People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-04-13
BLIND JUSTICE,
By HEKEN b. MATHERS,
CHAPTER VII-CoNTINUED.

y AHS HOdIi Ho rapidly
wound it round his arms. Stimulating
man who is securely bound. then
threw himself on the ground,
stretched himself stifly out and simu-
lated death.
The Syrian watched him closely.
but without visible comprehension.
Jake by series of jerks that
showed considerable muscular en-
ergy, but still preserving in his
features a corpse-like rightly
brought himself to the open mouth
OF the cellar and made feint of
going through it head foremost
This, l need scarcely say, he was
most careful not to do, and having
opened his eyes and sat up, he point.
ed downward with much vigor. re-
peating: "Setb Treloar down there
till the sudden fash of comprehen-
sion on the Styrian's face convinced
him that he was understood.
Then he replaced the trap door,
tossed the cord back to where he
found it, brushed some of the dust
from his jersey, and with a confrma-
tory nod meant to convey Its all
true" made tracks for the door.
But the Styrian'S strong hand
caught him back.
Murdered" burst from his Inns in
Austrian, and in defiance of common
sense, but strange to say, whether it
be that the thought of murder, or
rather its image, is able to convey
itself in one flash from eye to eve,
being by its human horror as well
understood of the deaf as the Dumb,
Jake distinctly understood the Styr-
ian's question and nodded vehe-
mently. For a few moments the
stranger stood motionless, all his
'nergies concentrated in thought
ven he made a gesture of inquiry,
lat said as plain as possible.
How"
Jake was equal to the occasion,
and performed his part so we'll that
l was not surprised to hear later
that be had often rehearsed the
whole drama in the tap room of the
"Chough and Crow"
He crossed the room, threw himself
into chair, the chair in which Seth
Treloar had sat on the night of his
return. In this he leaned back, af
fecting to sit up shortly, and look
smilingly at some one who ap-
preached him. He then pretended
to take some vessel from the invisible
person, to swallow its contents. to
be seized at once with violent pain
and sickness lit was drOll to see him.
in the paroxyisms of agony, still
keeping weather eye on the door.
in case of my return), to roll on the
ground in commissions, biting and
kicking like rabid dog. and finally
to stretch himself out stiff and stark,
as if the last Office he required would
be at the hands of the undertaken.
The Syrian had watched with
bent brows the first part of the pan
tomime, fully perceiving its signif-
canoe, however grOtesquely ex-
pressed. yet | saw in a moment that
it neither surprised hor convinced
him, and | said to myself, This
man listens to circumstantial tale
that Is entirely vitiated by some
secret knowledge that he possesses.
Jake, out Of breath. and disap-
pointed with the effect of his sim.
ulated death, came nearer the i'm
passive man, who looked up sud.
denly, and began a pantomime of
his own.
l caught his meaning before Jake
did. did Seth Treloar die of poison
before he was pushed into the Gel
lar, or after?"
But when Jake had made him un-
derstand, an expression of in
credulity, quickly followed by aston
ishment, crossed his face, he turned
aside, threw out his hands vehe-
mently, and his Numbered out Aus
TRAN. mo! No! Impossiblem reached
me clearly where | stood.
Jake shrugged his shoulders and
slipped away, he knew he had stayed
too long already.
For some moments after he had
gone the Syrian stood motionless.
revolving many things clearly not
pleasant in his mind. Then he
smiled evilly. and half drew from a
fold in his sash pistol of curious
workmanship, and it needed not his
significant look at the staircase
leading to my sleeping quarters to
convince me that here was a man
only to be fooled at serious personal
risk to the fooler.
he put pack the pistol, produced
the little horn box. shook out some
of its contents into the palm of his
hand, and swallowed it
| saw the color disthctly-white
Involuutarily | thought of another
man whom had seen taking a pinch
OF white powder out of box, but
with very different results.
Over the Styrian's face stole the
same expression of voluptuous salts
faction that | had noticed on the pre-
vious night then he turned to the
table as though his appetite were