The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-02-15
PART AZ.

"Of course not. Are you not acting
In his interests?"
why certainly; but things seem
bit ntlxed to me. Well. sir. you see.
servants amt all deaf and dumb like
bdnt poor creeter that IS kept here ous
OF charity. We has our senses, sir, and
our feeiin's, and we can't always shut
our eyes to what Is R-goiR' on. Well,
Il was about n moy'.h ago when fuss
sec one evening as / was putting up
the shutters in the library, dark iis.
ger lurking along the shrubberies--I
couldn't see him very plainly, but he
looked like a lCater or tramp TO me
d!an& like the looks OF him at all, and
l called James, the footman. to go out
into the garden and see who II might
be! Buti James, being but q lad and
ttnorous-lIke. was such time about
obeylng my orders, that whom he went
the man was gone, though I'm as GER
tain Eiat slw him as am THAI see
you at this present moment"
We'll! Well bua what OF "? You
must ot:en have beggars and tramps
round a large house like this!"
This wasn't no begglr." resumed
Goddard. mysterIously, well. sir, the
Tuesday before my old master was
taken with his last illness, her ladyship
had out the Jewels in the forenoon. rub
hing shem up and SHOWING them 70 sir
Henry and Miss craley-that.s the
pore deformed lady, you know. Rachel
Marks was passing in and out OF the
room at the time. and can bear witness
to the fact. My lady, she. held taeIn
against her gcwnd, and she says TO
Rachel: They'll be mine. some day.
RACHEL and Miss Craley she screamed
In her queer way and Sir Henry smiled,
US II II was all right, though. mind you,
don't believe norblng would have
made him leave them there Jewels
away from Str Charles, not II he'd been
in his right senses, not for ever so'
you were present at the interview
between Sir Henry and his son on the
following day, believe, Goddard2"
Yes, sir, I was, and hope never to
be present at such another, for really
thought they would have flown at one
another's threats. Sir Henry he was
in a terrible state, and the young 'un
was as bad, and as heard the old mas.
ter say that Sir Charles was no son OF
his, and that he'd cut his name out OF
his will, and that he'd be left pauper
on the bounty Of the DowRger Lady
E1lesmere, though I, for one. never be-
lIeved Il, and knew II was only said In
4 passion like, aud that In his hear: the
old master loved his son better than
anyone else. Well. sir, you've heard
how Il ended and We had to carry poor
Sir Henry up to his bed. where he lay
till he died. unable 10 speak or to swal-
low. That evening, as l was watching
his bed, with little Miss Crhley
crouched down by his side, moaning
lust like an animal in distress, my eyes
kept turning to the window just 10
divert my thoughts, and presently see
the came fiSger spoke OF, lOaflng
round the strawberries and keeping
well in the shadder. And as was
looking, there comes out a second tig-
ure and joins hIm-and could have
sworn that It was my iady-hut for
Gods sake, sir, you won't betrny me,
for couldn't be sure. but Mrs. Nelson.
who have been here almost as long as
have, viii tell you the some, that Is,
that my lady did go out that evening
In the dusk. and che see her pass into
the strawberries, and come back alone!
And that's all l know about the miss
ing of the Jewels, slrl'
"Thank you. Mr. Goddard. Your
confidence shall be respected. VIII
you send Mrs. Nelson to me?"
When the old man had some, 1 rose
from my chair and began to pace the
library. An accomplIce-prooaoly