The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1895-08-13

in locking the door,
mo; that did not occur 20 me. Ihave
no friends of that sort.
80 You see you were not absolutely
free from suspicion even il your door
trick had not been discovered Well?"
1T was some time, continued Stein
worth, before | could decide what
course | would adopt Leclerc had left
the house, and | was walking mp and
down my room silently in the dark.
After about an hour thought | heard n
queer, hoarse cry-not loud cry, but a
dull sound, with a strange terror in IL.
opened my door quietly and listened
intently, but heard no further noise
The house was as still as the grave.
"What time was it You Thought you
heard the cry?" asked Goringe.
II could not exactly say Probably
between l2 and | o'clock.
"Go on You stood listening, your
door open. Well?"
"As / stood in my room, still unde-
cided if | would chance visit TO Mrs
Davorn s room and trying 10 think how
/ might be certain she was fast asleep,
heard noise, which startled me, on
the landing, and them was nearly
dead from terror as / caught sight of it
i saw the figure Of a man dressed in n
white robe ON tho landing Who OF what
il was could not tell was paralyzed.
The man seemed to hesitate Then he
suddenly turned and walked into my
room. He wandered about bit as if he
were feeling in the darkness, and at last
he got TO my bed and held something
over it for few minutes. Next he wan
dered about the room, feeling his way
with outstretched hands, and at last he
got to the cupboard over there He FUN
bled about in it, and at length can't
tell how long he was in the room--he
groped his way to the door. He passed
quite close to me. l couldn't move a
muscle to save my life, and saw his
eyes were closed ] got courage from
this and fancied the man was in some
| kind of trance.
"Of course now knew IL was Wick
cry. l touched him ON the shoulder, but
he showed no sign of having felt me, so
plucked up sufficient courage to follow
him. He stood ON the landing for some
minutes and then went into his own
room. still followed him. He went
straight into his bed Somehow fan
cied he was ON the same errand as the
one l was contemplating. His idea had
been to chloroform Mrs. Davorn. A
capital idea for me It would put all
suspicion away from me and direct it
either against Vickery or Leclerc. Twas
aware Vickery used chloroform and ether
he had spoken to me once about the
evaporation Of ether, and had seen bot
ties on his mantelpiece as | passed into
my own room now knew he was ut
terly unconscious, so / took the liberty
Of seeking for bottle Of his chloroform.
| brought this into my own room, and
going to my bed i found upon it a
sponge, which, Of course, Vickery had
dropped there | waited now for con-
siderably over an hour, and then / satu-
rated my sponge anu stole into the next
room. Vickery was snoring loudly, but
fearing he might awake and disturb me
| Thought it would be prudent to lock
his door If heard him fumbling at il
could have time TO get back to my
own room undiscovered then proceed
cd to Mrs Davorn's room and, as
Thought, chloroformed her. had little
difficulty in finding the money, and the
only thing was where 90 hide the notes.
AS / left the room it occurred TO me
that if wanted TO throw suspicion on
Leclerc it would DO best TO strengthen II
by letting il be supposed he got in
through the window. l knew he wa,
devilish hard up, and was the kind OF
fellow who would founder about help
lessly in u morass once he was plunged
into it. / hate the cur.
Rather wild sort Of way for q COO
hand like yourself TO work up cas-,
against q rival
~ admit il was, but the sight Of tha
apparition in nay room-Vickery in th'
trance, or whatever il was-had put ms
into such feyered condition that