, half rising, held forth the others. As she took them and still Il stood beside his chair as though patiently waiting, he glanced up. "Oh, beg pardon. You want this, suppose?" and, handing her the dainty teacup, calmly slipped the ring into his waistcoat-pockct and languidly murmured: "Thanks."
 "WeI, like that.''
 "Yes? So do I, rather better than the others"
 ''May ask what you purpose doing with my ring?"
 ''I was just thinking. I've ordered a new Amidon for Larkin, a new ninety dollar suit for Ferry, and shall be de- cidedly poor this month, even if we re- cover Merton's watch"
 "Oh, we'll, if it's only to pawn one, why not take a diamond?"
 But it isn't"
 "What then, pray?"
 "Wen, again was just thinking whether I could find another to match this up in town, or send this one-to her"
 "Mr. waringl Really?" And now Mrs. Grams bright eyes are dancing with eagerness and delight.
 For all answer, though his own eyes begin to moisten and swim, he draws from an inner pocket dainty letter, postmarked from a far, far city to the northeast.
 "You dear fellow! How can I tell .-ou how glad I am! haven't dared to ask you of her since we met at Wash lngton, but-oh, my heart has been just full of her since-since this trouble came"
 God bless the trouble! it was that that won her to me at last. have loved her ever since 1 first saw her long years ago."
 "Oh! oh! oh! if Ned were only here
 I'm wild to tell him. I may, mayn't I?"
 "Yes, the moment he comes."
 But Ned brought a crowd with him when he got back from town a little
 later. Reynolds was there, and Phi ! lippe Lascelles, and Mir. Pepper, and they had tale to tell that must need.
 be condensed.
 , They had all been present by invita-
 tion of the civil authorities at a very dramatic affair during the late after . noon-the final lifting of the veil thar . hid from public view the strange . eventful history" of the Lascelles trag
 edy. Cram was the spokesman by com
 mon consent. "With the exception O the Dawsons," said he, none of tn, 1, parties implicated knew up to the hou A of his or her examination that any on, |. of the others was to appear" Mrs Dawson, eager to save her own prett. . neck, had told her story without reser vation. Dawson knew nothing. I THE OJEEN INTERPRETED