The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-12-04

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roof. So there was, so there was And
their sort of lovemaking was the marry
ing sort. The question was popped and
the day was named, and then my young
sir must needs ct the family diamonds
out OF the bark TO see how his sweetheart
looked in them.
He thought she looked sweet in them,
you may be sure, and he gave them 10 her
TO keep. just telling her not 10 let any one
know she'd got them till he'd got safe
TO keep them in. 80 she takes them up
20 her room, ard she hides them. Now,
he thought and she thought no one knew
about them diamonds, but ] don { need 10
tell you, sir, that valuable stones don {
change their addresses without It's being
known somehow 20 more than one and
more than two. And among those that
knew were our man and his mate.
Well, they meant 20 have the diamonds,
and they laid their plan and there was
two things that made their plan 70 easy
to work. First, the young lady slept in "a
room at the far end Of long passage, with
no one near her.
1t was the eldest part Of the house and
she liked il because it was SO romantic -
You know what young ladies be, sir
Next, the young gentleman, what alway :
slept at home, was to sleep at the inn the
night before the wedding. You know, sir,
it's q custom with gentlefolks. go the
plan was that on the night before the wed
ding, when there was only the women N
the house, our men was 10 climb up the ivy
and creep into our young lady's room and
take the diamonds.
It'll take me some time 10 find where
she's hid them. he says 10 the other chap,
so I'd better make the girl safe first"
1t was decided that our man was 70 GO
right away for week. Sc that there
mightnt be any suspicion, and when he
came back his mate would meet him at a
certain place and hour and tell him if any
change was wanted In the plan. If his
mate didn't meet him, he was to 90 TO the
house at once.
so he climbed up one night and filed the
window bars nearly through and got all
ready, and then he went away.
After n week he came back.
1t was a very dark night. He waited n
quarter of an hour by the old wall. but no
one came, so be took mis- knife in MS teeth
and climbed up the ivy, going very slow
and quiet. The bars were just as he had
left them. He took one out very gently
and laid il down and got into the room.
1t was very, very dark and smelled Of
scent and camphor, like chemist shop.
He listened for the girls breathing 70
guide him TO the bed, but he heard moth
ing. Presently. feeling about, his hand
touched the bedpost. Then he wraps his
red cotton handkerchief round his hand 70
put over her mouth, and he takes his knife
in the other hand and feels for her face
and pulls the sheet off her neck. She
never moved, and il was done in minute!
Then he lays down his wet knife on TIE
bed and strikes match quite at his ease
to look for the diamonds.
He lights candle that stands by the bed
head and then sees the bed and whats on
It, and he gives yell that fetches every
soul in the house awake, and he goes of
then and there, stark, raving, screaming
mad. The sight of what he meant all
along TO do? Not it, Conscience? Not a
bit Of it! Sheer fright at the sight of what
he'd done and hadn't meant 10 do.
The candle showed him the bed-all
mass of white fiOwers-and what was ly
ing on it under the white sheet had laid
there dead long afore he come a-nigh the
place. I've heard say as corpses can't
bleed Well, all i know is-well l won't
say any more about that part of it, sir If
you don't like it. 1t ain I pleasant even To
hear about, and the sight of it sent i'm
clear off is head.
1t was corpse's throat he'd cut, the
laundering, numbering villain, and when
the servants ran in with lights they found
him lying across the bed foot, foaming at
the mouth and mad as halter. If he'd
had any sense left for thinking, he would
not ha' known what 70 think, but this is
what really had happened. The other chap
once our man was out of the way
thinks to have try for the diamonds of
his own bat. but meanwhile the young
lady at the abbey'd found out the filed
window bars. and when he tried it on the
young master and the under gardener was
ready for him and took him with the knife
in his hand, bending over the empty he'd.
Thinks he, t'other chap shan't get of,
then, neither. so off he goes to Jail, leav-
ing his mate 70 be COPIED when he comes
back to try il on according TO agreement.
And in Jail he turned funky and choked
himself with his belt, for there was other
things against him, besides their having
found out me was the Peckham mystery.
And no one in the abbey expecting any
illbIt N4>llbI> tuEbhHu ilic N'HtibN lItF
didn't have the bars mended, but silly
maid who's frightened out Of her wits
sticks them sp again TO look like they did
before.
And how come the young lady to be
dead already Why, bless your soul, sir,
didn't l tell you; II wasn't the young
lady at all II was the old hoUsekeeper.
"a had been ailing this long time and had
gone OF sudden with the turn the first
chap gave her when he screamed as he was
took. And they laid her out in that room,
being farthest from the other rooms
And If he'd had an ounce Of pluck our
man might ha' got away, but it's my he
lief he wasnt meant 10. The Judgment
takes folk queer ways sometimes.-San
Francisco Wave.
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