San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-09-08

lntently, Dut heard no further noise.
The house was as still as the grave. T"
What time was it you thought you
heard the cry?" asked Goringe.
81 could not exactly say. Probably
between ~ and o'clock. "
go on. You stood listening, your
door open. Well?"
"As I stood in my room, still unde-
cided if / would chance visit to Mrs.
Davorn's room and trying to1think how
/ might be certain she was fast asleep,
I heard noise. which startled me, ON
the landing, and them was hearty
dead from terror as caught sight of it
Il saw the figure Of man dressed in
white robe ON the landing. Who or what
it was could not tell Twas 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
CROPPED his way to the door. He passed
quite close to me- couldn't move
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 l now knew it was Wick
cry. I 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 I still followed him. He went
straight into his bed. Somehow fan
cied he was ON the same errand as the
one was contemplating His idea had
been to chloroform Mrs. Davorn. A
capital idea for me. 1t 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 l 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 and stole into the next
room Vickery was snoring loudly, but
fearing he might awake and disturb me
I thought it would be prudent to lock
his door If I heard him fumbling at it
I could have time to get back to my
own room undiscovered. / then proceed
ed to Mrs Davorn's room and, as l
thought, chloroformed her l had little
difficulty in finding the money, and the
only thing was where to hide the notes
AS / left the room it occurred to me
that if l wanted to throw suspicion on
Leclerc it would be best to strengthen it
by letting it be supposed he got in
through the window. l knew he was
devilish hard up, and was the kind of
fellow who would founder about help
lessly in morass once he was plunged
into it. hate the cur.
Rather wild sort of way for a cool
hand like yourself to work up case
against rival. "
81 admit it was, but the sight of that
apparition in my room-Vickery in the
trance, or whatever it was-had put me
into such fevered condition that /