Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-08-06
|Before TheyWere Married.|
BY HENRY c. PARKER.
BY HENRY c. PARKER.
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DR.. Williams returned 20 uue dining.
room. Amelia was sitting by window,
gazing somberly out upon the Miniskt
Louise had taken some sewing and was
busy over it, a work basket on her lap.
The doctor took a chair near her, and
he thought her face flushed slightly as
she bent her head further over her
work
That's an original device. remarked
the doctor, looking up at a lamp sus-
pended from the ceiling over the table
1t was evidently arranged to be raised
or lowered at will Il don't see just
how it works. he added.
III show you said Louise, rising.
and as she did so her thimbe dropped
to the floor At the moment she did
Eot notice it. 1t is papa's invention
He's a wonderful mechanic, doctor I've
heard lots of men say that there's no
body like him for applying mechanical
principles. The lamp is worked by this
button on the table, and she raised the
annunciator. She pressed it, and the
lamp began to descend.
rs it electricity" asked the doctor,
feeling his heart quake, for Professor
Drummond had said his electrical APP
paratus was wholly in his shop.
Oh, nc; purely mechanics. The ia
BILE is attached to the floor This but
ton is over hollow leg, in which is a
coil, or something, and it is connected
with the lamp by wires that run over
wheels beneath the floor and within the
wall to the ceiling
The doctor breathed more freely. 1t
would have been terribly repugnant to
him to catch the professor in lie, or to
discover any evidence pointing to his
probable guilt. He loDgcd now, with
the utmost earrestness, to establish the
professors innocence, and he deter
mined boldly to approach the professor,
tell him how suspicion was rife in the
neighborhood, and beg him to take
every step possible to clear himself.
Dear me-" exclaimed Louise, i've
dropped my thimble."
she began to look around on the
floor
Perhaps it's under the table" said
he doctor, and he promptly got down
on all tours and crawled part way un-
der. He did not see the thlmble at
once but he did see something that
more than interested him. While pre-
tending to look for the thimble he kept
his eyes on this object, and tried to
quell the beating of his heart 50 that
when he should arise his face would be
perfectly composed.
On the leg of the table at the side
where Professor Drummond always sat,
was a little brass lever There was no
installing it. 1t was not part OF the
mechanism by which the leaves of the
table were joined together. The lever
was an electric switch, as surely as the
doctor was at that moment in Fairview
Here, then, was the proof of lie No
wonder the professor calmly denied the
presence of electrical apparatus outside
his shop" if he had reason - wish
that nobody should know of its exist
ence, for no man would have dreamed or
the trivial accident that would reveal
it's presence to the one man who might
guess it's significance in relation to
Starkweather's death" The one man?
Hardly. Mr.. Philbrick stalked into the
room, intent upon making the most fun
out of the roomy garments of the pro
fessor, and catching a glimpse of the
doctor beneath the table, exclaimed:
Something lost? What is it? Let
me help"
NO, nothing; I've found it, STAN
mered the doctor. No haven't, It's
under there, Miss Drummond," and he
arose with flushed face. determined to
prevent Mr.. Philbrick, by main
strength, if necessary, from looking I'M
der the table
Never mind" said Louise 'I'll use
Amelia's. It's here in the basket some
where