Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-05-09
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I to persist In what be termed her mad
assertions.
And to himself he said:
"viscount Dareleigh. the possessor
Of al iIlustrious and ~long-enobled
name. a miserable thief: how utterly
impossible.."
But that the ~supposition was u out
rageous insult. IL woul be positively
ridiculous, he told himself.
He entreated that Miss Lindsay
would not continue obstinate in the
belief she had expressed; counseled
her TO reflect and TO acknowledge that
she had been mistaken; that a fancied
resemblance had for the moment de-
ceived her.
from her conviction.
And she asked of Theodore who and
what was that mar whom so suddenly
and unexpectedly and for the second
time In her life, she had there and
but then beheld-what was his name?
II viii not seem strange that, %
for one instant did her thoughts turn
toward yiscount Dareleigh: that The
odore's Esther should have been the
robber and assassin, would have ap-
peared Z o her wildly impossible as did
ii 4, Theodore himself.
TO say that II was y~iscount Dare
leigh whom but just before she had
beheid, would be, as Theodore be-
lieyed, to convince her, In a moment,
OF the error under which she now
was laboring.
And yet the viscount's son hesitated;
he could not have told himself where
fore, TO pronounce his fathers name.
And Emmeline was TO receive, at
,re:N time, no reply to her question;
for just as Theodore had decided 10
inform the young lady that 1t was
viscourf Dareleigh whom she had so
inconsiderateiy Ebelled. Noel Barring
ton. painting and breathless, came
hurfyYfng into the room.
He had come. he said, with news
concerning Nicholas Shearman's u
derer: and. with heavens aid, they
s.-e soon be able to lay their hands
upon him.
What then had he discovered was
demanded Of him.
And he replied that he had obtained
an undesirable. irrefutable proof.
And SO indeed he had
At day-break, on that morning, he
had returned to Nicksey's house; sum-
moned thither by those who desired
to receive his deposition concerning
the murder Of the previous night
Having given his evidence IL struck
him that IL might be Of some service
liz he could discover In what direction
the assassin had fed.
He proceeded to the hack room on
the first floor and looked from the
window by which IL was knowA the
man had escaped.
P~erceiving the labyrinths Of courts,
which we have already described, Noel
directly understood that to trace the
way by which the murderer had flown,
would be almost IL not entirely an i'm
possibility.
Then CHANGING down beneath the
window he saw lying on the ground q
crumpled piece of writing paper.
The next instant he had descended,
and. snatching UP the paper, perceived
that IL was stained with blood. II was
a letter, and, smoothing and spreading
Il. Noel. at q glance. was convinced
that it was n Of those epistles which
the assassin had stolen from Nicksey,
dDu WHICH, III Tic piCNiPi1aSA VI hAS
flight, he had lost.
II was perfectly certain. Noel con-
Guided, that that letter had been writ
ten by the guilty wretch who was still
unknown to them
And Theodore asked Of harrington
IL he had given that letter to the men
who had received the deposition con-
corning the murder.
And Noel answered, Decidedly
notr' Those men had to do only with
Nicksey's death; Ii was Theodore's
business to persuade the judges Of
Arnold Lindsay's innocence. The piece
Of evidence that harrington had dis
covered could not be better placed
than in the hands Of Emmeline's gen.
erous advocate.
And as he said that Noel gave the
letter to Theodore, who received IL
tremblingly.
He reproached himself that. for sew
eral moments, he had not the courage
TO read; and when AT length he had
summoned resolution and had glanced
az the letter his eyes were instantly
riveted upon ii, although the words
were to him but a confused mass,
since his every had been for the
time annihilated as he had recognized
Mrs. Chesterton."
And Emmeline, turning eagerly to-
ward harrington, said to him:
Now have 1 faith in the success Of
our cause? l have again seen here,
and not an hour since, the man who
in your house burned that fragment
of a letter which had been written by
MRS. Chesterton.
And well pleased was harrington to
hear that.
"The triumph Of virtue Is certain
how he exclaimed.
And addressing Theodore. whom he
saw, as he believed. still deeply study
ing the lately-found letter. Noel said,
WAS l not right in saying / had OBJ
tanned a most convincing proof"
Terrible. Horriblei,- muttered The
odora huf IN himself for he had not