The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-03-09

, MED all personal participation in the
crime, and faced her inquisitors with
brazen calm. Then the chief quietly
turned and signaled. An officer led for
ward from one side the wreck of a cab
man, supported by the priest; door
opened on the other. and, escorted by
another policeman. Mrs Dawson re-
entered. holding in her hands out
stretched a gingham apron on which
were two deep stains the shape and
size of a long. STRAIGHTFORWARD, two
edged knife. 1t was the apron that
Bridget Doyle had worn that fatal
night. One quick, furtive look at that,
one glance at her trembling, shaking,
covering kinsman, and, with an Irish
howl of despair, loud wall of Mike,
Mike, you've sworn your sisters life
away she threw herself upon the
floor, tearing madly at her hair. And
so ended the mystery of Beau Rivage.
| There was silence a moment in
Grams pretty parlor when the captain
had finished his story. Waring was the
first to speak:
There is one point l wish they'd
clear up"
whats that?" said Cram.
who's got Merton's watch?-
| ''Oh. by Jove. / quite forgot. It's
all right, Waring. Anatole's place
was pulled last night, and he had her
valnables all done up in box. To
pay for his boat he said
A c~,,-+aos q, oa,+-,-- boe ,,aeead
away since the scarlet plumes of Light
Battery *" were last seen dancing
along the levee below New Orleans.
Beau Rivage. old and moSs-grown at
the close of the war, fell into rapid de-
cline after the tragedy of that April
night. Heavily mortgaged, the prop
erty passed into other hands, but for
years never found tenant. Far and
near the negroes spoke of the home
stead as haunted. and none of their
race could be induced to set foot with
in its gates. One night the sentry at
the guardhouse saw sudden light on
the westward sky, and then a column
of fame. Again the fire alarm re-
sounded among the echoing walls OF
the barracks; but when the soldiers
reached the scene, a seething ruin was
all that was left of the old southern
home. Somebody sent Cram 4 marked
copy of New Orleans paper, and in
their coy quarters at Fort Hamilton
the captain read it aloud to his devoted
Nell: The old house has been vacant,
an object OF almost superstitious dread
to the neighborhood," said the Times,
lever since the tragic death of Armand
! Lascelles in the spring of 1868. In po-
lice annals the affair was remarkable
because of the extraordinary chain OF
circumstantiale videncewhich for a time
seemed to fa.ten the murder upon an
officer of the army then stationed a,
Jackson barracks, but whose limo
cence was triumphantly established.
! Nine. Lascelles. il is understood, is
now educating her daughter in Paris,
whittier she removed Immediately
after her marriage, few months ago
TO Capt Philippe Lascelles, formerly OF
the confederate army, a younger
brother of her first husband"
We'll" said Cram, III have to send
that 10 Waring. They're in Vienna by
this time. suppose. Look here, Nell,
how was it that when we fellows were
fretting about Warnings attentions to
madame, you should have been 80
serenely superior to it all, even when.
as / know, the stories reached your
.'Ah, Ned, knew a story worth two
of those. He was in love with Natalie
| Maitland all the time"
HE End