The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-21

Elizabeth are you going to open the
she moved across the room and UNI
bolted IL. Before she did SO she had pres
ence of mind TO lower the window 20
within a few inches OF the bottom, ana 10
turn down the lamp. Mr. hilary entered
angrily. He had a candle In his htnd,
and as he asked angr.ly what she meant
by boiling her door and keeping MN Walt
ing he flashed the candle up and down,
peering with fierce eyes into ever corner
of the dim little room. $500
w. at is part of our compact that l am
not TO be disturbed here
He gave a malicious laugh.
Il suppose that l may be permitted 70
look after my own property. heard
steps in the corridor, ana / nave reason
to think that there may be "a nufSiar
hiding in This part OF Inc n bcGr3,n1 CUR
He went into the next room. one dlH
not follow him. but waited while ne look
ed about, having first lighted an tne can
dies I'm the room, and opened closets ana
wardrobes, searching in every posslole
nook and hiding-place; lie came PACK at
last, looking wrathtul ana perpleAeu. -
you have found no one she sal9;
'perhaps now you viii leave me ina peace.
''NOt lust vet" He went TO the WlndoW
and drew aside the curtains, then pulled
up the blind. The night was pitch dark;
ii would have been Impossible 10 see the
black form clinging to the wan where
there was not an abutment or "a vine 10
afford foothOld.
"Why do you have your window opcn2'
THE room was very hot she answered:
He seemed 10 be deliberatng, ana an
the time held the candle raised. she
was in terror lest he should see the
cutchng finger tips-lest a movement,
sign a grOan should betray Fountain
"oh come away she cried out in ag-
ony you will set fire 20 the curtains
He gave fiendish chuckle, or, at least,
so IL seemed to her.
This win make everything SAFE" he
said, and putting down the candle, nrst
raised the sash, then brought II down Win
a dull thud. She uttered faint shrek. he
turned to her, still with that devllish
sWhat is the matter? You needn't Shrek
need you, because l shut a Window
You frightened me" She faltered.
go to bed then, and compose your
nerves. If you are sleeplcss, ana want 10
be amused I advise youto read that story
l don't remember the title, IN which 1eal-
Gus husband walls up his Wlfe's lover be-
fore her eyes, because she won confess
that he has been her midnight visitor
Goodnight"
He left her She turned the keys after
him N the doors Of both rooms and then
rushed to the window and threw 1t open.
She nearly tainted with horror as she saw
that the heavy easement mad crushed down
upon the fingers of F'oun aims right hand,
the other hand he had managed to with
draw, and having dug his nails as best
he could INTO the mortar of an interstce,
was clinging with it 10 prevent himself
Il am safe" he said in accents hoarse
with pain, but 1 can't hold on much lon-
ger. You are safe, too; that's all that mat
ters. Get a sheet and give me the end. !
think / can let myself down; then / shall
get off as best ] can. and will write from
the Barracks. You are safe" he repeated.
She did as he bade her, knotted the
sheets from her bed intg a rope, and ty
ing one end to an iron hasp on the inner
window ledge gave him the ether, so that
he was able to lower himself to the
ground. She dared not go downstairs and
let him into the house again, but waited
till dawn, shiVerng with terror and re-
morse: and then having looked down 10
assure herself that he had got away
that he was not dead beneath her win
dow, crept into bed, her soul siclSening
at the marks left on the ledge and the
bottom Of the easement, which she care
fully obiterated.
This was the story of Gen. Fountains
manned hand.
A telegram, which was totally unnec-
essary seeing that It would have been
almost shorter to send an orderly from
the barracks with letter, came the next
morning giving Mr.. Hilary plausible eX-
cuse for Fountains departure before the
household was stirring. With n saturnine
laugh, Mr.. Hilary handed the telegram
10 his wife. He told her almost in the
same breath to prepare for a voyage TO
India and an expedition, which as far as
possible she was to share, in search of
wild game. II was in India that Mrs.