Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-04-14

set lips. Then he would lift himself
again, with hopelessness stamped up
on his features, only to lean forward
in renewed hope that was again des-
tined to disappointment.
The Inspector and the accompany
ing physician had taken seats in the
bow, and unto me had been assigned
the special duty of watching over the
Doctor. This l did from low seat in
front of him. l was, therefore, so
close that l heard his laboring breath,
and though my heart was full Of awe
and compassion, l could not prevent
myself from bending toward him and
saying these Words
Or. Zabriskie, the mystery Of your
crime is no longer a mystery to me.
Listen and see if 1 do not understand
your temptation, and how you, a con-
scientious and God fearing man, came
to Stay your innocent neighbor.
"a friend Of yours, or so he called
himself, had for a long time filed
your ears with tales tending to make
YOU suspicious of your wife and jeal-
Gus of a certain man whom | shall not
/
! had a grudge against this man, and so
! his insinuations. But finally some
| for many months turned deaf ear 10
change which you detected IN your
wifes bearing or conversation reused
YOUR own suspicious, and you began to
donbt if all was false that cametoyour
ears. and to curse your blindness,
which in &. measure rendered you
HELPLESS. The jealous fever grew and
had risen to a high point, when one
night "a memorable night - TINS
friend met you just as you were IeaV-
ing town. and with cruel craft wins
pered in your ear that the man you
hated was even then with your WlIe,
and that if you would return at once
to your home you would find him IN
her company.
"The demon that turks at the heart
of all men, good or bad, thereupon TOOK
complete possession Of you, and you
answered this false friend by saying
that YOU would not return without
pistol. Whereupon he offered to take
YOU to his house and give you his. You
consented, and getting rid OF your ser
want by sending him TO Poughkeepsle
with your excuses, you entered
coach with your friend. .,
"You say you bought the the pistol,
and perbaps YOU did, but however that
may be, you left his house with II III
your pocket, and, declining collpdn-
! ionship. walked home, arriving at Ihe
/ Colonnade a little before midnight
Ordinarily you have no difficulty
/ in recognizing your own doorstep'
Rut being in a heated frame OF NINA,
Won walked faster than usual and so
nassed YOUR own house and stopped
at that of Mr.. Hasbrouck, one door be-
vond AS the entrances Of these houses
ora alike there is one way by which
Won could have made yourself sure
| that YOU had reached your own dwell
Ing and that was by feeling for the
Doctors sign at the side OF the door'
! Rut Won never thought OF that. ADJ
/ sorbed in dreams of vengeance your
/ sole purpose was to enter by the
quickest means possible. Taking out
Your niqhtkev YOU thrust it into the
| lock. IL fitted, but it took strengtn 10
turn it-so much that Jhe Key
wss twisted ard bent by the eIlorI'
/ But this incident, which WouIu nave
attracted your attention at announcer
time was lost upon you at TINS mo-
ment An entrance had been erected,
and YOU were in too excited a frame OF
mind TO notice at what cost, or to de-
tect the small differences apparent in
the atmosphere and furnishings OF the
/ two bouses-trifies which would nave
arrested your attention under other
circumstances. and made you pause
before the upper floor had been
reached.
IT was while going up the stairs
that you took out your pistol, so that
Inv the time you arrived at the front
room door you held it ready cooked
and drawn in your hand. For, being
hind YOU feared escape on the part OF
vour victim, and so waited for nothing
but the sound of mans voice before
firing. When. therefore, the unfortu-
nate MT. Hasbrouck, reused by this