Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-03-15

Cantyll was cousin of Devcrilrs
In fact, all tho guests at Iyvdono'
whiio l was there, with the exception
OF myself, were cousins to ono another
and to Tom. Dear old Mrs. Devcrill.
his mother, had insisted on CATHERINE
her sisters children together under
her hospitablo roof, although ono Mt
least OF them Tom cordially hated.
His cousin Lillith Andrews, to whom
he became engaged during my visit.
was ms sweet woman as YOU conld
meet, and [ had not noticed auytbino
Objectionable about Cnntyll when his
mysterious mnlady attacked and took
him out OF my sight; but Gabriel
Dyno was a decidedly unpleasant per
son.
Cantyll began by being found I'M
conscious ono morning when Tom en-
tered his room to see why ho had not
appeared Mt breakfast, and from con-
seriousness TO Inconsistencies and
back he had been changing ever since.
The DeverilPs family doctor owned
himself perfectly nonplused by the
symptoms. One day he spoke of sun
stroke and the next of now forms of
hysterin. Ho seemed very relieved
when | suggested that Macpherson
might like to talso sucha puzzling case
in hand. L Thought that its incXplic-
able nature would tempt tho physician
INTO the country, and 1 was not disap-
pointed. Five hours after tho tcio
gram which Mrs. Doverill begged me
to sond him reached Harley street the
great mind doctor was standing bv
John Cantyll's bedside, bending over
the young mans unconscious figure,
with his fingers on his pulse.
Tom Devcrill and 1 both attacked
him eagerly us he loft the sick room.
"Weli, can You tell what it ?" wo
both inquired in one breath, and Mao
phcrson answered in his sharp, dccid-
ed, professional manner:
ut is clear case OF opium poison
ing, the dose being repeated, I should
say, from your account OF the patients
symptoms, in quantities just too small
TO cause Immediate DEATH"
Tom and 1 stared at him.
Bat who on earth can bo doing
it?" asked my friend. aghast. "
"fhat is what we have to find out
to begin with, said tho physician,
brislily. els there anybody in the
house who would profit in any way by
tho poor fellows death 2"
eyes, should for one" answered
Deverill. GAS far Us money is con.
cerncd wo all should-Miss Andrews.
Dyno and myself. You aee, we are all
grandchildren of Sir Charles vii.
mott, my mothers father, and by his
VIII the money he left was to be di-
vided equally among us. In case one
OF us dies unmarried it is provided in
the will that the share BELONGING 10
him is to be divided up again among
tho rest. So, you see, Cantylps death
would leave each OF us richer bv
$4,000.
"And apart from money" asked
Macpherson, ''has anybody in the
house IN object in injuring the man {
is there any rivalry in lovo or any.
thing of that Gort?"
IF it were a question of love-" ]
put IN, sit would he my friend Tom
here who would be poisoned. He has
won tho prizo for which Mrs. Deyeril
tells me both the other cousins have
bcen striying-thc hand of Miss An
Grews."
The doctor made few moro in
Guiries, and l have no doubt camo t.
the conclusion at which both Tom ant
had already arrived-that If any.
| body in the housa vna 1ojeon;n,
Cantyll it must DO Gabriel Dyne. FL,
was, in fact, the only person it was
possible to suspect, and, although
Macpherson refused to give ON opinion
on tbs subject, both Tom and 1 wer,
perfectly satisfied in our own mind
that it wan upon Dyne alone that w,
need keep watch.
Imagine our surprise, therefore
which almost equaled our oonsterna
ton, when, on the morning followin,
tho physician's arrival, Gabriel Dyn,
was found almost dead IN his lied