The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-05-04

for aid, in bass and treble, were being
uttered. "
"show me the way I said to the
man.
He reluctantly took up a lantern that
stood on the floor. 545s5
II turns the gas off nights" he said.
s"Them's the orders. But it leaves you
at the mercy Of burglars and SIGH most
shameful. We may be murdered our
selves, for all we know, in the dark
like this ~
With trembling steps lie preceded
me upstairs, and stopped before a GER
tain door. :
I'm sure it's No. 20 them shrieks
came FROM" he said. -
A shock head, just lifted from it's
pillow, projected from the next door,
which was opened a little way.
1T is No. 20" said the masculine
some one; something frightful has
happened"
There's been a man in there. I
and Miss Phipps both heard him talk
ing cried a shrill voice. .s-sr 49,
And she is supposed to live there
alone with her maid," some n who
kept herself hidden, added; land this
is a respectable studio building"
Meanwhile, I had put my shoulder.
against the door. The lock yielded
and I stood within the room. The light
of Il lamp with a crimson shade which
stood upon a dwarf bookcase, revealed
q pretty studio. an easel on which stood
a h~alf-finished picture, In overturned
and broken vase. from which water
and flowers had fallen, and cast down
upon the floor, in the agonies Of death,
a man, whose hand still clutched Il
smoking pistol.
By this time two policemen had ar
rived, others followed them, they lifted
the man's head 20 that the light fell
on it.
Who did this ?" OH asked.
Il did it myself was tired Of it
ALL he gasped. God forgive"
1t was all over.
But where is the lady?' said the
%janitor.
We hurried together into an inner
room. On the floor a lady lay, sense
less.
From under the bed crawled a fright
ened little maid, who went into hyster-
les on the spot, and for some time could
give no information. At last she told
us that she had never seen the dead
man before; that when he rung the
bell she opened the door, and he
walked in; when her mistress saw him,
she SCI and told him to go away
at once. He would not; he said, you
are my wife-I have a right here
II he sent her, the maid, III of the
studio. After awhile her mistress
called murder, and came running into
the room where she-the maid-sat, and
the man fired after her, and she fell.
Then he fired again, the maid supposed
to kill himself-she did not see him
do it, she was hidden under the bed.
Examination proved that the lady
had been wounded in the arln. The
bullet had passed through it. [ had
some skill in such matters, and I Of
fered to bind up the wound. 1 had
scarcely begun the work when l real
lied that, much as time and it's pres
ent pallor had altered it, | looked upon
a face l knew. hi senseleSs
over whom I bent was my lost love,
| Lorena, and guided by this cleW, | now
saw that the dead man was no other
than Tom Allison, the cousin of whom
I had been jealous, whom LOrena had
married twelve years before.
An involuntary exclamation burst
from my lips. I explained it instantly
to those around me-thuS:
Il find that l know who that man is.
| His name is Thomas Allison. This lady
is his wife, or was when last l heard
of her. She came from the far West,
II is, / am sure, in every sense a
lady"
MY words had an effect on those pres
ent. Miss Phipps and her friend, who
bod ,roJo toi1ntc ,r1 ininnH 11S offered
to nurse their neighbor, since it was
!. only Il case of bad husband: and /
promised to be ready with my purse,
since Mrs. Allison proved to be an old
friend and neighbor.
The spinsters We're really kindly
women, and kept vigil and did their
best for the patient for weeks without
complaint; and Lorena recovered.
1t was, however, two months before
she was able to talk to me.
Then she told me her story. 1t was a
brief one. Tom had been cruel, dissi-
pated and unfaithful. She had learned
to decorate china, and do art needle
work, and so Won her bread. Twice he
had deserted her, and she had forgiven
him. But at last he had beaten her,
and she had resolved never to live with
him again.
The night OF which l nave told 0
he had come to her in a state Of insane
intoxication, and it had been his inten-
ton to murder her.
ooh, what a life mine has been," she
said. ...
yet you Tilted me for him." I could
not help saying.
You went way without Il word of
adieu. My heart was sore, my pride
deeply hurt she said. "Tom's love-
making came at the right time. I mar
ried him-wretched girl that [ was-out
of spite. I am we'll punished"
But my note?" / said. =
81 did not get your note for a long
time.". she replied. Con his way to
our house Mrs. Fleets little boy fell
down and broke his arm. This made
him forget all about the note until he
was well enough to put on his jacket
again; then he brought it to me-; then.
Well, no matter about that; I had been
Mr.; Allison for two weeks. md could
only Cry over the letter and burn it. /
tried to be a true wife to@Tom, but he
would not let ne"
"My Lorena!' ! exclaimed, holding