Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-10-10

curiosity like that of the Major-get
ting better of her rage.
You viii see, in a few minutes. Mis-.
Dallas, you look pale. hope soon tt
bring back the roses to your cheeks
Major
Don't speak to me, you scoundrel
until you tell me what you have done
with the body of my boy"
You shall know in few minutes,
Major. Indeed, think it is about time
that this comedy should end"
Comedy" echoed Mrs. Dallas in
scorn. You mean tragedy"
81 mean no such thing" retorted Ell
valid, opening the door. All true
comedies end in the meeting of low
ers."
Good heavens!" cried Jen. what
do you mean?"
Etwald pointed to the open door.
There is my explanation" said he,
coolly.
The three people gave a simultane-
GUS cry of amazement and delight. for
there, on the threshold Of the room.
alive and well, stood-Maurice Alymer.
CHAPTER XXV.-THREE LETTERS
THE FIRST LETTER OF DR.. ET-
VALID.
''Deanminster.
My Dear Major Jen:
In the JOY with which you and Miss
Dallas hailed the appearance of the
man whom you thought dead. l was
for the time being-quite forgotten;
and very naturally, too. Profiting by
the occasion, left the room and went
TO the bed room where Mr.. Sarby Law
IN trance, similar to that in which
Mr.. Alymer had fallen, both frances
being caused by the poison of the
devll-stlck. AS you have learned from
MS own lips, | revived him, as | re-
vived his friend; so now. my good Jen.
you have your two boys with YOU
again, alive and well. The comedy is
finished; and was not right in deny
ing to these past events the mislead-
ing name of tragedy?
Naturally, you will wish to know
how the dead came to be alive. and for
what reason l believed as L did. Well,
here you shall find the whole explana-
ton, so fully given that there will be no
necessity for you to seek me at Dean
minister. Indeed, if you do so, you will
find me, as by the time you receive this
not find me, as by the time you receive
this letter | shall be we'll on my way to
London. Thence it is my intention to
go abroad, and-as l told you at our
last meeting-you will never see me
again. When you finish this letter. you
will 6O1Jht ho ey1oI - l.;
is just as well that | should remain be-
yond your reach. You are virtuous
man, | am not-but our natures would
prevent our ever assimilating. the one
with the other. AS to my promised ex-
PLANTATION, here it is, and much good
may it do you.
L am-as you know-a physician,
but [ am also what you may not know
"a man of genius. l have brains, but
no money and for experiments in chem
istry, money, regret to say, is extreme
ly necessary. This being the case have
needed money, and that in large guam
titles, all my life. AS l could not make
it for myself-nOt having the mercan-
tile INSTINCT resolved to gain it by
making rich marriage. For many
years L have travelled the world. Like
Ulysses l have known men and cities,
and, some years ago, Chance-a deity
at whose shrine | always pay my de-
votioAs-led me to Barbados. While
there was attracted, as always am
by the weird and mysterious, by the
superstitions Of the African race.
studied the cult of Obi, the belief of
the Voodoo Stone, and by a strange
chain Of circumstances, which / need
not relate, l gained possession Of that
powerful talisman which is known to
all negroid America. With this stone
in my possession, l was king-so to
speak-of all the black race. This pow
er l determined to use to my own ad-
vantage, and through it to make rich
marriage.
81 discovered that Mrs. Dallas was
the richest woman in the West Indies,
that she had one fair and marriage
able daughter, and that mother and
daughter were under the influence of
a negress called Dido, who was a
profound believer. in the cult of Obi.
I determined, therefore, to bend the
negress to my will by means Of the
Voodoo Stone, and to marry the
daughter. Unfortunately, Mrs Dallas
and her child were in England So
thither / went in order to prosecute
my suit and obtain a rich wife in the
person of Miss Isabella Dallas From
information obtained in Baobadres, |
found that they were living near Dean
so to that town l repaired and
established myself as physician. l
made the acquaintance of yourself, of
Mr.. Alymer, and Mr.. Sarby, and also
of Mrs. Dallas and her daughter, the
young and charming girl whom / in
tended to make my wife.
But here, as you may guess,
found an unexpected obstacle. The
young lady was in love with Mr.. Aly-
mer, and would have nothing to do
with an elderly bachelor like myself.
determined to remove that obstacle:
not by death, but by gentler means
which would do away with all risk, and
place Miss Dallas in my power. Need
say that | allude to the devil-stick?
Il knew that you possessed it, my
dear Major, as I had been informed of