Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-12-07
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to me instead Of 20 Mr.. Mountjoy. At afl
events il gives me time to warn you not
to tell him what you have told me. We
can do nothing. Meantime there Ii one
thing vou must do-go away. Do not let
Mr.. M0untjoy find You here. He must
learn your story. IL he hears what
has happened and reads her letter nothing
will keep him from following her to Passy.
will see that there Is every prospect OF
her being e%ntaugled In this vile conspir-
acy, and he will run any risk in the use
less attempt to save her. He " too weak
To bear the journey-far too weak Tor iss
emotions hat will follow: and, oh,
much too weak to cope with my hus-
band-as strong and as crafty as he is I'm.
principledv'
: Then, what, in Heavens name, are we
TO dor"
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. than suf-
fer Mr.. Mountjoy, In his weak state, to in
between man and wife"
"Yes-yes-but such u maui Mrs. Vimp.
he was present when the Dane was
poisoned. lie knew that the man was
poisoned. He sat In the chair, his face
and he said nothing. OIL It was as
much as | could do no. TO rush out and
the glass from his hands. Lord
Harry said nothing"
MY dear. do you not understand what
you have got to do?"
Fanny made no reply.
'CoHsider-tn hus0and-Lord Harry
Of them knows that you were pres
eut. You can return with the greatest
safety; and then, Whatever "opens. %
will be at hand to protect my lady. Con-
again, as her maid, you eau be with
her always-in her W room, at night:
every where, aud at all times: while Mr..
then, aud at the price Of not quarrellins
with her husband"
Yes" said Fanny.
"hnd you are stroug, and Mr.. Mountjoy
Is weak aud H."
You tuink that I should go back to
osssyp
"A once, without the DELAY OF an hour
Lady Harry started last night. Do you
start this evening. She will thus have
yon with her twenty-four hours after her
arrival"
Fanny rose.
81 will co." she said. at terrifes me
even to think of going back 70 that awful
cottage with that dreaded man. Yet |
will 20. Mrs, vimpany, I know that IL
will be OF no use. Whatever il going to
happen now will happen without any
power of mine to advance or to prevent.
| an certain that my journey will prove
US. IS. But will go. Yes, will go this
evening""
Then, with a final promise TO write as
soon as possible--as soon as there should
be anything to communicate Fanny went
AVA.
Mrs. Vimpany, alone, listened. From
the bedroom came no sound at all. Mr..
Mountjoy slept still. When he should be
strong enough it would be time TO let him
what had been done. But she sat
Observation-Disclosures when one has
the worst husband in the world, aud very
well knows his character, II is disagreea-
BILE TO hear such a story as Fanny had told
that wife this morning.
"He is quite dead" SAID the doctor, with
lifting his eyelid. He Is dead. | did
not look for so speedy an end. II is not
half an hour since ! left him breathing
peacefully. Did he show signs Of con
sciousnesst"
No. sir; I fouad him dead"
'This morning he was cheerful. II is
not unusual In these complaints. have
observed it in many cases OF my own ex
perience. On the last morning OF life, Mt
the very moment when Death is standing
on the threshold with uplifted dart, the
patient il cheerful and even Joyous: he is
more hopeful thar he has felt for many
months; he thinks-nay, he IL sure-that
he is recovering; he says he shall be up
and about before long: he has not felt so
strong since the beginning Of his Illness.
Then Death strikes him, and he falls" He
made this remark in a most impressive
manner.
Nothing remains" he said, 'but to
certify the cause OF death and to satisfy
the proper forms and authorities. I charge
myself with this duty. The unfortunate
young man belonged 10 y highly distiu-
guished family. / will communicate with
his friends and forward his papers. One
last Office I can do for him. For the sake
of his family, nurse, ] will take a last pho
tograph OF him ~ he lies upon his death
bed" Lord Harry stood in the DOORWAY.
listening with an aching and a fearful
heart. He dared not enter the chamber.
IL WAS the Chamber OF Death. What was
gel who Is at the beck aud OF
every man-even the meanest! Call him
land he m Order him to strickland
he obeys. But under penalties.
The doctors prophecy, then. had come
true. But in what way aud by what
agency? The man was dead. WHAT was
his " share in the mans death? He
knew when the Dane was brought into
the honse that he was brought there to
die. As the man did not die, but began
to recover fast. he had seen in the doctors
face that the man would have TO die. He
had heard the doctor prophecy out of his
medical knowledge that the man would
surely die: and then, after the nurse had
been sent away because her patient re-
CURED her services no longer, he had seen
the doctor give the medicine which burn.
ed the patients throat. What was that
medicinef Not only had it burned his
throat. but 1t caused him to fall into a deep
sleep, in which his heart ceased to beat
and his blood ceased to flow.
He turned away n walked ont of the
cottage. For an hour he walked along
sIA HAn1 Una, hA Otn.~. -. ~
back. Ropes drew him; he could no long.
er keep away. He felt as il something
must have happened. Possibly he would
fad the doctor arrested and the police
waiting for himself, to be charged as an
accomplish or a principal.
He found no such thing. The doctor
was in the salon, with letters and official
forms before him. He looked up cheer
fully.
my English friend" he said. "the IN
expected end of this young Irish gentle
man is a very melancholy affair. have
ascertained the name of the family solicit
ors ant have written 10 them. l have also
written TO his brother as the head Of the
house. find also. by examination OF his
papers. that his life is iusured-the amount
is not stated, but l have communicated
the fact of the death. The authorities
they are, very properly, careful in such
ma ters--have received the necessary no.
tices and forms: tomorrow, all legal forms
having been gone through, we bury the
deceased"
$50 soon'"
$50 soons Ia these cases of advanced
pulmonary disease the sooner the better.
The French custom of speedy ilterment
may be defended rs more wholesome than
u own. On the other hand | admit that
1t has its weak points. Cremation is, per-
haps, the best n only method OF remov-
ing the dead which is open to no objeo.
tons except n mean, OF course, the
chance that the deceased may have met
with his death by means OF poison. But
such cases are rare, and, 10 most instances,
attendance before or a. the time Of death.
I think we need not My dear friend.
you look i'll. Are You upset by such a
simple thing as the death Of Q sick mani
Let me prescribe for you. A glass OF
brandy neat. So" he went into the sale
a manager n returned with his medicine.
Take that. Now let US talk" The doc
tor continued his conversation Ia q cheer
fully scientific strain, never alluding to
the conspiracy or to the consequences
which might follow. He told hospital
stories bearing on deaths sudden and IN
expected; some Of them he treated In a
~jocular vein. The dead man in the next
room was q case. He knew OF many SINH.
lar and equally Interesting cases. When
one has arrived at Looking upon Q dead
man as a case, there Is little fear of the
ordinary human weakness which makes
US trembie In the awfhI presence OF death.
Presently steps were heard outside. The
doctor rose and left the room-but return
cd in y few minutes-
THE C-ro1uemorfs have rnme ~ he safd