Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-10-29

ly been drinking heavily-something
1 never knew him to do before-but
he was not drunk, rather he seemed
at high nervous tension, although out
wardly as calm as ever.
s'I decided to let this breach of dis
cipline pass and merely asked him for
his murder story. He replied that he
hadn't written it.
We'll, get to work on it at once, ,
I said rather sharply.
'Then he really surprised me by
saying that he had nothing to write
beyond the bare facts already known.
The police had developed nothing
new, and he supposed that | worked
up the story from the evening papers.
And has it come to pass that you
wait for the police to develop MUIR
der case for your I exclaimed angrily
'As for the reports in the evening
papers, you can take better story
than they had!'
''He sat down, in apparent despair
at his desk. Then I relented and ca
joled him little, begging him not to
spoil his great record by falling down
on such an assignment. There's a
starter for you, said I, throwing him
the article had commenced. Now,
go ahead and fill that out with col
umn description of the scene.'
{" Il haven't even visited it, he re-
oil In fnIz n he,
pages and read them as if impelled by
some hateful fascination. Then he
took the shadow of the state house;
that I had written up many a police
court, and that didn't believe I had
more of an attraction for lightning
than any one else.
He gravely shook his head. "You
perhaps did not know" said he, "that
what is law in this part of the state
may not be law in other parts. This
division of the state has n peculiar
local right, ceded to it at the time of
the Louisiana purchase" He h al me
there, and I could say nothing" We
get many of our ideas from the
French, and while they may appear
ridiculous to the more Anglo Saxon
parts of the great commonwealth we
but there is no use arguing with
you. l may explain howe yer, that
persons convicted under the scientific
code are not sent to the regular state
penitentiary, but to a prison down on
Bayou Long. 1t is a rough place, and
regret to see you go there, but there
is no need to express sympathy"
"Before direct sentence is passed."
spoke up an old man who had hither
to said nothing, 'leU us see if there is
not some way of saving this man.
There is among the old statutes which
we were permitted to take from the
French a clause which says that when
a man has been convicted under the
scientific code he may be saved by
some reputable young woman, who
shall come forward and offer to marry
him. Now, who knows OF a woman
who would be likely to marry this
man?"
eve are obliged to YOU" declared
the prosecuting attorney, springing
to his feet. ave can save him. I
know of a woman" He wrote note
and gave it to boy. present this
to Miss Lily Mayfield," he said.
Lily! That wasn't bad. Better to
take lily in all her glory than to toll
in a prison, and so waited. We had
not long to wait. "Here she is, " said
the attorney. And then there stepped
into the room the most hideous
creature I have ever seen. A night
mare put upon it's feverish mettle to
portray the horrible could not pro-
duce a more repulsive human being.
I grabbed my hat and darted through
the door. [ did not look back until I
had run more than a mile, but at
every jump 1 could see that horrible
woman's face.
A year later was in Nashville. The
legislature was in session. One even
ing in street car [ heard two coun-
try representative talking. ooh,
yes" said one of them, cold Bob is full
of revenge. You remember that a
roasted him for something
during the last session. Well, sir, I'll
tell you what he did. The paper fail
ed you know, and one of the fellers
that had been connected with it went
out on stroll, and he strolled down
into old Bob's neighborhood. The
fellow didn't know Bob, but Bob knew
him and saw him passing by and put
up a job on him. And luck came his
way. for the fellow went into a barn,
and just then the barn was struck by