Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-09-22


| thereafter, Charles went UPON New
York escapade, and the day my father
and stepmother arrived home there was
a lettenjtelling me of This trouble The
| letter said: 1 have Written to father to-
day and have promised him that / will
| reform forever After all adelaide. /
am q young man, and when say viii
turn over a new leaf there is much
hope for me. Only help me with faith
er this time, and never will ask him
again! The letter closed with many
more protestatiOns of repentance and
promises to do better Poor, dear boy!
That night when father came home
l was waiting in the library for him.
He complained of feeling i'll. No. l
viii not send him a penny he said.
He is q disgrace. There, pointing 10
q sealed document on the table, is my
Will. When 1 am gone he can make
ducks and brakes of my money as fast
as he pleases
AS father spoke he laid a great
package OF bills upon the table, and
quick as fash laid my hand upon it.
Please, please, papa, / pleaded, please
let me send him just little
He put his hand out for the package
and drew il away. DO please give Il
to me for Charles, begged again.
Perhaps I stepped upon his foot
perhaps a sudden pain seized him, but
he sprang to his feet as though 10
strike me. l lifted my hand quickly.
and as / did so the littledagger charm
which hung at my belt caught in my
| nd iap l-tr no ~ =
arm | felt the point Of the tiny thing
bury itself in his arm.
He gave a cry Of pain and shrank
back. AS he did so the poison acted
as Coda told me it would, instantly,
and he fell TO the floor
Il ran from the room, and not until
had flung myself, dazed and painting,
in my own room did know I still had
the package of money in my hand.
rushed down stairs only to meet James
coming from the library with horror
stricken face. He had heard papa fall.
We went in and lifted him up. lie
5 was still breathing, and with awful
horror | saw that in his fall he had
= buried the paper knife which he had
in his hand to its hilt in his heart
: remembered seeing him finger it as
talked to him about the money.
This was too much for my feeble
body, and | succumbed. A thousand
q times in the watches Of the night and
> in the light of day | have struggled for
courage to tell this story. Lately ]
. overheard your conversation about
Charles and the missing money. That
is all, and, most unhappy girl that
am, l leave home tonight so that ]
may never see the faces of those l love
again"
AS she finished a fervent Thank
Godr broke from the lips of Charles
HOLLYWOOD Thank God, it was an
/ ACCIDENT he exclaimed. Il myself
saw it all On the night of my fathers
- death | came here to meet Adelaide by
e stealth in the garden. | stole up to the
j library window to look in, and just as
. l reached a place where | had a full
t view of the room ! saw her thrust out
+, her hand at my father, and then | saw
/ him fall. When | saw he was stabbed
I thought-God forgive me-that m!
Y sister had done it, l fed back home
? only TO be summoned a few hour.
0 later"
j
q My eyes fell on a package which haC
\ been in Adelaide Hollowood's envelope
o Open it" | said to Mrs. HOLLYWOOD.
She unrolled the covering, and ou
T fell the package of bank bills ant
p bonds and with them lay a folded pa
per. | smoothed it out. 1t was the
document sought by Herman Gelpcke
! But the unfortunate girl! There
could not be comfort nor rest in the
household without her.
A sobbing from behind the curtains
at the door disturbed US. 1t was Coda
weeping and wailing as if her heart
would break. She thrust aside tho
curtains and was rocking herself &c
and fro and sobbing. It's all my
fault" cried she, "all Coola's fault.
have heard it all. ! knew young missy
had gone without me, and ! hid here to
listen. Oh, what a wicked woman
Coda isl
At Mrs. HollowOod's reproof she
2 uuieted herself so she could speak
Little missy never stabbed master
with the poison needle" she sobbed-
..never. never The poison has been
all gone for ever so long; but Coda dld
not tell her because the little thing
2 nleased her SO. II is thick with rust.
Drawing the little charm from her
bosom. she handed it to us. IL was d
2 small needle heavily coated with TAR
nish.
Here DR.. Fanshaw recalled us all TO
the immediate situation. we mus'
find Adelaide" he said, and bring her
, hack. And we can reasSure her' 100
Anton Hollowool was not poisoned; ne
had heart failure and could not long
have survived The day Of his death
he made his will, by my advice. Inc
accident of Painting and falling upon
tho damascus knife only fastened ms
death nv few hours. When he tell
he was in the first of the talnting
ene1Is in which / warned him he would
I looked at Mrs. HOLLYWOOD. she
nodded 70 me and FASTENED away. In
NV evnerience l have more than once
Looked for Young women who have leq
from home. She is deadly weak l
eoid and in a hospital l shall fnd her'
She could die before telling her name:
II is for an unknown young woman !
- T. IT, was midnight when I found Ade-
IaiJa HOLLYWOOD. Her brother joined
me in the search; and when bore i her
ont ont 70 the carriage it was to place Aer
there beside him. .,-
~" ! left them to drive home together
ond cav that in the bereayed nome
there might yet be peace.
49,
HIS PROTEGE.
was soiourning in the land OF the
Gov couthwest and contentedly loahng'