The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-07-11

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20. have II your OVID way! but I'm
sure don't understand how you came
to guess at what has puzzled so many
older heads I've been a hard case.
don't deny II. II was all owing TO the
way / had to struggle up. Everybody
was willing 10 give me a kick because
happened TO be the child of poverty
and OF disgrace. stole the child OF
Mrs. ST. Cyril. partly from motives OF
revenge. and partly because l hoped TO
get money from its father by II. I'm
not going to give history OF my doings,
so don't get impatient 1t seems a lit
tie necessary that I should speak OF
that child seeing as II was she that was
murdered. The ship that We came to
this country in was wrecked, and peo-
pie hereabouts thought that the little
girl was the sole survivor I know bet
ter, because myself escaped 1t did not
suit my purpose. however, to let the
fact be known. / had my own plans,
which | shall not now divulge. The
time for me 10 work is past, and will
not tell you what | meant to do il my
life had been heightened / found that
the child had good home. and for the
present. then, was satisfied. After
awhile l returned 10 Europe, and saw
Mrs. ST. Cyril. But she had no money
with which TO purchase my secret
then sought the father OF the child, but
he refused TO listen 10 ME a moment.
He had no children, he said, bitterly.
/ came back to America. Part of the
time | was in New York. but l never
lost sight OF Marina-for so they called
the girl had stolen from her parents.
At last heard she was going to be mar
ried. l thought should like to see how
she looked in her bridal clothes. II was
little weakness OF mine which You
must pardon, seeing that | once loved
her mother.
i came here. and knowing no other |
way, climbed the locust tree Just out
side this window, and from its thick |
leaved shelter, commanded a complete |
view of this apartment Just after |
the bridesmaids left the bride, the door
OF her chamber opened, and Imogene |
lreton entered. knew this woman by |
sight. She came up noiselcssly behind |
Marina, and as she turned saw some
thing glitter in her hand She stood |
still moment as if TO gather strength.
and then she struck down quickly and |
silently? l heard a low cry, and then
all was quietr
Ralph's grasp had frightened around
his wife until bar % baI orou,n $500.
pie from the iron pressure. He was
crushing her to death, but he would not
have known it, If she had breathed her
last sigh. st. Cyril touched his arm.
Mr.. Trenholme, look at your wife.
You are suffocating her..
He looked down upon her distorted
features, removed his arm, and took her
hand in his.
"Imogene Ireton came directly to the
window" proceeded Rudolph. land
looked down. She had the dripping
knife still in her hand. She cast about
her half fearful glance, but discover
ing no one, she stepped out upon the
grape vine that half covered that side
of the house. And just as she did so
to the main entrance. He was dressed
for the wedding and had his gloves in
his hand. He looked up at her, and an
amazed expression crossed his face.
Miss Ireton, how came you there?
he asked, fastening toward her.
Help me down, quick" she said,
imperiously.
He lifted her down in mis- arms. I
knew then that he loved her by the
way he performed the act could have
sworn it,
What freak is this?' he asked.
Why do you choose that means OF
egress from the chamber OF the bride?'
She looked at him-and such look.
He fairly recoiled before 1t. She lifted
up her hand, there was upon it single
dash Of crimson.
Lynde Graham she said. distinct
ly, there will be no bride, and IL you
love me prove that love by keeping my
secretp
She fled away, and he looked after
her like one In a maze. It was FIVE
minutes before he seemed to recover
his faculties And then his face was
pitiful to behold. Such agony I have
never seen expressed by any human
countenance! Hardened as I was, I |
pitied him.
well. you know pretty we'll all the |
rest. Suspicion fell upon Lynde Ora
ham; he was arrested and convicted,
and because he loved this woman, he |
would be willing to die in her stead.
He refused to speak the words that |
would establish his innocence, because |
by so doing he would condemn her to |
the gallows.
You may well believe that was pre- |
pared to take advantage OF what |
knew. I guessed at first that she had |
murdered Marina because she wanted |
to be mistress OF Trenholme House, and
II was not long before sought her out,
and revealed to her my terrible secret. |
For moment thought she would have
killed me. l think she would, IL she
had had the means at hand. After her
passion had a little subsidized, made
terms with her. Money was what I
wanted, and she gladly consented to
pay me for keeping dumb. This began
before she married Mr.. Trenholme. AZ
terward II continued Just the same. You
all wondered at her frequent Journeys
from home; she only went to pay me
my allowance at times when I was I'M
able, through illness, TO come for II.
You, Mr.. Trenholme, thought me your
wife's paramount bah! she would SOON
er have killed herself than submitted
to the caresses OF one like me. II she