Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-04-30

and character OF some srs@ more open
criminal?
There was no time now. however. to draw
back or to hesitate The die was cast; he
must stand by it's arbitrainent. He had
decided to 60, and on that hasty decision
mad acted in way that was practically ir.
revocablc. lie put his thing together with
trembling hands called cab by the porter,
and drove off alone, in turmoil of doubt,
to the landing-stage in the harbor
Policemen not ew were standing about
on the pier and in the streets as he drove
past openly; but in spite of the act that q
warrant had been issued or his apprehen-
sion, none oI them took the slightest APP
parent notice Of him. He wondered much
at this; but there was really no ju.t cause
lor wonder Tor at least an hour earlier the
police had ceased to look out any longer Tor
Nevitt's murderer: and The reason they had
done so wa simply this: telegram had
come down from Scotland Yard in the
most positive terms. "Wariig arrested this
afternoon at Dover. The murdered man
McGregor is now certainly known to be
Montague hewitt. bank clerk in London.
Endeavur to trace Warnings line of retreat
rom Mamhury to Dover by inquiry of
the railway officials. We are sure
of our man; Photographs will be for
warded you by post Immediately"
And as a matter Of fact, at the very mo-
ment when Guy wa, driving down to the
| tender in order to escape from an imagin-
! arv charge of forgery, his brother Cyril to
his own immense establishment, was being
| conveyet from Dover pier to Tavistock,
under close police escort. on q warrant
charging him with the wiltul murder Of
Montague Nevitt, two days before, al
Mambnry, III Devon.
never have fed; but he didn't know X.
How could he. indeed. in his turmoil and
| hurry? He didn't even know Montague
hewitt was dead He had been too busy
that day to look at the papers. And
the few facts he knew from the
boys crying in the street he naturally
| misinterpreted, by the light of his own
Tears and personal danger. He thought
he was wanted" for the yet undiscovered
forgery, not for the murder of which he
was wholly ignorant.
Nevertheless, we can never in this world
entirely escape our own personality. As
Guy went on board, believing himself to
somebody, in voice that he fancied he
knew, ask anewsboy on the tender for an
evening paper. Guy was the only paSScn-
ger who embarked at Plymouth; and this
person unseen was the newsboy's one Gus
TONER
Guy couldn't discover who he was at the
moment, for the call for paper came from
the upper deck, he only heard the voice.
and wasn't certain at first that he recognize
cd even that any more than in a vague
and indeterminate "reminiscences No
doubt the sense of guilt made him prefer
naturally suspicious; but he began to fear
that somebody might possibly recognize
about the warrant. That was bad but
twas too late to draw back again now. The
tender lay alongside awhile. discharging
her mails, and cast loose to go The Cetc-
wayos screw began to move through the
water. With dim sense OF horror, Guy
knew they were off. He was well under
way for far-distant South Africa.
But he did not know or reflect that while
he ploughed his patti, on over that trackfess
sea, day alter day, without news from Eng
land, there would be ample time for Cyril
to be tried, and found guilty. and perhaps
HANGED as well, Tor the crime that neither
Of them had committed.
The great ship steamed out, cutting the
waves with her Prov, and left the harbor
lights far, far behind her. Guy stood on
deck and watched them disappearing with
very mingled feelings.
Everything had been SO hurried. he
hardly knew himself as vet how his flight
had affected all the active and passive char
acters in this painful drama. He only knew
he was irreyocably committed to the voy-
age now. There would be no chance OF
turning till they reached Cape Town or at
the very least Madeira.
He stood on deck and looked back.
Somebody else in an ulster stood not tar
off, near light by the saloon conyersing
with an officer. Guy recognized at once
the voice of the man who had asked in
the larhor or an evening paper. AT that
moment a steward came up as he stood
there. OH the lookout for the new passen-
Ger they'd just taken in. You're in
thir,y-two. sir, think" he said, land
your name"
lis Ellington" Guy answered with
faint tremor OF shame at the continued
falsehood.
The man who had bought the paper
turned round sharply and stared at him.
Their eyes met in one quick flash OF recog-
milton. Guy started in horror. This was
ali awful meeting. He had seen the man
but once be ore in his lite, yet he knew MIN
at . glance. 1t was Granville kelnscott.
For minute or two they stood and star
ed at one another blankly, those unac-
knowleslged halt-broihers, of whom one
the real relationship that existed between
away without one word u greeting. .''t m1.
trenbled in his shame He knew he was
discovered But be ore his very eyes,
Granville took the paper he had been read
ing by that uncertain light and raising it
high in his hand, flung il over into the sea
with spasmodic energy. 1t was the special
edition containint the account Of the man
McGregors death and Guy Warnings sup
posed connection with the murder, Granville
Kelmscott. indeed, couldn't bring. himself to
denounce his own half-brother He stared
ct him coldly Tor q second with horrifed
face.
Then he said, in very low and distant
voice, Il know your identity, MIR. Billing
ton, with profoundly sarcastic accent on
the assumed name, "and will not betray it.
know your secret, too and will keep that
inviolate Only, during the rest of this
voyage do me the honor. / beg of you,
not to recognize me nor speak to ME in
any way at any tine."
Guy skunk away in silence to his own
cabin. Never before in his life had he
known such shame He felt that his
punishment was indeed too heavy for
him.
tro be continued.)