The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-04-23

Again, guilt awakens cuhring. even In the
FULLEST breast, but she. keen beyond most
sehrchinR examination could not shake her
selt-eontrol. betrayed an utter carelessness as
turn, thrustlnR them into a place easily ac-
to Sse law Gop pse sish Of q FIJI bIoo and . thus MAJ S%e enable
on those ~slippere would have appalled, her
and she would have made some attempt to de-
ture and forgotten them, as her very eviden,
,aek o. anxiety In regard to them proves her
Again. would she have been 80 careless with
a W she knew to be iderti6et with her
sell? A woman, who deliberately involves her
seen that flower. fall. At ali events. il she had
been Immediately responsible for It's being on
wit. have found some excuse or explanation
Tor i. and not have flung her deiapce at the
carry u to the scene of murder.
Again. had she been actuated In her. at
sempt to nix the crime on old James Zaoel BY
apersonal consciousness OF guilt and a personal
dread. she would not have stopped at suggestion
ing the treasure In tho woods. Instead OF
sneaki1g OF him as q shadow whose flight she
descr i3sGw his AZ fls a s' as eSs; 81 she sh s0 saae ha os
fey minutes before; there being no reason for
being sufficiently elastic for any faisehood
that would further her ends. And. lastly.
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she had been subjected. wac not that Of one
who felt herself undera personal attack. It
battling. alike 10 him who had more or less
sounded her, strange nature and to those who
ha az, nc previous knowledge Of her freaks and
height Of hateful charm and mysterious
daring when Frederick appeared on the scene
number OF her examiners.
NOW; drop all suspicion OF her as the active
agent IN this crime. and assume Frederick to
be the culprIt and she the simple accessory at.
ter the TACT. and sec how incop sistencies van
lsh. and how, much more natural the whole
conduct Of TINS MYSTERIOUS woman appears.
night and stole aw /, into an1 the s uafes an R sar.
to fulnl an errand which any one who knows
her cold and unsympathetic nature. can but
perative to see II her lover with whose char
acter. temptations and necessities she was
FULLY acquainted and n whose excited and pre-;
signs OF a secretly growing purpose) meant in
deed to elude his guests and slip away to town
eested by their mutual knowledge Of the money
to be got there by one daring enough TO enter
a certain house open like their owc to mid
She followed at such an hour and into such
a place. not an unknown man casually come
from the garden Of his fathers house. where
she had lain in wait for him. IT took courage
the limit OF feminine daring, for her fate was
bound MP in his. and she could not but feel the
Impulse 10 save MIN from the &C nSeQuenCeS
As for the flower. what more natural than
that Frederick should have transferred It
Of their interviews. Mt the ball and that it
should have fallen from its place to the floor
r. the midst OF his possible struggle with
And with this assumption OF her perfect
Mrs' WsbS's a house, o. wn1 bo naa m mpns u ea the si f rs 20 20
T wpan tan bs whg b bhe did ddsd mot lift t. her HI head
AyaN nnn = ~ Harro val no thio r-NrIl rri,h %
see Il 9 handsome face OF her lover In the glare
Of a freshly committed crime; and, besides.
man has but a blow for the suddenly detected
witness o. his crime. unless that witness is his
S comic mt, Which lnshd from ,n b every ind,cntiTn Is: Sweet
Her flight to the label cottage after an cx-
perlence which would. maiden most women
gave it. She eN VAS stiIl ta How 1s"" her sri lover see
The nlan for making this wretched iriend Of
with him. not her. 1t was he VII" ,irsi start.
ed for the label cottage. 1t was no who left
The biIi there e ~, The "M fact Of TIE dagger having
terry. but Swcetwater Thought he could solve
that. too. without Involving auT contradiction
The dagger having been thrown out OF the
window. possibly brcause III" assassin knew
night. iell on the grass and was picked ur by
Amabel. only 10 he flung down again In the
Brightest nart Of tn" Lawn; It vas lying there
,itler Frederick or imabel had LETT the house.
the old man entered the yard in a s'a'e Of
brother. we're starving. had been, starving for
days. He WAS too proud to own his want and
sake Of tie food prepared Tor them both at
Agatha's house, and this, was why he had hesi-
tated over his duty till this late hour when his
!!cying his brother. drove him 10 enter the gate
he had heeP accustomed To- see orsn before
| burning in the house above and below. andsn-
couraged, by the welcome they seem TO hold
tracshy which was at that Very moment being
enacted behind those lighted windows. But
half way toward the houie he stops: the Sonr.
fails. and in one Of these quick. visions which
sometimes visit men in extremity, he f~oresees
the astonishment which his emnciated figure
is likely to cause in these two old friends; and
hurying his face in bis hands he stops and hit.
further. Fatal stop! fatal commnnIng! for as
he stands there he sees 9 dagger. his own I'D
not stop TO ask. lying on the grass and Offering
in its dumb way suggestions as to how he
might end this struggle without any further
Dizzy with the new hope. preferring dea,n
to the humiliation he saw before him in
A aimosS ap eSa,fne' M Nf " Crane. who v W was 81" pas ssr":
by on his homeward way from an errand 0!
mercy. A little while later Amabel comes m.
made an Effort to enter, hut lis long walk and
the excitement Of this last bitter hour have
while she. aghast at the sight 81 the lager she
had herself flung down in Agatha yard and
Ireading tho encounter between thi. old man
and the lover she had been following to this
/ place. Greens around the house and looks into
the first window she finds open. What does
she expect to see? Frederick brought face 10
face with this desperate, figure with it's un,
lifted knife. But instead Of that she beholds
another old man seated at a table and-Amabe,
had paused when she reached. that and. and
Sweetwater had not then seen how important
this pause was. but now he understood IT,
Now he saw that If she had not had a subtle
, purpose in view. that If she had wished q tel
the truth rather than produce false lnierepces
in the minds of those about her. calculated &c
save the criminal. as she called him. she would
have com p.eted her sentence thus: II saw n
old man seated al a table and Frederick Suth'
erland standing over him For SweetWate:
had no longer a doubt that Erederiel was IN
hat room at hat moment. What further she
saw, whether she was witness to an encounter
between this intruder and James, or whether
lis some lingering on the latter's part Fred
erick was able to leave Tho house without run.
ming across him. was Il matter OF comparative
unlmportance. What Is of Importance IS tina
he did leave II and that Amabel. knowing Il
vas Frederick. strove to make her auditors be
lieve it was Zabei, who carried The remainder
Of the money into the woods, Yet she did MOI
say so. and II her words on this subject couiC