Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-05-23

In felton," returned Marsden, smiling.
Ihls person has, however, done some
remarkable things. I believe he is con-
sidered very valuable officer
The day after Mrs. Ruthven and her
most went up to town the party broke up;
the great house was closed, and impen-
etrable darkness still wrapped the great
jewel robbery.
Meanwhile, the extraordinary story was
spread abroad. The newspapers, thank
ful Tor such subject matter in the dead
season, had paragraphs each day on this
exciting topic, and when they had ex
hausted conjecture, short articles, moral,
religious, jocose philosophic, pathological,
antiquarian, filled up convenient portions
of their space.
"The Thunderer'' remarked shortly,
that the crimes of period bore the stamp
of it's intellectual characteristics. Ex-
IRENE ingenuity and logical precision
were essential to project and execute so
! daring. so original robbery as that
which had lately startled society at Ewes
| leigh Manor; that probably when Stats
tics, mathematics and registration had
| been perfected and properly applied, we
should find that only in the first decade
Of the last quarter of the nineteenth CEN
| tury-only at this precise epoch-could
this special outrage have been committed.
1.-THE Banner" traced this remarkable
and heinous act to one fruitful source of
evil, moral, social and religious, neglect
of due instruction in the church cate
chism and of committing the Ten Com
| mandments to memory-and apropos,
drew pathetic picture of gray-haired
| rector standing beneath the east window
OF the village church, through which the
light streamed in manytinted rays on
| the rosy, chubby reverent urchins, who
| repeated in awe-struck tones after their
beloved pastor, "Thou shalt not steal!'
''The Daily Instructor" proved incon-
| trovertibly from certain racial indica-
| tons, that so base and Internal a plot
could only be conceived by an American
| Irishman, with dash of Russian blood
from, say great-uncle, or perhaps a
strain of Malay on the mothers side;
while 'The Delirium Tremens" grew
| hysterical over an appalling list of rob-
berries, with and without bloodshed,. bat
terry, torture and murder, from the earliest
date to the present crime, which, from
J certain characteristics, might be consid-
cred the most audaciously wicked of all.
'The Universe" in it's usual lively style,
limited that among the better Informed
of those present at the Evesleigh festlvl-
| ties, whispers were circulated that the
| over-strained enthusiasm of ritualistlc
and self-subduing curate, whose taste
| for ecclesiastic magnifcence was in the
| inverse ratio to his regard for personal
cleanliness, had been carried away by
yisions-the result of everlasting and
mcditatior-that he had annexed the lost
rubies for the decoration OF favorlte
image of the Virgin in the new and splen-
J IL.
did church of st. Withhold the Wool-gath-
erer Within, and that Mrs. Ruthven, with
the generous sympathy and delicate tact
which distinguished her, was arranging
| for the substitution of an admirable lmi-
! tation, modelled at her own expense, OF
the lost rubies and diamonds, so as to
save the Dious young mans taste and
feelings; and to this project the delay IN
the progress Of justice was DUE
! To this dastardly attack the "Church-
mans Friend replied with vigorous in
dignation, and much fine writing ensued,
till a fresh trail presented itself, and for
awhile public interest was diverted from
| the Evesleigh robbery.
CHAPTER VI.
The sudden burst of life and gayety
| in the long-deserted manor house, made
IFS ouickly succeeding silence and gloom
more marked and depressing. Lady
! Dorrington tried to persuade Nora to ac-
| COMPANY her to Scotland, where Lord
| Dorrin ~ton had shootings, but the young
| 1,dv said she could not think of leaving
| Mrs T'Estrange, and Mrs. LEstrange
would not leave her little girl; so every
thing returned to the same condition of
stiffness and tranquility which Marsden's
unexpected appearance and outburst OF
hospitality had broken up.
Rut this stiffness was no longer rest
full.
The curious circumstances OF the rob-
how had left behind an impression of in
security. and Mrs. LEstranse, whose
natural timidity had been confirmed by
| long attendance upon an invalid ana IL
r;toble husband, Immediately made ar
rancements with the gardener TO sleep
| IN tbe house instead of in the todge, and
Waldman, the pet Dachshunf was al
loved TO lie at the foot of the stairs, While
Nora herself inspected the biting and
| h.rr;ng of doors and windows every
| night. ro,r-
81 assure you, you are alarHlng your
solvas unnecessarily, said Wnton, VINO
nod ridden over, as he often dlq, 10 snare
tho evening meal at Brookdal9 ana was
NOW leaning against che chlnney-pl
while Nora was playing somf OF bea
f,vorite airs before the little lone Went
off to bed with her German Kinder
onrtnerin," who was patiently Yaltns 1or
her 1t was chill, wild nlghY the vino
s;ahing in sudden gusts througA the trees
surrounding the cottage, the occasional s1,
dash of the rain against ting WINDOWS
making the bright ire OF WOOL ana Goa,
REGULARLY acceptable Wintp looked
rnnnd him with delightful sense OF
| comfort-of being at home.
The refined simplicity of ne pretty
drawing-room. the soft hgH OF we'll
trimmed lamps-Mrs. LEstrsfge IN her
dami-toilet of black silk anI lace, ne1
work basket filled with brdht-coioasu
woods beside her, her small myers de1uy
e m a square Of dull Teen cio1n
With flowers and foliage-Na a1 tne
niano. her graceful shoulders drap ed, IN
dainty muslin gathered to her pl IAN
! Of