Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-03-24
CHAPTER XXIli.
At No. Is, Norfolk square.

1t was with a heart full of gratitude
that Ursula read the telegram that adj
vised her to go to Norfolk Square for
the night. 1t occurred TO hel
that her letter might have travelled
quicker than usual. She thought it
was like Frank to have answered her
at once. but she did think it odd that
he should put off his visit to her until
the neX day. However. it was all
right now. Frank would know exact
ly what was best for her Il do. Frank
would see TO ii hat she no longer went
in fear of Kisch.
AS n matter of course, she proceeded
to act on the telegram at once. Emma.
flying for a cab. followed the telegraph
boy down the street. Ursula had her
trunk ready packed. and her bill paid,
SO that. by the time the cab was at the
door she was ready TO leave.
She had not five miutes to wait for n
train, and in n very short space of
time she arrived at Norfolk Square.
The door was opened - her b. a
grave, sev~ere-looking wohaan in a stiff,
uniform-like dress. who asked her to
walk into a small waiting room on the
ground floor. while she made inquiries.
In a minute oil two she returned. and
said that 1t was all right. Woul she
please to come up stairs?
Ursula, believing that she was In a
hospital, was not surprised that she
was o taken to q sitting room. She
followed her guide to the third floor of
the house without hesitation, and en-
tered n large. cheerful bed room, well
furnished, with a bright fire burning
in the crate.
Ursula took off her hat and jacket
and threw them on the bed with a sigh
of relief. AT last. she thought, her
troubles were over
After sitting before the fire for a
few minutes she thought she would
like a cup Of tea, so she got up and
rang the bell. The tall. severe-looking
woman answered it, and, in reply to
her request, said it was against the
rules to send up tea to the bed rooms,
bnt she might have chocolate or coffee.
Ursula, without giving the matter a
second thought. asked for coffee, ana
the woman retired. shutting the door
behind her. A faint click caught Ur-
sula's ear, and she sprang to her feet
with a look of alarm in her face.
She few to the door and tried it. 1t
was locked.
A great fear chilled her blood and
Slapped her strength. Was 1t possible
that she had fallen again into the
hands of her enemies? Or could this
be a custom in any respectable house?
She paused, with her hand on the
bell, and resolved to wait until the
nurse las she supposed her to be-
should bring up her coffee. Meantime
she put on her hat and jacket.
A quarter of al hour passed, and
when there was not a soul in a
house but their two selves and the
prisoner?
we had better see about it at once"
said the Jew, with his eyes on the
floor.
He turned from ner and went into n
small room on the ground floor. He
turned up the gas, and saw that the
blind entirely covered the window.
He then opened the coal scuttle. took
the cork ofithe phial containing the
m0rphia for the injection, and poured
away a ~teaspoonful of it. He then un-
locked an old-fashioned desk which
stood on n slde-table. and took from 1t
a very tiny phial, from which he filed
up the acant space in the larger me-.
Finally, he poured away the few drops
of liquid that remained In the little
phial he had taken from the desk,
opened the window, and, after listen
ing a/mOment, to make sure that no
n was in the square, ent the phial
dyirg out, and heard 1t smash against
the brick wall that supported the gar
den ratings III the center of the square.
What he had dropped into the phial
was a virulent blood poison. His OBJ
ject was that Ursula should die, to all
appearance. In a perfectly natural
maDne.. under the eyes of rnimpeach-
able witnesses. What he intended to
do was to administer the morphia in
lection, for which he had the doctors
authority, by force IL necessary. With
the morphia, a. deadly poison would
enter the girls veins. As soon as the
disease became serious. he would have
her removed to a public hospital.
Whatever accusation she might bring
against him would be considered TO be
caused by delirium. If not. he was
ready for a visit from the police. They
might suggest what they liked, but
they could prove nothing. He knew
that, apart from his cOnfederates,
there was not a scrap of corroboratiye
evidence IN existence.
Once In the hospital. Ursula would
bd treated for lood-poisoning. She
would die-die in torment. very likely;
he could not help that-and the estate
he coveted would one day be his own.
At any rate, the twelve thousand
pounds would be recovered. And he
should have outwitted Eugene Clovis.
That sometimes appeared to him the
most satisfactory part of the whole
scheme.
Having closed the window, Kisch
turned down the gas and went out in
TO the passage, holding the poisoned
phial in his hand. The woman was
waiting for him. She started up stairs
and lie followed her.
At that moment a loud ring came TO
the door. Tney stopped and looked AT
each other. Another ring, followed By