Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-04-25
THE AUTHOR OF
"RosaIie Rnthbcne," "Pcor &c
~vieve," &c


evening she would be in custody.
Theodore would have advised, he said,
for that III must not be allowed
time for any warning to her accom-
plice; and it might be that. terrified
and to win a promise fhat her W
life would be spared, she might be
brought to denounce the retreat of
the murderous wretch whom yet they
had TO discover.
And, indeed, without Mrs. Chester
toms aid almost hopeless seemed the
prospect cf discovering that man, for
his asl tssin; had given for clue only
Nick off had haen unable to describe
that Ne had been stricken by the
mas fr" of One Tree Square.
Thei evidence in the present case
woulCg require to be very strong, Theo-
dore told Emmeline and her lover;
and then inquired if any other than
themselves had been present during
Nicholas Shearman's last moments,
for it was very important that some
one besides the so deeply interested
parties should have listened TO that
mans confession of his crime.
mfr. Noel harrington was also pres
ent." said Emmellne.
$50 much the better" vas Theo-
dore's exclamation.
"And have you forgotten, Emme-
line?' said Edwin, that my uncle,
too. was In the room with us"
Yes. Emmeiine had for the moment
forgotten that.
And why was not Jonas Jarvis now
with the others?
How was 1t that he had rot accom-
panied them that morning?
To those questions from Theodore
the hackney-cOachman's nephew could
reply only that he had not seen his
uncle since the previous night; that
Jonas had been greatly agitated by
that which he had beheld, and by that
to which he had listened in Nicksey's
house; that he had seemed in a most
perplexed and confused state, and
without so much as a single good
night" had abruptly driven off, after
having first stopped his coach and
caused the three persons who had oc-
cupied it to alight In the gutter.
The fact was, Jonas Jarvis had a
special purpose in view, which requ1r-
ed haste, and which he deemed 1t nee
essary to perform alone.
Jonas, generally so c~onsiderate for
his horses, did not care, at this par
ticular time, that they had been trot-
ting about during the whole of q long
day, aud were greatly jaded, but laid
bis whip freely about them, causing
them to proceed at q pace which GER
tainly in all their lives they had never
travelled before, and Of which they
must have been astounded to find that
they were capable.
Yes. il was true that some few of
the words which had been spoken by
Nicksey In his dying moments had
produced a powerful effect on Jonas
Jarvis.
He had been impatient to be rid of
those whom he could not leave behind
In Nicksey's house; and good reason
had he for his Impotence, as will by
and by be shown, but in his anxiety
and bewilderment continually lost
himself and heightened the way he
was endeavoring to shorten.
Those who had occupied his coach
having alighted, Jonas dashed forward
his horses, as we have said, and again
and again muttered to himself, per
haps | may be able to bring forward
| SO1Ilt TdtIltI pal Ituist s"Oh
girl-poor. dear child, justice is rather
slow. but perhaps l may be able to
quicken her pace a little. Come up"
The last two words, 1t must be I'M
derstood, were addressed to his horses
and were accompanied by a liberal
employment Of his whip.
We need not follow Jonas Jarvis,
but win wait patiently and shall be
-. A. uo..,i. - ,ra ,>,r,ay xA. -. ".
him to pursue.
Theodore hoped 1t would not be long
fore he could see and converse with
Doctor Forrester's uncle, since he
might possibly have some important
evidence to disclose.
1t seemed perfectly clear that n
and the same person was the assassin
of Nicholas Sherman and the man
who had furtively entered Noel Bar
rington's house OF that night, which
will not, we hope, have been forgotten,
and who had been seer by Emmeline
to steal and destroy that letter which
she herself had gone thither conf
IDENTIFY hoping to obtain.
And, after all, that letter, thanks to
Barrington's excellent memory, had
been the first, though but a feeble in
dication, which had so miraculously
guided Arnold Lindsay's daughter to
the point at which she had now ar
rived aud where at last the fuflment
OF the oath which she had sworn to
her dying mother had ceased to APP
pear an utter impossibility.
III I'm the presence of the man WHOM
she had seen In Barrington's house
would Miss Lindsay be able to recog-
nize him?
That question was asked by Theo-
dore, and Emmeline replied that, meet
him where she might. she was very
certain that she should recognize him
on the instant.
And Emmeline had hardly uttered
the words when a servant came to
say that viscount Dareleigh desired a
few words with his ION.
Theodore would 60 to his father in
stantly he said.
But the servant replied that that
was unnecessary, for the viscount had