The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-02-14

AA Hi'4lN# MINUS a. AN tAAA NAAH WIZ
had been scowling blackly over Mr..
Yorke's Intervention, looked greatly
relieved upon hearing that gentle
mans profession, aud readily con-
aented TO give bis version Of the mat
ter for publication. But FIRST OF all
lac desired that note should bo taken,
before the guard went on with the
train, that that official admitted tho
accident was duo TO the negligence Of
the railway engineer.
That's right, Mr.. Gresswell, said
the guard with bloodless lipa
"Woll, just tell this gentleman
about it, responded the passenger
sharply, and in a tone Of annoyance.
"a few moments before the-the
fatality, I happened TO look along the
train, aud noticed that the handle
Of this gontloman's compartment was
not fastened"
Glow did you know It was this
ceutloman's compartment from that
Iistance2" interiected Mr.. Yorke.
"Oi course, he didn't know till he
got there" put in Mr.. Gresswell,
hastily.
"No, of course didn't know TIL 1
got there" repeated the guard. 81
suppose, looking back now it's all
over, it would have been wiser 10 have
stopped the train, but we we're slack
ing down our speed passing Eyesham
Woods, as We always do, and the car
riage was not far from my van, so 1
started out to turn the handle. The
lady fell out just as 1 was about to
reach the door. With another step
l could have prevented the accident"
'Did she fall out backwards or face
foremost, asked the journalist.
"Ohl backwards, sir, was the an
swer.
ono, think you're wrong, guard, a"
again interposed Mr.. Gresswell with
snap.
"Lct me think a moment, said the
guard, placing a shaking hand to
his cIammy brow. "Yes, she fell face
foremost, of course. I can see her
now"
In the meantime the tall passenger
-or, us the guard called him, Mr..
Gresswell-told the journalist the
story he desired to have published.
His wife, he said, had suffered from a
painful illness, which he specified,
and had been under the care of DR..
Steinway, of Victoria street. He was
taking her down to the seaside at her
own wish. Certain suspicious which
had been forming in Mr.. Yorke's
mind took definite shape from the
moment of this lame explanation. II
he now became an apparently more
sympathetic listener, it was by dint
of the stimulation which discretion
suggested as a cloak to the hostility
which began to take possession o
him.
"My wife rose to see if it was rain
ing" proceeded Mr.. Gresswell, 'anC
looked out of the window"
An obvious lie, reflected Mr.. Yorke
for the person who was lifted into the
carriage in the helpless condition O.
this invalid could not rise and go t,
the window unassisted. But he sale
nothing.
Gas l looked around" continue,
the bereaved husband. 81 saw hei
falling forward. 1 clutched at her
, just caught the edge of her dress, ant
it came away in my grasp as she dis
appeared through the door which ha
been 50 negligently left unfastened
Here is the piece of material whicl
: was left in my grasp, and here is tn
place from which it was rent.
Now Mr.. Yorke saw the reason 70
: that contradiction of the guard by MI
= Gresswell, and the necessity for tn
a story that the lady fell face foremos
a The rent was exactly in the center {
> the back, in the edging.
y Before he had finished his intervie
s with Mr.. Gresswell the journalist WI
= confident that he was treading upo
the heels of murder. He was M
surprised that there had been L