The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-02-15
col |NS f. HACkET
h@rs Httes and Fmnishas 220 ackawama Avenue

Henry say: That's right! strike your
father: 1t will be only another crime
added to your record! and Master
Charles replied: If / were to kill you
1t would be scarcely worse crime than
that woman Gneaning her ladyship, II
you please, sir) has induced you to COM
nit against me!' We was all listening
in the passage. sir. and our hair stood
on end to hear them. Mr.. Goddard. he
was for breaking In the door to pre-
vent bloodshed. but presently Master
Charles came out. looking very white.
and he says: 'Good-by to you all.
shall never darken these doors againv
and he rushed away into the grounds.
and we saw no more of him till he came
down for the funeral. There was no
sound from the library, and after
awhile my lady went in, and gave a
scream, and then we all followed her,
and there was my poor old master sit
ting in his chair with his mouth drawed
to one side. Goddard and me we saw 1t
was a stroke at once, and when we'd
carried him up to his bed we sent for
the doctor. Mr.. Goddard. he was told
off to see after Sir Henry. and by even
ing he seemed a gOodish bit better, and
the doctor didn't think there was any
danger so Mr.. Goddard left him for a
bit with little Miss Craley, who couldn't
be persuaded to leave his sde-she
was that fond of him and Master
Charles-and came down to tell me how
he was a getting on. And then it was
he told me of the figger that he had
seen lettering about the premises some
days before. and how he's seen it
again that very moment, entering the
shrubberies.'
What did you say to that"
"Whv sir my first thoipbt for
my lady who had left the house but a
short time before. Whatever would
she do. 1 said, if she met the man and
he was rude to her l had seen her
in the hall wrapping a dark mantle
round her head and shoulders. and |
had ventured to say. surely she was
never going out at such a time-half
past six, sir. and such dark even
ing-and she replied that she had a
headache and must have some fresh air.
SO. of course, said no more Mrs. God
dard and me. we watched at the dining
room windows for over half an hour.
and then we saw my lady coming out of
the strawberries by herself. l went to
meet her in the hall and her cloak
was wringing wet. ] said: 1T is to
be hoped that you won't catch your
death of cold. my LADY, And she said: !:
I'm so unset about this affair. Nelson.
tHdt uoH l hfloW IL i III on my
head or on my heels But / never saw
nothing of the man. sir. and when
asked my lady If she'd seen him. she
called me fool. and said it was too
dark to see anything! Which it was,
sir"
"On what terms have you servants
usually been with the Dowager Lady
Ellesmere. Mrs. Nelson?" I asked.
We'll, sir. not what you may call
over and above good Many's the time
I would have given warning. If it hadn't
been for the old master. Her tenn
pers high. and she haven't much con-
sideration for her servants. Nor she
hadn't for Sir Henry. neither. though
he wouldn't hear word against her!
But I. for one. wasn't surprised. when I
heard the contents of the will. for I
knew he loved his son at heart. though
my lady had come SO much between
them OF late years. He never really
meant to leave his money away from
Master Charles, not for one moment.
and my lady. she knew as much. too!
I've heard her coax him again and again
to give her them jewels, but he always
made the same answer. that they
weren't his to give!"
Nelson?''
"It is all. sir!''
(Which of the other servants saw the
most of Sir Henry in his last hours?"
"Only Rachel Marks sir!"
"Well, send Rachel Marks to me
here!"
The old woman curtsied herself out
of the room again. and In another min
ute her place was taken by a bright.
rosy-cheeked girl of about twenty, all
giggles and bushes, stufflng corner