The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-19

in which my sister lived was in the
fermenting state Of growth; it was
gorged with picked-up gold. and red
handed with strife as to who should
own it. l am a full-blooded person
myself, and the suspicion. that / was
being made the victim of some rascal
ity acted on me like a pleasing intoxi-
cant. All seemed then explained: the
temporary absence of the coachman
from his box, the insolent freedom of
the intruder-all pointed as clear as
monday down the road to dark sus-
pIcion. Acting on my first impulse,
sprank like a wounded hyena across
the carriage. and had my companion
by the throat, nor did l relax my grip
upon the scrawny thing until the sud-
den flash of a street light revealed to
me in the horror-stricken face peering
at me above my rigid knuckles the ILL
favored features of DIR. A. now twined
about and darkly framed by a huge
muffier, scarcely less in dimensions
than the one twisted about my swollen
jaw.
1t was like a sudden thunder clap
and though, when you considered the
mans disposition and his standing in
society, my throttling him like a COM
mon thief was an act for which there
would be no pardon granted. yet it was
l did let so. but with what sickening
results 1 hardly have The courage to
record.
Remember. please. that the carriage
door was sill open, that Dr. A. was
already half way ont and That the
horses were going at full speed. y
sudden jerk was all that was needed
and the jerk came For one instant
the unfortunate man tCppled where he
CT hi oil. -aH irafn
with rage and fear, and his lean throat
struggled hOarsely with a sound; and
with little involuntary jerk 1 saw
him make dreadful plunge, stand
fairly upright on his head and Shout
ders, and collapse in a mashed. sick
ening fashion into the shallow gutter.
Now, indeed. the carriage should have
been stepped and no farther trifiing
about ii; but a strange stupidity crept
over me as l stood craning my head
back TO the spot we were fast leaving
in our wake. until a second fash of
light brought me down upon the car
rage seat, very mild and limp, my
mind filed with serious speculations
about the awkwardnesIS of tae scrape
l had got myself into.
/ was not in my sisters carriage-and
more, there now floated before me the
distinct remembrance of having dis
missed the coachman at the doctors
door. Yes" ran on my mind II NOR
bid detail. Il had dismissed my driver,
had sought out the great man with
my sordid complaint, had fingered in
his passage way. had hidden in his
carriage. had flown at him like an
avenging tiger cat. and now he lay
dead man by the roadside. with heaven
knows how manv witnesses to our
death shrugged. in full tilt to set the
legal bloodhounds on my trail. And
there was my ccachhlan still at large
with his tale to tell. and there was
the possibility of last words which my
victim might falter forth upon some
official breast, stamping me as his as
sailant." That the man was dead
seemed my only hope, and / sat and
nursed my horrid thought until my
mind was a charnel house of CHASTITY
speculation. How far removed / seemed
from the peaceful sorrows of yescer-
day, and how l cursed by stupid for
getfulEess about the carriage and my
unseemly haste to Throttle an innocent
man on whose privacy | had intruded,
In the meantime the carriage sped
on, on. and on. faster and yet faster,
and still / sat there dull and lumpish,
trying to form my vapiG plans as to
what l should do when it should stop
Then think that the real folly of my
actions began, for it occurred to me
that after all there would not be so
much 10 startle the driver DIR. A-sand
! were much the same height; we both
happened'~to be much bundled about
the head. WHAT was there to prevent
my alightng Without suspicion and
then watching my chance TO cut and