Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-05-16

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"You, Norton. she said, 'are skilled
IN the . Of poisons: give me some
thing that win enable me. IL driven to
bay, to escape contamination from the
hangman's hands,"
The viscount sought by ridicule to
Gispel her fears, since those reasons
which had rendered them again hope
ful had been lost on her, but Mrs.
Chesterton continued still despairing.
And 20 the viscount brought from q
secret drawer and gave to Eugenia q
small phial which contained a few
drops OF a darkish liquid.
And holding up the phial, Mrs. Ches-
terfan said i~nquiringly:
II should not linger after this. to re-
cover. as did Nicholas Shearman?-
NO. replied the ~viscount, tits ef.
1ects are certain and instantaneous"
and his eyes flashing, his teeth set
hard. .Oh. II I had but given Of that
% Nicholas EheaIman, this moment
sf our danger had arrived to US.
EugenIa-"
Farewell. Norton" cried Mrs. Ches-
upon the threshold, and fixed q last
look ON her accomplice.
Flow readily you despair" said the
viscount. II do not the least doubt
that all wiz yet go well with u.s."
Mrs. Chesterton shook her head des-
pondingIy.
I'VE shall see each other no more,
Norton Sowerby; and would to heaven
We had never met"
The more the ~yiscount reflected the
more assured he became that the let
Ger which he had lost would not rise
No In Judgment against him; every
chance. he considered, was now In his
favor concerning that letter
But that he was still very far from
Feeling perfectly secure must be well
understood.
And so, having thought deeply for a
while, he came to the resolution to re-
tire into concealment until certain
perfectly certain-that he could walk
abroad safe and unsupported.
Theodore alone should know his
hiding place: a very simple invention
would furnish q satisfactory reason
q the YDung man for his fathers con-
cealment. while on all necessary In
formation from Theodore. and on his
lnviolable secrecy. the yiscount would
be able to depend.
80 he started up and proceeded, for
che second time that day, toward The
odore's study; and he had intended TO
commence with the young man, by In
1brming him that his marriage with
Nrs. C~hesterton's daughter was. for
the present, at all events, not to be
thought Of.
That news would delight and rem
Ger Theodore pliable for that which
GtiIl he had to ask Of him.
Amazed was the viscount by q
trouble he saw In Theodore.
what was the cause of the pallor ne
beheld? Had Theodore been taken
suddenly III
ehonId his father summon some one
% his assistane?
No. Theodore hastily but family
~aid. only the ~yiscount must listen to
4nat which nov his son was 0 TO
speak ws..
en- he have to say to me! wondered
the viscount, as, with an ominous trep-
adatiop, he seated himself. ana pre-
pared to listen.
slowly and solemnly now spoke The
odore. .,
.If you had come q little sooner"
- beran. "you would have seen here
= young girl, clothed with mourning
and who war ~entreating OF me tina l
rros,ld Justify the memory OF nef
Tnfher land Theodore's voice now raj
1rred) who died by the hands OF the
3xecutioner-of her father, who was
innocent, and who was called Arnold
Lindsay"
aYou have been deceived. Theo-
Aore.n the ~yiscount boldly SKID. Ar
mold Lindsay was unanimously con-
demned."
aHeayen's Justice alone is infalli-
hle.D exclaimed Theodore. 'The crime
attributed to Arnold Lindsay was the
Infamous work Of three assassins;
one OF them expired last night, and
was named Nicholas Shearman; the
second. already denounced to justice,
Il called Mrs. Chesterton; and the
third"
And the young man paused.
swell. the thirdg" and the yiscount
was really trembling now.
And Theodore, looking full into his
father's face, said, with strong EN-
phasis:
Il know him.
ssYou know him, Theodorey'
eyes; but at present ! alone"
The ~viscount breathed again: tina,
word .alone'' had been as a heavy
weight lifted from of his heart.
"Betraying the mission which has
been confided to me-" pursued Theo.
dore, II was about to seek that man.
was about to say to him, Were you
= thousand times guilty my first duty
- to save you One day yet remains
to you. Fly, father, fly"
The ~yiscount desired to know IL he
were really in danger, and so he said
~blusteringly:
You are perfectly delirious. Theo
0Ore. What testimony, what proof
can they invoke against met"
The deposition Of Nicholas Shear
man, MORALLY wounded last night by
one Of his accomplices."
"Is that ALP sneered the v~iscount
while his breast was swelling witt
triumph.
"N0. not all. There Is, besides, 4
letter stainei with blood-a letter
which was lost by the murderer and