Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-11-08

pits and your smelling works to my
levely Not once And you think be-
cause you made social d0or-mat oi
mc-b3cause you have let mo fetch and
carry, and honored me with your con
tdence when. You wanted 10 air YOU
grievances, or get out OF a difficulty
be ause, In enc word have been use
full, you think ] am 10 call you my
friend, and sacrifice my own interests
to any amount in order TO crafty your
spite. You wanted to get rid OF Day-
enant. took it off your hands, AMI
made profit by the transaction. You
don suppose ! would speculate five
and-thirty thousand TO obllge youy"
Judas, cried Gilbert Sinclair, sei2-
ing his quondam friend by the throat,
mad with passion,
The soborcr and calmer man had the
better Of mere brute 10 &c, James
Wyatt shook OIL his assailant as easily
as If he had been the athlete, and Gil.
bert the thinker and POTTER
Fool" he exclaimed, contemptuous-
~, "don't waste your breath in upbraid-
ing me with trolchery, Look at homo.
Look 10 you. own house and your
pretty wife, who recJycica her senses
so quickly under the influence Of her
German physician, Have YOU had
many visits from that German physl.
cian Mr., Sin lair; Perhaps he times
his visits so as to avoid meeting you,
You spend good deal OF your life
away from Davcnant, you see"
What 40 you mean" gaspcd the
other.
What / saJ, Look at home for
treachery, ! gave youa hint that night
our German friend first came to your
house, but You were too dull to take it. 4"
Gilbert started and looked ut him
intently.
81 remember what you Watch
your wife. | did watch her. what
them"
"You saw how he tho strange doc
tor-could awaken intelligence which
no one else could arouse You saw how
she sung at his bidding - how tears
llowed--tor him. A case of electrobi-
ology. one would suppose.
wyatt, | shall strangle you if you
don't put your meaning into the very
plainest words
And perhaps strangle ne if do. I
shall have to risk that, | suppose, said
Wyatt, wi h laugh PLAINLY, then,
you should hae made better use Of
your eyes that night, and seen through
the disguise Cf pair Of smoke-colored
spectacles and gray wig and beard.
The ma who came 10 your house with
Lord Clanyarde was Sir Cyprian DAY.
enantw
It's a lie cried Gilbert Sinclair.
ITS as true as that your wife's re-
covery dates from the hour of his visit. !"
"You knew this-you -my legal ad-
wiser friend and you so d my estate
to that man-knowing this" cried
Sinclair, almost inarticulate with pas
sion.
Again I must repeat that | never
professed to be your friend. AS your
legal adviser | had no right to inter
fere in your domestic affairs, AS to
the sale of the property, | cannot see
how that affects your position with
Sir Cyprian.
If Gilbert could have flown at the
mans throat again and stranged him,
there might have been some satisfac-
ton in that act of savagery. To call
him bad names. and to see his sardonic
grin as he heard them, was poor re-
lief, but all that civilization allowed.
Gilbert hur ed som9 of the hare est
epithets in the vocabulary of abuse at
that smiling traitor, and then flung
himself out of the room and out of the
house.
The hanson was waiting for him
meekly as your most spirited hanson
customer. The young May moon was
up in soft, opal sky.
"Charing Gro Station-double fare,
cried Mr.. Sinclair, and the cab-horse
enivened the shades Of quiet Blooms
bury by the clatter of his poor clipped
hooIs in hand gallop,
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