Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-02-05

and my hold upon Wildred. Involun-
tary l turned to go to Karine's rescue,
and the movement was :. fatal one,
Wildred was up like a rod Of steel that
has been forcibly bent backward. The
two threw themselves upon me to-
J gether. l felt sharp, hot pain run
: tiercely through my side, and knew
/ that | had been stabbed. My one
! thought was for the girl. If they
| worked their will upon me, and killed
me before her eyes, what was to be-
come of her?
Run, Karine-escape!" l painted. 1
could not see her, but l was assured
that she had not obeyed by the loud
screams for help which she was des-
perately uttering.
Again l got Wildred down, but the
other man was on top of me, and for
the second time I felt the burning pain,
this time in my shoulder. l fought like
q mad creature now, with the intent to
kill, which l had not had before; but
| the conviction grew within me that,
battle as l might, the effort would be
all in vain.
Sparks advanced before my eyes, and
{ then everything grew dim. Out of
chaos came a shrek from Karine.
/ Could it be cry Of joy? What reason
was there for rejoicing?
But there followed a renewed crash
ing of glass, the muffied thud of feet
| descending from height upon the soft
! surface of rugs, and the sound of mems
voices.
1t seemed to me that Cunningham's
was among them, but a strange cold
pail of darkness enveloped me, and l
knew no more.
Afterwards learnt how it was that
| Cunningham, with two detectives from
Scotland Yard, had arrived in the very
mick of time
His statements to the police authori-
| ties had been necessarily so elaborate,
and had been deemed so extraordinary,
| that it had taken some time to create
| the desired impression at headquar-
| tiers.
He had been still at 'The Yard"
when my wire had arrived. When at
last he had induced the powers that
! be- to grant a warrant for Wildred's
arrest on suspicion of having murdered
| Harvey Farnham, and to send a couple
of men to the House by the Lock,
where my telegram had announced that
| he was probably to be found, it was
too late to catch anything save the ten
O'Clock train.
Having reached the door of the grim
old mansion, Karines cries for help,
ringing out upon the night through the
broken skylight, had told them in
which direction to proceed, and they
had used the same method of sur
mounting the obstacles which I had
adopted and left for them.
The servant was secured, but Will
! bred, seeing with his usual quickness
| that all hope of escape was over, had
shot himself through the heart before
! the officers could reach him. So died
man who had accomplished the death
| of many another, and through his hum
/ bel accomplice (who now breaks stones
| at Portland), and the wretched wife.
found poisoned in a room upstairs, the
secrets of his numerous crimes and
| the dark House by the Lock was re-
vealed.
1t was not for many day after that
nights terrible experience that | heard
| all the truth. What with the two
wounds / had received, and the strain
of the past few weeks, which had be-
gun TO tell upon me at last, for a time
| lay in rather a precarious condition.
But one morning | awoke to conscious
ness, and found that the beautiful face
! which had been near me in my dreams
| was present in reality Karine and
her brother had nursed me through
more than fortnight's illness.
Had | been quite myself / should
have felt that then was not the time
| to speak OF love to the girl who had