Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-04-16
MONEY AND A GIRL.

MVNE1 AMI "A UlkL.
happened to be at Iyydene, visiting
my friend Tom Deverill, when John Can
tyll's mysterious illness began, and 1t was
who suggested that they should ask DR..
Macpherson to come down and give an
opinion on the case.
Cantyll was cousin of Deverill's In
fact, all the guests at 1vydene, while I
was there, with the exception of myself,
were cousins to one another and to Tom.
Dear old Mrs. Deverill, his mother, had
insisted on gathering her sisters children
together under her hospitable roof, al
though one at least of them Tom cordially
hated. His cousin Lillith Andrews. to
whom he became engaged during my VISIT
was as sweet a woman as you could meet,
and had not noticed anything objection
able about Cantyll when his mysterious
malady attacked him and took him out Of
my sight, but Gabriel Dyne was decided
ly unpleasant person.
Cantyll began by being found uncon-
soious one morning when Tom entered his
room to see why he had not appeared at
breakfast, and from consciousness to un-
consciousness and back lie had been chang
Ing ever since. The Deverills family doc
tor owned himself perfectly nonplused by
the symptoms One day he spoke of sun
stroke and the next forms of hysteria. He
seemed very relieved when l suggested
that Macpherson might like to take such
a puzzling case in hand. thought that
it's inexplicable nature would tempt the
physician into the country, and was not
disappointed. Five hours after the telo-
gram which Mrs. Deverill begged me to
send him reached Harley street the great
mind doctor was standing by John Can
tylls bedside, bending over the young
mans unconscious figure, with his fingers
on his pulse,
Tom Deveri and both attacked him
eagerly as he left the sickroom.
"Well, can you tell what 1t is9" we
both inquired in one breath, and Macpher-
son answered in his sharp, decided, pro-
fessional manner:
ut is a clear case of opium poisoning,
the dose being repeated, should say,
from your account of the patients symp-
toms, in quantities just too small to cause
immediate DEATH"
Tom and stared at him.
"But who on earth can be doing It'll"
asked my friend, aghast.
"That is what we have to find out to
begin with" said the physician briskly.
SIS there anybody in the house who would
profit in any way by the poor fellow 9
deaths'
"Yes, should for one" answered Dew
GRILL. "As far as money is concerned, we
all should-Miss Andrews Dyne and my
Sir Charles Wilmott, my mothers father,
and by his will the money he left was to
be divided equally among us. In case one
Of us dies unmarried it is provided in the
will that the share belonging to him is to
be divided up again among the rest. So,
you see, Cantylls death would leave each
Of us richer by $4,000"
And apart from money" asked Mac
pherson, ''has anybody in the house an
object in injuring the mann Is there any
rivalry in love or anything Of that sortf
"If 1t were a question of love-" put
in, 1T would be my friend Tom here who
would be poisoned. He has won the prize
for which Mrs. Deverill tells me both the
other cousins have been striving-the
hand Of Miss Andrews"
The doctor made a few more inquiries,
and have no doubt came to the conclu
sion at which both Tom and had already
arrived-that II anybody in the house was
poisoning Cantyll it must be Gabriel Dyne.
He was, in fact, the only person 1t was
possible to suspect, and although Mac
pherson refused to give an opinion on the
I,axt To-
satisfied in our own minds that 1t was up
Oh Dyne alone that we need keep watch.
Imagine our surprise, therefore, which
almost equaled our CONSERVATION, when,
on the morning following the PHYSICIANS
arrival, Gabriel Dyne was found almost
dead In his bed. just as Cantyll had failed
to come down to breakfast and had been
found by Tom unconscious In his room,
so Dyne was found BY him. He had been
stabbed near the heart, as it was found
directly Macpherson made an examine
ton, but there was no sign or trace Of the
instrument with which the crime had been
committed.
am not nervous man by any means,
but / will admit that this unexpected
tragedy, added to the fact that another
man was being slowly poisoned to death
in the house, terrified me. more especially
when close examination Of the premises
proved almost conolusively that nobody
could have left the house during the
night unless they had an accomplice in
side to close che doors after them. The
entire failure on our part to think Of any
body among us whom 1t was possible for
a moment to suspect gave the two crimes
supernatural appearance, which added
immeasurably to the terror Of our posi-
tion. The servants left In body, prefer.
ring the loss Of an excellent situation to
the danger Of remstning In place where
such inexplicable things could occur. J.
should have liked to follow their example,
but felt, of course, that must stand BY
Tom His sweetheart proved her heroism
and devotion by forming similar resolve,
and Macpherson took 1t az matter Of
course that he should remain to watch
John Cantyll's illness and do what he
could for Dyne, who had recovered CON-
seriousness, but could tell us nothing. He
had evidently been stabbed In his sleep.
Macpherson seemed pleased by the exodus
Of the servants. "1f my patient does not
recover now, we shall find the circle of
those whom we may suspect considerably
narrowed down." he said cheerfully 40
the cook and housemaid, who were the
last to 60, drove away In one cab.
II Lillith Andrews had not remained,
We should have had to do our own cook
ing, for Deverill had very properly insist
ed on his mother accepting the invitation
OF a hospitable neighbor until the mystery
Of Dyne's attempted murder and Cantyll's
illness was cleared up.
The day Of the discovery and the nsxt