Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-05-16
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the child which Just before had been
| stabbed and cast on TO the road by
Nicholas Sherman.
That ruffian's instructions bad been
to bury the child within the copse, for
Norton Sowerby had believed there
would be ample time for that before
| the poison which he had given should
commence to exert its influence.
He was not to know that he had
m~iscalculated, and that its eeffcts
upon his agent had been almost inn
mediate.
At the next town at which the coach
had arrived, and which, fortunately,
was soon reached, Jonas hurried to a
surgeon with the poor infant and its
wound was dressed.
A minute later and no human aid
would have availed TO save the poor
child.
Jonas bore with him his slight bur-
den to London, and TO the founding
hospital, where the infant was re-
ecived, but with no hope that 1t could
survive beyond a few hours.
That journey from which Jarvis had
just arrived had been the last TIE. he
was to travel westward.
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mail coach, whose route from London
was toward the north OF England.
And at that time, too, his sister had
been groaning with the sorrow be-
meath which she very shortly sank
and died.
And then, absorbed with his own
grief and his care for the little or
phaned Edwin, but small thought cast
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within the founding hospital
Not a word had Jonas heard con-
corning Arnold Lindsay and the muir
der at One Tree Square.
But when at length time had soft
ened his grief for his sisters loss and
he had begun again TO feel some in
terest In the world which but for his
adopted nephew would have continued
hateful to him. he ~upbraided himself
for the long neglect Of the infant
whom he had rescued and concerning
whom he had not since inquired.
He resolved that TX he should find
that child still living he would then
at once set about inquiries concerning
a mystery which long before it should
have been his endeavor to elucidate.
In June, 1909, Jonas Jarvis returned
to the founding hospital and was told
that the child which he had there de-
posted In February, 1907, had but a
few days previously been resigned 70
the care OF a Mr.. Norton Sowerby,
who had declared his wish to adopt
an orphan to be the consolation OF the
poor mother whose infant he had two
years before placed within the hos
pital, and which had died there some
few months after Ii had been received.
So that Ii was not her own child
which Norton's wife had embraced in
dying; and Sowerby had unconsciously
adopted the infant whose bones he
had believed were Wondering within
the unconsecrated grave TO which
Nicholas Sherman would have placed
the little being his cowardly and reck-
less hand had deprived of life.
Yes, Norton Sowerby, to his present
mad but useless rage, had reared to
manhood the real and veritable Wis
count Dareleigh.
Ample proof was afforded that Jonas
Jarvis had indeed saved the victim of
the three assassine Of One Tree
Square.
And Theodore was now a second
time indebted for his life to Forces
ter's uncle, for the young man would
not have survived dishonor.
And the old coachman's consolation
now for his silence of years before
was, that his production of the child
he had saved would not have rescued
Emmeline's father, who would still
have been falsely convicted of the at
tempt to Stay, and would have equally
persisted.
Emmeline's noble efforts had sue
ceeded, and confidence in heavens aid
had never entirely abandoned her. for
poor Mrs. L~indsay's dying blessing
had been with her daughter always.
Norton Sowerby was already on his
way to prison when those who had
been sent to arrest Mrs. Chesterton
were demanding an entrance to her
house.
The wretched woman had observed
those men from the windows of her
drawing room and but too terribly un-
derstood that the moment Of her doom
had at length arrived.
"Oh, my daughter-my poor Azure
liar she moaned, while straining the
unhappy girl in a last embrace.
The next moment she had carried to
her lips the poison which from her
accomplish she had received; and
when presently the officers dashed into
the room, they found the woman they
had hoped to capture extended on the
floor, while Aurelia, whose arm was
partly encircling her mothers Eeck,
was PROSTATE beside the guilty Eu-
genia.
Both were, for the time, eIua...v Efe-
less. but the daughter revived to Re-
wall the calamity that Hal befalt"n
her. The mother was forever stilled
and a guilty life had been terminated
by a crime.
She had lived accursed Of heaven,
and, a suicide, her body was thrown
into an unblest grave.
OF the three assassins OF 'tn Tree
| Square the master" only lied Us all
deserved to die.
Norton Sowerby alone OF the three
| persisted on the scatfo.d, and stub
bornly and impenitently did he en-
counter his doom.
Mrs. Chesterton's daughter, sent I'M
madiafalv away from England WAS