Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-01-09

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you think that If she is convicted tbev
will really hang her?"
Hang her! Yes; the young demon,
They will hang her as surely as thew
did Palmer. English juries have M
mercy on the secret poisoner. And
the fact Of this one being a younp
beautiful, and high-born girl, ONLY
makes her crime the more unnatural
and monstrous!'
But, admiral, II is hard to believe
that Sc lovely a creature cord be such
a monster" said the lady.
Ban. bah! madam: YOU have NOT
read history oil you have forgotten il,
Remember the countess of Essex
Madame Brinvilliers, Lucretia Borgia
Mary Stuart and many other young
beautiful and high-born devils. HUI.
man nature is the same in all ages
and countries. The youth, beauty and
high birth OF this young Asiatic fiepd
will no more save her from the gal
lows than the same sort of charms
saved Brinvilliers or Mary Stuart from
the block" replied the old gentleman
~savagely.
Shudder after shudder passed over
the frame of the unfortunate subject
Of these evere remarks as she sat an
unsupported nearer of the cOnyersa-
ton.
Malcolm, standing by her side with
his back to the speakers, could only
seek to sustain her courage by an
earnest pressure of her hand. 1t was
but an ordeal of five minutes, and
then the shrill whistle Of the adyanc-
ing train warned all the passengers TO
hurry to the platform.
The %conversing party dropped their
very interesting subject and FASTENED
away.
Malcolm. drawing Eudora's arm
within his own, hurried after them.
When they arrived upon the plat
form the train had stopped and the
engine was noisily putting and blowing
like a short-winded alderman out OF
breath after a run.
Passengers were hurrying into the
various carriages.
Can we have n coure?" inquired
Malcolm, slipping n crown into the
hand of one of the guards.
"Oh. yes. sir" answered that func-
~tionary. opening a door and admitting
the fugitiyes into the desired privacy.
"Sweethearts!" he muttered to him
self as he locked the door and peck
ctcd the crown.
The train started and Malcolm and
EudOra, finding themselves alone in
the coupe, looked in each others faces
wistfully.
ooh. Malcolm" said Eudora, how
terrible il is To be so wronged and
hated and by ones old family friends.
too. Did you hear old Admiral Brun-
ton. how he spoke of me- All! little
did he think how near at hand was
to hear him"
Yes. dear Eudcra. | heard him. His
remarks We're valuable. only to show
how right you are TO fly until this
storm shall pass" replied the young
MAJ.
But TO be wr0nged and hated so,
Malcolm. and by my uncle's old
friends! Oh. it is very, very cruel"
you mus bear up under il bravely,
dear love. The time will come when
your innocence viii In proved, and
Inen those very friends who wrong
you by their suspicious now will bit
terly repent their injutlce. and will
love and esteem you more than ever
before" answered the young man, en-
couragingly.
The train ratified N. 1t was the ex-
press and stopped at no other station
between Abbeytown and London,
where Il was expected 10 arrive at .
O'Clock in the morning.
Malcolm and Eudora sank back in
their seats and fell into silence.
Eudora relapsed into despair and
Malcolm sank into thought. He had
taken her from confinement n imme-
dat danger, but perhaps from quick
pursuit and re-arrest. In the plan OK
her instant d~eliverance his decision
and his action had necessarily been
so prompt and rapid that no time had
been left him TO determine upon any
fixed place of refuge for the fugitive.
His only general idea had been to ny
with her and conceal her in the multi
tudlnous wilderness of London until
he could arrange her escape to he
continent. He wished above all things
to make her his own by marriage as
o o as they should reach the city,
but he knew that to do so wouid ex-
pose her to certain discovery. He felt
therefore obliged to defer this p,r-
pose until he could escape with her to
the continent.
To attempt to take her from Eng
land Immediately he knew would be
to expose her to the certainty OF ar
rest. For, according to the usual prac-
tice, as soon as her escape should be
discovered. which 1t must inevitably
he In a few hours, kilograms he knew
would be dispatched to- the police or
every seaport to anticipate her arrival
and to intercept her passage.
To hide her, therefore, in the crowds
of London until the first heat OF the
pursuit should be over, then to es-
cape with her to some foreign country,
and there unite his fate with hers for
good or i'll forerer-and then walt pa
tiently until Providence should bring
the truth TO light, by discovering the
guilty and vindicating her innocence
seemed the only plan that nren,isea
any success.
But where In London should he
leave herr" 1t must be in 4 part or
the town far distant from the termin-
Us Of the Great Northern railway; IL
must be in n thickly populated Eeigh
borhoOd, where the presence even OF
remarkable stranger should not at
tract the slightest notice; II must be IN
lodgings over some small busy shop,
where the people should be o much
occupied with their own concerns 10
pry into those IF atherS