People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-05-04

rules successfully, man would not
be likely to succumb to its effects"
My face fell. and the smart of my
shoulder angered me as useless and
intolerable pain.
80 he shot you because you stole
this" said DR.. Cripps, the pallid
morning light falling on his round
weather beaten face, at once homely
and shrewd; then clearly ne values
1t highly, and | shall be curious to
know how he gets ON without it.
II spoke slowly as one who thought
aloud, his hand arrested on its way
to the table, and in his eyes | caught
the slow glimmering OF an idea
seth TrelOar was under the in
fuence of the drug which Judith
gave him for twenty-four hours" he
said, lit would be dark when he
came to himself, and he may have
wandered round and round like
beast in cage for hours, ignorant
of the open trap-door over his head,
and the rope By which he might
gain it Did he-did-he-"
die for the want of poison that
he was in the habit of taking at
regular intervals?" / burst out.
putting at last into words and shape
the idea that had so constantly eluded
me, and to which an inde6nable
something in the doctors face as
sisted me.
Exactly" said Dr. Cripps, land
it strikes me we have now an ex-
cellent opportunity of finding out
that opportunity being furnished by
the gentleman who is safely tied to
the leg of your kitchen table. But
what brought him here?" he added
suddenly.
told him the Styrian's story from
the beginning; of his interview with
Judith, and everything down to the
present time.
The game is in your own hands, :"
he said, when l stopped. you have
only to sit down and watch the man.
If he shows symptoms of collapse,
send for me, but it's the most extra
ordinary" he paused abruptly.
Poor girl" he said in a moved
voice, land | was ready, like all the
rest OF the world, to believe that the
sudden temptation oyercame her, and
turned good woman into bad ono
but We don't know yet. must
get to bed now for a couple OF hours,
for I've a harder days work before me,
young man, than yours as amateur
detective. And now you'll 90 back
and get some sleep yourself-rll look
IN after breakfast. And before | 90
out I'll write to B the first
toxologist of the day, and ask him a
few questions. wish | had done it
sooner"
And he disappeared upstairs as
went out into the grey morning, more
than satisfied with the nights work,
and full OF hopes of what the next
twenty-fOur hours should bring forth.
CHAPTER Kill
1t was midday when awoke from
the heavy slumber into which | fell
from pure exhaustion on my return
from Dr. Cripps, my limbs aching
from the hard chair in which l had
slept, and with what felt like the
brand OF a red hot iron deep in my
shoulder.
looked across to the bound figure
by whose side was set cup and platter.
both untouched, though the wolfsh
look Of hunger and craving that met
mine put me in mind of nothing
so much as a starving. hunted dog.
Had his torment commenced already
1t would have to be sharpened VET
before wasted a word upon him.
Stephen sat IN the open doorway. a
patient, pathetic figure, whose atti-
tude spoke to his hopeless DESPAIR,
and whose eyes were blind to the
glory OF the scene upon which he
gazed.
He looked up alphabetically as
Joined him, too engrossed in his own
sorrow to heed me much.
The sun woan't rise many mo-
times upo her, poor sawl," he said,
looking out at the living JOY of the
sea, lit 'ull a be dark whar she lies.
tho tn flowers II bloom as swate, an
III birds sing as loud as liver over
her head, ay, a. tn little 'un II lsff
the while's my heart is breakin'.n
You'll see many a sun rise to-
gether yet" said cheerfully, ..ay,
and many a sunset, TOO Keep a close
watch on that fellow. / shall get
something to eat in the village, il
would choke ME to eat in his pres.
ence," and stepped over the thresh-
old as a captive escaping from his
dungeon.
Hatless, roamed forth with the
sea, air and sky for company, feeling
brain and body rested with every
step | took, and drinking in all the
sweet influences of the morning with
a JOY to which | had long been a
stranger.
"Soon," thought l, "Judith's elias.
tic step will tread this cliff, and she
will look up free as air to heaven,
innocent before God and man, and
already forgetting those gates Of
death that so lately yawned to re.
ceive her.